"Please do not spread false information."
You should follow your own words!
You are not talking to someone you just fell off the turnip truck you know. I worked for a large office and janitorial supply wholesaler who in addition to shipping hundreds of daily packages via UPS ran their own trucking firm to deliver items to retail stores across the Midwest. We operated three large warehouses in two cities. I also worked for a much larger national manufacturer and wholesaler of a food commodity with massive warehouses and silos in multiple states, with goods being sent out via semi truck, tanker truck and railcar. I have years of experience in warehouse work and I also have more than 20 years of selling online.
"We could drive to our USPS location at 5PM and see they're literally packing items outside that they're rushing on to trucks, because there's no more room inside."
Loose It or Prove It!
Post the name and address of this post office, along with pictures of the mountains of packages you claim are back logged, so your allegations can be investigated and the proper people relieved of their jobs for incompetence.
Let me get this straight, they are placing packages in piles on the ground outside the post office because the don't have room inside. Yet these packages need to be carefully stacked on pallets and then wrapped in plastic wrap so they can be safely loaded into, and transferred by, trucks. But those pallets only can be loaded onto the trucks with a forklift or pallet jack which requires a surface at the same height of the dock / truck. That means packages will have to be placed back inside the dock, loaded onto pallets and wrapped in order to be placed inside a truck. Or it means the packages will have to be placed on the pallets and wrapped outside the building and brought back into the building to the docks with a forklift or pallet jack via a ground level to dock level ramp and then placed into the trucks.
Why are you are shocked that they are rushing these items onto trucks? That is name of game - speed! Every minute the packages it there is unproductive downtime. I guess we were all doing it wrong at the wholesaler I worked at - we should have slowed down.
What do you think goes on at the local FedEx sorting facility I toured? Plastic wrapped pallets of packages are taken off one or more trucks at the same time. The plastic wrap is cut off and the packages are set onto a series of roller conveyors. Employees quickly pick individual packages off the rollers, scan them, and place them in a specific bin location. The packages in each bin location are then shipped out on various other trucks to other sorting facilities and distributed to the local FedEx facility for delivery. Everything is done in 3-4 hours and the part time employees go home without being paid any overtime!
"More than 20% of the orders EVERY SINGLE DAY are not going out on time, and being delayed at least a week."
There is a little thing called a pandemic going on and such delays have been going on for months.
You seem to think its just postal employees moving mail & packages for USPS.
No, its actually many more workers than that.
1. FedEx moves USPS time sensitive packages on its planes.
2. J.B. Hunt is a trucking company that is USPS's largest over the road contractor.
3. USPS uses many other smaller contractors.
4. Rural mail carriers have to use their own cars.
5. Both FedEx & UPS use USPS to deliver packages.
6. There is USPS's interaction with the mail services of other countries.
7. Every other company USPS interacts with is also effected. Maintaining FedEx's fleet of planes and J.B. Hunt's fleet of truck; for instance, require the services of other workers and companies who are also effected by the pandemic.
"Certain days, such as the 23rd, > 90% of our orders didn't go out."
This and your previous statement are totally meaningless without any context and various data such as the services you are using, time you drop them off, your location, the location of sorting centers and dozens of other variables are needed to determine a accurate opinion.
Gee, if I drop off 50 packages on a Saturday morning to my local post office I too can claim that the package's progress is slow. Yet the progress of such packages, before the pandemic, would be initially slow due to the fact that I dropped them off on a Saturday! Before or after the pandemic one wouldn't expect to see much movement on those packages, as well as updates of the tracking information, until Monday. So as long as I don't disclose those facts I can also falsely claim that the packages are slow.
"Leftover mail IS NOT going out the next day."
Of course it is! Show me pictures of the post office facilities and the piles of backed up packages. An antique postal cart serves as the storage space for outgoing packages at my local post office. I can see that cart at the backdoor of the post office from the customer side of the front counter. The busiest that cart has ever got was when I backup up to the back door of the post office and uploaded 40-50 packages at a time. The post office's hours were shorten years ago and the facility closes at noon rather than 4:30 yet they are never backed up.
The large regional post office that acts as a collection point for mail from surrounding post offices has a special ground level area among the loading docks where you may leave packages in bulk without having to go through the front desk. There is no attendant as ever inch is covered by security cameras. There are no piles of packages sitting around outside or inside of the building that have accumulated over the past weeks or months! Anything left from the previous work day is loaded into trucks at the beginning of the next day and sent out to the sorting center that day. If anything is left at the end of that day it sent out the next day.
"Our postal workers have directly admit it: 'As their warehouse fills up, packages are getting pushed to the back of the room, while the daily orders are unloaded in front of them. They haven't been able to get to the back half of the warehouse for over 2 weeks'."
Not how it works!
Publish the postal employee's name you are supposedly quoting along with the name and address of the facility they work. Let me guess, its a unnamed anonymous source.
"This isn't 'leftist media'. This is the true situation if we drive to our USPS ourselves."
No such situation at any local post office!
Once again, provide us with the names of the facilities and pictures so they can be investigated!
"You're the one guilty of believing what media is saying, when you should start believing the sellers with long standing reputations of getting their items out on time who are experiencing this themselves."
Been selling online for more than 20 years!
The media is stating that the delays are due to Trump's recent appointment of DeJoy and that Trump wants to destroy DeJoy.
Both are false!
The delays have existed for months due to the pandemic.
If Trump wants to destroy USPS how come he put a stop to companies like eBay abusing a 1969 UPU program designed to help poor countries. Trump has already saved USPS billions in further loses by putting an end to that. When Trump began the 1 year process to withdrawal from the UPU to force other countries to fix the issue the same Leftist media mocked Trump.
The same Leftist media is trying to blame the recent pandemic for USPs' loses yet the bulk of USPS;s loses for the last 13 years have been the retirement mandate from Congress forced on USPS. In 2019; for instance, 83% of USPS's loss was due to this mandate.
"Let's not continue to dismiss what is happening in reality, for what the media is claiming, as that's what you're doing."
What is happening in reality and what the media is claiming are two different things yet you want to dismiss both choices. This is not a traffic light - there is not a 3rd choice choice of yellow - its either red or green.
There are delays caused by world wide pandemic which effects USPS entire delivery system which includes USPS workers, the J.B. Hunt trucking firm, FedEx, many smaller contractors, rural carriers and much more!
"The reality is, we have hundreds of packages that have not been delivered for weeks, and we're only one of thousands of sellers experiencing this."
Not delivered or package's whose tracking information has not been updated.
Once again rather pointless information unless all the unknown variables are analyzed as a whole.
"This is NOT due to the pandemic. Through the pandemic we've only had 10-11 items lost per month. We've got over 95 cases opened since the last 2-3 weeks, and more than half of the customers haven't even opened an INR case yet."
10-11 packages lost per month?
In 20+ years of online selling I've only had USPS possibly loose one package. Either USPS didn't scan it when it was delivered and the buyer choose to falsely claim it as lost or the package was stolen by a USPS employee or contractor sometime after it was last scanned at a sorting facility.
I'd be contacting the postal inspectors if 95 packages dropped off a the same post office are now lost.
"The exact date this began was the date the new policies began (the 13th of last month)."
That is strange because there are many other sellers documenting slowdowns shortly after the pandemic began, which was months ago.
"The postal workers will openly admit this."
Once gain, names and facilities where they work!
