USPS, you just have to laugh

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tyromeo55

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As a business, I can only assume your package level is way beyond ours plus being in a metro area. It has to suck because you can't meet the commitment to your customers and they don't understand.
I / we are very lucky to have such great mailmen/ delivery drivers. They are worth their weight in gold.

hardest working delivery driver??? FedEx has this one smaller girl driver. She works her butt off. Outpaces the guys by miles. I told her that if she ever needed a job to ask us first.

When I had my FFL and did the group buy on the gp100 revolvers. The shipper put something like 12 in one flat rate box and maybe a little newspaper around each. By the time they arrived at the office there were barrels poking out of the sides in more then one place. Mailman made sure I got the box in my hands (not that there would of been an issue but he didn’t know that)


Longest delivery.... when I was young (pre-teen) my family took a vacation to Mexico. While there I mailed my granny a postcard and forgot about it... years later (like 4-5) I get a call from her thanking me for it and why we didn’t let her know we were going out of town. It was that card from years earlier. She gave it back to me and I still have the card.
 

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I / we are very lucky to have such great mailmen/ delivery drivers. They are worth their weight in gold.

When I had my FFL and did the group buy on the gp100 revolvers. The shipper put something like 12 in one flat rate box and maybe a little newspaper around each. By the time they arrived at the office there were barrels poking out of the sides in more then one place. Mailman made sure I got the box in my hands (not that there would of been an issue but he didn’t know that)


Longest delivery.... when I was young (pre-teen) my family took a vacation to Mexico. While there I mailed my granny a postcard and forgot about it... years later (like 4-5) I get a call from her thanking me for it and why we didn’t let her know we were going out of town. It was that card from years earlier. She gave it back to me and I still have the card.
Great story!
 

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Ok, now I'm pissed.

/rant on, if you don't want to read it, leave now

So USPS failed to deliver some items just after Christmas we had ordered several weeks before for a skiing trip, which led to, of course, a lot of running around and having to spend a good amount of money to replace those items for skiing. And then, of course, they showed up when we got home after the trip.

But that isn't it.

This month, January, USPS took 13 days to deliver a payment on my student loans.

Now... for those who've never had to deal with Sallie Mae, now Navient, you may not appreciate the gravity of this situation. But suffice it to say, we do NOT trust Navient with our bank account information to allow automatic draft. We have spent YEARS dealing with these people and their absolutely fraudulent intentional misdirection of my student loan payments. To the point that my wife would spend HOURS on the phone with them every. single. freaking. month. JUST to get payments applied appropriately. And that was only after we learned (again, after many "OOPS!" mistakes of misapplying our loans to the wrong accounts so we would be 'late' on our payments. The way we circumvented that was sending specific Cashier's Checks for each loan, keeping copies AND sending each of them SEPARATELY via CERTIFIED, RETURN RECEIPT MAIL - yes, every month.

It was a nightmare. For YEARS. And the ONLY way we could keep them honest was by my wife calling each. and. every. freaking. month. to argue with them and tell them she had proof of the separate checks (which still somehow got put in the wrong accounts despite being labeled with the specific account numbers) AND of the mail AND delivery dates, with SIGNATURE of a Navient employee for receipt. It was a nightmare. In spite of this, multiple times we had to have a law firm send them demand letters to make them apply our payments properly. This isn't a mistake, it's a regular practice of harassment and intimidation by Sallie Mae/Navient. They do this ROUTINELY. And they always, ALWAYS misapplied my Federal Stafford Loan payments to make a double payment on my private loans. Not a mistake, it was this way EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Funny... not ONCE did they accidentally apply a double payment to my Federal loans. I wonder why that is?? Hmmmmm?? Could it be that as a medical provider if I become delinquent on Federal loans, I become ineligible for participation in Medicare or Medicaid? Therefore can't receive payments and can't make a living? Hmmm.... seems like a good way to pressure someone to pay an extra payment just to get Sallie Mae/Navient off one's back so one won't lose their livelihood by fighting it and being placed in default, doesn't it? How strange....


So after all these battles, we've finally consolidated most of my student loans with a bank and told Navient to eff off... except for ONE small loan we forgot to include and have been continuing to pay on.

