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Massive USPS shipping delays?

Just a quick poll

Is it only me or are there others experiencing chronic shipping delays?

I notice it now, especially for the South East and PR regions

I suspect it will get worse in other regions soon too. 

This is a big deal to me. 

Thanks for your input

BTW Support the USPS 

Don't let it be destroyed. 

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Massive USPS shipping delays?

That's great to hear

Because I'm sending 2 orders to PA today. 

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@royalsage wrote:

I'm using Ground Advantage 

In long narrow poly bags

Mostly for shipping car top rack pads

Very light and flexible  but long


That is most likely your problem, honestly. GA goes where space is available since it is not a priority service like Priority Mail. If there is no space left on a truck/plane, the packages will end up waiting until there is space.

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Thanks for your reply

Hopefully they find your package. 

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I’ve seen a slowdown – but nothing horrific. Ground select is taking five or six days to go across the country. A few of my items are taking a little bit longer – but nothing over 10 days.

 

Media mail is going very fast for me.  A few days to get from Ohio to Louisiana seems pretty good for media mail.  Two days Ohio to Pennsylvania. Three days Ohio to Texas.  Didn’t check all the orders, of course, but everything seems to be going fairly smoothly.

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Miami seems to be the worst for me.  Mailed a package on the 26th of April and it's been stuck in Miami now since the 1st.  No help from the PO at all!

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I live 50 miles east of Atlanta, so all my outgoing mail and all of my incoming mail goes through there. After the Palmetto Distribution Center opened, it was like nothing was moving through there. The Atlanta TV news showed lines of 50 trucks backed up there. They stockpiled mail there for several weeks. If your letter or package was stuck in a truck, it arrived at the posted destination 4-6 weeks later. It is not just eBay packages, either. Literally everyone I know has been hit with late fees because bills made it late, or payments arrived late. I know people that mailed 10 items at the beginning of April, and the items still have not arrived to their destination. I am beginning to get INR requests. Another problem is that there is little tracking done at the Palmetto center, so buyers think that the item was not sent there. The latest thing is that they are sending truckloads to other distribution centers in the SE with no tracking until it gets to the other center. Then, buyers thing you just mailed it.

 

If you have read this far, and you are thinking "I have not seen any of this type of thing at my USPS center", think again! The rollout in Atlanta was the first of the plan to transform to the new USPS. They plan to do the changeover EVERYWHERE. So, this joy will eventually make it to you!!

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Thank you for your reply

That is what I suspected was happening 

This has got to be stopped 

And it can

It will take a lot of **bleep** off people though

Here's a link to a website I discovered that's following the slow motion destruction of our Post Office 

https://www.savethepostoffice.com/

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Massive USPS shipping delays?

Yes, I ship many orders to that area

I'm warning customers in advance about possible delays

Thanks

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Sounds pretty normal there. 

Hope it stays that way

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That explains why it's cheaper

 

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To everyone who replied 

Thanks for taking the time

I had a feeling there was problem out there. 

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Senator Ossoff and Congressman Collins have both been  all over the Postmaster General, but little has changed for the better. People are close to their wits end around here. There is literally NO ONE that is not affected by the mail service out of the Atlanta Distribution Center. The postal workers in the local POs are generally really good and helpful, and they are at wits end, too. Delayed packages are clearly not their fault, but they are the unfortunate unlucky people that the public can access. 

 

Current status is that Priority and Ground Advantage are pretty much flowing as they should. Maybe a day later that projected. Enveloped mail either goes right through, or it takes 4-6 weeks. It is obvious by observation that they have been told that enveloped mail is NOT a priority. Unfortunately, 90% of my eBay sales are single cards sent by eBay Standard Envelope. No one would pay Ground Advantage Shipping for many of my items. If they don't fix this soon, I will have to take down all the single card listings, do lots, and hope for the best. 

 

I always ship out the same day if an order comes in before I go to the PO and next day for orders that come in after the daily visit to the PO. I cannot do anything about the situation. Some buyers are choosing not to understand the situation. However, all of this will eventually hit all over the country as they transform more distribution centers.

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I sell maps and mostly ship in tubes, but since a few months ago none of my tubes leave the local sorting facility so I've started shipping flats instead which cost me more. I've had to end about a hundred or so listings because they are to large to ship flat. Dejoy is destroying the USPS, which was really his plan all along. 

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So far I have no problema with USPS only with my wife!!

Happy Mother's Day!!

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Bery gud spanish!!!

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