Don’t ship with USPS!

[j-c-c-62]

Take a look at post # 53

Indicating what?

You realistically expect 100% perfection with 318 million items a day going thru their hands?
I have worse stories than that, and very frustrating.
My favorite is a lost certified mail investigation that spanned 5 weeks. They contacted me twice over a 3? week period stating they had not found it.
The day after the second reply, the certified mail that required a signature when I mailed it, showed up in my mailbox, without being signed for and i never heard from them again.

 

[Cop car wagon]

I've never had a problem. I wrap stuff together, and tape well.
Fed ex is less on large. But hard to beat flat rate coast to coast.

 

[Charles Cook]

Indicating it's been two month's .

 

[padam]

I've never had a problem. I wrap stuff together, and tape well.
Fed ex is less on large. But hard to beat flat rate coast to coast.

Believe me, these problems aren’t just caused by not taping the box up

 

[Hey-O]

Problem with USPS is, if they are losing money they should charge more.
How much of that junk mail is subsidized?
If they charged what they needed to it might drive the necessary changes in the marketplace

They're the only company that will always be here. They may not always be the very best, but we need a delivery system that isn't run by money for the people. The mail is a necessity and shipping in general is through the roof. It's not a business, per say, it's a staple. The Postal Service processes and delivers an average of 318 million mail pieces daily.

 

[padam]

They're the only company that will always be here. They may not always be the very best, but we need a delivery system that isn't run by money for the people. The mail is a necessity and shipping in general is through the roof. It's not a business, per se, it's a staple. The Postal Service processes and delivers an average of 318 million mail pieces daily.

Just because they handle a lot of mail doesn’t mean we should let them do as they please.
I’m not an expert on the USPS, but they are some sort of either a business or government institution.
As such, they should answer to us, the customers/taxpayers.
Service should be good and cost effective, which it is not.

 

[gtx6970]

They all suck at one point in time so its luck of the draw regardless of whom you use .

And dont both paying for insurance,,,,,They WILL find some way out of it to pay the claim.

 

[Hey-O]

Just because they handle a lot of mail doesn’t mean we should let them do as they please.
I’m not an expert on the USPS, but they are some sort of either a business or government institution.
As such, they should answer to us, the customers/taxpayers.
Service should be good and cost effective, which it is not.

They are a government agency. The importance lies in the fact that unlike UPS and FedEx, they can't control us through threats of shut down. Tell me the last time you got a great deal shipping a letter or a package through the other two openly public traded companies. It's about it's inability to not hold us hostage as a nation.