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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : Postal Tracking Status Message

 

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ernieinjax
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21 May 2020
06:19:37pm
Can anyone tell me what the red "Alert" means? I could not find anything with a quick google search. Trying to get my son some important papers and sent something overnight through USPS. Thanks.


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ernieinjax
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22 May 2020
03:43:34am
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So around midnight I finally received a text message update. Basically, because of COVID they're not going to honor their commitment to get my parcel there overnight. Not only that, the message went on to say they didnt know when my $26 Express Overnight would be delivered. What a crock.

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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..

22 May 2020
08:24:54am
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Probably poking a hole and fumigating all such mail.
Are their not examples of envelopes that way during
previous world wide epidemics ?

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22 May 2020
09:45:41pm
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It's especially shameful when it's going to our service men and women.
I've seen a LOT more unexplained "delays" in parcels as well as letters, foreign and domestic. Long periods of inactivity at individual locations in the tracking, drastic changes in estimated delivery date (literally changing by several days overnight), etc.

Unrelated to this COVID bs, but interesting to me....
I just received two first-class letters (from the same sender) in today's mail, which were postmarked on January 27th and February 4th. Nearly FOUR months to get from Akron, OH to my local PO south of Buffalo, NY! They arrived in perfect condition, no sign of being "folded, spindled, or mutilated", previously misdelivered, or anything else. Just MIA for months.
Fortunately, they weren't anything important.... just a 1099 and a check Winking

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ernieinjax
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23 May 2020
01:19:59am
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@Partsguy...wow; just wow.

And when the guy across the counter just kind of shrugs and walks off that really ticks you off.

You know, me and my wife talked about this very thing not that long ago. I WANT to believe in the USPS; I really do. I still think the first class postage rate is a good deal but episodes like this really make you think it might be time to privatize. I'd bet the mortgage payment that FedEx would have had it there on time.

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23 May 2020
02:04:25am
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Be very careful what you wish for - Fedex now is not what Fedex used to be. Our post office counter people and drivers are first rate - a lot of it depends on the management,

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23 May 2020
08:28:37am
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Mother's Day flowers for my wife were supposed to have been delivered by FedEx....four times. One delivery went to an address down the street. No idea where the others went. The florist finally used a different shipper, and they arrived yesterday almost in time for Father's Day.

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23 May 2020
10:59:55am
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FEDEX tracking is a joke. Twice recently I had parcels I was expecting show as having been delivered- 'Left on Porch'. One showed up a week later; in checking I learned the date showing as porch delivery was simply the date they handed it over to USPS for delivery. In my area FEDEX deliveries are often targeted for theft. They have a habit of dumping boxes and not knocking or ringing the doorbell.

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ernieinjax
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23 May 2020
11:11:30am
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Okaaaay... so it looks like my theory on FedEx has been shot to h@ll. Rolling On The Floor Laughing

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KaneStamps

23 May 2020
01:04:59pm
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Talked to the folks at Canada Post and they reported that volume is 20% over Christmas volume and they only have half the staff of Christmas time. Deliveries are two weeks behind schedule
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BrightonPete

23 May 2020
02:30:35pm
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A letter from Toronto took 16 days to reach me. I'm 150 km's east, not even 100 miles.

I did read they were short-handed there, but wow...

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MikeyToo
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23 May 2020
04:26:05pm
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It's the same with all of them. I've been ordering my over the counter meds. via Amazon because my Prime membership gets them delivered the next day. Since this mess started, I can't get anything within a week. Some things two weeks. It saddens me to think I renewed this just before this mess broke out.

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24 May 2020
07:01:31am
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Hey Ernie,

Feel bad for ya - what are ya gonna have to sell outta yer collection to

be able to handle that double mortgage payment next month?!?



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cdj1122
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..

24 May 2020
06:42:38pm
re: Postal Tracking Status Message

" .... episodes like this really make you think
it might be time to privatize. ...."

