@RiotDemon The $2 speakers I ordered because getting packages is fun were shipped Fedex. The steam mop I need because the kitchen floor is sticky was just inducted into the Pitney Bowes network.
@therealjrn
only with the postmaster
i had a friend who said he should be tried for high treason and executed in the way the British did around the revolutionary war.
if you don’t know, you don’t wanna know.
/giphy shiver
@Cerridwyn@therealjrn considering the postmaster general used to run a shipping logistics company, I have to +1 this as well. Nothing short of interfering with the mail, isn’t that at least a pretty significant felony?
FYI: The new postmaster general was the CEO of XPO logistics till 2014 and on the board until 2018.
@RiotDemon To simply slow down the entire system it appears. Knowing full well they’ll be a necessity to process what they assume will be an influx of mailed ballots, removing them means those ballots won’t arrive in time to be counted. In addition, if they piss off people enough to switch to private delivery services, there’s more money for their pockets since they’re invested in them.
@cinoclav@RiotDemon they want to supress the vote/dismantle democracy. We’re turning into Russia day by day.
That’s the whole reason why we have the first postmaster general who knows nothing about the post office, never worked for the post office, unqualified for the job.
He was, as Trump has openly admitted, a political plant to sabotage mail in voting because mail in voters tend to lean Democrat.
The post office is being sabotaged for the pure reason of denying the will of the people their vote… And it’s not even being done covertly.
The fact that this is done in the open now shows how desensitized people have become to corruption in government the last 3 years.
@cinoclav@RiotDemon
And Trump even admitted that was going on in an interview this past week I think.
Just found the news article that quoted him. And now he’s backstroking, taking his statements back and claiming “fake news”…
Thankfully he made the statements on camera where everyone can hear him their selves!
@cinoclav@RiotDemon Realistically, they probably had on the roadmap removing some sorting machines at some point. Lower letter volume is killing them. The timing of sudden removal, and combined with removing city(democrat area) mailboxes in swing states, when a pandemic means they are having higher load than normal anyway puts it so far into the realm of suspicious activity that it can’t stand.
@OnionSoup
Um. Actually, many people on prescriptions by mail are reporting that weeks ago (around the 1st of the month) their service sent them a shipping confirmation for their meds, and here it is the 23rd and quite a few still don’t have their orders. My sister is one of the people that is waiting on meds. She’s on three different insulins. Insulin has a relatively short shelf life if not kept refrigerated and there is no way that her cooler of meds (that was stuffed with freezer gel packs for a 2-3 day journey) is still below 40° degrees. Over $600 of insulin that can’t be used. Lucky for her, her doctor dealt with the insurance company and would not listen when he was told there was nothing the insurance could do. She was able to pick up her insulin at a local pharmacy and her insurance covered all but $120. But. She was out of her insulin for over 10 days.
Most of the prescription by mail services only ship through USPS simply because of their reach all over the country. There are rural areas that FedEx and UPS don’t even try to drive to. That’s why some of your packages will arrive with a bill of loading or labels from those services, but USPS hands it to you. It’s called “last mile delivery”. Amazon does it a lot!
One other thing is, that by shipping through USPS for the entire journey, there are fewer places that drug shipments can get lost or be made to disappear. Supposedly they have door to door tracking and by keeping the med packages in their network they claim they always know where it’s at. (And I know that’s just their marketing, but it gives the prescription service and the DEA the facade of security.) BB
@OnionSoup
Apologies for that novel.
(and for this one )
Last week, the hits just kept coming and I’m still recovering. If I sounded snarky, please believe me when I say I didn’t mean any part of it to be snarky.
From last Monday on, this was my life : lost two of my 15+ year old kitty kids. Misti, a calico girl, and KitterKatter, a petite tuxedo girl, crossed the rainbow bridge. After Misti passed Kitter went downhill quickly and died two days later. One of my two solid black cats disappeared, who knows where. My house is kept closed except to get mail and I can’t imagine how she could have made that escape. I’ve torn my house up to to bottom hunting her. Cat-dini made good on her escape. Bubbles is my last solid black kit and my last kit. He was a little sick after the girls left but he’s finally eating again. He walks through the house calling for the girls and then stares at me.
Monday I received a letter from the city that my yard was too overgrown and I would be subject to a fine. The letter was mailed almost a week before I derived it, and was supposed to give me 10 days to fix the problem and call them. From the date I received it, it expired two days later, not 10. Amidst kitty passings I had to scramble for a lawn person, and then get them here by Wednesday.