And NOW, the U.S. Postal Service decides to take 2 weeks to deliver my Certified, Return Receipt Requested mail with ONE Cashier's Check in it, so then when Navient contacts us wondering where our payment is, this time, THIS TIME, it actually IS freaking late! Because it took 13 days to get to Florida!

OMG, I need an anvil so I'll have something HARDER and DENSER than this wooden desktop to beat my HEAD UPON!!!!!


ARGH!!!!

/rant off

Ok. Sheesh. If ya'll stayed with me through that, you might have a small idea the frustration we went through with Sallie Mae and Navient now for damned near 20 years. And counting... <sigh>


Thanks, USPS. I've been pretty forgiving about the mail delays the last month or two, but this one just got to me. Seriously.
Lesson here. Pay off your debt early
 

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I've been keeping up with this thread while getting 99% of my shipments on time and we buy a lot online. The ones not on time are one day late.
Doesn't matter what service is used. US mail, UPS, or Fedex.
Does living near a small town like Ponca or living in the country make a difference? I don't know.

I have had 1 package take more than a month, 1 still out there since the 5th and 1 disappear completely since October. Most arrive in a timely manner ,I just seem to be having a bad run . Just getting a little tired of the covid excuse, seems Fedex and prime are immune the bug.
 

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Lesson here. Pay off your debt early

Very good point, and I agree completely. I wish we had done so, however, we are down from $750k to under $200k. We are making progress... of course, if we hadn't been paying $150k+ in taxes some of those years it would have been easier.

I think I have 5 1/2 years to go at current rate? Something like that.

And the 20 years includes time in school and residency. Started paying in... I dunno, like 2009 or something.
 

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Very good point, and I agree completely. I wish we had done so, however, we are down from $750k to under $200k. We are making progress... of course, if we hadn't been paying $150k+ in taxes some of those years it would have been easier.

I think I have 5 1/2 years to go at current rate? Something like that.

And the 20 years includes time in school and residency. Started paying in... I dunno, like 2009 or something.
A lot of docs and dentists take on a lot of debt to get thru school but then have a great income to pay it off. Dave Ramsey helped me focus on paying off debt. One of the things I’ve heard him say is don’t live like a doc until the debt is gone. Sounds like you’ve made a lot of progress and have it down to a level to really focus on knocking out the rest of it. I’d be pissed too if I were you on the late mail. I was tracking 2 pieces mailed by a forum member on 1-8 and emailed the district manager again this week. She says Tulsa plant has a new acting plant manager and things should be getting better. I offered to come back on contract but she didn’t like my price and she definitely wouldn’t like my management style. I have defended USPS many times but the current levels of service and response to valid complaints is pathetic. Good luck on your student loans and getting better mail service.
 

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I / we are very lucky to have such great mailmen/ delivery drivers. They are worth their weight in gold.

hardest working delivery driver??? FedEx has this one smaller girl driver. She works her butt off. Outpaces the guys by miles. I told her that if she ever needed a job to ask us first.

When I had my FFL and did the group buy on the gp100 revolvers. The shipper put something like 12 in one flat rate box and maybe a little newspaper around each. By the time they arrived at the office there were barrels poking out of the sides in more then one place. Mailman made sure I got the box in my hands (not that there would of been an issue but he didn’t know that)


Longest delivery.... when I was young (pre-teen) my family took a vacation to Mexico. While there I mailed my granny a postcard and forgot about it... years later (like 4-5) I get a call from her thanking me for it and why we didn’t let her know we were going out of town. It was that card from years earlier. She gave it back to me and I still have the card.

My experience has been that most women make better carriers than men. It’s not about strength, it’s about the mentality of actually serving the customer.
 

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FedEx has provided decent service to me most of the time but 1 thing they do just bugs me. This item is in OKC but not due to be delivered until Monday. Monday is the busiest delivery day for these companies and cost the most overtime. It seems to me a better option would be to put any Monday committed packages on the truck today that just drove by my house. It would save a few minutes on Monday. It’s not something I need today and it will be on time when it’s delivered Monday. I’ve just always questioned this practice. Maybe they have a better reason than I can come up with.
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