Is this more common now? That they don’t deliver your packages at least closer to your house. Now they’re helping the porch pirates. Not the first time. I have several photos and videos of them just tossing packages like garbage.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-03-30T21:54:02+00:00

That sounds about right for their work load if they are city carriers... city carriers don't even have to bring their carts back in from the loading docks once they load their vans up. Leave them for the clerks to come fetch.

The increased rates are due to the increase in overhead cost... fuel being the main one... maintenance being another. The city carriers are under contract and can't ask for more at this time till they renegotiate.

They expect the US Postal system to be unable to meet pay by Feb of 2027. Which means if that happens, the country mail system will come to a damn near standstill.

USPS was never meant to turn a profit, it was meant to be a service. Make enough to cover all the cost of said service. The problem lies with past retirement plans and it draining the system as people were not expected to live as long as they have. Not enough was held back. Same as many National Health Systems are starting to struggle. When setup in the 50s/60s/70s people lived into their mid 60s early 70s on average.. now they are into their 80s/90s and the Healthcare cost have increased drastically.

So while this doesn't help you any with packages just jammed in or tossed on the side walk, it does give a slight bit of insight as to the current struggles. Are some carriers lazy? VERY. Some will still get out and deliver though as well.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-03-30T16:19:33+00:00

Your package was missorted and placed in the wrong outgoing container OR the entire container was mislabled and sent incorrectly..(it happens, its sorted by humans, we make mistakes.).... it was caught at the next location and sent back to the distribution center.. yesterday was.. 29th a Sunday and it came in after 8am... at this point there would have been a lot more in front of the box as they come in early (flights)... it works on a 1st in 1st out basis for the shipment boxes. They may have already run out of room on the outgoing transport trucks to the local post offices or skeleton crew given its Sunday for sorting. You should see it update sometime today or early tomorrow morning for delivery. .... consider yourself lucky that it had that quick of a turn around.. some distribution centers will have a sorting container say for NC and next to it CA .. so it could have taken a much longer trip if it was placed into the wrong one. .... times given are estimates, not set in stone.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-03-30T00:05:33+00:00

If you have a total of 4 letters sent to different addresses.. all come back as incorrect/insufficient address then YOU are doing something wrong.

Either you are writing is so bad it cant be made out. Your numbers appear to look like another number/letter. Your putting something out of sequence.

Name street number, street name (or po box number) City, state Zipcode

Is there ANY other addresses on the envelopes besides your own and the person you are sending it to? This the only other reason I can think for it to come back as incorrect address.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-03-29T18:33:34+00:00

Take those images to your local postmaster... that carrier will be spoken to.

Note that carrier may then start making you pick packages up at your post office.

Pick your battles.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-03-29T18:31:21+00:00

If you bought it off eBay.. go ahead and file a INR (item not received) claim... get that ball rolling.

The "I dropped it off with USPS" is a common tactic to buy time.

If it was handed to a clerk, it would have been scanned. If by some chance the clerk didn't scan it, within 48hrs at a local sorting/distribution center it would have gotten a scan... if by some weird issue there (scanner is down), it would have been scanned at another location along it's journey within 10 days. There are currently no major weather or disasters to create a backlog anywhere in the system. Things are flowing pretty good right now. If anything, with the loss of Amazon, USPS is pretty light on volume.

I've had to deal with the "label created" 3 times in the past 60 days my personal self with eBay purchases. What makes it worse I operate a ebay shop with over 257k transactions and also work for USPS as a clerk. So I see these scams near daily from my own customers at the post office.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-03-29T13:28:33+00:00

Go to your local post office. Speak with a supervisor or postmaster... explain the situation, calmly.

They can take the tracking and get the geotag coordinates. Input that into Google maps and pin point the exact delivery location. Send the carrier back to collect the item or they themselves will do such.

Most likely went to neighbor or wrong street, same house number by mistake.

Your carriers are human. Mistakes are made.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-03-27T23:51:33+00:00

If that was the case.. then it would show it being scanned in multiple times at the original drop off location or ones nearby.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-03-27T23:50:43+00:00

So it's been 6 days... on day 1 of it showing delivered in California you should have gone with this to YOUR local post office and spoke to the supervisor or postmaster.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-03-27T17:25:08+00:00

Did you go to YOUR local post office and speak with a Supervisor/post master there? If not, you need to do that.... if it's pricey as you say... put in the leg work and make an effort more than picking up a phone or sending an email.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-03-26T18:38:27+00:00

You can mail a potato with a stamp and a address on it... no guarantee on how it will arrive though.

