Terrifying mail service.

[alwaysaangel]

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So I got an envelope from Loyola on saturday (I was out of town so I got to it this morning). I was planning on withdrawing presecondary anyway but I open it up anyway, and read the request for secondary.

Then I look at the due date - 9/5/06...uh am I supposed to go back in time and fill this out?

So I pull the envelope out of the trash and lo and behold the postage stamp reads 8/4/06. It took USPS 2 months and 12 days to get a teeny tiny letter to me.

Can you imagine waiting that long for an acceptance?!?!

 

[UCLAkersfan]

So I got an envelope from Loyola on saturday (I was out of town so I got to it this morning). I was planning on withdrawing presecondary anyway but I open it up anyway, and read the request for secondary.

Then I look at the due date - 9/5/06...uh am I supposed to go back in time and fill this out?

So I pull the envelope out of the trash and lo and behold the postage stamp reads 8/4/06. It took USPS 2 months and 12 days to get a teeny tiny letter to me.

Can you imagine waiting that long for an acceptance?!?!

OMG! OMG! ur now scaring all of us. better if we don't hear this. 🙄

 

[deleted106503]

Play it safe and go back in time to fill it out.

 

[alwaysaangel]

OMG! OMG! ur now scaring all of us. better if we don't hear this. 🙄

Sorry - I just think thats pretty ridiculous. I have no idea how it could take that long. Hell, someone could have walked it from Chicago to my house in that amount of time.

 

[somemaybedoc]

I wish schools would save themselves some $ and do us a favor and email the things or put it up on a status page.

 

[foofish]

Oh, wow. Well, to pass some of that blame around, it could have been the school, too....postmarking it with a mail meter and then forgetting to actually send it. My money is still on the USPS.

My own scary postal moment, but not nearly as scary as the OP's: I'm back home for my lag year, where my parents have lived for ~28 years. For the very first time in 28 years (or so my mom claims), on Friday and Saturday we got our mail mixed with someone else's mail, or no mail at all...not even the local town paper we were supposed to get....just in time for October 15th. Yeaarrgggg!

 

[Avalanche21]

OMG! OMG! ur now scaring all of us. better if we don't hear this. 🙄

Hey I think it would suck if it happened to me, no need to talk smack

 

[Orthonut]

Dude, it doesn't even take that long for mail to get to my house in the US from GRENADA lol. and I'm pretty sure that goes on a boat

 

[C.P. Jones]

i'm sure they'll understand if you call them, but that is pretty messed up

 

[searun]

So I got an envelope from Loyola on saturday (I was out of town so I got to it this morning). I was planning on withdrawing presecondary anyway but I open it up anyway, and read the request for secondary.

Then I look at the due date - 9/5/06...uh am I supposed to go back in time and fill this out?

So I pull the envelope out of the trash and lo and behold the postage stamp reads 8/4/06. It took USPS 2 months and 12 days to get a teeny tiny letter to me.

Can you imagine waiting that long for an acceptance?!?!

Service. I mailed 7 secondaries with checks via the United States Post Office. I sent them Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation. Three out of the seven never arrived - they just vanished. I went to my local post office and commented that losing 3 out of 7 is pathetic service, especially since I paid extra for tracking. The person at the Post Office just shrugged and said, well, alot of the mail carriers just don't really care. As I left, I commented that I will be a customer of Fed Ex for the rest of my life and if something is really important, I will never entrust it to the United States Post Office. Please, never mention a health care system administered by the government to me. These guys are a joke. They barely get it right 50 percent of the time when you are paying 10 times the amount of normal postage. Pathetic.

Searun

 

[leahmaria]

Service. I mailed 7 secondaries with checks via the United States Post Office. I sent them Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation. Three out of the seven never arrived - they just vanished. I went to my local post office and commented that losing 3 out of 7 is pathetic service, especially since I paid extra for tracking. The person at the Post Office just shrugged and said, well, alot of the mail carriers just don't really care. As I left, I commented that I will be a customer of Fed Ex for the rest of my life and if something is really important, I will never entrust it to the United States Post Office. Please, never mention a health care system administered by the government to me. These guys are a joke. They barely get it right 50 percent of the time when you are paying 10 times the amount of normal postage. Pathetic.

Searun

wow, that is rediculous. you'd think that with tracking, you'd be able to find out where they vanished to? And maybe see if some action can be taking by those people who "just don't really care". Mail is important stuff....

