ANOTHER POST OFFICE RANT!!!

[pips&peeps]

Ok, this is what it still says on the tracking....

Label/Receipt Number: 0307 1790 0005 6006 3340
Status: Acceptance

Your item was accepted at 4:52 PM on April 7, 2008 in NEWMAN LAKE, WA 99025. Information, if available, is updated every evening. Please check again later.

W T??? Oops I almost used a "sentence enhancer". It's funny the other three packages I sent all made it to their destinations and one was in North Carolina:

Label/Receipt Number: 0307 1790 0005 6006 2312
Status: Delivered

Your item was delivered at 4:15 PM on April 9, 2008 in STOKESDALE, NC 27357.

Label/Receipt Number: 0307 1790 0005 6006 2299
Status: Delivered

Your item was delivered at 1:05 PM on April 9, 2008 in CANTON, SD 57013.

Label/Receipt Number: 0307 1790 0005 6006 2305
Status: Delivered

Your item was delivered at 1:05 PM on April 9, 2008 in CANTON, SD 57013.​

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi!
I hope they will be delivered tomorrow

Did you send fresh enough eggs that they'll still be 'within the 10-day-window' for hatching?
What a nice gesture 'gone wrong'.

I have been round and round with the folks at my PO about scanning my packages.
Honestly, they have no concept that people CARE about where their PERISHABLE packages are and they MUST SCAN THEM.
They really didn't see where it was necessary for *every package to be scanned* until I filed a 'formal complaint' with usps.

I guess it irked someone --- I got a notice in my mailbox at the end of the lane that there will be no more packages delivered because our dirt road is unnavigable (???) and we can pick them up at the PO in town.

Good luck and I hope your eggs are delivered safe and sound tomorrow

Lisa

 

[speckledhen]

Lisa made my point about fraud. We pay for them to be scanned. They do not intend to do it except when they feel like it, so that is fraud. I did the same thing about the Charlotte, NC P.O. about four months running. Finally, I told the woman there that if she couldn't do her job, maybe someone else should have her position. Finally, they started scanning. I got a refund for every time they did not scan.

 

[Cassandra]

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Funny, huh? I bet you manage to navigate up and down the road every day?


I completely agree that if you paid to have your package tracked, then it should be scanned: no excuses. If they don't know where it is, then it's because they didn't scan it. If they had scanned it, they'd know where it is.

Cassandra

 

[KKluckers]

It just sucks when you get so siked up about some eggs and then they go missing.

I do hope they get there tomorrow.
Cynthia, yes it was your package I was referring to....its funny that PO never seem to answer their phone

The other packaged that was lost was from Zunibee and a lone chick hatched with problems.

 

[Leslie In North Pole]

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Are you sending me eggs, Cyn?

Actually, for shipping, most of the time packages arrive to me fairly quickly. If they are sent out on a Friday, I usually have them on Monday, unless my carrier is being a twit... I have my fingers crossed that the eggs I am getting from Charlie ship well... Last year, I had eggs shipped from Jody several times and I swear there was someone purposely mashing those boxes, regardless of how she was packing them, it broke my heart. I usually don't have too many problems and haven't seen a higher number of broken eggs than anyone else, anywhere else.

The ratio is: the more you want the eggs, the more damage they do to the package...

 

[speckledhen]

Well, I may be sending some to Ms. AK Bird Brain, but Leslie, if you're really wanting some Blue Orpingtons and Barred Rocks, let me know.

 

[jnjross]

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Yeah, I think just about anything is more reliable then the post office...but they'll charge you $30 or $40 to ship UPS/FED EX/ DHL. Sighs

not where i live ups won't delivery to my home too far out, they call the night AFTER the pacel arrives but since they're close at night it adds an extra day. and fedex hold the parcel until they have enough items to send out a truck it could be 1-5 days extra. i never seen dhl here.

 

[waynesgarden]

Like Asher, I also believe most postal employees do what they can to do their job properly. I worked for the Postal Service for 15 years earlier in my life and know that Postal Employees are no different than any other industry's employees. I guarantee that everyone here that is employeed works in an industry that has someone who is grossly incompetant, grossly overpaid or happy to exhibit some anti-social behavior similar to deliberately dropping your fragile packages. I've seen it all while working at the Post Office, I see it now in the industry I work for, I've seen it in other professions and I saw it yesterday at Lowes while getting lumber for the coop. Anecdotes such as we've read here doesn't paint the picture of the Postal Service as a whole.

I owned and operated a mail-order used book business for years and can count on one hand the number of packages that were truly lost. A lot went astray and delayed because the buyer messed up the mailing address (or I did) and often they eventually arrived when a knowledgable employee was able to figure it out. Others, undeliverable as addressed, were returned to me, sometimes due to my error, sometimes not. I seldom insured any domestic packages since the few actual losses never justified buying insurance for each package. I could easily absorb the infrequent loss.

My chicken orders so far were all successfully delivered. When I worked for the Postal Service, we always did what we could to expedite shipping and to keep the chicks safe. I worked as a mail expeditor, in charge of making sure the mail containers got on the correct trucks. We kept the chicks indoors and when the drivers left on bitter cold nights, we sometimes put the chicks in the cab of the trucks to keep them warm. The drivers weren't always pleased to have the company but we knew the chicks were safe and warm. I can't speak to how they are handled now but the success I've had recently in having chicks shipped tells me that the horror stories we read is not the norm.

Wayne

 

[pips&peeps]

Well,

This one is verging on sheer incompetence now. I called the post office in Ohio as you know the other day to find out if they knew anything about my package. I was assured I would be called back.

Well, at 4:36 am yesterday my husband received a call that the package had been delivered. Yet at 3:30 pm I received a call from the buyer that the eggs still had not arrived. The delivery conformation still says:

Label/Receipt Number: 0307 1790 0005 6006 3340
Status: Acceptance

Your item was accepted at 4:52 PM on April 7, 2008 in NEWMAN LAKE, WA 99025. Information, if available, is updated every evening. Please check again later.

I guess I have to get a tracer on this one. I wonder if they will pay for a loss if they cannot find it?​