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United States Postal Service (USPS) delivers mail and provides shipping services throughout the U.S. Its services include first-class mail, priority mail and package delivery. Started in 1775, USPS provides across-the-board postal services, including domestic and international shipping, with a mandate to serve all U.S. residents.

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    Reviewed June 4, 2014

    I have bought several packages from eBay and not received them. The packages show delivered but I've never received them. I'm not sure what's going on. My postal office never contacts me back. However I just learned that other tenants are having the same problem. Beware.

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    Reviewed June 4, 2014

    I paid $5.60 for a Priority Mail that was accepted at Williamsport, MD 21795 on May 28 at 12:51 p.m. with an expected delivery date of May 30, 2014. Processed at USPS Sort Facility in Baltimore, MD 21233 on May 28 at 11:06 p.m. Depart Sort Facility on May 30 at 3:42 a.m. Processed at USPS Sort Facility in Federal Way, WA 98003 on May 30 at 7:31 p.m. Processed at USPS Sort Facility on May 31 at 1:13 a.m. Depart USPS Sort Facility on May 31 at 1:51 a.m. Arrived at Post Office in Seattle, WA 98134 at 6:33 a.m. Sorting complete on June 2 at 7:34 in Seattle, WA 98134. Out for delivery on June 2 at 7:44 a.m. Delivered June 3 at 2:23 p.m. The estimated delivery date was May 30 but it was delayed and not delivered until the afternoon of June 3, 2014.

    I spent 3 to 4 hours on June 2 trying to find out why it had not been delivered but most phone numbers that I was provided were never answered and when I did get a live person on the telephone no one could give me an answer. The telephone number for the delivering Post Office I called in an attempt to speak with the Carrier Supervisor or the Post Master was never answered! No wonder that the Postal Service is such a mess! No one is available to help answer a customer's call and complaints! My suggest is to put the operation in the hands of private enterprise. The example of UPS and FedEx demonstrate that government employees are not efficient and government unions corrupt the efficient operational capacity of the USPS. I recommend that the congressional oversight committees stop funding such an inefficient and corrupt system.

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    Reviewed June 4, 2014

    I ordered a very expensive sports jersey for my husband in May. I was sent a tracking number by the company for the USPS. I tracked the package all the way up to what it said was delivered on May 27th at 3:49pm. I went home and there was no package to be found anywhere. After visiting my local branch 3 times, I was told the same thing each visit, give us your name and we will call you back. I also spoke with a supervisor as well. They also told me to call them if I never received a call, of which I did to no avail. The line was always busy. I also called the main customer service line where I was put on hold for almost 30 minutes. They simply do not care. All I want to know is where my package is at. Very simple.

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    Reviewed June 4, 2014

    Consequence, lost $170.00!!! May 9th, 2014, I sent a Certified with Return Receipt and Signature to a Sharon **; on the 15th she refused it. I called Apple Creek, OH and talked with a gentleman; he just threw it in some sort basket that I was told, later, would take two to three weeks for it to be returned. When two weeks rolled around, I called again. It was found by a lady by the name of Mary; she said she would scan it back to me. She did this. It got to Aurora, CO on its way here and they sent it back to Apple Creek! Then when I found this out, I called our own facility assistance post mistress. She said she would have it sent under cover to herself and I could pick it up then I just found out and I knew something was wrong for it was held in Denver for three days, almost four days! It is now on its way back to Apple Creek!!!!! I will never, never use USPS again, I will pay the extra for good service from FedEx.

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    Reviewed June 3, 2014

    It's a shame that there still exist companies in US that have such bad customer service. I had a package coming in from Ukraine. Using the tracking number it said that it departed from my local post office. It's been 20 days and I still have no package. I called USPS, which by the way took 10 calls to get a hold of, and they put an investigation on it. They told me they would call me back in 4 days. It's been 2 weeks and no one has called me. During all that I also made calls to my local post office and they said they would contact post office sort facility and give me a call back. Again it’s been 2 weeks and no one has called.

    I also called the supervisor for my zip code like 30 times until she finally decided to pick up the phone. Again she said she would call me back the same day. You guessed it, she didn't call me back. Now I have been trying to call her back for the past 4 days 20 times a day and no one picks up. Finally on the fifth day she picked up and decided to transfer me to the same damn number and now she didn't pick up. I am getting so mad at this point, but I will not give up with them. There is a birthday present in that package that has been sent from my grandparents to my sister.

