USPS Late, Wants Money For Tracking

[Mal Paso]

Does anyone else think the Post Office has hit a new LOW. My package is Late and they want $2.20 to tell me where it is. Or I can get 10 years of tracking for $9.99.

Or I can stop using the post office. That's the only real option.

You can't complain, their email doesn't work.

[Winger Ed.]

In the old days, they charged extra for tracking.
Then, since nobody wanted it--- you paid for it, and got it whether you wanted it or not.

Now it seems you pay for it if you want it or not, but get charged extra to access it.

My, how far we've come.

[downzero]

No. In fact, I think the post office is an absolutely incredible value.

[cwtebay]

I use the post office for dozens of packages every day. I cannot say I have ever had that experience.

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[imashooter2]

No. In fact, I think the post office is an absolutely incredible value.

Yes sir. I wouldn’t deliver an envelope down the block for 55 cents.

[tomme boy]

Yes sir. I wouldn’t deliver an envelope down the block for 55 cents.

They are a JOKE! Throw out the union and all the bull that goes with them. Was not our fault the unions promised stuff they knew was never going to be funded.

[jonp]

? I track packages all of the time, in fact just tracked one of my sweethearts, and didn't pay for it

[dangitgriff]

No. In fact, I think the post office is an absolutely incredible value.

They socialize the cost, and borrow the difference.
Socialism failed the Soviet Union and other Communist states, yet is championed far and wide by economic illiterates here in the U.S., judging by the immense support the failed USPS receives.

[Lloyd Smale]

They are a JOKE! Throw out the union and all the bull that goes with them. Was not our fault the unions promised stuff they knew was never going to be funded.

guess we could support fed x who pays flat rate to there drivers whether they work 8 hours or 15 to deliver there daily run and work weekends for the same money while the fat cats at fed x get rich with the boom in home deliverys since the covid thing hit. My fed x driver said his average day is 4 hours longer then it was a year ago and he gets no more money. Are you willing to work 4 hours a day for free??? Just ask ANY fed x driver if hed rather work at ups. Look at it logically. Shipping something fed x is no cheaper then shipping it ups and the fed x driver probably makes half what the ups driver does in a year. Who do you think is pocketing that money. Surely not the middle class employee like you and I. While your at it look at the lap of luxury your post office deliver person is living in!!! I think all three of them deserve a big pat on the back for what they do. Ive got christmas card made out to all 3 of them and the garbage men too sitting on the table to be handed out this week.

[No_1]

Why would you pay them when you can enter the tracking number (from your receipt if you didn't write it down) into their system and see it for yourself?

Robert

Does anyone else think the Post Office has hit a new LOW. My package is Late and they want $2.20 to tell me where it is. Or I can get 10 years of tracking for $9.99.

Or I can stop using the post office. That's the only real option.

You can't complain, their email doesn't work.

[zarrinvz24]

I think one of the main reasons USPS is lagging behind on some packages currently is because of the COVID restrictions and not allowing too many people in one spot. For instance, a mail room that may have once had 20 people working in it now can only fit 8. I don't think there are any less packages to be sorted, and we cannot add hours to the day - so the only possible outcome is for things to be delayed. TBH, I'm surprised its not been worse than it has. It's an impossible situation.

[StuBach]

Also, you could have the recipient access myUSPS app. Once you sign up it actually will alert you to all packages and mail that is currently enroute to your address and when to expect it.

Wasn’t aware of wage difference for FedEx/UPS but to be honest both of them are crap in my area. UPS now doesn’t even deliver most packages to rural areas around here, they just drop at the local post office and have usps deliver rest of the way. FedEx I still see regularly but anything they drop has literally been dropped multiple times by appearance of package where USPS usually comes in fully intact but even that is slipping as of late due to Covid pressures.

[Mal Paso]

Why would you pay them when you can enter the tracking number (from your receipt if you didn't write it down) into their system and see it for yourself?

Robert

I entered the tracking number on the USPS website and they refused to say where the package was except that it was "In-Transit".

To find out more USPS wanted to Sell Me "Premium Tracking" for $2.10. I think Graft is the correct word.

I thought I was the only one up at this hour. LOL

[StuBach]

That sounds similar to an issue I had several months ago. I ordered a large irregular shaped (4’ tube) product from Rockler and it shipped from my closest store about an hour away. When they took the package on their normal run to the PO it got bulk checked in so the tracking number was in their system. After a week of not getting it and no movement on the number other than “created” I contacted Rockler. They did some digging with USPS and told me that what sometimes happens is the guys who do the check in at usps desk get lazy and don’t want to deal with a package so they leave it for the next shift. What apparently happened (and is not uncommon) was my package kept getting skipped over and over again till Rockler inquired, than miraculously it showed up a day later.

