Dear USPS...

[tanthe]

Could you please stop hiking up your postage rates almost every other month? It's getting to be kind of ridiculous at this point, and thanks to the recent 4 cent hike to international postage that I wasn't aware of, I now have several birthday cards that will be late, besides costing me 90 cents postage to get it sent to myself with a "not enough

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[volksjager]

Don't forget the crap sevice and shitty item tracking.

[tanthe]

Yeah. Well, item tracking isn't really an option on regular international mail, but on domestic it's definitely pretty dismal. By the time the website tells you where the fuck the item is, it has already arrived. I thought UPS was pretty bad with that, but the USPS is worse.

[volksjager]

Fed EX baby. Itcost more but you can sleep like the baby jesus himself.

[tanthe]

Oh yeah, with packages I definitely prefer FedEx over UPS. For a start when stuff arrives it doesn't look like it was dragged behind the truck rather than transported inside it.

I've seen UPS delivery guys literally throw packages at the door from 6+ feet away, with total disregard for what might have been in it. And I don't know how many times my Amazon.com tracking has said it was delivered and signed for when I've been home, and they never rang the doorbell or had me sign for anything.

[volksjager]

Dragged behind the truck is right ! Here in Boston, if you miss the package delivery ( they have a rate that will only make one attempt) you have to pick it up yourself at the depot. its like going to the moon trying to find it. Oh nowhere near public transportaion....

[tanthe]

Yeah, the depot is always in the most out of the way place possible, in an area where you feel like you might get mugged in broad daylight too. Then they have the most ridiculous opening times so when you think they ought to be open, they aren't.

UPS trucks and depots must be really filthy places, considering that packages are always coated in dust and filth when they arrive. I've had one arrive with the box doing a pathetic attempt to still cover the item while in shreds... no idea what happened to that one while in transit, I dread to ask.

[volksjager]

My last trip I kept putting it off all day. I got there at 4:15...

Only to find out quite by chance that the place didn't open til 4:30 to 5:15 and in the morning from 8:30 -9:00. Yikes i would have started kiling people if I got there at like 2 and had wasted my time. I got in line with 9 other people 7 of them got toally fucked...

[madda_gaska]

UPS - the sound they make when they drop your package?

I've heard so many horror stories about them, but they seem to work okay over here... must just be the US branch?

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