The Post Office Is Killing Me!

[🪦 Insanity ●]

<!--quoteo(post=304907:date=Mar 20 2009, 11:09 AM:name=Jluck)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE (Jluck @ Mar 20 2009, 11:09 AM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=304907\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotecIt's all going down the tubes.......Fast <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"\" border=\"0\" alt=\"rolleyes.gif\" /><!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEnd[George Carlin] What tubes? I don't see any tubes.Where are these tubes.[/George Carlin] <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":tongue:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"tongue.gif\" /> I'm a little upset as well at not only the cost but the fact that the cost doesn't seem to matter much anymore.I know rates go up but man, ALL mailing/shipping rates have gone up a lot in the past couple years.Whats worse is it doesn't seem to matter that you pay a few extra dollars to minimize the days ( unless you pay for overnight )It sucks for the buyer because he paid and doesn't have his item.It sucks for the seller because it makes him look bad until it is all cleared up which could be weeks.For me, I live in a small town in San Diego (mountains actually) with a small post office.Thats sometimes scary.The mail carriers drive their own vehicles to deliver ( only one USPS van and they probably flip for it to see who drives it that day )

[🪦 Mutilated ●]

Not the post I want to read before heading out to the PO for the first time in over 6 months.

[🪦 monteburns ●]

I have had many bad experiences with UPS with damage even if the item is well packaged.Their large brokerage fees for international buyers are ridiculous.I would never use them as a shipping method even if it was for free.Fedex has been really reliable for me on fragile items such as lifesize busts.7 out of 10 people do not know how to package an item so that it does not get damaged in transit.

[🪦 mmyersisgod ●]

I use UPS, now.

[🪦 knewby ●]

My local carriers with the post office have crammed and folded envelopes clearly marked "DO NOT BEND" on them into my mailbox....left boxes in the rain, etc, etc. And its getting worse. My local PO covers a large urban area and is always f'n packed and they always have only one clerk on duty. Every time I go there to mail a package I get behind one of the following:A. 93 year old lady who can't decide on which book of stamps to buyB. 77 year old asian who is mailing 8 packages to some Asian country

[🪦 mperaginejr ●]

They aren't much better here...I had to pay Pitt to reissue my master's because the carrier bent it in half in my mailbox a few weeks back...there was even cardboard in the envelope with it. Unacceptable.

[🪦 Mutilated ●]

And these clowns want another day off? LOL they don't deserve one.

[🪦 myersman ●]

Priority Mail Blows <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/woot.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":woot:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"woot.gif\" />

[jonl]

I have been using UPS...I ship to canada alot and they are faster! My mailman left me a not on my mail ( he wrote this on my mail)Please shovel/clear off sidewalk.It was the day it snowed out, it was snowing at the time i was at work. How can i shovel if i am at work?Dude your deliver mail get over it! get some boots and hike up your skirt!

[🪦 mperaginejr ●]

Wow, that takes a set to put on someone's mail, especially during the storm.