USPS has gone down hill quite a bit in the past few years. I wanted to write a poor review when I moved from NJ to Denver and they lost the contents of a box I shipped with them. It was hundreds of dollars worth of school text books and military books and records. It was one of three boxes I shipped using media mail. Two of the boxes showed up in terrible shape, but the third box did not. It arrived about a week later, repackaged in a different box with the original address cut out of the original box and taped to the new box. Almost all of the content was missing. The few books and papers that remained were all destroyed. I called USPS's 800 number to report it and open a case. They said there was nothing they could do and wouldn't give me a single penny for the shipping or the content. The box was technically delivered, even though it's content was not. They suggested I packaged it poorly and said they couldn't be held responsible for my errors. This was a tightly packed box of books, with no wiggle room. It was 55 pounds, packed into a brand new Home Depot heavy duty box rated to 85 pounds, and very thoroughly sealed in heavy duty packing tape. It is not my first time moving cross country. It was packed properly. I was disgusted by the way customer service handled it and constantly belittled and insulted me. I was shocked.
A few weeks after that incident, I had a laptop shipped from TX to NJ for my company. USPS could not deliver the address due to a type. It was supposed to be returned to sender, but instead was sent to their sorting facility in Atlanta, GA. Upon the laptop arriving at their facility, they managed to loose track of it. The package had a tracking number and they lost it in their sorting facility. Ridiculous. We tried to collect the insurance for the laptop to reimburse the company the laptop was being sent to. They said we would have to wait 90 days while they try to find it within their facility before they would fulfill the insurance claim. This was a major issue because we could not closeout the project with the company until they received their laptop back from us. This $800 dollar laptop was holding up a few million dollars in revenue. Not only that, waiting 90 days would push it to the next fiscal quarter. I big issue with bookkeeping. It ended up being escalated to officer level in both companies and after a month of significant pressure, USPS was finally able to locate the laptop and deliver it. Again, their customer service was beyond reprehensible.
What finally made me decide to write up a negative review for USPS (and specifically this Post Office) was the most recent issue we've had with them. I live in an apartment complex served by this post office. UPS, FedEx, and all other carriers follow standard procedure. You attempt to deliver to the door. If the resident does not open the door, then you deliver to the front office as a secondary recipient. This post office, however, was delivering all packages for all residents to the front office, which does not have capacity for all those packages. The front office told the post office they would need to deliver to the residents. The post office instead went to the central mail boxes in the building and left a note for each resident saying they missed the package delivery and there would be two more attempts before we would need to drive to the post office to pick up our packages. So unless you are literally standing right next to the mailboxes when they come to deliver, they will leave a note saying you missed it. I called this post office and once again found the customer service to be horrible and frustrating. I was told they deliver mail to a mailbox and a box to a parcel box. If no parcel box is present, they will not deliver any packages. That is absurd. My front door is my parcel box. If I were living in a house with a mailbox by the curb, you would deliver mail to that mailbox and boxes to my front door. Same concept. They are rude, unhelpful, and unwilling to perform their jobs of delivering packages.
All three of these issues occurred within a 4-month period. There is a good reason USPS has been struggling the past few years. With this kind of service, I am really hoping they close up shop and become one with the history books. read more