Postal workers sick due to ciovid-19, huge increase in online ordering. Both have place extreme pressure on postal service. Same ting in Canada is occurring.
My smaller last stop Post Office before it gets to me is a mess. While i'm at the counter I can peak a little at the back and see big screen TV's, boxes the size of small fridges and micro waves, etc.. Ebay sellers carting in 2, 3, 4 loads each and leaving them near the side door. Outright chaos going on back there. I had a package stuck for 8 days in a distribution center in the same state as me and I also got the "it's moving in the system" updates in tracking. Today I get a 'out for delivery" message on a package that came to them just this morning, while others are that they got over the long weekend haven't shown movement.. The postal carrier will definitely get a bigger Christmas gift this time.
Seems its a worldwide problem thanks to the chinavirus. In the past when I have made purchases in America i have the goods in my hands here in Gisborne, New Zealand in five to seven days. Recently got a timing cover and i started tracking it not long after the "scheduled delivery date " of May 1st. Finally arrived May 20th . Given what's happening in the world today I'm grateful it showed up at all, what made it sweeter is NZ customs mafia didn't clip my ticket.
Fedex-6.2 million packages a day, UPS-15.8 million a day, USPS 20.5 million packages a day plus 181.9 million 1st class mail. I don't know what the exact percentage is, but I would guess that 20% to 30% of the Fedex and UPS packages are delivered by USPS. You drop off your package at Fedex or UPS, and if it's under 70 lbs, there is a good chance that they ship it to USPS for delivery. So if you are charged $30 to ship a package at UPS, they ship it to the Post Office who charges UPS $8 to $10. Yes, I work for USPS as a mechanic, not delivery. When I go to the plant and see hundreds of thousands of packages and letters, it amazes me that anything makes it to the correct location at all. At any given time, there are 20-70 semi's being loaded or unloaded, many that are Fedex or UPS. Cleveland is considered a small plant compared to New York or Chicago. I can't even imagine what goes on there.
