Most of the time, I get nearly everything in 3 days or less.

I just put something in my cart and changed the delivery for a small podunk town in central Texas. Delivery in 2 days.

Beryl made landfall July 8

Does anyone know exactly what they are stocking at the drone facility that gets delivered in an hour?

MsDoubleD81 said:

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Does anyone know exactly what they are stocking at the drone facility that gets delivered in an hour?

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A very small, limited subset of Amazon stuff. 99.9% of the stuff we buy from Amazon is not available.

trouble said:

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Spring semester doesn't have as much since most people stay where they were for the fall.

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Ok, let us say August to September (~ 2 months) and November to January (~2 months) That gives us about 4 months of the year Amazon slow down for the BCS area... 1/3 of the year is what I consider a good chunk of time that someone at the local USPS should plan for, or am I expecting too much?

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trouble said:

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Spring semester doesn't have as much since most people stay where they were for the fall.

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Ok, let us say August to September (~ 2 months) and November to January (~2 months) That gives us about 4 months of the year Amazon slow down for the BCS area... 1/3 of the year is what I consider a good chunk of time that someone at the local USPS should plan for, or am I expecting too much?

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They do plan for it. They offer overtime and hire seasonal staff. They can't make people appear out of thin air.

Not at the rate they're paying. There is a dollar amount at which that happens, but that ain't it.

That's not set by them though.

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That's not set by them though.

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Its almost like the people in charge want the USPS to fail….

But they want to keep them as a punching bag

MsDoubleD81 said:

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I placed an order for a dog water bowl on August 21. It still hasn't shipped. But says delivery date is August 27 or 28 by 10 pm. USPS by 10 PM?

All of my orders have taken at least 5 days to ship.

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Just got notice that the slobber stopper has shipped with UPS and delivery by 9 pm tomorrow.

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This might be a dumb question, but I'll risk it in case it's not...
My Amazon packages all seem to take a week to be delivered. So if this is the case for everyone, how does that delay help USPS? In other words, doesn't it just move the exact same backlog problem one week into the future without actually solving anything?

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They are dealing with a temporary increase in capacity. Yes, it is shifting volume to next week, but once the college students are settled and USPS can get caught up, Amazon will work its way back to 2 day.

Also, Amazon has been shifting at least some of the volume to UPS. At least, a larger % of the Amazon packages I have received have been UPS.

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Hahaha…..once they get caught up this Fall it will roll right into the holiday season and we are all screwed again! It will be well into the Spring before we see any type of "slow down" with all of this, if at all

I guess make your plans for the holidays and get your stuff shipped early this year! Otherwise you will have an empty tree come Christmas Day!

So what do you suggest they do? The local PO isn't able to offer a higher pay rate. They aren't able to waive any of the requirements for the job. How are they supposed to create more man hours?

I now have 2 non-Amazon items that are later than originally estimated. One was supposed to be here yesterday and says it's going to be late (but no estimate of when it'll get here), and the other was supposed to arrive today but they changed the date to tomorrow and say "on time" even though that is not the date that it was saying in the first place. Yesterday it still said it was going to arrive today.

Both say "on the way to the next facility" but don't say where that facility is or when the packages might get to BCS.

I ordered a small electronic item from Amazon on Monday the 26th. Amazons says out for delivery today! We'll see.... came from the Humble distribution center so it was close by.

Ordered a roll of drafting tape from Amazon on the 20th. It left Humble yesterday (27th) and out for delivery today. 8 days???

The Brazos Kid said:

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Ordered a roll of drafting tape from Amazon on the 20th. It left Humble yesterday (27th) and out for delivery today. 8 days???

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Mine have been running 5-6 days. This is the first two day in awhile.

Order something on Amazon July 27th. Shipped 7 days later and has been at almost every hub in the United States. A few of them twice. Currently targeted for a September 5th delivery.

So the item that said "on time" (but had changed its estimated delivery date from yesterday to today) showed up today to the wrong address. It said it was left on the front porch, and our mail was there but no packages or large envelopes. I checked next door, and it was on their front porch (along with their packages / large envelopes).

The other item still says it's going to be late but gives no estimate of how late and says it's working its way through the system and is on the way to the next facility. This is the status they last updated on Aug. 26 at some distribution center in Massachusetts). They haven't updated any information since.

Odd.

I have lots of stuff that I subscribed to from Amazon. Cat and dog food and vitamins. They were supposed to be here Saturday. I got a notification that they are out for delivery…TODAY

The thing I ordered Monday did show up yesterday. However, it was in the same envelope with a book I ordered last Thursday that was supposed to arrive yesterday (six day delay). So my guess was the Amazon supercomputer realized a package was already queued to ship Monday and it added my additional small item to that shipment.

Yup. I got everything I was waiting on yesterday even though some of it wasn't supposed to be here until Friday.

trouble said:

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Yup. I got everything I was waiting on yesterday even though some of it wasn't supposed to be here until Friday.

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It just occurred to me that we were supposed to have lunch this week since I'm going to be out west next week. I'm such a ****ty friend

Yeah, you are. It's been nuts over here.

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So what do you suggest they do? The local PO isn't able to offer a higher pay rate. They aren't able to waive any of the requirements for the job. How are they supposed to create more man hours?

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The question is what would a for-profit company would do.

How many for profit companies do you know of that have their budgets controlled by Congress?

trouble said:

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How many for profit companies do you know of that have their budgets controlled by Congress?

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And therein lies the problem.