Re: USPS Delivery - On An Order From E-Bay With Tracking - My Experience.....

[global1]

I ordered from a company in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. The item shipped out the same day on July 14th. I live in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. Tracking indicated that the item showed up in a Chicago Regional Facility on July 15th to be delivered by July 16th.

It is now July 23rd and the item hasn't moved out of this Regional Facility. It's still there and no new info has been made available as to when it will ultimately be delivered.

My frustration is mounting on the USPS as this has happened everytime in the last six months that I've ordered something on E-Bay and it is shipped through the USPS.

Is the USPS that screwed up - that an item can still at a standstill for almost 10 days with no new information on delivery? What's going on at USPS?

I urge all of you that sell on E-Bay to avoid using the USPS as your method of shipping items to your buyers. The lack of receiving the item ordered is a reflection on your business and gives you a bad rating by the buyer - when it is not your fault for the slowness of getting your item to the buyer.

Something needs to be done to make the USPS more efficient like it was before the Tr**p administration. Biden needs to replace DeJoy immediately.

[Turbineguy]

1. trump's mission was to make the whole government work like this.

Putin wants trump to come back and finish the job.

[LakeArenal]

2. You don't know why the USPS is screwed up?

You have not heard about DeJoy and the Republican efforts to destroy the PO?

The last thing you should do is tell people not to use the PO.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. My best advice is to never use eBay

USPS will have glitches. Sometimes tracking indicates an item is moving and all it's doing is being shuffled from one side of a warehouse to another.

If I were you I'd open an account on USPS.com and file a complaint and clearly state your problem. It will get handed to personnel local to the problem.

[SheltieLover]

4. This was "normal" in Memphis region before dejoy removed 5 machines!

Way worse now without those high-speed sorting machines.

Many items never arrive or arrive broken go bits. (The latter typical Memphis bs.)

Then, quite frequently, mail carriers throw mail into whichever mailbox they feel like. Very very often. 🤬

I always request UPS or FedEx, but usually not an option.

Sorry to hear of your frustration.

[Kali]

5. I have both good and bad experiences with all regular forms of delivery.

and of course they are often intertwined. even if fedex is the main carrier it may still end up going final segment through USPS. shit happens. yes USPS needs to return to its constitutional mission and not be a target of profit-driven corporations/repukes, but in general it is still doing a good job.

edit to add - except dhl, they suck ass. never had a good or normal experience with them. are they still in operation in the US? HATE!

[PlanetBev]

6. That happened to me with Fed-Ex several months ago

I ordered every week from a food services company with already prepared meals. It always arrived in one day. On one particular occasion, it sat in two different warehouses for five days. Naturally, when the box arrived, the cold packing had gone to room temperature and the food had to be thrown out. I got a refund but decided to stop the service.

[Walleye]

7. I have had a similar experience. Package just disappeared showed up days and days later

[SickOfTheOnePct]

8. I never use

USPS to ship packages and where possible/if I know, avoid buying from business that use them. That’s been my personal policy for the last ten years or so.

FedEx is first choice for me when shipping.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

9. I never use

USPS to ship packages and where possible/if I know, avoid buying from business that use them. That’s been my personal policy for the last ten years or so.

FedEx is first choice for me when shipping.

[LiberalFighter]

10. Does it show up in your Informed Delivery?

[global1]

11. Don't Know What Your Talking About 'Informed Delivery'?.....

What's that about?

[LiberalFighter]

14. You can sign up for Informed Delivery with usps

and you will get email each day showing scanned images of mail that will be delivered including packages.

[Cattledog]

12. I won an auction on eBay for an Amplifier it shipped from Nevada

on Wed. and arrived today.

[global1]

13. Did It Ship Through USPS Or Some Other Carrier?.....nt

[Cattledog]

26. USPS

[Goonch]

15. 👇

[Goonch]

16. 90,000 Packages Disappear Daily in N.Y.C."

"In New York City, where more orders are delivered than anywhere else in the country, over 90,000 packages a day are stolen or disappear without explanation, up roughly 20 percent from four years ago, according to an analysis conducted for The New York Times.

About 15 percent of all deliveries in urban areas fail to reach customers on the first attempt because of package theft and other issues, like deliveries to the wrong house, according to transportation experts."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/nyregion/online-shopping-package-theft.html

[Demsrule86]

17. contact EBAY

[Hekate]

18. Oh, DeJoy of it all. DeJoy was tasked with breaking the USPS beyond repair, if you recall...

That much is on schedule.

And since DeJoy has made his millions in alternative forms of shipping, all the better. For him and his investors, that is.

[barbaraann]

19. I have had mostly excellent shipping experiences with USPS in Oregon, but

I do know some people in Wisconsin who had to quit selling on the internet because their local post offices were so terrible about shipping.

My worst shipping story is about FEDEX. One time we were expecting an order worth about $10,000 for our business and it was misdelivered by FEDEX to a big box store nearby and never found! (It was a very small box.)

By the way, we use Pirate Ship for USPS, which has no extra charges beyond postage fees and is fun to use! When you use this service, you get discounted USPS and UPS fees.

[Ziggysmom]

20. I never have issues with USPS to SE Wisconsin. They are much cheaper than FedEx.

Try the Informed Delivery service, my daughter sells on eBay and her repeat customers recommend it.

https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Informed-Delivery-The-Basics

We've once had to email USPS customer service and they responded very quickly.

https://usps.force.com/emailus/s/

[LakeArenal]

25. I never had a problem on WI.

FrdEx delivered a package to a neighbor and I never got it.

[ForgedCrank]

21. This is the

new normal with USPS I believe. Hopefully someone will come along and fix this mess eventually.
Recall that not too long ago, they told us straight out that everything other than the high priced shipping options would be purposefully delayed.
I've had this happen to multiple things I've ordered, and watching the tracking, it would sit in one location for days. A couple of them sat for almost 2 weeks before they moved again. I don't know if it is all done on purpose or not, but the entire system started experiencing a dramatic slowdown in the past year, and is getting worse as time passes.
We sent out 1300 mailers 10 days ago for delivery within the same zipcode from which they were sent, and many are still not in mailboxes. It's gotten nearly unusable, and almost totally unreliable. We are now trying to build a system that is 100% electronic and have people use their own printers for vouchers because we can no longer reliably get them delivered through the mail system.

[ProfessorGAC]

22. My Experience With The Chicago Center

A similar thing happened to me a couple years ago, actually before DeJoy mucked things up. It was for a prescription out of Arizona.
In my case, it appears to have something to do with a third party carrier getting it to the Chicago center in the first place.
Our local postmaster looked it up and found that although the package had been delivered, the 3rd part (DHL, i think) never transferred custody, so USPS was unable to move it. It just sat there, so i just got my doctor to send the scrip to a local pharmacy, called the insurance company and got them to cancel any charge on the original and only pay their part of the new one.
Big hassle, but after hearing what happened i couldn't blame USPS.

[Doremus]

23. We use them exclusively and have less than 1% late rate

This is more than years past but not calamitous. It sounds like your distribution center has been particularly impacted unfortunately.

[spanone]

24. The USPS tracking is worthless.

[rgbecker]

27. I often buy from eBay and ship with USPS. OK

Just as good, if not better than the other shipment companies. Often delivering earlier than expected.