Is your mail lost or missing? Postal hub problem in Atlanta, GA - Elsewhere?

[Backseat Driver]

USPS is having difficulties at many hub facilities for some reason, perhaps a new citizen suppression?

FYI - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=USPS+in+Atlanta%2C+GA&atb=v314-1&ia=web&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fmoney%2Fcompanies%2Fsen-ossoff-georgia-reps-demand-answers-to-us-postal-service-delays-across-state-country%2Far-BB1kmpY8&pn=1

Senator Ossof indicates he wants an investigation.

Contact your local postoffice for many unexplained weird routes and tracking issues at various hubs. It's been explained to me recently that the digital tracking software is difficult to use. Mine recently scanned 1700 packages incorrectly, delaying delivery by days to weeks. I'm currently awaiting a package that spent nearly 5 days upon entering the USA without a posted USPS shipping partner/carrier tracking number in Chicago. It's now been sent to the hub in Atlanta??? apparently without a customer-known/shown tracking number for a delivery location in the burbs of Columbus, OH. The only one I have is the foreign tracking number into the US (Shop owner in China) on an Esty gift. I'm not happy being a new guinea pig test case for improved (?) service. I could drive to Chicago faster. In the past two weeks, it's the second package routed through Atlanta. At least that one came in through Miami, FL.(?} on its way north.

What's DeJoy up to now? Maybe it's time to contact Senator Sherrod Brown's office as well!

[Shrek]

1. Our local news has been covering this all week

https://www.kake.com/clip/15458576/mail-sorting-facility-backed-up

https://www.kake.com/story/50586529/its-the-worst-weve-ever-seen-usps-union-speaks-out-about-dire-wichita-mail-backlog

After studying the reports, she says now, management shuts the machine down for 10-12 hours a day on average.

"They're just holding [mail] for this new machine that they're not using. It's like, why aren't you letting them work it manually? If you're not going to use the machine, let them get it out," said Pruitt.

That's where she says things get even more strange.

Pruitt says even if the machine isn't running, the facility has workers on the clock 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and they're all trained and capable of processing the parcels by hand, which is what they did before getting the new machine in 2021.

"We've always still had manual operations. It's just part of the the nature of the beast, if you want to call it that. But they're not letting them do it," she said.

Pruitt says this leaves oceans of mail sitting stagnant, with nothing the factory full of frustrated workers can do about it.

[hlthe2b]

2. Wow, can I echo that. I have a Priority Mail Express package shipped from Atlanta to Colorado monthly

It is typically mailed early on the day on Thursday or Friday morning. Out of the past six packages, instead of receiving it within the "guaranteed 24 hours," it has ranged from 4-7 days. And only once was weather even a minor issue. I track closely and each time the package has remained just sitting in the Atlanta distribution center for 3-4 days before even being shipped. On no occasion has the delay been on the Denver-Colorado side.

What the hell gives? My sender gets full reimbursement each month for considerable expense , but that does squat for me. sigh...

[Rebl2]

6. We sent

something priority from KCMO to the state capital of Missouri and it took six days. We have some really lazy workers scrolling on their damn phones at the processing center in KCMO. They did this when my husband worked there. He would complain to the supervisor and he would say well I do it to so I don’t feel like I can tell the others to stop. 🤬🤬🤬🤬. Thank goodness he retired several years ago, because he had had it with that crap and all the magas he worked around. Oh by the way those magas he worked with were the first ones to run to the head union guy to complain about something, who was probably also maga.

[Blue_Adept]

3. Nope. Solid service here in New England

And I ship a ton of stuff media mail across the country. Stuff goes slower in the south but it always has unfortunately.

I can send a media mail package from Boston to SoCal and it arrives in four days consistently.

That's absolutely fantastic service.

[Rebl2]

4. I have an

interesting story about a piece of mail I was expecting. I ordered stamps from the postal service here in KCMO. The majority of stamps are kept here in KC. (I live in a suburb of KC). Those stamps left KCMO philatelic center and went to the processing center in KCMO then went to processing center in KCK then back to KCMO processing center (by the way I was able to track all of this) then back to KCK. This went on for several days and then it went to Denver 🤬. Then it came back to KCMO and then to KCK and back to KCMO. I ordered them on February 2 and finally received them around February 27 or 28. That is my story of ordering stamps from the post office. Never had this happen before when ordering stamps from PO.

[Chainfire]

5. I live 350 miles from Atlanta. I can send a package to Ancorage, (4,500 miles) and one to Atlanta on the same day

and many times the Ancorage package will get there first. The Postal service works in mysterious ways.

[ecstatic]

7. Yeah it's a huge story here. Seemed to coincide with the GOP primaries

They're prepping for the fall, I guess. Mission accomplished. I will not vote by mail. SMH.

[SilverDawg]

8. Yes there are problems.

I have mail not getting delivered to my box even though USPS “Informed Delivery” has a photo of items coming in. Also mail from somewhere within the state taking WEEKS to arrive, when it should be within days. Basically, the service in Atlanta is not trustworthy; and I enthusiastically support Senator Issoff pursuing an overdue investigation!

[EverHopeful]

9. My favorite was when my SIL sent something from WA to OH

And we watched the tracking as it traveled between FL and PR for weeks.

I now send rent certified because a check went missing, I spent $35 to cancel it, sent a replacement and that went missing too.

I mentioned to the postal clerk that I was sending certified because of all the things that have gotten lost and she said "Yeah, that's been happening a lot lately."

When mail has gotten lost or delayed, I
say it has been "dejoyed."