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gurlcat · ‎01-23-2021

Has anyone else observed this strange "pattern" in recent USPS speed? --December "shipnado" (probably safe to say we all experienced that).....then in early January it appeared to be getting back to normal, as one would expect......then sometime around the second week started getting sluggish again....and now is almost as bad as December was?

This has been the case for me, looking at about 30-40 packages in recent weeks, including both outgoing and incoming ones.

I realize Covid is a factor of course, but I also wonder how many employees got so frustrated they just up and quit, and/or decided to take their vacations after the horror show appeared to be over?

toooldtorock · ‎01-23-2021

"I realize Covid is a factor of course, but I also wonder how many employees got so frustrated they

just up and quit"

I was talking to my now ex-carrier and he said the PO is still behind and not operating anywhere

near the volume they used to do.

It is a combination of the virus and people quitting. There are times I suspect my current carrier

just skips the route I am now if she runs late or is sent elsewhere.

I have dropped the post office for any sales not ebay. My only problem is dealing with Hawaii

and Alaska as UPS is brutally expensive for those 2 states. I have decided to stop shipping

to both for the time being.

no_zero369 · ‎01-23-2021

I have had thing go fast - from coast to coast. Also have things get stuck.

I hear the jam ups in the Midwest and East Coast have not been cleared and can effect current mailings as the backlog is worked off.

vintagecraze50 · ‎01-23-2021

Unreliable everywhere. We live in Utah and we have lost shipments and late shipments.

vintagecraze50 · ‎01-23-2021

Post on NPR today said they are generally short 12 postal workers daily for their routes, older tenured workers retiring in droves, and cannot hire enough or keep enough people. They will be unreliable for a long time.