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!
