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vapidkitty

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Yeah, I use usps track & confirm. I don't get what's up with mail anymore, either. Once upon a time I used to be able to get anything from the U.s. within 5 days, max 10 if it was the ultra slow way. Used to be funny 'cause half the time something from the U.S. could beat something from the other side of Australia.

Keep thinking of a book by Terry Pratchett called "Going Postal" where all the dead letters take on a life of their own in the Post office. Funny book.
 

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Yeah, I use usps track & confirm. I don't get what's up with mail anymore, either. Once upon a time I used to be able to get anything from the U.s. within 5 days, max 10 if it was the ultra slow way. Used to be funny 'cause half the time something from the U.S. could beat something from the other side of Australia.

Keep thinking of a book by Terry Pratchett called "Going Postal" where all the dead letters take on a life of their own in the Post office. Funny book.

Probably has something to do with the possibility that USPS is careening towards insolvency. I dunno... Maybe they are cutting budget and getting rid of people or some such. I try not to keep up with the news. Every time I catch something about US Government, I go postal. But I think I heard something like that...
 

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What I think is complete bulls##t is the fact that I live in Upstate NY which is only like 300 something miles from Gotvapes and my order is still sitting in Whitestone NY. Accepted Oct 20. I could have received something from California by yesterday yet my package still sits at post office in NY at origination. I thought Dan and Chris picked a better post office. All I can say is this completely pisses me off. Trust me, I'm holding back many more expletives. I know it's none of Chris or Dan's fault but none the same, I'm fuming. Yes this was checked directly through USPS.com. USPS stand for Unbelievably Slow and Persistently Sucky (at least this specific office is).

Yes I felt inclined to post the same exact thing in two different threads, it pisses me off that much :)
 
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Yeah, my mother retired from the PO in 2006 as a distribution supervisor & used to tell me how f....d the USPS was going to get in the future. Her words not mine! Policies were being put in place, that the only real workers now are the 50 & 60 somethings with experience that are going to be retiring soon. The new younger class don't really have anyone to direct them & mainly watch the conveyors rolling along & gotta call someone in the head office if there's a problem, mind you that is based on a specific region & not necessarily in the same building! She was also ...... at the favoritism that was shown to the brown nosers who never got anything done.

Now that she's retired & living in WA, whenever she walks in to the local PO they cringe cause she still gets the supervisor newsletter from the USPS & if she knows policy is not being followed, she tears them a new one giving them the date when said policy was initiated and aren't following postal code. She tells me don't take s..t from these stupid a.s p....s!

Best part of this story-I can rag on the PO now, & not feel guilty about it!!!
 
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