USPS

[soh.maryl]

Here's an example of the reason we're unhappy with the USPS:

Purchased last Monday, left Georgia same day.

Next stop:  Wednesday, Greensboro, NC.

Friday:  Indianapolis, IN.

My address: NE Ohio.

No it's not going to be late if it does arrive Monday.  And, yes, I know it's not the seller's fault.

And, no, no one will die or even be inconvenienced by this circuitous route.  Just an example of why the USPS shouldn't lay  off postal workers, if this is their efficiency  level BEFORE layoffs.  

[44012]

Maybe the pkg wanted to see a playoff game......😊

[soh.maryl]

Maybe -- and thanks for the chuckle.  

[pikabo-icu]

Yeah many times my packages take the scenic route. 

I've seen them at a hub 20 miles away and bypass me, go up north 200 miles away, bounce around and come back down. It's maddening.

I was in shipping some years back and if it's ground transport, it often gets on any available truck, likely not the most efficient route. Think of it like flying nonstop or needing multiple transfers. 

My orders are more well traveled than I. 

[sassykzt]

I'm in NE OH also.  Almost all our  packages go through the Indianapolis distribution center before reaching OH.  The  tracking route that you show is completely normal for GA - OH. ( I ship 100-150 packages per day from several platforms and check tracking daily.  I've come to memorize package routes).  There are many small distribution / sorting centers that have closed in the past 5 years and larger, more automated centers have opened ( the US now has 59 Regional Processing & Distribution Centers)

More packages are traveling by ground and this has extended delivery times -- announced in 2021.   USPS announced this Feb.  the Regional Transportation Optimization initiative in order to cut costs. The RTO will end afternoon collections at nearly three-fourths of the country’s post offices and add another day to delivery times for outgoing mail and packages.  Mail and packages won’t be collected at the end of the day and transported to processing centers for sorting. Instead, everything will sit overnight in the back of the post office, waiting to be collected the next morning at the same time the mail is dropped at the post office for delivery.

The RTO does not apply uniformly across the entire country. It applies only to post offices located more than 50 miles from one of the 59 Regional Processing & Distribution Centers in the new network. Because these RPDCs are typically located in metropolitan areas, most,  of the impacted post offices are in more rural areas. In Ohio,  areas 50 miles outside of Cleveland, and Cincinnati will see additional days added to delivery time.

[dalilrollin0]

Goes to show that USPS does not have logic in it’s Logistics endeavor. 

[tobaccocardyahoo]

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@dalilrollin0 wrote:

Goes to show that USPS does not have logic in it’s Logistics endeavor. 

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Actually, there are mature algorithms which are used to determine routing and they take into account volume as well as distance.

The problem is not the lack of logic. It lies in the lack of volume. Which also explains the long scenic routes which result from a mis-route due to human or machine error.

[12345jamesstamps]

Indianapolis is one of those 'dead zone hubs' I am sorry to say.

It's not the USPS itself but that horrible hub...

More transitioning of hubs on the east coast  vs. the west coast.

East Coast and the South should brace for a bumpy ride.

Sellers in rural areas...that's more than a bumpy ride.

Postal workers are taking early retirements and nobody wants to work for the USPS now.

Some postal workers are relocating before they can't do that any longer as well.

A lot of postal workers have saved up a lot of vacation time and sick time and are cashing out and retiring so they can get all that paid time saved up before changes happen.

[kensgiftshop]

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@pikabo-icu wrote:

Yeah many times my packages take the scenic route. 

I've seen them at a hub 20 miles away and bypass me, go up north 200 miles away, bounce around and come back down. It's maddening.

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I had a package a couple years ago that started in Kansas City, passed by my house headed to some place in Texas, from there it went to Oklahoma City, then Tulsa, then NE Oklahoma.

The driver could have thrown it out their window when they passed my house and wouldn't even have to stop.

[a_c_green]

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@kensgiftshop wrote:
The driver could have thrown it out their window when they passed my house and wouldn't even have to stop.

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...or as it's known around here: UPS. 😁

[carlmarxx]

The USPS  has gone  down  since they started The Ground Advantage  . Which has a lot unexplained delays and bouncing around to the wrong sorting hubs .  then there is USPS use  civilian truck drivers  hauling their  trailer's   that also have  issues  of   arrival   to sorting centers and trailers not always unload  in time for the days  delivery  . Then  there is issues  of   error  system  auto computer  upload tracking scans .   USPS  issues with contractor  civilian truck drivers  not showing up  for  3 to 5 days to pickup the shipping containers .    

[kensgiftshop]

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@carlmarxx wrote:

The USPS  has gone  down  since they started The Ground Advantage  . Which has a lot unexplained delays and bouncing around to the wrong sorting hubs .  then there is USPS use  civilian truck drivers  hauling their  trailer's   that also have  issues  of   arrival   to sorting centers and trailers not always unload  in time for the days  delivery  . Then  there is issues  of   error  system  auto computer  upload tracking scans .   USPS  issues with contractor  civilian truck drivers  not showing up  for  3 to 5 days to pickup the shipping containers .    

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That was a few years before Ground Advantage, so it wasn't that.