Thank you Carol, I am glad someone more kind
and gentle than I am chose to step in before
the three nitro tabs finished dissolving beneath
my tongue.
Even with the 50% decrease in mail volume that started
at the turn of the century, as of the end of 2019, USPS was
handling about 55,000,000,000 pieces of mail per annum
and the majority, despite the still unknown effects of
the Corona 19 virus of on time delivery is quite good, the
safety and accuracy across a nation 3,500 miles wide
with probably well over a hundred million addresses
should be considered phenomenal.
Locally, the largest private employer here in Panhandle,
Texas has its employees on alternating weeks, work and
furlough. I have not heard that the USPS was doing that,
or wanted to do so, especially in this sleepy town.
And yet the young woman who delivers the mail through
the proverbial "snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night"
which a day of so ago included hail pounding against
the window glass as well as thunder boomers that
shook the house, possibly risking bringing this infernal
infection home to her children, said "Hi, Mr. Jensen" and
smiled at us standing the front door Friday as she handed
me a wrapped album from an auction house in Canada..
Yes, there are slowdowns, in fact, I am awaiting a parcel
from Scotland, but considering all the existing problems
and the additional possible problems we get what we pay for,
if not more.
The best thing is that while privatization was discussed
a few years ago, today we can see the difference by the
example of FEDEX and its drop off on the porch, and run system..
Besides who wants to collect FDEX stamps with the image
of the Chief Executive Officer's dog or daughter displayed
on your mail ?
Probably photos from his, or her, family vacation

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24 May 2020
08:03:31pm
re: Postal Tracking Status Message

An order from Spain took a while to get here, but eventually it did show. The volume out there is massive, lets give the postal service a break. I'm sure they're doing the best they can under very trying circumstances.

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ernieinjax
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25 May 2020
12:10:20am
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"Thank you Carol, I am glad someone more kind 
and gentle than I am.."




Oooooohh, big bad Charlie is gonna get rough about privatization. Gimme a break.Rolling On The Floor Laughing

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Tom in Exton, PA

29 May 2020
06:31:12pm

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I think the Coronavirus will have everyone reevaluating the world. We will see manufacturing brought back home and hopefully the importance of the postal service will be seen.

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ernieinjax

21 May 2020
06:19:37pm

Can anyone tell me what the red "Alert" means? I could not find anything with a quick google search. Trying to get my son some important papers and sent something overnight through USPS. Thanks.


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ernieinjax

22 May 2020
03:43:34am

re: Postal Tracking Status Message

So around midnight I finally received a text message update. Basically, because of COVID they're not going to honor their commitment to get my parcel there overnight. Not only that, the message went on to say they didnt know when my $26 Express Overnight would be delivered. What a crock.

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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
22 May 2020
08:24:54am

re: Postal Tracking Status Message

Probably poking a hole and fumigating all such mail.
Are their not examples of envelopes that way during
previous world wide epidemics ?

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".... You may think you understood what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you think you heard is not what I thought I meant. .... "
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partsguy

22 May 2020
09:45:41pm

re: Postal Tracking Status Message

It's especially shameful when it's going to our service men and women.
I've seen a LOT more unexplained "delays" in parcels as well as letters, foreign and domestic. Long periods of inactivity at individual locations in the tracking, drastic changes in estimated delivery date (literally changing by several days overnight), etc.

Unrelated to this COVID bs, but interesting to me....
I just received two first-class letters (from the same sender) in today's mail, which were postmarked on January 27th and February 4th. Nearly FOUR months to get from Akron, OH to my local PO south of Buffalo, NY! They arrived in perfect condition, no sign of being "folded, spindled, or mutilated", previously misdelivered, or anything else. Just MIA for months.
Fortunately, they weren't anything important.... just a 1099 and a check Winking

TomD

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ernieinjax

23 May 2020
01:19:59am

re: Postal Tracking Status Message

@Partsguy...wow; just wow.

And when the guy across the counter just kind of shrugs and walks off that really ticks you off.

You know, me and my wife talked about this very thing not that long ago. I WANT to believe in the USPS; I really do. I still think the first class postage rate is a good deal but episodes like this really make you think it might be time to privatize. I'd bet the mortgage payment that FedEx would have had it there on time.

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23 May 2020
02:04:25am

re: Postal Tracking Status Message

Be very careful what you wish for - Fedex now is not what Fedex used to be. Our post office counter people and drivers are first rate - a lot of it depends on the management,

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michael78651

23 May 2020
08:28:37am

re: Postal Tracking Status Message

Mother's Day flowers for my wife were supposed to have been delivered by FedEx....four times. One delivery went to an address down the street. No idea where the others went. The florist finally used a different shipper, and they arrived yesterday almost in time for Father's Day.

