Does USPS post master have brains? (stores, cookies, online, expensive)
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First, the familiar "Do you have anything perishable, fragile, liquid, explosive or potentially hazardous, blah, blah?""---after years of having the USPS employees practicing their recitation and speaking ability, now they finally learned they could use a keypad asking the customer to enter yes/no--still, as if someone would press "Yes"??
Second, when you go USPS online to calculate postage, the first thing displayed is the most costing Express 1-day delivery, prompting EVERYONE to have to click on the drop display to see other alternatives, with the least expensive listed at the bottom as an obscure and unnamed "Other options". As if everyone sending a 3 ounce toy wants to pay $45 for a 1-day delivery?? Huhhh??!!
Not that I have seen. I mean look at there tracking of packages and delivery times. I had a friend who worked for them and he said they in recent years hired more unemployable people. He sad he liked to get out of sorting area has soon as possible because some were in his words; "really crazy".
I agree. I need some stamps so went online to order them. They charge for shipping!!
The horror! Imagine, someone charging a shipping charge to pay for transporting a purchase from one place to another. I hope other online stores don't start doing this.
The horror! Imagine, someone charging a shipping charge to pay for transporting a purchase from one place to another. I hope other online stores don't start doing this.
Location: Scott County, Tennessee/by way of Detroit
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It's been hit or miss with me and USPS...I mailed cookies priority in the $12.95 box or whatever it was.. Medium size...on a Friday...tracking date said it would be there Monday..according to tracking it never updated and sat in Knoxville for a whole week.....finally getting to Detroit 8 days later....I mailed a book, same area, book rate, got there in 4 days as expected...
This past Wednesday, I mailed a book to my son in California....book rate...projected date was this coming Wednesday.... He got it yesterday.... 2 days....so the heavy book cost $3.95 for 2 days and a tin of cookies was almost $13 for priority which wasn't quicker...I am mailing 3rd class from now on...probably get there overnight..... Very odd....
First, the familiar "Do you have anything perishable, fragile, liquid, explosive or potentially hazardous, blah, blah?""---after years of having the USPS employees practicing their recitation and speaking ability, now they finally learned they could use a keypad asking the customer to enter yes/no--still, as if someone would press "Yes"??
Second, when you go USPS online to calculate postage, the first thing displayed is the most costing Express 1-day delivery, prompting EVERYONE to have to click on the drop display to see other alternatives, with the least expensive listed at the bottom as an obscure and unnamed "Other options". As if everyone sending a 3 ounce toy wants to pay $45 for a 1-day delivery?? Huhhh??!!
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