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    Reviewed June 2, 2014

    I contacted sups regarding my lost mail just like other person here. My bday cards were lost, 2 separate cards from older folk who tend to send money. Unfortunately both cards never got to me and also $300 so I wonder who is enjoying my cards. I still have no answer in regards from anybody. This is truly ridiculous. No wonder post office is going out of business when they steal from their customers. Bunch of thieves working there. It's like 3rd world country mail not like USA post mail should be. I'm truly pissed off. This is a joke. POST office is a joke stealing from its customers. My claim # ** still not resolved, no answers!!

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    Reviewed May 31, 2014

    DO NOT PURCHASE USPS INSURANCE. I purchased $179 of insurance on a $700 Lladro figurine that I was shipping to a buyer. I sold the item cheap so I only asked for the cost that I was paid for the item in insurance. USPS destroyed the item as it arrived in several pieces. Instead of receiving a check from USPS for the total insured amount ($179) the USPS decided that they only wanted to pay me $50 for the item they broke. First, they overcharge for insurance and then they don't even pay you what you insure your packages for. I will never ship with insurance through USPS again! BEWARE.

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    Reviewed May 31, 2014

    USPS did not pay the $50 Insurance on a lost Priority Mailing. It's very simple really, and I have mailed two submission to be paid the $50 for a lost mailing. One is include below.

    My item tracking number ** was mailed on 12/30/2013 via Priority Mail with a scheduled delivery day of 01/02/14. It never made it to its destination which is self evident by the tracking history. I have, over the course of the weeks after it did not arrive on the appointed day, been in touch with both customer service and Consumer Affairs. Neither of these well trained and competent departments I am sure could tell me anything other than they were looking for it. My final conversation with them was that it was not to be found and I should file a claim indeed. My final phone call to Consumer Affairs left me wondering if I was the object of some cosmic joke and had reached the set of Mork and Mindy. I have completed the form provided and must confess that like most official forms, it does not appear to have been designed for the feeble of mind like myself.

    To put it plainly, I paid you in good faith expecting with the centuries of experience and commitment to service and the mail getting thru, that this item would be delivered in a timely fashion, it was not and still has not been. Hence, I am asking for the $50 insurance that was included with my purchase of 2nd day Priority mail. This item was very important to me and was to answer a question that I have had all my life. And thanks to you that was not to be. Indeed I had to initiate another transaction that cost me further hard earned dollars and I can assure you the $50 I am owed by the U.S.P.S. does not begin to cover my out of pocket expenses.

    The second letter is similar, to say I am disgusted would be a fair assumption. I realize that in the span of history or the events in the world today, $50 seems a almost laughable amount. I am not saying I can afford to just say goodbye to the owed amount, but in reality it is more that I have an expectation from a Government entity such as the U.S.P.S. to honor their agreement and they have not. I realize I might be spitting in the wind, but I am fed up trying to get any response or satisfaction regarding my complaint.

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    Reviewed May 31, 2014

    This is a notification of pending complaint. I filed a change of address from Evington, Va to Lynchburg, Va and yet the office above is still sending official USPS stuff to me-"or current resident" to my old address, in re my change of address. What are they thinking? I DON'T LIVE THERE! And they add "current resident" along with my name. I MOVED!!! That is why I sent the CHANGE OF ADDRESS!

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    Reviewed May 31, 2014

    I send a cell phone and a black cover to my sister in Hartford, Massachusetts and she received the package partially open and the phone cover was missing. I will never use this service again and they aren't cheap.

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    Reviewed May 30, 2014

    I sent two brand new iphone 5s to my friend in Battambang Cambodia. They were insured and never got to the destination. I contacted the number for international claims and could never get through to a representative no matter how long I waited - once it was over 2 hours I was on hold. So I wrote to them this email and still no response:

    PLEASE HELP! This is my information. I sent 2 brand new I phone 5S to my friend in Batttambang, Cambodia value $1300+ and they were sent on November 4th 2013 from Chesterfield Post Office MO (zip code 63017-9997) Information on package: Label **. Customs form #**, Bill #** Clerk #**. I have tried at least 11 times to call your helpline regarding lost mail. I have wasted almost total of 16 hours waiting on the phone but can never get through. I am NOT able to get to talk to a representative, so this is my LAST chance of getting through to you.

