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Re: UPS vs. USPS
« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2018, 10:35:22 AM »
In defense of USPS...My junk mail is almost always delivered on time.
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Re: UPS vs. USPS
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2018, 11:02:36 AM »
In defense of USPS...My junk mail is almost always delivered on time.

Pretty much daily!

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Re: UPS vs. USPS
« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2018, 11:08:20 AM »
Just. Fyi, if you fed ex something too some one in a rural area.   USPS does the final delivery, but only after fed ex pays for it.   More then once I have had packages sit at po  for weeks until it's paid or they rts  it.  Turns out fed ex does not pay quickly(any one shocked?)  So if you are sending a package that is time sensitive too the boonies, Don't use fed ex.


Honestly fedup. Is right, they 'll suck.
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Re: UPS vs. USPS
« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2018, 04:03:16 PM »
Just. Fyi, if you fed ex something too some one in a rural area.   USPS does the final delivery, but only after fed ex pays for it.   More then once I have had packages sit at po  for weeks until it's paid or they rts  it.  Turns out fed ex does not pay quickly(any one shocked?)  So if you are sending a package that is time sensitive too the boonies, Don't use fed ex.


Honestly fedup. Is right, they 'll suck.

We almost always get the FedEx truck, but big brown relies on red, white and blue.
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Re: UPS vs. USPS
« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2018, 04:41:55 PM »
No doubt end delivery depends on proximity of a UPS or FedEx center and the number of deliveries in your area.

If you are a good distance from a center and there is a small number of deliveries, passing the package to USPS is more cost effective than routing a truck and driver for a small number of deliveries.  I imagine package size/weight factors in also.
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Re: UPS vs. USPS
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Re: UPS vs. USPS
« Reply #15 on: January 22, 2018, 08:17:23 PM »
Don't get me started on FedEx either...... our regional delivery group isn't much better than the USPS. The lazy sob that seems to always have our packages is so sorry, that he'll drive up the driveway and be within 20' of the back deck and will leave the package laying on the ground in the middle of the driveway. I hate when I order something and the only option is FedEx. We ordered a new laptop a couple years ago and the idiot left it in the middle of the driveway 150' from the road and only 30' from the house. The wife was walking across the yard from our son's place and noticed a box laying out there and retrieved it.

One of my all-time USPS deliveries was a metal sign to go in my reloading room. the photos show the large box it was in, plus the sign itself. The sign was in a flat cardboard sleeve, inside a fair-sized box and they still managed to bend it like a taco.

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Re: UPS vs. USPS
« Reply #16 on: January 23, 2018, 01:30:57 AM »
That will turn your Amazon smile upside down. I have a couple of post offices and a FedEx within a few miles of me and UPS is a little farther away. I still drive the extra distance to UPS for nearly all of my shipping. And one time when I ordered something and they told me it's going to be shipped FedEx or U.S. mail I asked if they could ship it UPS. I told them I was willing to pay more for shipping but they wouldn't do it.

I got a big surprise. The mailman was walking by as I pulled into my driveway early in the afternoon. He gave me my mail and said he had a package for me in his truck. He asked if he should leave it on the back porch and I told him yes if he didn't mind. I kept looking and after a while there it was. No knocking on the door or ringing the doorbell, as usual. Then I got an email saying my package was delivered and was at my front door/porch. Then I got an email saying my package was in town. Then I got another one saying it was out for delivery. There were really a lot more than 3 emails, maybe 10 or more altogether. I got 5 identical emails one right after the other.

According to their online tracking the shipping label was created on the 19th and the package was accepted at the post office on the 20th. I still can't believe I got it on the 22nd. This was USPS PRIORITY MAIL. I don't have any clue why I would get priority mail in 2 days but priority 2 day mail took the entire 6 day work week.
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Re: UPS vs. USPS
« Reply #17 on: January 23, 2018, 08:30:14 AM »
I’m lucky.  Both my local USPS carrier and the BIG Brown driver live in my hood.

The UPS regular puts everything on my back porch then plays “ding dong ditch it” and our post lady drops stuff on the front stoop that’s mostly covered by overgrown shrubbery.

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Re: UPS vs. USPS
« Reply #18 on: January 23, 2018, 01:32:07 PM »
Not even my junk mail is delivered on time most weeks. I get a bunch of ads like pizza coupons and grocery store ads, things like that, all in one bunch. It used to come on Monday most of the time. Now it usually shows up on Tuesday or Wednesday.
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Re: UPS vs. USPS
« Reply #19 on: January 23, 2018, 06:47:54 PM »
Here's how ridiculous the USPS has become:
They closed the regional hub in the town 40 miles from me a few years ago. OK, no biggie...except they also stopped the old "local sorting" in the small local offices like the one less than two miles from my house. Before, if I mailed something to an address within 50 miles of my location, it would be delivered the next day unless some odd event prevented that or it was Sunday. Now, everything is routed to the regional hub, so if I send a Christmas card to my neighbor who lives 600 yards away, it has to go to Tallahassee, Florida and back to Ty Ty, Georgia.....which usually takes three or more days.  ::)
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