What in the world is going on with USPS?

[dandfmarinesalvage]

I’ve seen a few post here about USPS coming up lately. Does anyone know what the story is? This isn’t an isolated staffing issue here or there. The last 10-14 days it has been as bad or worse than it was when covid was in its prime. We’ve used USPS since 2006 for our shipping and we ship 1500-2000 packages per year across several sales platforms but 98 percent of those have gone through USPS. The last two weeks things are going off the rails. I started to get messages earlier this week so I started looking at tracking numbers and thought “wow, I haven’t seen this in a few years”. Since then the problem just keeps getting worse and the messages are piling in. We’ve got packages that can’t seem to leave Missouri. Packages that leave the local post office and then disappear for a week before showing up at the distribution center 100 miles away. Packages that are taking the scenic route (as in the wrong coast). Packages that are making it to their destination state and then from there going several states away before heading back to their home state.

Does anyone have any idea what’s really going on? It’s certainly not a staffing issue at a few distribution centers or isolated to one locale. I have a hard time believing that people have just suddenly quit working in the last 2 weeks. This is becoming widespread and is in the early stages of a shipping train wreck!

[stainlessenginecovers]

The REAL reason is painfully obvious. 1st Class used to go up to 16 oz, otherwise it went via Air and Priority. Now, everyone is shipping larger weighted packages via the new Ground Advantage (what used to be 15% 1st Class, 85% Priority, to now about 80% Ground Advantage) so....those facilities are overwhelmed, as well as they are 'trying' to truck the items (hence the 'ground') and truckers, trucking companies are getting less (bks' etc) as well as they are ON the road, so now weather etc

So, It's a combination of 'staffing' (people quit, replacements are either not enough or stupid); weather (trucks get stuck, airplanes can't take off), new sorting machines, broken sorting machines. 

I have a friend that worked for USPS for 30 years, in Michigan and has 1st hand knowledge of Indy (for example, and you can 'youtube' it) over 100 53' trailers from Xmas waiting to get 'unloaded' etc.

[fbusoni]

A picture is worth a thousand words (from a recent USPS OIG audit).  

(And take note of the massive and absolutely hilarious understatement in the last sentence of the abovementioned report.) 

 

 

[vintagecraze50]

Post monster Dejoy is shutting down and combining processing centers I have heard. There is a recent letter from the legislation of Indiana to Post monster Dejoy to fix this mess he has created because of his poor foresight in reorganizing things.

[vintagecraze50]

On the internet as far as the Indianapolis processing center employees say understaffed, not trained well workers, poor organization, and truckloads of packages backed up for months.

[vintagecraze50]

Indianapolis processing center and some others NOT RELATED TO WEATHER .

[vintagecraze50]

MISSOURI AND HOUSTON AREA also having major problems. Also need on the internet. Dejoy is creating Regional and local processing facilities as a plan to improve the USPS. In the process they have to close down one and start up another, unfortunately his plan is not that well organized and the result is this incredible backed up mail system until they fix it right. Sounds like  bad bad bad planning and implementation. But hey who cares you really do not need that life saving medicine too quick now do you?

[vintagecraze50]

So keep abreast of the next processing center he is going to take apart. If this continues to be a problem we just switch to FEDEX. IT’S MORE COSTLY to ship, but better than 8 million customers screaming for their money back on here.

[powell-collectibles]

Silver lining – you make more money off of lost packages that are covered by insurance than you would on a completed sale.

[vintagecraze50]

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@powell-collectibles wrote:

Silver lining – you make more money off of lost packages that are covered by insurance than you would on a completed sale.

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WELL I’LL be darned that’s encouraging. Yep, cost plus mark up. You get the whole thing back. Bravo.

[selsa84]

Short answer is Dejoy is the problem. EVERY day there is another article about how bad it's gotten. Louisville, Atlanta, Houston, Missouri and Indianapolis are horrible. 

[714ricki]

Knock on wood, there haven't been any big USPS delays shipping from southen California for parcels going across the continental USA. My oldest that is still in transit is from 10/February & all of those are scheduled to be delivered on Tuesday 18/February. That includes a few escaping any delays at Indi, Houston, or Missouri. 

Just hang in there. Things are clearing up within the USPS system. Albeit, a bit slower than what we would like!!! 🙏✌️😎

[k-mansparts]

Overall, most of our USPS Ground Advantage has been no longer than an extra day on our shipments. Except for anything ending up in the Jackson MS Distribution Center. Just finding out in the last few days, that shipments that ended up there since the beginning of Feb are not moving forward. We already have some searches filed. 

[lux.ra_14]

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@selsa84 wrote:

Short answer is Dejoy is the problem.

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Who was president in 2020 when DeJoy was installed to fix USPS?

[vintagecraze50]

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@lux.ra_14 wrote:

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@selsa84 wrote:

Short answer is Dejoy is the problem.

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Who was president in 2020 when DeJoy was installed to fix USPS?

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Donald. And Don is back and Dejoy has approval to continue to “fix” the system any way including messing up the mail system for the time being in the process. It’s the 10 year plan towards privatization of the USPS.