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 10/16/2003 07:26:58 PM · #26
Originally posted by GeneralE:
I think many of those "local" mail slots have been eliminated so that all mail can go through the same (increased) level of security screening available at larger sorting facilities.


Yes they have and it sad that the check that should have been here today went 45 miles from here simply cause they did eliminate the slots and designated boxes. As I was told we sort what we can and what we can't goes to Johnstown and comes back the next day. So hey they delay my mail a day cause they aren't as efficient as they were once.
 10/16/2003 07:27:00 PM · #27
First Class Stamp= It will get there (no guarantee for next day)
Next Day = It will get there next day (or it better)

Next day mail is processed sooner.More truck runs for the Next day mail. First Class sometimes will sit for hours until processed and at the end of the night shipped to the neighborhood branches.

If you were to mail a letter early in the morning at your local branch it will usually make it the next day at least in S.F. It all depends on the truck runs. If you live in a neighborhood with less mail then less truck runs are provided.

Message edited by author 2003-10-16 19:29:33.
 10/16/2003 07:38:23 PM · #28
As an ex postal employee,, I suggest everyone give me all their ribbons and I won't do anything nasty..

Every thing they say about the PO is true.. It's a strange ane bizarre place to work..

Which PO did I work At ?..... Barrington IL 60010 and LAKE ZURICH 60047

heheh
 10/16/2003 08:02:37 PM · #29
"So hey they delay my mail a day cause they aren't as efficient as they were once."


That's not a fair statement. The moving of mail volume to central facilities is to take advantage of modern technology instead of manual sorting as was done in the old days. Instead of a whole crew of clerks working thru the night sorting letters by hand in your local post office, it is trucked to another location where 2-3 people can do the same work in less than 8 hours on a machine (the slow ones can do 80,000 letters per hour). If the machines were cheap there would be one in every branch, but it is not cost efficient to deploy them except where you can get maximum use of them, as in the kind of volume generated by trucking mail from many offices to a central facility; and using them on 2-3 shifts per day. You are using one delayed letter to indict the whole system, of which you have a limited understanding.

Message edited by author 2003-10-16 20:06:19.
 10/16/2003 08:12:36 PM · #30
Originally posted by coolhar:
"So hey they delay my mail a day cause they aren't as efficient as they were once."


That's not a fair statement. The moving of mail volume to central facilities is to take advantage of modern technology instead of manual sorting as was done in the old days. Instead of a whole crew of clerks working thru the night sorting letters by hand in your local post office, it is trucked to another location where 2-3 people can do the same work in less than 8 hours on a machine (the slow ones can do 80,000 letters per hour). If the machines were cheap there would be one in every branch, but it is not cost efficient to deploy them except where you can get maximum use of them, as in the kind of volume generated by trucking mail from many offices to a central facility; and using them on 2-3 shifts per day. You are using one delayed letter to indict the whole system, of which you have a limited understanding.


Problem is the facility here has all the equipment to sort mail and the postal service isn't utilizing it properly, they cut back and only have 12 hours of sorting done here and then send the rest to Johnstown to be sorted. This isn't the first thing delayed if you read the whole thread you would see this has happened the last two weeks and this isn't the only thing being delayed.

Oh and next day doesn't mean next day it is up to 48 hour delivery time.
Priority is suppose to be 2 to 3 days and it usually is 2 to 5 days.
 10/16/2003 08:15:02 PM · #31
this discussion is still going on? they could have gotten you direct deposit by now
 10/16/2003 08:33:09 PM · #32
Originally posted by achiral:
this discussion is still going on? they could have gotten you direct deposit by now


No they can't not the way they are doing payroll, although I wish they would offer it. I miss that, used to have it where I worked before.
 10/16/2003 08:37:53 PM · #33
do you have a photo that represents this situation in any way?
 10/16/2003 08:59:10 PM · #34
Originally posted by achiral:
do you have a photo that represents this situation in any way?


LOL anyone got a photo called empty pockets?

Oh well I found this...
//pocketssaloon.tripod.com/
the name says it all...Empty Pockets, that is if the post office doesn't figure out I am only 12 blocks away and not 45 miles.
 10/17/2003 02:59:34 AM · #35
Go Lance!
 10/17/2003 09:21:36 AM · #36
Originally posted by jimmythefish:
Go Lance!


Most sensible thing anyone's said in this thread :)

Here comes #6!
 10/29/2003 09:14:30 PM · #37
I think we in Australia have the most efficient postal system in the world - Australia Post.

Does anyone have any stats from the USPS? Here are some of ours from the 2002/2003 annual report:

- 96.5 per cent of standard domestic letters delivered early or on time.
- Delivered 96.7 per cent of large parcels and 95.6 per cent of small parcels early or on time.
- Handled 5.26 billion mail articles and serviced 9.4 million delivery points.

That's an excellent track record in a country with such a large area.

Message edited by author 2003-10-29 21:16:45.
 10/29/2003 09:48:26 PM · #38
During the Third Quarter of fiscal 2003 (April-June) the USPS reports delivering a total of 46,829,044 (sounds low) pieces of domestic mail.

You can further info here; I just did a cursory check: USPS Financial Reports.

Message edited by author 2003-10-29 21:49:29.
 10/29/2003 10:10:27 PM · #39
In 2002 the USPS delivered 202,621,900,000 peices of mail to 139,452,000 addresses using 854,000 employees working out of 37,000 branches.
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