We had a fantastic carrier for years. She got forced off the road and rolled into a ditch somewhere off of Bird Pond Road several years back.

She was injured and took a long time to recover.

She either quit or got put on another route when she was healthy again.

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Haven't had mail for three delivery days now and I live right near campus.

Checked on tracking on two Amazon packages on the Amazon site and there was this not on the orders.

"Held for pickup at carrier location

Delivery attempted June 17
Unfortunately, USPS couldn't complete your delivery and is holding it for you to pick up. We're very sorry for the inconvenience."

Checked and both said delivery could not be made. I have no gate, nothing that has ever prevented mail deliveries. Both are items costing less than $50 so signatures were not required and besides, I was at home all day yesterday....no one tried to deliver anything yesterday or today.

So I call the USPS tele 800# on the orders and put in my tracking #s for both and the instructions state that they are ready for pickup at the Bryan Post office.

My Post Office working for me!

What a cluster.....

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sobi go to post office in bryan yesterday and packages not there but out for delivery...nothing delivered yesterday. Well see what occurs today. Glad it wasn't requires medicine.

Same thing happened to me. Unfortunately we couldn't make the delivery. Why did Amazon start using USPS again? Feel like telling Amazon it was never delivered and I want a refund and they can try to get it back.

Both packages delivered today. Not too bad of service considering it was out for delivery five days ago.

I feel obliged to say that while your individual carrier may be great, we had a great one for years until she retired, the USPS as a whole is complete crap. Having mail from here go to Houston for sorting (and get lost) is a pretty sub-optimal outcome. Does the Waco mail go to Dallas similarly?

CS AG 87 said:

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Same thing happened to me. Unfortunately we couldn't make the delivery. Why did Amazon start using USPS again? Feel like telling Amazon it was never delivered and I want a refund and they can try to get it back.

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Cheaper shipping. Also, Amazon has consistently raised their rates and shipping times have gotten substantially longer.

Now, I ship things to my MILs house outside of Hearne instead of here. She gets stuff in 1 or 2 days from Amazon. If I put house with a Bryan address, it is usually 4-7days.

Today's delivery:

1 piece of mail for us

4 in our box for our neighbor

It's easier to go home early if you only deliver to every other house

So I'm stocking a kitchen for a recently purchased investment / rental property. Inbound Amazon packages with glasses, plates, cookware, etc. Nothing crazy, no box over 25lbs or so. Supposed to be delivered today and this morning I get notified of a delivery exception that "item won't fit in mailbox" (single family home that packages get left at front door all the time).

I hop in the truck, go over to that neighborhood and find the USPS driver. Ask about it "oh yeah, they were too heavy so I just marked it that way. Don't worry you can pick up your packages at the CS post office in a couple of days".

No reason to get upset, clearly they are trained to do so and it's a systemic problem. "But that's not what I paid for. Can I just have my packages now?". They get them out of the truck and hand them to me without checking ID or anything and shockingly was able to lift them.

You can't make this stuff up.

I work VERY early in the mornings and generally get a nap mid day. Had just dozed off when the dog went nuts. Got up to see what was going on. Mail man had left 2 packages at my door.

Facts to note:
1. We don't have a mailbox. We don't receive mail at this house.
2. It's fairly new construction and we don't have the front gate built yet. So, there is no street number visible.

I dashed out the door picking up the packages he had laid on the front porch. I noted that they did not have my name or address on it. I managed to catch him before he pulled out of the driveway. I let him know that this was the wrong name/address.....

He asked me what the address was.....

Let that sink in. This moron left packages at a home where he did not know what the address was.

My neighbors and I deliver more mail to each other than we get correctly delivered from USPoS.

My neighbor texted us yesterday asking if we had gotten their mail. She was expecting an important document. It had been marked as delivered.

Nope.

I was mailing a set of old revolver grips to a guy and found a small box they would fit into, labeled it and took it down to mail. Postal employee said it was too small and that it would either get lost or delayed in delivery. She said a small flat rate was best for quick delivery.
A few years back that was a $3.95 box. It just went up to over $11.00! I used one and mailed it last Monday morning. It sat in Houston for 4 days. Finally that loggerhead broke loose and it went downstream. Got delivered this Tuesday, 8 days after mailing.

They need to just shut the whole bloated, inept, past it's need for existence operation down and save the taxpayers some money. It has never operated in the black.

I wish they would just blow it all up. Give it to the states. Let them figure out some way to coordinate interstate mail and handle internal mail.

I have dealt with the post office more than probably anyone. The biggest problem is there is no repercussions to their actions and they know it.

Omperlodge said:

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I wish they would just blow it all up. Give it to the states. Let them figure out some way to coordinate interstate mail and handle internal mail.

I have dealt with the post office more than probably anyone. The biggest problem is there is no repercussions to their actions and they know it.

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If you have an issue with the postal service, just save your time and don't complain. They could care less. The most inept government agency I can think of. Lazy, dumb-ass bureaucrats.