    I even went back to the post office where I shipped them and they were most uncooperative. I think the USPS sucks with the typical "workers union" attitude, they all deserve to lose the business they have. Go with UPS, FedEx or DHL but I don't ever trust the USPS ever again. They really do not give a ** about your business.

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    Price

    Reviewed May 29, 2014

    I went to the Daytona beach fl post office. The package was leaving from Daytona beach fl to Miami Beach Florida. U S postal tried to charge me $25.00 overnight when it's a 4 hr drive in the same state. I went to Fedex. Fedex does next day in Florida and it cost me $12.25 thru Fedex. Us postal is a ripoff.

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    Reviewed May 29, 2014

    The most recent reoccurring issue has been mail not being forwarded despite my having paid for that service. My insurance company emailed me yesterday to say my statement had been returned and the post office had told them I don't live there! Interesting as my property taxes were forwarded as was my property insurance renewal statement. The randomness with which these problems occur leads me to believe it's only a few bad apples not the entire postal staff.

    I have had mail go missing without explanation especially credit card bills. I once had a box left on the porch which had the postal label sliced though completely and retaped. When I asked at the post office who had opened my package prior to delivery I got a blank look and the man told me he couldn't help me. I've had numerous issues with this post office arbitrarily deciding what mail will be delivered and what will just "disappear."

    Prior to stumbling onto this website I thought these problems were unique to me. I don't understand why there hasn't been a class action suit initiated or one of the news stations that cover exposes investigate this. Minimizing your use of the mail system only rewards these postal staff for bad behavior. They would be paid the same amount and have the same inviolate job security if they only delivered one letter a day! The inmates have been running the asylum for way too long and accountability is long overdue. The ironic thing is WE the taxpayers pay their inflated salaries.

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    Reviewed May 29, 2014

    I sent an EPIRB to have the battery replaced, insured the package, and the USPS lost the package. Then they told me $25.00 refund was based on the useful service life. Useful life is more than 10 years. I appealed and was still denied.

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    Reviewed May 27, 2014

    My mother-in-law mailed me a package my kids needed for their graduation. She mailed it express no signature needed. The evening of the 24th when I got home no package. I had a PS form 3849 (pink slip).The slip stated I could call in and have it redelivered or pick it up. I went on the 27th, past the date I needed it by to retrieve my mail. I was told I had to sign for it or I could not get it. I stated I would not sign for it, I should not even be at the post office to pick it up, it should had been left in my mail box. Why do I have to sign for it if no signature is required.

    I was told I had to sign or I was not getting my mail. If I held someone's mail I would be in trouble with the government. They are holding my mail for no reason. I want my package and I am not signing for it. Who would have signed for it at my house if the carrier followed instructions and knew how to deliver mail? This is why there are so many offices closing down. Crappy customer service!

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    Reviewed May 27, 2014

    I had a large letter sent to me at my Thailand address by USPS and could only track it to the Los Angeles deport and from there, there is no further tracking by USPS. The letter had a customs number on it so I feel tracking should have continued to customs in Thailand so that I know it got to Thailand and that I could track it. This is the 4th large letter that has been lost that was sent to me at this address.

    There has to be a way to track at least to receiving country deport mail.

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    Reviewed May 25, 2014

    USPS STEALS ANOTHER ONE - No one can tell me why it's going in circles or why it is now going in the opposite direction of where it's suppose to be going. No one answers my emails. I honestly believe that the package is stolen or lost and they are just playing games with me about where its at. The worst part of this all is that I filed a claim with consumer affairs on a lost package a month ago, and my claim was denied because I had no proof I had mailed it even though there was tracking but to a different location. I guess I needed pictures of me actually dropping it off at the post office and handing it to the clerk. It's robbery at its best - doesn't matter who we are - they take what they want and there's not a damn thing we can do about it. I'm going to print all of the complaints on this site and send them to President Obama so maybe he can get someone to do something about these government workers whose salary WE pay.

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    Christina increased rating by 1 star.
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    After a positive interaction with USPS, Christina increased their star rating on Aug. 11, 2014.

    Updated review: Aug. 11, 2014

    It took over 100 days for the post office to send me a $39 check. Anyone else with that sort of customer service ethic would have been out of business long before that 100 days. I still haven't mailed a single electronic item with them since the last three incidences; and I don't plan on it!
    The post office = great for letters, terrible with the more fragile items!