 

[PerpetualBurn]

As I left, I commented that I will be a customer of Fed Ex for the rest of my life and if something is really important, I will never entrust it to the United States Post Office.
Searun

Don't use Fed Ex. They have a business alliance with the USPS. Go UPS.

 

[alwaysaangel]

Service. I mailed 7 secondaries with checks via the United States Post Office. I sent them Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation. Three out of the seven never arrived - they just vanished. I went to my local post office and commented that losing 3 out of 7 is pathetic service, especially since I paid extra for tracking. The person at the Post Office just shrugged and said, well, alot of the mail carriers just don't really care. As I left, I commented that I will be a customer of Fed Ex for the rest of my life and if something is really important, I will never entrust it to the United States Post Office. Please, never mention a health care system administered by the government to me. These guys are a joke. They barely get it right 50 percent of the time when you are paying 10 times the amount of normal postage. Pathetic.

Searun

Wow that really sucks. I lucked out with my outgoing secondaries - all normal mail.

But yeah definitely go with FedEx. I have to disagree with the guy who said UPS - they don't stand behind their insurance. My mother insured some of my grandmothers china and had the UPS guy pack it for her. They shattered it to bits - looked like someone ran the box over. And then refused to pay the insurance on the basis of "she didn't pack it properly."

I work in an office that does radioactive and other sensitive shipping and they always use FedEx or DHL - NEVER UPS because its just not reliable.

 

[Blue Planet]

You should try to get a refund from the USPS for your lost Priority Mail. I sent some forms last year for an internship via certified mail, and the USPS lost them. I demanded a refund, and they gave them to me.

As for the FedEx vs. UPS, I always go for FedEx. I think FedEx is slightly cheaper than UPS, anyway. Also, they never cease to amaze me with their speed. I send an envelope under 2-Day Express, and it gets there the next morning.

 

[yahoo123]

Don't use Fed Ex. They have a business alliance with the USPS. Go UPS.

I agree UPS ahs always worked for me, and Fed Ex ended up dropping the ball on a secondary of mine taking much longer than they said it would have.

 

[Orthonut]

Wow that really sucks. I lucked out with my outgoing secondaries - all normal mail.

But yeah definitely go with FedEx. I have to disagree with the guy who said UPS - they don't stand behind their insurance. My mother insured some of my grandmothers china and had the UPS guy pack it for her. They shattered it to bits - looked like someone ran the box over. And then refused to pay the insurance on the basis of "she didn't pack it properly."

I work in an office that does radioactive and other sensitive shipping and they always use FedEx or DHL - NEVER UPS because its just not reliable.

Yeah, I'd have to say, as someone that ships "man in a can" regularly, go with FedEx, never UPS. UPS left 15,000 worth of frozen semen behind in texas...and said it was because of all the snow in Waco in JULY Yeah. Um, no, I don't think so. Then, on the re-shipment (had to short cycle the mares) they ruined the batch-because they ran over the dry-shipper (the can) with a truck-and even though we paid the insurance for the 15,000 worth of "man" they only would reimburse us $450 because "that's all the container costs"

***eerrrrghhhhghhghg***

We eventually got the mares bred but crap, embryo transfer doesn't just happen by magic, you like need an EMBRYO first.

I've never had so many important things lost as UPS (except when shipping USPS) applications to school, equitainers, dry shippers, gifts, documents, birthday cards, letters, bills, etc etc etc

Fed Ex has been the most reliable of the three. DHL-sent my package to the wrong country.

 

[deleted106503]

Yeah, I'd have to say, as someone that ships "man in a can" regularly, go with FedEx, never UPS. UPS left 15,000 worth of frozen semen behind in texas...and said it was because of all the snow in Waco in JULY Yeah. Um, no, I don't think so. Then, on the re-shipment (had to short cycle the mares) they ruined the batch-because they ran over the dry-shipper (the can) with a truck-and even though we paid the insurance for the 15,000 worth of "man" they only would reimburse us $450 because "that's all the container costs"

***eerrrrghhhhghhghg***

We eventually got the mares bred but crap, embryo transfer doesn't just happen by magic, you like need an EMBRYO first.

I've never had so many important things lost as UPS (except when shipping USPS) applications to school, equitainers, dry shippers, gifts, documents, birthday cards, letters, bills, etc etc etc

Fed Ex has been the most reliable of the three. DHL-sent my package to the wrong country.

Did you guys take it to court? 😱 We had a similar case study in my law class last year, seriously!