Then Thursday morning I go out to grab something out of my pickup and one of our officers had orange tagged my truck as junk and an eyesore and it had to be off the road by Friday. His reasoning is that it never moves. OK. Sure. I haven’t driven since about last Xmas. I didn’t drive much before this pandemic and now I drive even less. My truck isn’t junk. It has good tires. No rust damage. No accidents. But it is a 1984 F-150 XLT. She is old. And when life has come back to some type of normal, I’ll be entering her in car shows again and she usually takes first place in the “Survivor” category.
And that was last weeks episode of “This Life in H@ll”
Hope yours was gentler. Hugs. BB
@sarahsandroid I am so sorry to hear about the loss of your kitties. Your heart must be breaking over losing those two and you must be frantic about the third. I hope you find out what has happened to your missing kitty.
@sarahsandroid I’m so sorry about your kitties too!!! Heartbreaking for sure. And then having all that other stuff piled on - I can’t understand why they’re expecting you to be moving your truck right now when we’re supposed to stay home. I hope your missing kitty comes home and you get the other stuff resolved - sometimes life is just one damn thing after another.🥺
USPS really needs to bump up the cost to mail bulk mail, junk mail, non-profit mail etc.
They also could close some tiny post offices, especially when there’s a larger one a few miles away.
Too bad this all takes an act of Congress to accomplish.
Yes, our mail delivery at home is much less dependable than it used to be, mostly deliveries to the wrong house or our mail being delivered 2 or 3 times in one day.
@daveinwarsh They’ve been closing small post offices, in some cases they try to close one that a business uses and the distances are such that the business is no longer viable. If they bump the cost of bulk mail, less bulk mail gets sent, and they get less money. The bulk mail may be subsidizing first class mail. It doesn’t cost them that much per piece of bulk mail that’s going to everyone, compared to th individual mail that’s going to specific addresses.
@kevinrs We have a few very small part-time post offices near me. They also built a large brand new one a few miles away. The small ones remain after many years.
Yes, there’d be less bulk and junk mail with increased costs. It doesn’t need to be 1st class rates as much of it is pre-sorted… Non-profit also is quite a stretch on who they allow.
I had several USPS last-mile parcels that had been delayed for weeks. One showed as in transit from one post office in my city to another for over a week. Packages were all delivered within 36 hours of LeJoy saying that he had ordered restoration of service levels.
I mean… it’s not just usps. My sister ordered my niece a desk, shipping ups, was originally supposed to arrive back on Friday, which would have given time to put it together and paint it before school started today. Guess what. Delivery date changed to today, then it didn’t arrive today, and currently is scheduled for delivery tomorrow. But, tracking details show it was last scanned in Greensboro, North Carolina a week ago, on the 18th. And it even shows a pitney bowesesque cross country travel.
Label created 8/17
shipped 8/18 4:47 am at Greensboro
Arrived Vernon California 2:10 PM
Departed Vernon 2:15
Departed Greensboro 7:11
Arrived Greensboro 11:13
Departed again at 11:14 pm still on 8/18.
With no valid scan in California, and no scans for a week, I’m thinking maybe it arrives next week sometime?
And oh yeah, they set up a month or so ago to get some baby chicks delivered in September. One of the horrid examples in the article above. If things aren’t straightened out at USPS I’m hoping the company sending them just cancels the order. There is no one else that ships live animals like that, there’s just no replacement for USPS for that. There are probably multiple companies going out of business just based on the bad press, even if USPS has fixed the delays already. If they don’t fix it, most of the hatcheries will go under, and both chicken and eggs are going to shoot way up in price probably by the beginning of next year.
Some of my items are being sent FedEx, that’s cool.
None of my items I’ve purchased are really time sensitive, so it doesn’t matter that much.
@RiotDemon The $2 speakers I ordered because getting packages is fun were shipped Fedex. The steam mop I need because the kitchen floor is sticky was just inducted into the Pitney Bowes network.
@sammydog01 oh no. What luck.
My masks from the sale the other day were delivered this afternoon.
Nothing is wrong with the USPS
@therealjrn
only with the postmaster
i had a friend who said he should be tried for high treason and executed in the way the British did around the revolutionary war.
if you don’t know, you don’t wanna know.
