It seems all the shipping companies, USPS included, have been passing the point of incompetence in recent years. Case in point: I went to take the trash out yesterday and discovered a pile of boxes on the deck delivered by USPS (one of which was sent with signature required for delivery). Never heard the mailman arrive, even though we were both home all day. The real kicker of this is that there is one more package that the gf is waiting on and one of those "sorry we missed you" notes was left in the mailbox . . . WTF!? So they can drop all those other boxes, including one that required a signature and never got one, without any notification whatsoever, but they can't drop off that one remaining box with them?
Even considering all that, based on all of my recent experiences I still find USPS to be light years more reliable and secure than UPS or FedEx . . . sad, ain't it?
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