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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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Wow, what carrier do you use? Last time I asked T-Mobile for a new sim (about 2 months ago) they had it to me in two days FedEx.

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A T-Mobile network budget company. They sent it FedEx, but FedEx here uses the USPS for small packages.

Just prior and at the beginning of the lockdowns I had tried to verify my address with a self addressed envelope with some scrap paper inside. I did this 6 times at 4 different post offices. Only 2 ever showed up, and that was in late June and early July. In fact, the first one I got was sent AFTER the second one that was delivered. It still took over 2 weeks for the first one to show up.

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Yeah, SmartPost is kind of iffy, only because it uses the post office.

It doesn't surprise me that you didn't get much of what you sent yourself.

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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.