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I currently have a package that was supposed to be here Saturday. Then delayed to Sunday, which I could understand due to the winter storm we had Friday. Sunday, I got an email saying Wednesday. Now it says Thursday due to severe weather in the delivery area. Really? 90% of our ice and snow melted Saturday. The roads were only bad overnight Friday night. My 81 yr old mother with an artificial knee was able to go to church on Sunday.
I had the same inclement weather excuse on mine. There was no snow or bad weather within 100's of miles of me.... The package was already at the distribution center closest to me.
 

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I had the same inclement weather excuse on mine. There was no snow or bad weather within 100's of miles of me.... The package was already at the distribution center closest to me.
Yeah. And here is the "inclement weather in the delivery area."
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Ok. Not the USPS. But, wow.

This morning, around 9am, I ordered a carpet/upholstery steam cleaner from Amazon. It just arrived, 8hrs after ordering. A guy wearing Amazon uniform pulled into my driveway and delivered it.
 

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from Amazon. It just arrived, 8hrs after ordering.
Glad someone is getting their value from Amazon. My delivery estimates are getting longer and longer. Delivery estimates are longer now than they were during the christmas rush.

Don't get me wrong, I understand some stuff being delayed with the fires and other things going on, but everything is minimum of a week for projected delivery. I live within 20 miles of an Amazon distribution center. Even if some stuff is coming across the country, EVERYTHING shouldn't take a week.
 

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Glad someone is getting their value from Amazon. My delivery estimates are getting longer and longer. Delivery estimates are longer now than they were during the christmas rush.

Don't get me wrong, I understand some stuff being delayed with the fires and other things going on, but everything is minimum of a week for projected delivery. I live within 20 miles of an Amazon distribution center. Even if some stuff is coming across the country, EVERYTHING shouldn't take a week.
Well ain’t that place just a geographical oddity… a week from everywhere… lol
 

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I'd be glad if I was only a week from everywhere....

during the holiday rush stuff gets a LOT better here, instead of a week to go 100 miles (from Denver to no-where Nebraska where I live) spending at least an overnight in 4 different facilities, it would go through 3 facilities in a 24 hour period never resting... might get something in 3-5 days when you pay for "3-5 day" shipping.
 

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Well ain’t that place just a geographical oddity… a week from everywhere… lol
Definitely something odd about it, not sure if it geographical or something else...
 

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Amazon can take a long time to delver here too. Except for cat food. Auto parts take a week. I can get them from Rockauto in a day or two and the cost with shipping is about buying from Rockauto as it would be for Amazon. Unless I order a computer or laptop, most computer related things take a week to arrive from Amazon. And there are a lot of things that take several days, but I could get it tomorrow morning if I order $35 worth of qualifying items. I've never been able to find anything that qualifies. Another thing Amazon does is delay orders so they can make one delivery I'll order several items that state the items will be delivered on different days. There have been so many times that the item that was supposed to be delivered the next day mysteriously is delayed, but then is delivered with the items scheduled to be delivered in three days. They did that with the cat food. I had to make a special trip to Target for cat food because my cats were so pissed I thought they were going to kill me in my sleep. So, I order cat food separately, then wait several hours before I order the other items.
 

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not sure if it's the sender or USPS, but stuff happens.
the regional distribution center for northwest Ohio is in Michigan.
that causes problems for ballots & tax bills.
 

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My beef is not the ordering, shipping, transport, etc., etc. that everybody else is complaining about. My beef is specifically with how the Dunwoody post office is run.

if you go in at 10 of the morning or three in the afternoon, it’s tolerable. God forbid you go first thing in the morning, anytime around lunchtime, or anytime around 5 PM. There is a line that goes out the door, and it’s a pretty big building. Someone told me that the union had negotiated with the post office management that if they were called in, they had to be paid for eight hours. So instead of people coming in for short shifts during business times like every other business in the world, you have to wait in line for an hour so they don’t have the expense of a third person at peak times

I think I’ve said a couple times that when Dunwoody was widening the road in front of my house, which only took 12 years and they called it a sidewalk, a couple years in. they started running my mailbox over. Well, after we tracked 25 times it was hit, 1/3 of that knocked it completely over, I decided to get a post office box. But I got the post office box at the UPS store, not the post office, because it was closer and cheaper.

When the construction work was done, I had a brick mailbox built, and I sent in the post office change form to direct my mail back to the house. I got 1/3 of my mail at the house, 1/3 continued to arrive at the UPS store even though I closed the box, and 1/3 is probably at one of you guys houses.

Then I found out that the union had negotiated with the post office that if someone used a mail delivery system that was outside of the United States post office system, the post office was not allowed to do a change of address form. The person involved had to contact each entity that might mail him something and alert them to the new address

But I’m not trying to blame the rotten Dunwoody post office on the union. Turns out they discovered 2 or $300,000 in missing checks, and a boatload of parcels, missing and they traced it to the Dunwoody post office. I’m not making any accusations at who was at fault, but the assistant postal Director at that time was driving a Rolls-Royce.

Stranger than fiction, but true….
 

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I've had this from FedEx before, but this is a first from the post office.

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First off, I did not request hold at post office. Also the seller and tracking say nothing about signature or in person delivery required.

Second, if a hold was requested, why did they attempt delivery?

I suspect it's like FedEx has done a few times. The driver didn't feel like delivering so checked some boxes to make it look like they did.
 

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