breezinup posted:Keystone posted:Definitely unacceptable and sadly more often the state of the USPS.
Not in my experience. Like Allen Miller, I've had excellent service both sending and receiving with USPS Priority Mail (hundreds of packages).
A few years ago I would tend to agree with you, I had a great letter carrier for more than 10 years, then she retired. In the last 3 years I've seen numerous drops in service quality with both local and out of state delivery by USPS. For example during the holidays, while a parcel was tracked as arrived the prior evening at my local post office and expected delivery was the next day: which they missed; after 12 hours they first changed status to unknown, then updated to say they attempted to deliver but claimed no one home or business was closed all the while we were home the entire time. I was told off the record, that if the local office fell behind in making delivery deadlines, the local supervisor(s) at our post office would re-code those late packages as undeliverable/business closed even though they weren't necessarily going to a store that was really closed. This false-coding practice would hide that office's true delivery performance as well as negatively impact the local postmaster's performance numbers. My most recent letter carriers (we now have 3) prefer not to get out of their truck, preferring to force-fit packages (no matter the size or printed warnings) into my street-side box rather than walk the 30 ft to the front porch. Last Thursday, our carrier delivered the mail to the prior numbered house for our entire street - almost 30 homes (venting over... for now
). It's not perfect but tracking and picture scan delivery notification email help.
