Post is definitely loosing its mind.
according to tracking meter is still in Virginia beach after making it to within 30 mins of my address.
My order of nutrients that started 2 1/2 hours away, in-state on Friday, as of today, also after making it to my local usps distribution center 30 mins away, got sent to Louisville, and then to Pittsburg. Expected delivery was yesterday, and up top on USPS it still says Expected yesterday, arriving on time.
My fabric pots hit local on monday, same distribution center as the other two, and then got sent to charlston, SC.
Timeliness is less important on my flowering feeds and bigger pots obviously, but still.... wtf.
Sorry, rant incoming.
Since i moved to this address, this has also been a pretty constant issue. It's like when they don't feel like driving out here, they just send stuff on elsewhere and take care of it when it comes back through, if even then. Never had these issues with that distribution center once, then i moved out into county area in the boonies and have to use a rural carrier out here, and now it's 90% of all packages get dicked around for a while before actually getting delivered. Often ill have more then 1 package out for delivery, and ill just find 1 in the mailbox, and a note in there saying it was undeliverable and make me come pick it up because they dont want to walk the 50 feet up my walkway to the porch and it doesnt fit in the mailbox. I have a permanently affixed note to my mailbox for about 3 months now saying to just leave large packages at the mailbox but they wont do it even though thats what the postmaster told me to do about this. I had my mail coming here before i even had the place "move in-able" lol. A lot of stuff coming initially was for yard and remodeling work. Tools i needed, and odds and ends you gotta drive a ways for when you're out here. Solvents, sealants, furniture and hardware etc. Anything coming ups and fedex, no issues at all. Just usps.
Ive left about half a dozen formal complaints, several in person complaints with the postmaster at that distribution center. Ive left formal complaints with USPS customer service, and ive followed the delivery driver down the road to get my packages after i watched them f**k off on right in front of me while on the porch prob half a dozen times now, and usually my driver doesn't even say anything to me. He just pulls the package out, scans it, hands it over and boogies. Several neighbors have been leaving the same complaints, but day after fay its still the same guy doing the route. 99% sure when he has fuller loads, hell toss packages into other outgoing carts of packages. My neighbor was a delivery driver for years with the same center. Says something like that isnt just easy to do, a lot of drivers with super busy routes do it all the time. Is why theres never any outbound scans from this center when it happens, just intake scans wherever it was sent. It's about impossible to genuinely determine the origin of the "mix up" when thats done too apparently.
Sometimes there's a young blonde woman that handles our route but im pretty sure she just coveres it when the usual guy pisses off and calls in or something.... this NEVER happens when she's doing it. Not once. She also is usually through here an hour or two later then the normal guy. So i rest the entire issue on the shoulders of our usual rural carrier guy's extreme laziness, along side how difficult it is to actually get fired from a government job.
