GumbyDammit223
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What gets me about Amazon is that they say that they will deliver something on Sunday. Well, technically it's true. Amazon dumps their shipping container full of parcels off at the local post office just after midnight on Sunday so they delivered "on time". I see my things most likely on Tuesday as the local PO digs out from the Amazon "deliveries" and is able to get to me the following day. Also, the local PO has been running extremely short staffed all year long and then some. Not only due to Covid, but the cost of living is so outrageous here that they cannot pay people a living wage to live and work here. Carriers from the other POs in the area come here to help deliver when they're done with their routes.Before Amazon started making their own deliveries, UPS and USPS in my area were absolutely hammered this time of year. Covid also caused people to order more items from home. Packages sometimes went from UPS to USPS and would be delivered on Sundays.
I did have issues with a Fed Ex driver who never seemed to be able to deliver cases of wine to me, they would be returned to the shipper. He made claims that we were not home and my security system showed he never so much as drove down my street or approached my house lol. That was more of a problem with an individual, not a company. He was moved to another route and all is well again.
I've had a couple things disappear after the PO says it's out for delivery. I had to navigate the USPS website in order to find a way to open a service ticket with the tracking number. Then, after 2-3 days they find my item and deliver it. Last month I had to go to the PO to sign for a package. They were supposed to be open at 8:30. I show up at 8:45 and there's already a line almost out the door waiting for them to open. At 9:00 one guy pokes his head out the side door, sees the line and makes a little squeek before going back in and closing the door. About five minutes later they open the gate at the counter and that one guy tries to handle the crowd. About ten minutes after that, another worker nonchalantly glides up to the counter and casually opens her till and takes customers about five minutes after that.
They (most of them anyway) are busting their rear ends out there delivering things and I try to remember that this is another first world problem.