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The UPS is terrible

EDIT: I mean USPS. typo

I very rarely order stuff on the Internet, but I ended up buying something that I couldn’t find in a store near me, and it had shipped from only one state over (i’m on the East Coast in the Appalachian region near the Virginias) and when it was in a post office only about an hour away from me, it then got transfered out to St. Louis Missouri .... Naturally, that’s going to add at least a couple days to its delivery date. Maybe this is a fluke, and I don’t order enough to know, but if this is how they always operate, they need to make some serious changes. Not only an annoyance, but a serious waste of federal money

EDIT: I mean USPS. typo I very rarely order stuff on the Internet, but I ended up buying something that I couldn’t find in a store near me, and it had shipped from only one state over (i’m on the East Coast in the Appalachian region near the Virginias) and when it was in a post office only about an hour away from me, it then got transfered out to St. Louis Missouri .... Naturally, that’s going to add at least a couple days to its delivery date. Maybe this is a fluke, and I don’t order enough to know, but if this is how they always operate, they need to make some serious changes. Not only an annoyance, but a serious waste of federal money

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I commented how some government office mail came from downtown, which uses the same post office that is used by my neighborhood. the postmark shows it was sent out the same day or day after I was in contact with the office but it took 2 weeks to get to me, even though it was sent out at the same post office that delivers mail to my home.

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I'm not sure how yours works, but when I lived in a single-office town, they wouldn't sort mail there. It all got gathered up, taken to a city about 30 miles away, sorted, and what was meant for the local office was sent back. Only then did it get put into carrier routes and readied for delivery.

You could usually depend on 4-5 days between the letter hitting the post office's mail slot and arriving at the end delivery point.

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I live in Pittsburgh.

It was from a government office. I didn't even receive them until after the deadline they stated I needed to provide 2 additional forms to them

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I'll have to ask around. I suspect it goes to a master sort location before being returned to local offices.

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I do remember some people I know that worked for an office in Chicongo. The office told them "Do not get your paycheck by live check, as we mail them. Get it direct deposited."

Friend said that he and a co-worker that shared a place for a while would get their deposit advice on different days, even though he watched the batch get mailed at his office.