[Stewbaby]

USPS tracking is a myth

[wv109323]

We ordered several of our Christmas gifts instead of shopping locally. The USPS tracking system is terrible. I ordered a package from Washington state . It showed in Washington for about 10 days and then showed in the local distribution area on Nov.27 and delivered on Nov. 28. Another package ordered from NJ showed in the local distribution on Nov. 25 and was not delivered Dec. 2.
So a package that arrived later in the local distribution was delivered sooner than one that arrived sooner. The mail is not first in first out as I would expect but let it set until we get to it.
My daughter ordered medicine for her dog. It set in the local distribution for several days. The dog ran out of medicine and the seller sent new medicine over night by another carrier to solve he problem.
Most local mail delivering now is done with contract labor and not USPS employees. Most USPS employees are in a top heavy management position and stay in an office managing the contractors.

[DougGuy]

Simply enter the number into a google search, it will either open up tracking or it will give you the option to track with usps, and instantly your tracking opens up and you can view history,etc. I get email every time I print a shipping label, and every morning when mail will be delivered. They send a photo of the flat mail along with this notification, and a list of tracking numbers of items that are to be delivered, sometimes a couple of days out.

[BJK]

I track usps packages for free all the time. It must be done on their site and not at stampsdotcom or some such. If detailed tracking is desired, just look down and if memory serves it's a choice below what you're looking at. Heck, I do it so frequently it doesn't even register anymore. But just look around, it's there. In person at the USPS counter maybe they charge, I don't know about that.

[Lloyd Smale]

Why would you pay them when you can enter the tracking number (from your receipt if you didn't write it down) into their system and see it for yourself?

Robert

thats for sure. Heck i can go on line for free and even see where the ups truck delivering to my house that day is at in his route. If my dog was out of meds that i ordered on line it seems a pretty simple move to go to the vet and ask for some. I get all my meds through the va by mail. I log on check the box for the ones i need and hit send and there here within a week. I make sure when im down to two weeks supply i order more. If i run out its my own stupid fault not the post offices.

[Lloyd Smale]

We ordered several of our Christmas gifts instead of shopping locally. The USPS tracking system is terrible. I ordered a package from Washington state . It showed in Washington for about 10 days and then showed in the local distribution area on Nov.27 and delivered on Nov. 28. Another package ordered from NJ showed in the local distribution on Nov. 25 and was not delivered Dec. 2.
So a package that arrived later in the local distribution was delivered sooner than one that arrived sooner. The mail is not first in first out as I would expect but let it set until we get to it.
My daughter ordered medicine for her dog. It set in the local distribution for several days. The dog ran out of medicine and the seller sent new medicine over night by another carrier to solve he problem.
Most local mail delivering now is done with contract labor and not USPS employees. Most USPS employees are in a top heavy management position and stay in an office managing the contractors.

where do you work?? What would happen if overnight your there business trippled?? Could they keep up. Would the double there factory or amount of delivery trucks if they knew this was not going to be permenant and would go back to the old levels in a year? I dont see ruger or cci or hogdon building new factorys because theres a temporary run on what they make. Want to see real slow downs look for some small rifle or pistol primers. Just about every gun and reloading on line site has warnings that shipping will be delayed 2 week to even a month. Its fed x that using contract labor. My fed x delivery guy told me his check doesnt even come from fed x. It comes from a sub contractor. My ups driver works for ups and has been there for over 20 years. My mail lady is a employee of the postal service not a contractor and thats the same for every mail carrier ive seen around here. Must be different where you live. Personaly i think all three are amazing. Like i said the demand for there services has doubled or trippled and i still get everything i order. Might have to wait for the company to ship it a bit but once ups fed x or usps gets it its here in a few days. Heck fed x is even delivering on sundays now there so swamped. Top heavy? Or post office and its 4 small po's that are part of it have exactly one person sitting in an office. We had 9 lineman in our shop and had a supervisor and a line foreman sitting in an office and a secretary. Now thats top heavy. Our supervisor spent most of his days with the wall street journal playing the stock market. What bugs me is guys who really dont have a clue as to what goes on in a business or what it takes to make it work that consider themselves experts on it.