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USPS Logic
- Thread starter Kriegs
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I work for the government. I have worked for the government for 20 years. I'm here to tell you, there is very little, if anything that the government does well or quickly. Oh it'll get done, but making sense while getting it done is not part of the SOP (standard operating procedure).
This concept is not unique to government. Work for a large coorporation for a while...it's all the same.
I think we need to form a committee to do a two-year study on your post. I think a budget of about $1.3 million for the study should get the job done. A year from now, when the study is already over budget, we'll allot ankther million or so. Then we'll also form another committee to look into why the first study went over budget.
While i have nothing but good to say about the USPS and my confidence is reflected in the fact they are my go to shipper for any package small enough to avoid oversize fees, i fully understand the concept of what a loss it would be to run even a small truck sixty miles to deliver half a sack of mail; there is a mystery within their system i’ve yet to figure out.
If i order something from Washington state on monday, it’s in my PO box in north central Alabama by wednesday. If i order from any other state on the same day, the earilest my package will arrive will be thursday. I first thought it was the vendor in Washington making an effort to ship the day my order is placed but after buying from multiple vendors with the same result, i’m at a loss for an explaination.
If i order something from Washington state on monday, it’s in my PO box in north central Alabama by wednesday. If i order from any other state on the same day, the earilest my package will arrive will be thursday. I first thought it was the vendor in Washington making an effort to ship the day my order is placed but after buying from multiple vendors with the same result, i’m at a loss for an explaination.
True story, USPS couldn’t find my shipping address to deliver a bass. I have attached a picture from the parking lot of my shipping address. It speaks for itself.
It does. They’re called courier services. And they’re pretty expensive to use. So the existing companies are usually only called when you have very sensitive or high value items to transport, or sometimes if you’re working under extremely tight deadlines. Usually they’re offered as a side service through a security firm, who can also provide an armed courier if needed. My company used to call them for things like delivering original signed contract paperwork back in the good old days.
Where I am, our local cab service (now long gone) used to deliver packages within town for the price of the cab fare.
The USPS and freight companies got wind of it and put a stop to that fast. Easy to do because it seems you need to be licensed to commercially transport and deliver goods as a service.
Could somebody like Uber disrupt that industry too? Be interesting to see. They don’t seem to be afraid of legal challenges (to put it mildly) or much mind duking it out in court if it ever comes to that. And you can be sure it would.
I am a USPS employee.
I encourage anyone to do some research on how the USPS is funded and their 75 year retirement clause.
As far as mismanagement and waste.....let's just say that I probably won't feel the need to correct anyone else in this thread.
I encourage anyone to do some research on how the USPS is funded and their 75 year retirement clause.
As far as mismanagement and waste.....let's just say that I probably won't feel the need to correct anyone else in this thread.
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
USPS logic works when you are shipping millions of parcels daily. That's why I can ship baseball bats anywhere in the country in two days (or less), and the most I pay is $20.50-about a third that for people close by $11.00 insurance is only a few bucks regardless of the distance. What's the Uber price for a local trip? A lot more than that. Oh, and free shipping containers.
I sent a postal money order from Tampa to near Orlando a couple of weeks ago, Priority Mail (2-3days). It went from the sorting center in Ybor City (about 90mi from the destination) To Reston Virginia whereupon I was notified that there was a delay and it wasn't going to arrive as scheduled (no $#!+) Now I'm picking up my new neck instead of having it delivered, since I'll be in O-Town in a week or so anyway. Geez!
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
I will consider this next time I ship baseball bats.
Same logic works for basses, or bass bodies, or amps, or whatever you want to ship. I mentioned what I shipped to give a perspective on price. Same way UPS discovered that by having its trucks use urban routes only making left turn it would be faster. They know what works.
I live on an Island. My mail goes off island to be sorted. Then sent back to be delivered. It takes 3-4 days to send something 5 miles away.
It would be like hiring that guy to deliver your bass...
Well... now that I know how awesome the delivery is going to be, who wants to sell me a vintage SVT head & matching 810 cab so we can get this movie made?!?!?!?
I'll even supply the popcorn for the epic chase scenes and gun fights!
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
On the average day, USPS delivers almost 17 million packages in a day - it has done more than 28,000,000 in a day. That means if it averages 17,000 mistakes a day, it is a 99.9% success rate. Of course it is going to @#$! once in a while. I am sure there are isolated cases where you could call Uber and save money, or get it there a day faster. And if the driver damages the bass, or just decides to ride into the sunset with it, you are SOL.
For @Mojo-Man, I am guessing that there aren't enough people on the island to warrant the post office paying someone to sort it there. He and his neighbors are free to set up a private delivery service to do it, but they won't make enough money to make it worthwhile.
For @Mojo-Man, I am guessing that there aren't enough people on the island to warrant the post office paying someone to sort it there. He and his neighbors are free to set up a private delivery service to do it, but they won't make enough money to make it worthwhile.
