It's that time of the year....

It's that time of the year....
Showing posts with label United States Postal Service. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United States Postal Service. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

An official rant day and…

the countdown till spring has reached 50 days.  We are almost through with the month of January,   I can’t say that I will be sad to see it end.  It has been nothing but snow and bitter cold here since the end of November.  I have done nothing but eat and sleep and eat and sleep and eat and sleep.  I have almost gained back all of the weight that I lost last summer during my cancer treatment.  I have only ventured outdoors to clean the snow off my car and run errands for the past 2 months.  I can just about count these times on one hand.  My usually sunny nature is somewhat tarnished and I am beginning to look at the postman with a jaundiced eye.

And….I am beginning to have this awful fear of putting anything important in the mail wondering if it will get to its destination.  I can certainly understand why the postal service is going broke.  It is very poorly managed.  A check on the status of my package shows that it is still in Hazelwood MO today, January 29,  still being processed.  You know Hazelwood MO is only 18.3 miles from where my brother and his wife live in O’Fallon IL.  I think I should call him and ask him if he will drive over to the sorting facility and bring the package to me.  It would only be a 360 mile round trip for him.  I am waiting with baited breath to see where my package ends up next.  Rae thinks the next stop will be Houston Texas but I was more inclined to  think that it is destined to be in the process of being processed through the Hazelwood MO sorting facility forever.

It has warmed up to 5 degrees here this morning.  I am planning a grocery run when it warms up a few more degrees.  That is if my car will start.  I haven’t started it since Sunday as it as been too cold to venture out.

Have a great day everyone.  Don’t forget to check in tomorrow for an update on my package.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Update on the countdown…

till Spring which stands at 51 days.  It is minus 4 actual temperature and the wind is only 8 miles an hour this morning so we are having a heat wave!
I copied the below information on my package from the USPS web site where you go to track a package. 

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in-transit

  • Expected Delivery Day: Friday, January 24, 2014
Product & Tracking Information
Postal Product:
  • Priority Mail 3-Day
Features:
    • $50 insurance included
    • USPS Tracking
Date & Time  January 28, 8:30 am

Status of Item  - unknown

Location – unknown

January 26, 2014

Depart USPS Sort Facility

HAZELWOOD, MO 63042 
 
January 25, 2014 , 1:45 pm

Processed through USPS Sort Facility

HAZELWOOD, MO 63042 

January 25, 2014 , 3:28 am

Processed at USPS Origin Sort Facility

DES MOINES, IA 50395 

January 21, 2014 , 4:48 pm

Dispatched to Sort Facility

CEREDO, WV 25507 

January 21, 2014 , 9:49 am

Acceptance

CEREDO, WV 25507 
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Have a peaceful day!  Stay safe and be happy!!
Beth
NOTE:  for my sister.  Print this  off and take it to show the post office in Ceredo.  I think maybe they need a good laugh!

Monday, January 27, 2014

I have figured out…

why the postal service is so broke!!  But before I tell you why I will just let you all know that there are only 52 more days till Spring.  It is bitter cold below zero and very windy.  Right now my garbage can is lying on top of my back porch where the wind blew it last night.

And now back to the miserable state that our postal service is in.  My sis in West Virginia and I send each other a package every few weeks.  I send her my new books that I have purchased and she sends me things that she knows will make me happy.  She fixed a large box of gifts for me for Christmas.  She mailed it Priority Mail on the 4th of December and I was to receive it on the 3rd day after mailing.  I received it almost 2 weeks later.  One of the items that was packaged in  heavy foam in a box and securely placed in the package to be mailed was broken to bits.  It had been a beautiful manger scene with a music box.  Several of the gifts had torn wrapping paper.  She is still waiting for a claim to be answered that she filed with the postal service.

But wait!! that is not all.  I had ordered some of the cook booklets like the one I had in my giveaway right before Christmas.  She mailed the package to me on Tuesday, January 21st and I was to receive it no later than January 24.  Needless to say I don’t have it yet.  The package started out at the post office in Ceredo WV on the 21st.  It arrived in Des Moines IA yesterday January 24th.  Des Moines is 271 miles from me.  Today it was shown to have arrived at Hazelwood MO which is 169 miles from me.  It makes no sense at all to me the way this package has been routed.  Will I ever get the package??  I hope so as I have promised a couple of those cook books to friends.  If they are reading this, I am trying.

Oh, I could go on and on about letters sent to me and received weeks later and how if I mail a letter or card to someone here in town the letter is sent to Champaign IL for sorting and processing.  Makes no sense to me that local mail has to travel an almost 200 mile round trip before it gets to its destination.

If I sound aggravated, well I am!!  I will not be sending anything priority mail from now on.  It doesn’t get to its destination any sooner than regular mail.  Do any of you have any postal horror stories?? 

That is my rant for today and it isn’t even Wednesday.

Do stay safe and be happy!!  Me, I’m gonna have a good day today!!

Beth