"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
01/23/2018 at 15:53 • Filed to: None
0
10|
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
01/23/2018 at 15:53 • Filed to: None | 0
| 10 |
I tried to find out what happened to a little piece of plastic I ordered last month for the Mazda and all I get is a message stating that, as of the 12th, it is in transit. It’s going from MI to MO; I could have walked there and gotten it faster.
When I try to login to my USPS account, an account I haven’t used in years, it says that the account is disabled. OK, how do I re-enable it? No instructions to be found. I can’t change the password since the account is disabled. And I can’t create a new account with the same username since, well, the account is disabled. I tried entering a claim/report without logging in but nothing seemed to happen, then I discovered a pop-under window with the error. Under? Really? This is just stupid.
So I call USPS. 50 minute estimated wait time. I’ve had better response from the frigging IRS. And so now I sit and wait. At least the generic, elevator/hold music is slightly better than what I’m used to, although after I’ve heard each of the three songs about 172 times each I may no longer believe that.
Your tax (cut) dollars at work...
E92M3
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
01/23/2018 at 16:09 |
|
This is one government entity I wouldn’t mind going to the private sector. I wouldn’t care if it cost more, as long as the experience was better. It’s so inefficient, it could probably be overhauled and actually save us all money.
They don’t even maintain the post offices in Atlanta anymore. You’d swear you’re pulling onto the set of “The Walking Dead”.
Dogapult
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
01/23/2018 at 16:16 |
|
I’ve got $100+ in motorcycle parts I’m waiting for as well. “in transit, delayed,” since the 14th. And those were just going from WI to MI! I’ve been bugging my local post office about it and they’ve been trying to bug some people higher up.
farscythe - makin da cawfee!
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
01/23/2018 at 16:16 |
|
50 minute wait..... heh.... hope thats a free number
(and whilst im on phone numbers.. theres a scam running over here where if you google your local police non emergency number the top results are in fact not it but premium lines that patch you through at their much higher rate per minute)
Arrivederci
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
01/23/2018 at 16:26 |
|
I’ve shared this story once, but I’ll share it again :).
I’m in NC and sold some car parts off my old BRZ to a guy in VA. After visiting USPS, I sent him the tracking information, which said he’d get it in two days. Cool deal.
After two days, I check the status to see if it has been delivered. Nope, “In transit to destination” and last status was somewhere out west, Nevada, I think. WTF! You send something that needs to go may 150 miles all the way to NEVADA, over 2,000 miles away?!
No wonder they don’t make any money.
smobgirl
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
01/23/2018 at 17:41 |
|
Holy shit dude. So my sister ordered a bunch of Marc Marquez stuff back in November. The first time it got to the States it was sent on to Italy. It eventually made its way back, cleared customs, and has just been sitting in a bin in a post office sorting facility in Brooklyn for a month. The USPS is a DISASTER.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
01/23/2018 at 17:42 |
|
The USPS is really fantastic when they don’t suck, which is generally pretty infrequently, unless you live in Arcata, California, where USPS sucks generally because the clerk there does whatever she feels like and is totally unaccountable.
|
Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
01/23/2018 at 17:49 |
|
I generally don’t have a problem with the USPS, and even know my postal carrier by name. I am surprised that I don’t get a lot of the coupons that friends in other neighborhoods get. Should I ask why I’m not getting more junk mail, or will that just open the floodgates to an infinite amount?
Pickup_man
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
01/23/2018 at 18:02 |
|
I once ordered a part for something that was to come from California to my place in South Dakota. I’d forgotten to update my Ebay account with my new address, so it was shipped to my parents place, which is only about five mile from me. I had however, set up a forwarding address with USPS. So my package shows up in my little hometown, it sits there, 15 miles from home, at the post office where the people know me, and my parents, and can safely assume that it can be delivered to my parents and I’d get it, or check my forwarding address and send it from that post office to the one in the little town I now live in. Know what they did? After sitting there for two weeks they sent it back to California, where it sat again for another two weeks before they just sent it back to the company I ordered it from, at which point they either emailed me or refunded me, can’t remember which, and I updated my address in Ebay at which point they shipped the package to my new place, which only took 3-4 days.
|
Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> smobgirl
01/23/2018 at 18:09 |
|
This sounds a lot like my last UPS shipment. And FedEx’s incompetence astounds me sometimes. They all suck. But at least UPS and FedEx seem to have decent IT/websites. 76 minutes on hold to reopen my account, something I should have been able to do in 30 seconds online.
Oh, and USPS delivers my Amazon and eBay stuff on Sundays, no extra charge. Gotta love that.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
01/24/2018 at 06:32 |
|
you ever used the shitfight that is Australia Post?