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  • enyawd72
    Maker of Monsters!
    • Oct 1, 2009
    • 7904

    I work for the post office derpy derpy dum...

    So, the post office wonders why they're losing money. I tracked my package which was coming from only 50 miles away. Sounds pretty simple right? NOPE!



    Check out the post office "Map of Stupid" below...



    I live in Ashtabula...green dot on far right.

    I have a package coming from Mentor...green dot 50 miles to the left of Ashtabula.

    Where do they send my package to be sorted? 150 miles in the OPPOSITE DIRECTION to TOLEDO...green dot on far left.

    So by the time it gets back to me...a package only 50 miles away will have been shipped over 350 miles. SEVEN TIMES FARTHER THAN NECESSARY.
    They do this ALL THE TIME.
    Last edited by enyawd72; Nov 2, '13, 6:12 AM.
  • Rallygirl
    Kitsch rules!
    • May 31, 2008
    • 736

    #2
    And someone on the approved O.T. list probably got paid double for doing absolutely nothing. I come from a postal family; my grandpa, and two aunts have retired from the USPS. Currently, I have two more aunts and three cousins still there. I even worked as a casual all through college.

    In order to work ANY overtime, an employee has to be one of the select few in their office to be on the approved O.T. list. If you are not on the list, absolutely no overtime. Now say, for example, a non-overtime carrier is almost up to his eight hours, but has ten stops (mailboxes) left on his route. He has to stop, and be back in the office before eight hours, so an approved-overtime carrier can go back and finish up those ten stops. Mind you, this happens even if the route in question is twenty miles out from the office. To make matter even worse, what happens if the non-O.T. carrier is late getting back by five minutes? Then, thanks to the all-powerful postal union, every carrier on the approved-O.T. list gets paid for five minutes to make things "fair". And people wonder why the USPS is going broke.
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    • EmergencyIan
      Museum Paramedic
      • Aug 31, 2005
      • 5470

      #3
      I know, it's always halfass backwards.

      Once in a while, I have to go to this post office in the Bronx...holy cow, that place is CRAZY. I don't know how they ever get anything accomplished in that particular post office.

      - Ian
      Rampart, this is Squad 51. How do you read?

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      • Mego Magyar
        Permanent Member
        • Jan 17, 2011
        • 2678

        #4
        While I'm not defending the PO and the 350 mile trip, because of the total volume of mail a PO gets there sorting facilities for regular mail and separate one for Priority mail and everything has to go through them. No local PO could deal with sorting all the different packages and destination that they get each day. If I send a letter to a 10 miles away town it first has to go to the sorting facility about 55 miles away for a round trip of 110.

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        • enyawd72
          Maker of Monsters!
          • Oct 1, 2009
          • 7904

          #5
          Wow Rallygirl...that's certainly enlightening.

          I just can't get over the fact they constantly ship packages 3-5 times the distance in the opposite direction from their destination. I've had stuff even closer to me shipped PAST me to a sorting facility in Pennsylvania, then come BACK to Ohio!
          I even did an Ebay return recently to a guy in Illinois. The package took over a week to get there, first going way up to Michigan, then PAST the destination down to Missouri, then back up to Illinois.
          That is so mind-bogglingly dumb it's beyond comprehension. HOW can this go unnoticed and not be fixed?

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          • thunderbolt
            Hi Ernie!!!
            • Feb 15, 2004
            • 34211

            #6
            stuff I mail that is LOCAL IN TOWN goes from here to TAMPA and back to here. roughly a 80 mile round trip for a local letter.
            You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. -Ernie Banks

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            • LadyZod
              Superman's Gal Pal
              • Jan 27, 2007
              • 1803

              #7
              TBolt is right. If I mail stuff to someplace in my town, it goes straight to Tampa, about 2.5 hrs away to get sorted and then shipped back to my Podunk town.
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              • Gorn Captain
                Invincible Ironing Man
                • Feb 28, 2008
                • 10549

                #8
                Last month, I expected a registered package from Hong Kong.
                I wasn't home when the mailman came, so he left a note. During the next 10 days, my package was "somewhere", probably at the sorting center 3 miles from my house. As a customer, I wasn't allowed to go there, "not open to the public".
                So I called and called almost every day (to Customer Service 35 miles away) who were "investigating".
                10 Days later, I get a message saying "package returned to China, customer didn't pick it up".

