- Location
- Central Ohio, USA
- Name
- Andrew
/RANT ON
Here recently, service has been beyond horrible.
Boxes have been more damaged, items getting delivered to wrong addresses.
On the plus side, I’ve gotten to know some neighbors of mine better having delivered mail/packages to them the postman left at my house by mistake.
The worst though is the last 3 items I ordered. Coming from California, I had a lens that took 2 weeks to arrive. I have another package that was to arrive this past Monday, but has been sitting in CA postal hub for the last 5 days.
The absolute worst though...I shipped out a film camera to Retrospekt for refurbishing. They are in Wisconsin. I shipped it out to them on Dec9. It just arrived today. It sat at the Wisconsin hub for 2 weeks. It has arrived so late that I missed true window at Retrospekt to have it returned before Christmas. They are shut down for the holidays until January 7, 2021.
In comparison, I shipped with UPS to my mom last Friday, and she received the package the following Monday. I shipped a camera to Idaho Monday and they received it today.
And allow me to further rant about the costs.
USPS price for shipping a camera to California with $1000 insurance and they wanted me to pay $170.
Same package, same address, same insurance with UPS was $65.
I don’t know what in the name of <insert favorite higher power here> has happened to the USPS system, but it is broken as all hell and I’m going to be abandoning their services for the foreseeable future.
So if I plan on buying / selling / trading anything with anyone you’ll be getting it from me via UPS or FedEx and I’ll be demanding shipping to me via the same.
/RANT OVER
Here recently, service has been beyond horrible.
Boxes have been more damaged, items getting delivered to wrong addresses.
On the plus side, I’ve gotten to know some neighbors of mine better having delivered mail/packages to them the postman left at my house by mistake.
The worst though is the last 3 items I ordered. Coming from California, I had a lens that took 2 weeks to arrive. I have another package that was to arrive this past Monday, but has been sitting in CA postal hub for the last 5 days.
The absolute worst though...I shipped out a film camera to Retrospekt for refurbishing. They are in Wisconsin. I shipped it out to them on Dec9. It just arrived today. It sat at the Wisconsin hub for 2 weeks. It has arrived so late that I missed true window at Retrospekt to have it returned before Christmas. They are shut down for the holidays until January 7, 2021.
In comparison, I shipped with UPS to my mom last Friday, and she received the package the following Monday. I shipped a camera to Idaho Monday and they received it today.
And allow me to further rant about the costs.
USPS price for shipping a camera to California with $1000 insurance and they wanted me to pay $170.
Same package, same address, same insurance with UPS was $65.
I don’t know what in the name of <insert favorite higher power here> has happened to the USPS system, but it is broken as all hell and I’m going to be abandoning their services for the foreseeable future.
So if I plan on buying / selling / trading anything with anyone you’ll be getting it from me via UPS or FedEx and I’ll be demanding shipping to me via the same.
/RANT OVER