100 Test Letters Mailed to USPS...spotty service..mostly dismal results.... (death, Canada)
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We mailed 100 letters to test the Postal Service. The verdict: Spotty at best, dismal at worst
The letter — filled with stickers for a 5-year-old boy named William — was mailed at the post office in the Los Angeles community of Sylmar on Aug. 22. It was sent first class, at a cost of 55 cents, and with a promise, according to the U.S. Postal Service website, of “delivery in 1-3 business days.”
The plain white envelope arrived at its destination, a ranch-style house in Austin, Texas, 11 days later.
Another letter, mailed from Malibu to the San Francisco suburb of Millbrae, sat in a Los Angeles processing center for three days and wasn’t delivered for an additional four days after that.
And a letter sent from the Alhambra post office to a residence in Washington, D.C.,ook four days to get to the mail processing center in the capital, and three more days elapsed before it reached its final destination.
That's what happens when you stop all the overtime. Maybe that might work as well for cops and firemen as well. Your house on fire and it's 5:03. Time to go home, we'll come back tomorrow at 9 AM. Rioting in Portland? Too bad! Us cops have to leave before overtime kicks in. Call 911 ...again!
That's what happens when you stop all the overtime. Maybe that might work as well for cops and firemen as well. Your house on fire and it's 5:03. Time to go home, we'll come back tomorrow at 9 AM. Rioting in Portland? Too bad! Us cops have to leave before overtime kicks in. Call 911 ...again!
Not sure if the service tested was within state.
I have no problem with local mail or even within USA...but try to send something to Canada and the US postal office can't figure it out. I gave up years ago. It's pathetic.
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Our ballots are set to be mailed out to all registered voters in the county on 10/14. That mean 21 days for getting them, voting, and the mail back. That should suffice, though most of us prefer to just drop them off at the big bin in front of City Hall. It's the people who tend to put things off that will be disappointed. In our state it won't matter, the Democrats will always win and it won't be even close.
Perhaps when we have a new Postmaster General who isn't politically corrupt and has the competence to properly do his job rather than dick around with constitutionally protected rights and movement of packages that literally mean life and death, this won't happen.
And perhaps when the current POTUS is replaced with someone who doesn't hire such a person and defiantly brags about sabotaging the post office in order to suppress lawfully placed votes, this won't be happening and the postal service will receive the support it needs to be able to do the job it is constitutionally obligated to do.
I'm glad you're seeing the problems with how things have been going lately, OP!
That's what happens when you stop all the overtime. Maybe that might work as well for cops and firemen as well. Your house on fire and it's 5:03. Time to go home, we'll come back tomorrow at 9 AM. Rioting in Portland? Too bad! Us cops have to leave before overtime kicks in. Call 911 ...again!
Seriously? All of the people who are in a panic about the "virus" have forgotten the extra efforts required? We have no trouble getting our mail. I think this is just making a case for those ballots that will be "in the trunk" for Biden when Trump is declared the winner! They'll be trunks full of ballots cast for Biden, and their delay blamed on the slow post office.
We mailed 100 letters to test the Postal Service. The verdict: Spotty at best, dismal at worst
The letter — filled with stickers for a 5-year-old boy named William — was mailed at the post office in the Los Angeles community of Sylmar on Aug. 22. It was sent first class, at a cost of 55 cents
BOGUS.
This article is bogus or really poorly written.
US postage of $0.55 is NOT Certified Mail.
There is no way that anyone can tell where or when a 55 cent first class letter is.
Bogus. Or Junior High journalism.
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