I ordered some clothes for by baby granddaughters early in September. They were sent from Chicago (to San Diego) with FedEx. For whatever reason the package spent an entire week in Las Vegas. It finally made it to San Diego on Monday.
postal machines read from the bottom up, so zip, state, city, address, name. PEOPLE should be more flexible in how they read it. When I’ve sent things 2 day priority in the set- fee boxes, I notice the kiosk doesn’t even ask for a name and just prints out the address. I always try to apply the label around the printed name/address on the box or add the name in pen to the label.
When I was little, I could send mail to my grandfather “Grampy, 17034” and he’d get it. They even knew if he was ‘at home’ or staying with the other cousins. The post office knew him and knew “we” called him Grampy but everyone in town called him Uncle Ern.
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Fed Ex is terrible here. I’ve had 3 packages sit in our suburban hub for over a week this month. What’s it going to be like in December?
How is everyone doing with letters these days? I mailed a card from central Illinois to Ft Rucker Alabama a week ago. I know there was a federal holiday in there but it’s been a week and it’s still not there. Am I being unrealistic in thinking it should be? I put a check in there for a birthday and I’m
Wondering if I should put a stop on it. What do
I sent a check to a fundraising event (sent to my friend) and the check has never been cashed. I assume it is lost.
I sent a check to a management company for my daughter rent in July. Never got there, never was returned.
Yesterday we got a bill addressed to a business that has to be 4 or 5 miles away. Totally different zip code, nothing close to our address or street name. It wasn’t stuck to another envelop. Strange.
We’ve been at our current address for almost 40 years. I could count the # of days we received no mail prior to this year on the fingers of one hand. In the last year alone we get no mail at least a couple of days per month. I really feel sorters are either letting stuff pile up, or letter carriers are skipping houses to finish their routes on time.
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I’d be fine with mail delivery going to every other day.
Yesterday we got a big bunch of mail because there was no mail on Monday and because we got our ballots and they were pretty thick. Today, back to 2-3 things, mostly ads.
Our mailman is doing great (hope I did not jinx my luck)! FedEx is struggling but delivering everything to the front door a couple of days late and leaving wine boxes on the porch… not a peep about signature. UPS still does Ok, but they somehow don’t get much business from the stores I order from. Amazon drivers do OK. The worst offender is OnTrack. OMG what a worthless outfit. Threw a box with $500 worth of Nordstrom stuff somewhere else and marked “left at front door” while I was literally looking at the front door while working from home. Left a box on our mailbox at the entry to the driveway and marked “left at front door.” There ain’t no doors there! 
I see no need for Saturday mail delivery, frankly. M-F would be fine.
FedEx: during early days of COVID dear wife was gardening in the front yard when driver arrived. She told him to just leave the package in the middle of the driveway and she’d pick it up later (avoiding close contact). Well, since then, that driver leaves all our FedEx packages smack dab in the middle of the driveway, unprotected! Once left a package at the base of our mailbox, at the end of a 150 foot driveway. Luckily we spotted it before it “walked away”.
I had an unusual experience yesterday. A FedEx delivery person rang my doorbell, showed me a message on his cell phone that started with the word hello and then asked whether or not I had received a package from FedEx sometime last week. I basically said that I have no idea. I’ll find a package on the front porch but pay no attention to whether USPS or UPS or FedEx delivered. Usually I order from Amazon but not always; I just received a box from Target and have no idea of delivery method. My son and his girl also have deliveries sent here. The young man looked dejected when I told him I couldn’t help him. (He was definitely a FedEx employee with insignia on shirt and in a FedEx van. Totally a weird experience. I wonder what they are looking for.)
Misdelivered package? They have trackers that can GPS-pinpoint their van locations but not the actual packages. My guess the person is probably looking for something of big value like an iPhone or a case of wine which required a signature or at least a confirmation that the recipient was there (which the person likely left at a wrong address).
Amazon sends me photos of my front porch with the package on it after every delivery as a proof that I got what I ordered. Creepy but works.
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I receive the daily email from USPS that shows what mail we’re supposed to get that day. Sometimes the pieces don’t arrive for another day or two. I need to stay on top of it better, though. At the end of August, I saw that we were receiving a check from an online payment processing company for a business invoice we’d sent. It never came. I didn’t follow through sooner because it was a small amount and I got busy. Ugh. I had to ask the client to send another check. Learned my lesson.
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We stopped using USPS for anything of consequence years ago. FedEx is our preferred shipper. For inbound packages we try to avoid having USPS for the last mile delivery because Of the delays they typically introduce.
OK, just for balance 
: I recently mailed USPS a 9x12 envelope package at 4:30pm on a Thursday. It arrived at destination about 800 miles away that Saturday. I was shocked! Regular first-class, nothing special. It’s the special things that take weeks of course.
Similar here. I mailed a small 6x9 envelope for $0.78. Granted it was only going 1:30 away, but it was to a different state. I mailed it out late Saturday morning and the person had it on Monday which shocked me since it was Columbus Day.
USPS here seems to be generally ok. FedEx is the biggest pain. UPS is usually on time but often the packages look like they let elephants sit on them.
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I’m beginning to think mine that I mailed to Alabama from Central Illinois has poofed into no man’s land. It was a simple card. 
Sad situation here and a truckload of packages that will not get delivered. It seems the UPS driver lived in my area of town.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/11/us/san-diego-area-plane-crash/index.html
I frequently mail packages through USPS and have yet to have one late or lost. I do mail directly from our local USPS substation so maybe that accounts for my lack of problems or maybe I’m just lucky.
However, not so with UPS: an Amazon return mailed directly from the UPS store still was not where it should be three months later. I called Amazon to have the non-returned charge removed from my credit card. Fortunately, I had proof that the mailing had taken place in a timely fashion. Still, I lost almost an hour of time locating my info and then talking with Amazon.
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Well, mailed S 2 CCards and a check from our home in Hi to his place in DC. It’s been about a week and he’s wondering when it will finally arrive. It was just in a regular legal size envelope.
Just got a package UPS ground from a store about 1 hour away in 2 days. It’s a bridesmaid dress my daughter had to order and had sent to Colorado Springs (why? this kid has no common sense!).
Now if she were just 5" taller it wouldn’t even need to be hemmed.