/giphy shiver
@Cerridwyn @therealjrn considering the postmaster general used to run a shipping logistics company, I have to +1 this as well. Nothing short of interfering with the mail, isn’t that at least a pretty significant felony?
FYI: The new postmaster general was the CEO of XPO logistics till 2014 and on the board until 2018.
Since when is it ever wise to buy things from Meh?
This is scary.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-20/usps-cutbacks-post-office-chaos
@cinoclav Now we know what the “Forever” stamp really means.
@cinoclav it doesn’t say why they removed the sorting machines. What the hell for?
@RiotDemon To simply slow down the entire system it appears. Knowing full well they’ll be a necessity to process what they assume will be an influx of mailed ballots, removing them means those ballots won’t arrive in time to be counted. In addition, if they piss off people enough to switch to private delivery services, there’s more money for their pockets since they’re invested in them.
@cinoclav @RiotDemon they want to supress the vote/dismantle democracy. We’re turning into Russia day by day.
That’s the whole reason why we have the first postmaster general who knows nothing about the post office, never worked for the post office, unqualified for the job.
He was, as Trump has openly admitted, a political plant to sabotage mail in voting because mail in voters tend to lean Democrat.
The post office is being sabotaged for the pure reason of denying the will of the people their vote… And it’s not even being done covertly.
The fact that this is done in the open now shows how desensitized people have become to corruption in government the last 3 years.
@cinoclav @RiotDemon
And Trump even admitted that was going on in an interview this past week I think.
Just found the news article that quoted him. And now he’s backstroking, taking his statements back and claiming “fake news”…
Thankfully he made the statements on camera where everyone can hear him their selves!
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-admits-he-wants-block-usps-funding-sabotage-mail-voting-2020-8
@sarahsandroid Shhh! Trump voters don’t like facts!
@cinoclav @RiotDemon Realistically, they probably had on the roadmap removing some sorting machines at some point. Lower letter volume is killing them. The timing of sudden removal, and combined with removing city(democrat area) mailboxes in swing states, when a pandemic means they are having higher load than normal anyway puts it so far into the realm of suspicious activity that it can’t stand.
Great question! We’ll send our response by mail.
As long as it’s not another Poo-pouri situation, I’m not overly concerned.
Biden/Harris would never allow this to happen. Vote for Biden.
@medz Must be the Medz talking lol
@tbyrd66 I wish! Medz still too expensive. Need to expand on affordable care act.
I don’t think you need to worry about packages. It’s only things that could be confused with ballots or ballot applications that are being delayed.
@OnionSoup
Um. Actually, many people on prescriptions by mail are reporting that weeks ago (around the 1st of the month) their service sent them a shipping confirmation for their meds, and here it is the 23rd and quite a few still don’t have their orders. My sister is one of the people that is waiting on meds. She’s on three different insulins. Insulin has a relatively short shelf life if not kept refrigerated and there is no way that her cooler of meds (that was stuffed with freezer gel packs for a 2-3 day journey) is still below 40° degrees. Over $600 of insulin that can’t be used. Lucky for her, her doctor dealt with the insurance company and would not listen when he was told there was nothing the insurance could do. She was able to pick up her insulin at a local pharmacy and her insurance covered all but $120. But. She was out of her insulin for over 10 days.
Most of the prescription by mail services only ship through USPS simply because of their reach all over the country. There are rural areas that FedEx and UPS don’t even try to drive to. That’s why some of your packages will arrive with a bill of loading or labels from those services, but USPS hands it to you. It’s called “last mile delivery”. Amazon does it a lot!
One other thing is, that by shipping through USPS for the entire journey, there are fewer places that drug shipments can get lost or be made to disappear. Supposedly they have door to door tracking and by keeping the med packages in their network they claim they always know where it’s at. (And I know that’s just their marketing, but it gives the prescription service and the DEA the facade of security.) BB
@OnionSoup
)
Apologies for that novel.
(and for this one
Last week, the hits just kept coming and I’m still recovering. If I sounded snarky, please believe me when I say I didn’t mean any part of it to be snarky.
From last Monday on, this was my life : lost two of my 15+ year old kitty kids. Misti, a calico girl, and KitterKatter, a petite tuxedo girl, crossed the rainbow bridge. After Misti passed Kitter went downhill quickly and died two days later. One of my two solid black cats disappeared, who knows where. My house is kept closed except to get mail and I can’t imagine how she could have made that escape. I’ve torn my house up to to bottom hunting her. Cat-dini made good on her escape. Bubbles is my last solid black kit and my last kit. He was a little sick after the girls left but he’s finally eating again. He walks through the house calling for the girls and then stares at me.
