I'm confused with USPS shipping process (Houston related) (Greenville, Post: 2015, live)

[wintersbone]

Or my favorite its shipped fedex and then passed off to usps and takes longer to be delivered.

And then if you call looking for the package fedex will be like usps has it call them; then you call usps well we were not the originator so we cant help you.

what an f'up system they got.

[Lowexpectations]

Originally Posted by wintersbone

Or my favorite its shipped fedex and then passed off to usps and takes longer to be delivered.

And then if you call looking for the package fedex will be like usps has it call them; then you call usps well we were not the originator so we cant help you.

what an f'up system they got.

You are taking about smart post and it's a cheaper service for a reason. Ups and dhl have similar services

[NTT]

Uh-oh.... did I opened a case/carton of tomatoes?

With tomatoes flying in the air, I better stay down .

[DejaBlue]

That's probably just bad shipping..good ol USPS at it's finest.

I buy online a lot and I have a West Coast, Central US bias. I refuse to buy from the east especially NY and NJ. WAY too many post offices in between.

California - purchase on Sunday, it actually ships Monday afternoon.maybe Tuesday morning and I get it Thursday

NY/NJ - purchase on Sunday, it actually ships Monday afternoon.maybe Tuesday morning and I get it the following Monday or Tuesday. Imma pass East Coast, mmkay

Though once, only once I purchased an item from OR. It went to Chicago then Missouri and was 2 weeks late. Those people just couldn't read and the seller said it was a mishap and truly from Portland, OR

[trbstang]

Originally Posted by Lowexpectations

I find 7-10 days dallas to college station very hard to believe as I mail a ton of stuff first class and it gets cross country faster than that by a long shot.

Also you don't lie USPS' service but don't want to pay ups pricing? Lol

Maybe I'm just very unlucky. I've mailed important papers to my daughter at A&M and a week later she finally received them. And twice this year I've sent her rent payment to Dallas, and it has taken 9-10 days to reach her landlord. So the last two times I sent it 2 day priority letter ($5.50) and that only took 3 days. The package I just sent was going to be $24 via UPS, while USPS was only $12.71. Granted, UPS would have certainly delivered it today instead of tomorrow, but I didn't want to pay that much extra for was was advertised as the same basic service.

[Lowexpectations]

Total time for something to go from hand to hand depends on a lot of factors and not to be offensive but with the college station run you have multiple college kids that have to touch it and your daughter actually has to go pick it up. Within texas 2-3 days is really the norm for first class letters if you are seeing 7-10 it's either other people touching the mail or the person you are mailing it to

[trbstang]

Well, my daughter is in a townhouse with a private mailbox just like a regular apartment, and she was checking it daily since she needed the papers, so it had to be on the post office end. Granted, they could have put it in the wrong mailbox, but that is another story of itself I can tell you about my neighborhood mail delivery! I too would expect 2-3 day delivery to be normal in Texas. And when the landlord calls around the 8th of the month saying she has not received the check you know was mailed at the post office itself, I wonder what happened to it. I sent her another rent check priority mail, and of course she got the original one the next day.

Luckily I only pay like 2-3 bills via mail per month, and I might just send the landlord a stack of post dated checks for next year!

[pkflyers]

Maybe it got rerouted to Dallas due to the flooding here last week?

[NTT]

Originally Posted by pkflyers

Maybe it got rerouted to Dallas due to the flooding here last week?

No, the order was placed on Monday evening of this week and the package was sent out on Tuesday. The rain & flood has been gone by then. Houston is big with many USPS facilities. If the packages needed to be transferred from a flooded facility, the carrier would have transferred them to another local dry facility. If the facility wasn't flooded, the packages would have been witheld until it's cleared to continue its way.

Anyway, my package was delivered today.

My intention for this thread was not to complain of the shipping time. Rather, I was a bit puzzled to why the package took the route it did. It traveled from Stafford up to Dallas and back down to Houston instead of coming straight through (30 miles away). It's just out of curiousity, that's all.

USPS in my area has been quite good. I know many of the workers there and I know how hard they all work. Any problem in the past that I've encountered with USPS has been very minor, and they've corrected it right away. No carrier service is perfect. Ordering online takes patience, and the money I've saved for searching a good bargain is all worth the waiting.

[Lowexpectations]

Routing can be strange or appear to not make sense in the logistics business and while your scenario does LNG make sense fedex for instance will send a letter from houston to Memphis to dallas instead of direct to dallas because there are efficiencies in the volume and sorting