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Perhaps the USPS is less efficient than it used to be, but we can't ignore the pandemic's effect; it's not limited to just USPS. Both Fedex and UPS suspended th

Perhaps the USPS is less efficient than it used to be, but we can't ignore the pandemic's effect; it's not limited to just USPS. Both Fedex and UPS suspended their on-time guarantees last March, and only a few weeks ago did they restore any of them, and that's only for a small subset of their services (guarantee still suspended for ground deliveries)

mbostleman 6y ago
In addition is seems as if UPS has dropped the detail records they expose on the tracking. So now in their tracking UI there is just the origin and estimated date of delivery - nothing in between. I've been curious as to why they did that.
- bdcravens 6y ago
  It's still available, but only to the account owner. You have to log in first.
Cthulhu_ 6y ago
I don't know if you heard, but under Trump's regime they removed sorting machines in an attempt to undermine the USPS and mail-in voting last year.
- bdcravens 6y ago
  No, I'm well aware of that, and have plenty of strong opinions about that. However, I don't think that's the only issue, so I tried to avoid going there.
- jonfw 6y ago
  Maybe they removed sorting machines because they don't help with parcels, which are an increasingly large majority of USPS's work.
  - hedora 6y ago
    No. It was definitely an act of deliberate sabotage. It’s well-documented.
    - jonfw 6y ago
      The USPS is seeing fewer letters and more parcels. Letter sorting machines are not helpful to deliver parcels. Therefore, the USPS should replace some percentage of letter sorting machines with infrastructure suitable for sorting parcels.
    - makomk 6y ago
      The American media certainly spun it as an act of deliberate sabotage, but that has nothing to do with whether it actually was - they spun almost everything done by the Trump administration as one regardless of the actual evidence (plus a few things which had nothing to do with Trump, his administration, or even in some cases the federal government at all, if they could convince people otherwise). In this case, it would 100% have been a non-story if it happened under any other president - the USPS were just reducing their letter sorting capacity because they've seen a massive, long-running reduction in letter volume, and I believe they'd been doing this under the previous administration too. Hell, if it wasn't in aid of the side the mainstream press supported, there'd probably be endless headlines about how these claims were endangering democracy by undermining trust in the election. (Especially the really ludicrous claims, like taking a pile of postboxes outside a company with a long-running contract to refurbish them and claiming it was part of an attempt to sabotage the election by stopping people voting by post...) Remember all the headlines after Trump lost?

mbostleman 6y ago

In addition is seems as if UPS has dropped the detail records they expose on the tracking. So now in their tracking UI there is just the origin and estimated date of delivery - nothing in between. I've been curious as to why they did that.

bdcravens 6y ago
It's still available, but only to the account owner. You have to log in first.

Cthulhu_ 6y ago

I don't know if you heard, but under Trump's regime they removed sorting machines in an attempt to undermine the USPS and mail-in voting last year.

bdcravens 6y ago
No, I'm well aware of that, and have plenty of strong opinions about that. However, I don't think that's the only issue, so I tried to avoid going there.
jonfw 6y ago
Maybe they removed sorting machines because they don't help with parcels, which are an increasingly large majority of USPS's work.
- hedora 6y ago
  No. It was definitely an act of deliberate sabotage. It’s well-documented.
  - jonfw 6y ago
    The USPS is seeing fewer letters and more parcels. Letter sorting machines are not helpful to deliver parcels. Therefore, the USPS should replace some percentage of letter sorting machines with infrastructure suitable for sorting parcels.
  - makomk 6y ago
    The American media certainly spun it as an act of deliberate sabotage, but that has nothing to do with whether it actually was - they spun almost everything done by the Trump administration as one regardless of the actual evidence (plus a few things which had nothing to do with Trump, his administration, or even in some cases the federal government at all, if they could convince people otherwise). In this case, it would 100% have been a non-story if it happened under any other president - the USPS were just reducing their letter sorting capacity because they've seen a massive, long-running reduction in letter volume, and I believe they'd been doing this under the previous administration too. Hell, if it wasn't in aid of the side the mainstream press supported, there'd probably be endless headlines about how these claims were endangering democracy by undermining trust in the election. (Especially the really ludicrous claims, like taking a pile of postboxes outside a company with a long-running contract to refurbish them and claiming it was part of an attempt to sabotage the election by stopping people voting by post...) Remember all the headlines after Trump lost?