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Texas_Blaze wrote:USPS quality has decreased substantially. The North Houston sort facility is a black hole. I've had packages reside in the facility for weeks. I have decided that I will avoid USPS as much as I can. I will pay more to use UPS.

It's funny that when I order on Amazon Prime and packages are sent via USPS there seems to be no issues. They must have some contract with them to take priority over other packages. Heck, I received packages on Sunday from USPS when using Prime.

You reminded me that the North Houston Station is terrible. I got two hickeys from Ebay and a case from a buyer because items I shipped sat there for days and the delivery time wasn't met. Same thing on items I'd purchased sitting there. I complained to the USPS which went nowhere and thankfully the buyer retracted his case against me after the item arrived and apologized for some nasty emails. The thing that irks me is EBay's shipping function knows the postage was paid with assigned tracking numbers and they can see what's going on but they don't consider that when the system is alerted the itme didn't arrive by the date automatically set up when you purchase shipping by USPS through the Ebay system.

LabRat wrote:Apparently when time doesn't matter - any time will do.

Their stated purpose is to deliver the mail. But "when" it gets delivered is another horse altogether.
So, just fudge the time and do what you want. Sorry to rant, but the USPS is not my favorite organization.

My wife and I bowled with a couple that worked for the USPS. Most of their efforts were on how to get out of work like their co-workers were doing and still get their full pay. It was sickening to say the least.

Edit to add: Hope the scope is good for you and it arrived in good shape.

LabRat

I went to a postal workers union meeting in New Braunfels in the early 1980's as a guest of the husband of a friend of my wife. ( He didn't realize I was in management at a union refinery ) It was an interesting experience... There were a lot of workers there who were on disability which I though was odd for such a small town. I've always had excellent service from my regular carriers and was sorry to see my last one retire, but he was replaced by lady who does a great job. She's been a carrier for many years. The guy today was not even in a uniform.
The scope was in good shape and I now have to decide on which rifle to install it.

curryman wrote:I've been told by my postal carrier that sometimes they scan it as delivered at the post office before they leave. The hand scanner has a huge time delay that they don't want to wait on.

There's a time stamp for "out for delivery" at just after 9am. My regular carrier who delivers most of the time rings my door bell when she delivers a package and the time stamp is right on.

I ordered a Redfield scope and Wheeler Ring Alignment tool from MidWay USA a while back. I posted about the scope in the vendor deal section.
viewtopic.php?f=118&p=1007914#p1007914
I checked the order status @ 3:15PM and the USPS link said it was delivered to my front porch at 12:19PM today. I walked down the block looking at porches and found nothing. On my way back I see a USPS truck in front of my house pulling away. I flagged the driver and asked if he'd made a delivery to which he replied yes. I said I was looking for a package that supposedly was delivered at 12:19PM. I got a shrug! It was 3:30 PM and as it turns out it was the scope. Of course my neighborhood could be in a time warp!