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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis thing with slow mail is getting worse!
SS sent out paperwork for my telephone hearing weeks ago, according to the stamp. And it just got delivered to me today! And my lawyer hasn't got there copy. The hearing is on the 9th!
This is unacceptable! What can possibly be the holdup now? The holidays are over!
leftieNanner
(15,149 posts)the sorting machine. I would guess that they haven't reinstated any of the overtime etc.
Until we get rid of DeJoy, it won't improve.
Priority Mail packages to my daughters in Denver and NYC used to take 3 days, now it's more like a week to 10 days.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Those trumper sorting machine destroyers must be in the legal crosshairs somewhere.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)This is ridiculous!
Timewas
(2,196 posts)I have a small package that has been sitting in Chicago for almost 6 weeks..
An order that was placed Dec.7th, got to Chicago the 23rd..
VA_Jill
(9,995 posts)send my car payment by mail any more. I drop it at the local branch of the regional bank.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Sad sad sad.
moondust
(20,006 posts)I had to pay a $50 late fee a few months ago for an automatic bill payment sent by my bank via USPS that was returned to the bank. After 10 years of reliable service mailing the same payment. I switched to hand delivering a check myself.
Talked to the local post office supervisor about it who said there was no way to bill USPS for the late fee.
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)Just sent a package to MT and it got there in 3 days.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I send a lot of cards and letters to Wales, and they get there faster than I'd expect, though I realize that's not only our post.
dsc
(52,166 posts)to another place in Ohio and it took forever. Ironically I mailed it from there thinking it would take less time so I traded the ability to mail it on a Sat in NC for a Mon in Ohio and it wound up taking over 2 weeks as opposed to the three days it was supposed to.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)And the mail was already messed up. Then got worse when tRump and his goons started to playing with it.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)In a timely manner. Anything that has to do with government needs be handled in a timely manner!
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)USALiberal
(10,877 posts)VarryOn
(2,343 posts)Now, a couple times per week, one of us will ask "when was the last time you went to the mailbox?" With bills set on auto-draft and others coming overemail, old-fashioned mail isn't important to my family. UPS and FedEx are more prominent and important to us since we buy so much online.
If you put a gun to my head, I couldn't tell you what a 1st class stamp costs today.
Retrograde
(10,156 posts)I ordered a prescription refill last Monday, got it two days later. Here in the Bay Area mail delivery seems to be normal.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Been taking up to two weeks to get to me. I'm going to have to risk going to the pharmacy to get them. I can't wait for my MS meds if they are going to help me.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)I don't like the idea of doing it by mail,even before DeJoy fucked everything up.
Sometimes the script is wrong ,so I prefer to just coordinate with the pharmacy to get stuff done. Call in my meds with a real human being,than take a short walk to pick them up.
One time I lost my gluconometer,freaked out looking for it until about 8, than called my endocrinologist
who called the pharmacy and had a new one by dinner time. Can't do that via mail.
FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)The reason why is the tracking number they give you - it allows you to track the delivery and they know they have to be on time. Yes it costs more, so I use it sparingly. Regular 1st class mail has no tracking number, and it can sit for a long time before they get around to sorting and delivering it to the destination.
For bill paying, my best advice is to pay all bills online through your local bank's online checking account. Most banks offer that service now, and many have it for no additional charge. My electronic checks (paying my bills) are never late because I can tell my bank when the payment needs to be received. Check your balance a few times a month and keep track of your outgoing charges. This is the best way to pay bills ON TIME and not have to worry whether the check was received.
Most of us understand how deposits can be made to our checking account (e.g. social security, disability, bi-monthly paycheck, etc.) so we need to also understand that bill-paying works the same way. Banks in Europe, especially France and Germany, have been doing this for over 20 years.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)And if they are, the postal service is blowing it.
FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)... when people apply for them and give the banking info through their IRS tax payments, and through social security. Anyone who doesn't supply the info will never receive a government payment by electronic transfer. Those checks get printed out and mailed the old-fashion way.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)And the first my lawyer heard of was from me! they are supposed to be sent copies at the same time I am.
FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)Why couldn't somebody just pick up the phone and call you?
Sheesh!
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)This was a little too close. If I didn't get the paperwork on time we'd have to start all over.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)I could have walked it there faster.
FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)I've always had Priority Mail delivered in 2 to 3 days.
You got cheated.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)I blame DeJoy and the Republicans. They gutted and hamstrung one of the greatest government agencies we have ever had. They did not hire seasonal workers for the holiday rush, they dismantled needed machines, and when COVID decimated their ranks they had no temporary employees available to fill in. The mismanagement comes straight from the top.
Celerity
(43,499 posts)You, of course, can find world class pockets, and if you are well-off financially you can but first class services for may things, but overall I do not think the majority of Americans realise how shoddy the country's underpinnings are when viewed at wide, systemic overall levels.
But hey, the US has the largest, most powerful, most wasteful, most destructive military industrial complex in human history! Keeping that petro-dollar matrix empire under the whip-hand of Uncle Sam ain't easy (or cheap).
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)The RW has been trying to privatize the postal system and break the postal workers union.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Then we better fix it!
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)These idiots are just envious that they don't have what postal workers have. Well, whose fault is that?
I struggled, during the time I spent in the workforce, to get unionization in the nonprofit organizations I worked for. They were all great nonprofits, fought for justice, civil rights, women's rights, etc. but a significant number of them disdained unions. I was viewed with mistrust because I was sympathetic to the calls for unionization among our ranks.
Greybnk48
(10,176 posts)and I have yet to receive a bill late. Must be your area.
Initech
(100,102 posts)And it looked like it had fallen off the back of the truck and was run over. I am not thrilled with this and I already contacted the seller about it, even though I know it's not their fault.