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Snick1946

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23 May 2020
10:59:55am

re: Postal Tracking Status Message

FEDEX tracking is a joke. Twice recently I had parcels I was expecting show as having been delivered- 'Left on Porch'. One showed up a week later; in checking I learned the date showing as porch delivery was simply the date they handed it over to USPS for delivery. In my area FEDEX deliveries are often targeted for theft. They have a habit of dumping boxes and not knocking or ringing the doorbell.

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ernieinjax

23 May 2020
11:11:30am

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Okaaaay... so it looks like my theory on FedEx has been shot to h@ll. Rolling On The Floor Laughing

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KaneStamps

23 May 2020
01:04:59pm

re: Postal Tracking Status Message

Talked to the folks at Canada Post and they reported that volume is 20% over Christmas volume and they only have half the staff of Christmas time. Deliveries are two weeks behind schedule
kane stamps
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BrightonPete

23 May 2020
02:30:35pm

re: Postal Tracking Status Message

A letter from Toronto took 16 days to reach me. I'm 150 km's east, not even 100 miles.

I did read they were short-handed there, but wow...

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MikeyToo

23 May 2020
04:26:05pm

re: Postal Tracking Status Message

It's the same with all of them. I've been ordering my over the counter meds. via Amazon because my Prime membership gets them delivered the next day. Since this mess started, I can't get anything within a week. Some things two weeks. It saddens me to think I renewed this just before this mess broke out.

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musicman

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24 May 2020
07:01:31am

re: Postal Tracking Status Message

Hey Ernie,

Feel bad for ya - what are ya gonna have to sell outta yer collection to

be able to handle that double mortgage payment next month?!?



Rolling On The Floor Laughing

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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
24 May 2020
06:42:38pm

re: Postal Tracking Status Message

" .... episodes like this really make you think
it might be time to privatize. ...."

Thank you Carol, I am glad someone more kind
and gentle than I am chose to step in before
the three nitro tabs finished dissolving beneath
my tongue.
Even with the 50% decrease in mail volume that started
at the turn of the century, as of the end of 2019, USPS was
handling about 55,000,000,000 pieces of mail per annum
and the majority, despite the still unknown effects of
the Corona 19 virus of on time delivery is quite good, the
safety and accuracy across a nation 3,500 miles wide
with probably well over a hundred million addresses
should be considered phenomenal.
Locally, the largest private employer here in Panhandle,
Texas has its employees on alternating weeks, work and
furlough. I have not heard that the USPS was doing that,
or wanted to do so, especially in this sleepy town.
And yet the young woman who delivers the mail through
the proverbial "snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night"
which a day of so ago included hail pounding against
the window glass as well as thunder boomers that
shook the house, possibly risking bringing this infernal
infection home to her children, said "Hi, Mr. Jensen" and
smiled at us standing the front door Friday as she handed
me a wrapped album from an auction house in Canada..
Yes, there are slowdowns, in fact, I am awaiting a parcel
from Scotland, but considering all the existing problems
and the additional possible problems we get what we pay for,
if not more.
The best thing is that while privatization was discussed
a few years ago, today we can see the difference by the
example of FEDEX and its drop off on the porch, and run system..
Besides who wants to collect FDEX stamps with the image
of the Chief Executive Officer's dog or daughter displayed
on your mail ?
Probably photos from his, or her, family vacation

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"Roughing it in the Seyschelles."


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".... You may think you understood what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you think you heard is not what I thought I meant. .... "
Harvey

I think, therefore I am - I think!

24 May 2020
08:03:31pm

re: Postal Tracking Status Message

An order from Spain took a while to get here, but eventually it did show. The volume out there is massive, lets give the postal service a break. I'm sure they're doing the best they can under very trying circumstances.

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ernieinjax

25 May 2020
12:10:20am

re: Postal Tracking Status Message

"Thank you Carol, I am glad someone more kind 
and gentle than I am.."




Oooooohh, big bad Charlie is gonna get rough about privatization. Gimme a break.Rolling On The Floor Laughing

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Tom in Exton, PA
29 May 2020
06:31:12pm

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I think the Coronavirus will have everyone reevaluating the world. We will see manufacturing brought back home and hopefully the importance of the postal service will be seen.

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