Has anyone on this board noticed a recent slowdown in the USPS mail delivery? I have noticed this in several instances.
Netflix always sends me an email giving the date that the next CD will arrive. Up to about thee weeks ago this was always precisely accurate. But the last few deliveries are now one day latter than Netflix’s information.
I have also noticed that a letter from a Seattle postmark to my address in Bellevue (a distance of about 20 miles) used to always be delivered the next day. Now it has suddenly started taking two days.
In an attempt to wrangle some extra revenue, the Overlords of SDMB have sub-contracted their hamsters out to USPS – yet without relieving them of any of their existing SDMB duties.
No. My post local office has **always **sucked even more than you’re describing. For example: when we did Netflix via mail the turnover rate was 8 days if we used our post office both ways, or 4 if we dropped the disk off in a box out of town. The thought of a letter getting anywhere the next day from out post office is hysterical - we theorize they hold onto outgoing mail for several days for the hell of it, or maybe until they have “enough” to bother sending it on to a bigger post office within state.
My Netflix now takes a day longer than the email notification says, but they are now shipping from a different place. I don’t think the USPS is at fault in my case. Is the return address on your unopened Netflix the same?
My Netflix comes on the day in the email, which usually states the day after they send it out. There’s a Houston distribution center, so it’s usually fast unless a disc has to be shipped from elsewhere.
No observed slowdown in mail service. It’s faster than what we had when I was growing up in the sticks.
My NetFlix service is still pretty much on track. I even got two items faster than NetFlix predicted just this February.
As for other things… in the same month as the NetFlix things were ahead of time, a Priority Mail shipment took 8 days total when they’re supposed to be 3-5.
So it’s pretty much par for the course. Some good, some bad.
The USPS handles Amazon Prime around here and does damn well at it. I am noticing places where its hard to get a letter to for some reason. Pittsburgh to Fayetevill NC - 2 or 3 days. Pittsburgh to Oklahoma City OK - 10 days.
My Netflix discs have slowed down considerably. I used to be able to get 2 in a week if I watched and returned the same day, now I am lucky to get one every 8-10 days. At one point in late February I reported on Friday that a disc scheduled for Tuesday had not arrived. They sent a replacement. Both discs arrived the following Wednesday.
This is about the only non-junk mail I receive so I don’t know to blame the post office or Netflix.
I write my parents once a week, and always mail the letter from the same mailbox at the same time on the same day. My letters always used to arrive on Wednesday. Now they come on Friday, or sometimes Thursday or Saturday.
To paraphrase a comedian I once heard, “Somebody you don’t know will delivery your message to somebody on the other side of the country for less than 50 cents. You couldn’t get the little kid next door to lick the stamp for 50 cents.” Dancing bears & waltzing and all that.
Rumor has it that there may be some problems with postal delivery due to competition from other vendors, attempts to tighten security following the security breach last fall, and, as mentioned above, the weather.
One of these days, we’re going to get video of the local lazy letter lugger’s lackadaisical approach to her job. That should get the USPS on her ass for goofing off in the van and tossing packages up the stairwells, when she even bothers to send packages up a stairwell rather than simply leaving them at a mailbox where anyone can pick 'em up. Letting addressees know they even have a package? Nope, can’t be bothered.
