Every incompetent sonofabitch that is employed by USPS should be fired TODAY if not yesterday!!! A USPS parcel that I should have had a week ago has gone dark........ FOR 7 DAYS!!!!!!!

Moving Through Network
In Transit, Arriving Late
February 21, 2025, 12:28 pm

In Transit to Next Facility
February 21, 2025, 10:32 am

Departed USPS Facility
PALMETTO, GA 30268
February 21, 2025, 8:57 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
ATLANTA GA DISTRIBUTION CENTER
February 21, 2025, 1:51 am

In Transit to Next Facility
February 20, 2025

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
BILLINGS MT DISTRIBUTION CENTER
February 15, 2025, 10:23 am

Arrived at USPS Facility
AURORA, CO 80018
February 13, 2025, 1:38 pm

Departed Post Office
JEFFERSON CITY, TN 37760
February 10, 2025, 4:37 pm

USPS in possession of item
JEFFERSON CITY, TN 37760
February 10, 2025, 12:15 pm

Holy wrong turn, Batman!!

You would think that there would be distribution areas, for instance east of Mississippi River, Mississippi River- Denver, west of Denver, why would a package from Tn bound for bama go the Colorado?

There are regional distribution centers. THAT is where the biggest problem is. ALL north Alabama mail, whether incoming or outgoing goes through Birmingham. ALL Tennessee mail goes through Memphis. The common denominator (I call them CDs) in these distribution centers (DCs) is THE problem. They can't be fired and they know it.

I ordered a phone case one time that shipped out of Memphis coming to Birmingham. That case covered 10,000 miles and took two weeks to get it to me. It went to every state in the Southeast and some twice.

That was FedEx though.

Back when the airlines hauled all the mail this was never a problem. When the government years ago decided to cut payments to the airlines they said we don’t haul for free. I can remember in the eighties loading 10000 lbs of mail on every flight out of San Antonio.

If I ordered a part from small town North Carolina by 2:30 got it next day. If I ordered same part same town at 2:31 two days later. I could order from Southern California get it in 3 days. Same part from Dallas Texas 7 days. Could call North Carolina that was out of that very part and get it 3 days later.

Want the distribution center in Huntsville closed under Obama. I used to have to pickup quail chicks from there.

My dad gets his medication from the VA. There's been a few times I've tracked the delivery from Birmingham to Charleston SC, back to Birmingham to Montgomery (even to Florida one time) and then Clanton.

I knew the problem with your package before I read your post. It, for whatever reason, went to Palmetto, Ga. It's not uncommon for mail to bounce around endlessly when it gets "sorted" there. I live in Ga. and most of my packages are sorted there, so I know first hand what that place can do as it's happened to me numerous times. I watched a mailing envelope I sent to a guy in Duluth bounce from Palmetto to Atlanta and back to Palmetto for 4 days once. It took an actual 8 days for him to receive it, but it was a weekend in between, and who's counting that? Anyone that works there should be tested to make sure they know how to read an address, and be the first ones in line to get canned when Musk starts taking notice of the P.O.

I have experienced similar before Wiley. A few years ago l, I sent someone a present through a retailer that was shipped by USPS. Somehow it ended up getting stuck in GA after going from PA to AL to TX I think then somewhere out west then back to GA where didn’t move. Retailer shipped replacement and used different shipping method and person finally got their gift after 15 days. Retailer rep said they were having issues with this shipping method that used USPS for smaller packages.

I bought an item from a guy in Ashville, NC and he shipped it via USPS last Saturday. They told him it would be here on 2/25. Today (2/28) I still don’t have it, and the tracking number only showed that it left Ashville. No idea where it is presently. Good thing is it’s not something I need ASAP. So it will be mildly entertaining to see how long it takes for me to get it. If ever. 🙄

I thought this was going to be about a boat trip….

me too

If it was he would have got it by now.

I ordered something from Bastrop Louisiana a while back. Now this is about a 4 hour drive for here. That package covered the whole country and took 12days to get here. I could have walked to that store, pick up the package and walk back home in that time. It nutz what’s going on.

Back early last year I sent 3 vintage rifle triggers, via USPS Priority Mail, to one of only 2 well known gunsmiths who work these triggers. He's in Iowa. NOBODY on the planet makes replacements fo these 1970s/1980s triggers although Timney has been begged to do so. He got the triggers, worked them and sent them back. They tracked right along and got to Birmingham. Tracking stopped. For 9 days. Then they were delivered here in Guntersville. The tracking never showed leaving Birmingham but did show delivered. Those were the longest 9 days that I have gone through in a very long time. I was almost certain that I had 3 worthless pieces of walnut and blued steel.

i got a baseball hat with a uniform package from marucci in louisiana. it shipped monday feb 24. left baton rouge and went to houston, then somehow made it to arizona, then inidina, back to houston, then BESSEMER AL and this morning its in atlanta and hasnt moved

And yet shipping prices keep going up.

oh yes, the uniform package was 406.58 with tax then shipping was an additional $63 AND it shipped in 4 different shipments