USPS

[nastygunz]

A tragic tale of an unholy encounter with the United States Postal Service. I ordered a set of screws for a scope base from Optics Planet. The cost for four screws was about three dollars. So I'm waiting and waiting for the screws which never show up after about six days I checked the USPS tracking system.

It shows they are in transit so I keep waiting. 10 days waiting no updates so I contact the store and ask for a refund. They say they have to wait 19 days and if it doesn't show up then they will refund me. That pissed me off so I filed a complaint with the post office.

Some guy from the post office contacts me and says he looked into the matter and says the package was confiscated because it had hazardous material in it consisting of a lithium battery and that I would not be getting the package.

I replied and told him that the package was supposed to be four screws and therefore there was no lithium batteries involved. Never heard back from that moron.

I sent his email to optics planet where he said the package had been confiscated and they told me they still had to wait 19 days before they could do anything.

So I keep waiting and then yesterday went out and checked my mailbox and lo and behold there was an envelope with the four screws in it, 24 days from the day that I ordered it.

God knows where that package has been.

[FinsnFur]

Unfortunately, like a lot of other companies and industries, the whole USPS system is becoming tragically incompetent compared to what it used to be.
Today's workforce/generation lacks drive, work ethic, common sense, and absolutely zero sense of urgency.
With that said, I've always wondered what happens when mail gets lost stolen or damaged beyond. You see videos of shipping containers falling in the ocean or mail trucks accidents etc. Nobody's going to comb through records and contact senders and recipients to inform them of the catastrophe. They just clean it up and go on with life.
Your envelope with screws in it probably fell on the floor at some point and got kicked under something. I bet that happens a lot more than we know. 😂

[nastygunz]

That's about what I figured happened. I haven't found any of the carriers worth a spit. Pretty much every package I ever get is crushed and beat to death and looks like it's been through World War III. That's why I try to buy stuff in person now.

[Hawks Feather]

Several years ago the Detroit hub of USPS received almost all of our mail and then it was sent to Toledo and finally here. There were MANY complaints so my cousin (the Congressman) paid them a visit. He reported seeing small packages and envelopes lying no the floor and some along the wall beside machines. He asked if they were picked up and made ready for delivery each day and was told that they picked them up when they had time. Pick them up - probably another case of 'not my job'. They are probably still on the floor.

When I was president of the Fish and Game club I started selling once fired brass as a way of making a little bit of money for the club. The boxes would weigh about 25 to 30 pounds and I would get tracking. Sometimes they would go to Columbus or other routing hubs, but about half of them would go to Detroit. Of those, about 1/3 were lost in that building. I started paying for additional insurance (about double the actual selling price) and was then happy to see them go to Detroit since we made more that way. Can you imagine the USPS thief's surprise when they open a box and find it filled with brass?

[FinsnFur]

Can you imagine the USPS thief's surprise when they open a box and find it filled with brass?

Now that'd be a good video clip