Fixing the Postal Service
With the holiday season, most of us who order online spend a fair amount of time tracking package deliveries. Despite the most advanced GPS tracking system and all the computers, our postal service deliveries are often a frustrating mess. Take, for example, our experience one year where a friend bought and shipped us some wonderful eclairs before Christmas. They were sent priority and insured (thankfully) about three weeks before Christmas. The package never arrived…until APRIL. We repeatedly called the post office to check on tracking, and they couldn’t find it. It went from Baltimore to who knows where and sat there getting wet (the eclairs liquefied) and moldy for MONTHS. Maybe instead of going to VA they hit the wrong key and it went to VT? Who knows?
I ordered some birthday gifts for our grandkids in Texas. The order was almost a week late arriving, not because of bad weather or any natural disaster. It was routed to her local post office where someone apparently routed it to another city an hour west. Then it went to ANOTHER city another hour further. From there it went to Dallas and then it finally came back to the local post office to be delivered.
My amazon order was supposed to arrive last Saturday. It didn’t come. So I checked and the USPS tracking said, “delayed in transit.” But a look at the details showed this. It was in Floyd on Friday, should have been delivered on Saturday, but somehow ended up being shipped to Charleston WV nearly three hours west of us! I know it’s a busy time of year, but to have it bounced around like this is just unacceptable.
Almost daily I see Facebook posts where someone is tracking a package that wasn’t delivered to their address, or telling about a delivery that came to their address for someone else not even in their area. To be fair, accidents happen. Delivery people get overloaded and maybe don’t check the address label as they should. But this is becoming the norm instead of the exception.
And by comparison, stuff shipped via UPS seems to arrive as scheduled almost every time…except it’s always covered with icky black dust and looks like they drop kicked the package several times along the way.
So as long as the new administration is geared up to fix the justice system and the healthcare and education processes, can someone please include the USPS in the updates?
December 11, 2024 @ 11:41 pm
Morgan Griffith is a Joke.He’s just a waste of govt. money.Calling him is like dealing with the post office itself.He only does something if it makes him look good.Or he can blame it on the Biden administration.Which he does alot.The mail was alot better be for Trump put his man in there and he started making changes and our mail started going to greensboro.Its gone down hill ever since.
December 11, 2024 @ 5:20 pm
Promise Griffth a friendly photo op with partisans who won’t ask hard questions and he will show up in the district. Ask him for anything else and you will get crickets. He is useless and always has been.
The problems with the USPS go back many years when Congress started the process to kill it off so it could be privatized. It is required to fund a retirement plan far into the future to cover employees who haven’t even been hired yet, which eats up a lot of what could be spent on more distribution centers and more employees (like bringing back the center to Roanoke instead of sending mail to Greensboro to sort). The situation wasn’t helped when trump’s appointee DeJoy trashed truckloads of sorting equipment to slow down the system even more. The repuglican plan is for failure, then selling off the parts that make money.
December 11, 2024 @ 11:17 am
Good luck contacting Griffith. The US Postmaster General is multi-millionaire, Louis DeJoy. Republican appointed in May 2020. Griffith responded with something about Biden two years ago when I contacted his office about the mail delivery. It is sad such a once reliable institution has been treated so badly.
December 11, 2024 @ 10:18 am
also I was toldmy package was delivered, no where to be seen. Who knows it could still be in China. IT has been a month
December 11, 2024 @ 12:04 am
I was told by a person that works for the Post office on University City Boulevard that they were told to get packages delivered firts instead of regular mail and this person even told me they were ashamed of how the post office is making them do. This person also told me to email or call Congressman Morgan Griffith and then something would change fast. I live one mile out of town limits and in the past four weeks have only received mail 5 times. So if everyone gets on board and contacts Congressman Morgan Griffith things will stary getting g better fast because the postal system will have 48 hour’s to get things straight or gave the consequences.