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Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.
saw this article…https://www.businessinsider.com/postmaster-general-carriers-leave-mail-delays-routes-usps-postal-service-2020-7
Good job as always Ina! And good luck with that despicable case.
Wait….if you leave the mail until the next day….and then there is more mail the next day that gets left, etc, etc. Won’t this just result in a huge back-up and lost mail? How does that solve a situation?
What a short-sighted solution.
It’s been like that anyway. Most postal workers will carry the overload of mail back to the station. Nothing new. Only this time there are fewer workers and workers are getting sick, taking days off. If you want your mail immediately it’s probably best to rent a box.
I’ve checked my tracking for the past few days on outgoing. This is not a joke. 1 and 2 day holds at the post office on almost every item I’ve left for a carrier or dropped off at a pickup location with a 5PM pickup. I’m not certain how screwing your customers on priority mail delivery is going to help your bottom line. People will get fed up and choose other services. Aside from cross country deliveries, FedEx has been lightnig quick on the East Coast. With the eBay discount this is comparable and sometimes cheaper. The only thing I don’t like about FedEx is paying later. But whatever.. another *****-based appointee (first PG in history without post office experience I read). All this nonsense will come to a close next year hopefully.
What the public doesn’t know is what goes on in their local post offices. Not only do the postal carriers, rural especially, have their routes, they also have to deliver Amazon packages as well. Being COVID-19 is amongst us, that almost triples what is delivered. A lot of the carriers work on there own time so they can deliver all the packages the same day, even to impatient and rude customers who don’t give them any slack. Plus, especially in our area, houses are going up left and right, which adds to the mail route which takes an arm and a leg to get recounted. The carriers aren’t the problem. It is the management. As regular carriers don’t get overtime, so when your getting mad because your mail is late, the carrier showing up at night is doing that for free. UPS was delivering Amazon packages, but couldn’t keep up and it was switched over to USPS, plus the USPS delivers for FedEx as well, so, I think contracts need to be redone to pour more money into the USPS to bring more people on during this above normal time