                I filed a complaint, after two weeks they admitted getting it wrong, but they still refuse to refund because of "article blablabla in section blablabla" which basically said that they were always amazing all of the time and weren't accountable.

                The guy in China had to pay the shipping costs back to China before he could get the package.
                I had to pay return shipping (he paid the return cost himself, cool guy).

                Thank you, Mister Postman!
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                • jwyblejr
                  galactic yo-yo
                  • Apr 6, 2006
                  • 11147

                  #9
                  That's nothing. The sorting center in Huntsville was shut down a couple years back. So now any mail I get from anywhere up north has to go to Birmingham before it gets to me.

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                  • Marvelmania
                    A Ray of Sunshine
                    • Jun 17, 2001
                    • 10392

                    #10
                    That is funny, sad but funny, it really tries your patience sometimes.

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                    • PNGwynne
                      Master of Fowl Play
                      • Jun 5, 2008
                      • 19941

                      #11
                      I don't get all the hate for the USPS. My (small-town) one is great, with very, very rarely a problem. I use them for work parcels, too. Their shipping, service wise, is certainly more conscientious than UPS, who's domestic shipping consists of throwing it in your yard/porch.
                      WANTED: Dick Grayson SI trousers; gray AJ Mustang horse; vintage RC Batman (Bruce Wayne) head; minty Wolfman tights; mint Black Knight sword; minty Launcelot boots; Lion Rock (pale) Dracula & Mummy heads; Lion Rock Franky squared boots; Wayne Foundation blue furniture; Flash Gordon/Ming (10") unbroken holsters; CHiPs gloved arms; POTA T2 tan body; CTVT/vintage Friar Tuck robes, BBP TZ Burgess Meredith glasses.

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                      • thunderbolt
                        Hi Ernie!!!
                        • Feb 15, 2004
                        • 34211

                        #12
                        not hate, just amazement with the routing of mail. It makes no sense whatsoever to take a letter on a 80 mile round trip to someone only a couple miles away. For example, birthday cards from my sister in law who lives a couple miles away are postmarked Tampa, not Winter Haven or Lakeland.
                        You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. -Ernie Banks

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                        • PNGwynne
                          Master of Fowl Play
                          • Jun 5, 2008
                          • 19941

                          #13
                          It's the same with me, local stuff goes to Akron/Canton first.
                          WANTED: Dick Grayson SI trousers; gray AJ Mustang horse; vintage RC Batman (Bruce Wayne) head; minty Wolfman tights; mint Black Knight sword; minty Launcelot boots; Lion Rock (pale) Dracula & Mummy heads; Lion Rock Franky squared boots; Wayne Foundation blue furniture; Flash Gordon/Ming (10") unbroken holsters; CHiPs gloved arms; POTA T2 tan body; CTVT/vintage Friar Tuck robes, BBP TZ Burgess Meredith glasses.

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                          • enyawd72
                            Maker of Monsters!
                            • Oct 1, 2009
                            • 7904

                            #14
                            Originally posted by PNGwynne
                            I don't get all the hate for the USPS. My (small-town) one is great, with very, very rarely a problem. I use them for work parcels, too. Their shipping, service wise, is certainly more conscientious than UPS, who's domestic shipping consists of throwing it in your yard/porch.
                            You must be lucky Scott...I just tracked another of my packages. USPS says it's out for delivery...in Carrollton, TEXAS!
                            That'd be great, except as you know, I'm in Ohio. LOL

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                            • PNGwynne
                              Master of Fowl Play
                              • Jun 5, 2008
                              • 19941

                              #15
                              lol. Only once have I ever had a pkg. mis-routed--knock wood.
                              WANTED: Dick Grayson SI trousers; gray AJ Mustang horse; vintage RC Batman (Bruce Wayne) head; minty Wolfman tights; mint Black Knight sword; minty Launcelot boots; Lion Rock (pale) Dracula & Mummy heads; Lion Rock Franky squared boots; Wayne Foundation blue furniture; Flash Gordon/Ming (10") unbroken holsters; CHiPs gloved arms; POTA T2 tan body; CTVT/vintage Friar Tuck robes, BBP TZ Burgess Meredith glasses.

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