Monday I received a letter from the city that my yard was too overgrown and I would be subject to a fine. The letter was mailed almost a week before I derived it, and was supposed to give me 10 days to fix the problem and call them. From the date I received it, it expired two days later, not 10. Amidst kitty passings I had to scramble for a lawn person, and then get them here by Wednesday.
Then Thursday morning I go out to grab something out of my pickup and one of our officers had orange tagged my truck as junk and an eyesore and it had to be off the road by Friday. His reasoning is that it never moves. OK. Sure. I haven’t driven since about last Xmas. I didn’t drive much before this pandemic and now I drive even less. My truck isn’t junk. It has good tires. No rust damage. No accidents. But it is a 1984 F-150 XLT. She is old. And when life has come back to some type of normal, I’ll be entering her in car shows again and she usually takes first place in the “Survivor” category.
And that was last weeks episode of “This Life in H@ll”
Hope yours was gentler. Hugs. BB
@sarahsandroid I am so sorry to hear about the loss of your kitties. Your heart must be breaking over losing those two and you must be frantic about the third. I hope you find out what has happened to your missing kitty.
@sarahsandroid I’m so sorry about your kitties too!!! Heartbreaking for sure. And then having all that other stuff piled on - I can’t understand why they’re expecting you to be moving your truck right now when we’re supposed to stay home. I hope your missing kitty comes home and you get the other stuff resolved - sometimes life is just one damn thing after another.🥺
USPS really needs to bump up the cost to mail bulk mail, junk mail, non-profit mail etc.
They also could close some tiny post offices, especially when there’s a larger one a few miles away.
Too bad this all takes an act of Congress to accomplish.
Yes, our mail delivery at home is much less dependable than it used to be, mostly deliveries to the wrong house or our mail being delivered 2 or 3 times in one day.
@daveinwarsh They’ve been closing small post offices, in some cases they try to close one that a business uses and the distances are such that the business is no longer viable. If they bump the cost of bulk mail, less bulk mail gets sent, and they get less money. The bulk mail may be subsidizing first class mail. It doesn’t cost them that much per piece of bulk mail that’s going to everyone, compared to th individual mail that’s going to specific addresses.
@kevinrs We have a few very small part-time post offices near me. They also built a large brand new one a few miles away. The small ones remain after many years.
Yes, there’d be less bulk and junk mail with increased costs. It doesn’t need to be 1st class rates as much of it is pre-sorted… Non-profit also is quite a stretch on who they allow.
I had several USPS last-mile parcels that had been delayed for weeks. One showed as in transit from one post office in my city to another for over a week. Packages were all delivered within 36 hours of LeJoy saying that he had ordered restoration of service levels.
LeJoy is definitely misnamed…
It’s always idiotic to purchase from Meh.
Many of us are very good cultural fit’s with idiocy.
You’re cranky.
I mean… it’s not just usps. My sister ordered my niece a desk, shipping ups, was originally supposed to arrive back on Friday, which would have given time to put it together and paint it before school started today. Guess what. Delivery date changed to today, then it didn’t arrive today, and currently is scheduled for delivery tomorrow. But, tracking details show it was last scanned in Greensboro, North Carolina a week ago, on the 18th. And it even shows a pitney bowesesque cross country travel.
Label created 8/17
shipped 8/18 4:47 am at Greensboro
Arrived Vernon California 2:10 PM
Departed Vernon 2:15
Departed Greensboro 7:11
Arrived Greensboro 11:13
Departed again at 11:14 pm still on 8/18.
With no valid scan in California, and no scans for a week, I’m thinking maybe it arrives next week sometime?
And oh yeah, they set up a month or so ago to get some baby chicks delivered in September. One of the horrid examples in the article above. If things aren’t straightened out at USPS I’m hoping the company sending them just cancels the order. There is no one else that ships live animals like that, there’s just no replacement for USPS for that. There are probably multiple companies going out of business just based on the bad press, even if USPS has fixed the delays already. If they don’t fix it, most of the hatcheries will go under, and both chicken and eggs are going to shoot way up in price probably by the beginning of next year.
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