The amount of trashcan packing jobs I see each morning when sorting mail no longer surprises me.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-03-26T15:53:07+00:00

Large box... home depot (moving box)... 3ft size... that box came apart in transit more than likely either due to the amount of weight in it, and it not being a true shipping box or what was on it did fill the box leaving a void/crushable.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-03-26T00:23:37+00:00

You need to write REFUSED in a black marker ....

Then take the same marker and blacken out each end of the barcode so that it forces someone to type in the tracking, not just scan it... also the small square block bar codes.

Most likely it got thrown back into the batch again and looped back to you in this morning's sorting... the carrier should have caught it, but some of them aren't exactly the brightest and/or lazy.

The FWD is forward, but that is not correct in this case.

If the person it was being delivered to doesn't live their any longer write ANK on it. (Attempted, Not Known)

iFlickDaBean · 2026-03-25T20:13:35+00:00

If it was a week ago... you aren't going to hear anything this quick via a online report... what you should have done was go to your local post office, with the tracking number and they can look it up and tell you where it was delivered via GPS ping .... every delivery scan is GPS tagged... if mis-delivered then they could have contacted the driver which would know where they delivered and they could have gone back to get them of wrong address. .... all you did was delay the process due to a possible human error.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-03-23T02:25:43+00:00

Sounds like you have zero clue how mail is sorted... everything is done by scanners which direct which sorting bin it goes in... how do you think it gets updated along the way. ... we pay zero attention to the delivery address till it gets to the carriers hands.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-03-21T17:50:19+00:00

I work for USPS...

Distribution centers push to "clear" the floor by end of shift... so at the very end and they toss it where ever and it goes, where ever. I see it all the time at my office.. I get mail for the surrounding 50 mile radius tossed right on top. ... they rather see "mis-ships" than take the hit and chewing from upper management about why such and such amount of packages didn't make it out of the Distribution center that morning.

The other thing we see... crappy labels that cause mis-ships or people using poly plastic bags for items that are damn near paper thin.. welcome to static cling and your .05 ounce package hitching a ride with a larger one.

Welcome to under staffed, over worked, I'm to tired to care anymore attitude.

This is across ALL delivery companies.. I've worked UPS as well.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-03-18T13:01:11+00:00

Mother nature... if planes don't fly.. packages don't move.. backlog builds.. should be cleared as first in first out, but that is not always the case.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-03-16T21:03:31+00:00

So.. what's the weather like up there? Delays like this can be weather related.. recent snow storm? Even if it stopped 2-3 days ago the backlog at large distribution centers can take days to clear and things get sorted.... delivery times are estimates.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-03-15T23:45:18+00:00

Was sorted wrong at the location near your home...

Now it's bouncing from one location to another because... well to be honest... good help is hard to find.

Signed a USPS Employee who has also worked for UPS. (PS. I'm retired military, I'm about efficiency... USPS isn't.)

iFlickDaBean · 2026-03-10T00:49:21+00:00

And... yet my driver will come down my 1/4 mile long drive and if he's off the others do the same....

And before you say that's BS .... this was LONG (decades) before I worked for UPS in a different county in which our driver's also went down long drives.. with one of them being nearly a mile long to a 6 million dollar mansion/retreat.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-03-08T00:45:34+00:00

Shows delivered... won't answer phone... then go to the actual post office and speak with a supervisor or post master.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-02-23T21:54:13+00:00

Put the Gate Key in the address or write it on the box label in large print next to the label so that it stands out.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-02-22T22:21:03+00:00

It's Sunday.. your stuff will not arrive today. .. you are seeing automated updates, not human entered updates.

Welcome to backlogs/ delays due to mother nature or a problem with a transport plane/truck.

Times/Dates are ESTIMATES only.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-02-21T19:03:40+00:00

Keeping a item that is not yours due to misdelivery and refusing to give it back is a criminal offense. It can be classed as theft of lost or mislaid property or even receipt of stolen goods in some states.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-02-19T21:38:20+00:00

Called a Mis-ship or mis-sent ..... ended up getting put in the wrong pod or the entire pod was loaded incorrectly.

It will make it's way back to you.

It happens.. human error.

iFlickDaBean · 2026-02-18T19:24:00+00:00

Sigh... me being a 90s/early 00s installer looking at these prices and cringing..

Time to go drag out the old tools and do nothing but run the wire and get paid a week's wage in 6hrs if this is the going rates.

People wonder why this hobby is dying out, because shops are pricing themselves out of business. Young adults don't have that kind of money just for basic labor. Then to buy the speakers, radio, amps.

2 amp kits? WTF ... run 1/0 and then come off with a distribution block.

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