You gonna fly that at the SARA launch? I live in Tucson too, and I would like to see it fly
Maybe, it depends on what the winds are like on saturday...You gonna fly that at the SARA launch? I live in Tucson too, and I would like to see it fly
Maybe 15? years ago, guys at the local post office figured out that an incorrectly addressed letter (or was it a package, I can't remember) was actually for me. I was impressed enough to send them a thank you note, which I later saw on the wall in the post office.On the other hand .. about 40 years ago, my brother ran a music store in a small town. A couple of years after the store closed, someone sent my brother a letter. It was addressed to him with "Record Store" instead of a street number and street name. It was delivered to our parent's house where he lived.
Ordered some tubing to repair my Saturn I-SA5.
It was shipped USPS from Dayton to Cincinnati to Dallas to Tucson (where I am) and then so far to Tulsa. I wonder where it will go next....
Consider the amount of mail we get. Consider the number of packages in particular and the number that have gone astray or been damaged. Express the result as a percentage. Keep in mind that humans tend to remember the hits and not the misses---and most of the posts here on package delivery are the "hits".No surprise there. USPS is a disaster. I once bought something online that shipped from the southside of Chicago. It took 3 days for it to appear in their system then went on a tour of the southern states before arriving almost two weeks later looking like it had gone through a Demo Derby. For reference, I live in the northern burbs of Chicago about 16 miles from where the items shipped. Had I known where it was shipping from, I would have driven to go get it.
I stopped using them for anything years ago. I won't even mail a check these days.
Pretty much this. Having lived all over the country, I've noticed that the quality of service from the post office, UPS, and FedEx just depends on where you live. USPS tends to be crap in big, crowded cities where they probably have a lot more work to deal with, while FedEx service in rural areas is crap. For a while, my area wasn't serviced by actual FedEx trucks, but by contractor drivers, at least one of whom stole people's packages. There's been a noticeable lack of problems now that actual FedEx trucks deliver packages to my house.and may have more to do with the local USPO than the system.
Consider the amount of mail we get. Consider the number of packages in particular and the number that have gone astray or been damaged. Express the result as a percentage. Keep in mind that humans tend to remember the hits and not the misses---and most of the posts here on package delivery are the "hits".
No doubt there are some of us who have had half a dozen or more packages damaged or delivered to PartsUnknown, Southern North Dakota. Statistically that's probably an anomaly...and may have more to do with the local USPO than the system.
I don't think USPS as a whole can properly be called a disaster.
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