    Still dissatisfied overall, but it is what it is.

    Original Review: May 25, 2014

    I absolutely can't believe how much the post office has cost me this year. I have been an active eBayer for 10 years now but have been forced to quit due to the post office continuously breaking all my items. I am struggling to make rent now because of the crap the post office is pulling. Let me just say, this is a hard lesson learned, but I'll NEVER use the post office again to ship ANY package at all. "FRAGILE" doesn't mean throw with both hands you morons! In the past few months I have had 5 claims with the post office. I am STILL waiting to hear back from an appeal made on 3/19/14 to get the rest of the money due to the customer. It sucks, because the priority mail boxes I shipped out (to get them there faster and to have them spend less time in the system) were actually ROUNDED off on all corners when they arrived. It’s completely disgusting how the lack of accountability costs me money.

    Case in point: I ship an 89 dollar car CD changer. It goes flat rate for about 17 bucks. The buyer gets it; it’s rounded off and completely smashed to bits. Then I have to pay the buyer to ship it back to me to take photos and make the claim. BAM, that costs me 17 bucks to get it back. THEN, since my own ** thought it would actually make it, I trusted the $50 free insurance that came with it and didn't take out any more. SO, After I eat the cost of the 17 to get it back to me to deal with the morons at the PO, I then must refund the difference of the 50 (since it was $89 total, I am eating the original 17- the 39, PLUS another 17 to refund the seller their original shipping cost). SO, the grand total I have to pay back to my customer aside from the refunded 50 is $73 dollars, plus all my eBay and PayPal fees.

    I don't sell on eBay just to give a bunch of refunds, and I am PISSED OFF that even if I DID get the entire amount back for the item, I STILL have to eat a bunch of shipping costs. ANOTHER CASE IN POINT: I shipped a linear tracking record player to a guy in MS. when it arrived, there was a HOLE THROUGH the box and every single corner was smashed in. I had to pay $40 to get it back to me. The post office refunded the selling price of $35 dollars, but I had to refund the sellers shipping money to get it back, PLUS since the post office didn't refund that shipping, I also had to refund the original price. That ordeal cost me $80!

    I am SICK to DEATH of having to eat double shipping costs just to make my buyers happy. Then after I pay my fees and gas to deal with the idiots at the PO, I end up losing hundreds each month. That is why I have quit eBay, given up my PowerSeller status (so far I still have 100% positive feedback, but the post office worked hard to bring that down). But the point is I just can't afford to keep taking such bad hits.

    The very last 'round I had on eBay - I sold 4 items. THREE of those four came back. Those are HORRIBLE odds with shipping, and I swear it’s the scam the post office has going to keep making money. They truly don't give a ** about you, your packages, or whether it’s your great-great-grandma’s antique china. They are going to break it anyway. One post master told my father - jokingly but truthfully "FRAGILE to the post office means throw with both hands, not just one - hahahaha!" NOT FUNNY YOU **, NOT FUNNY AT ALL. These are other peoples' belongings YOU are trashing, so show a little respect!

    I am fortunate enough to have UPS and FedEx. I am not a government employee, I manage a local eatery with a thousand times more pride and care in my work than these people who obviously need a new perspective on WHY FRAGILE means FRAGILE. There is nothing we can do, you might as well not even write 'fragile' or 'this side up' on your packages. It only makes them an easy target for the PO employees to throw them a little harder or ship them upside down. I am obviously disgruntled, but with good reason. Last year I shipped over $4000 with them. This year, they get NO MORE MONEY OUT OF ME. The well is dry.

    P.S. THE Priority mail box I am adding photos of was a NEW (supposed to be sturdy?) box. It's clearly marked fragile, but obviously dropped hard, more than once. It looks like it may have rolled off the back of a truck or something. This is just ONE of SEVERAL examples of a clear lack of caring or ability to do a job right.

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    Reviewed May 25, 2014

    For over a month USPS has failed to return to me (sender) a priority package that was undeliverable on April 25th, 2014. I have filed complaints, made hours of phone calls, multiple emails and hours upon hours online - no response, just lies. This is the worst system ever and the gov’t has no plan to change it. We need to all quit using USPS!

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    Reviewed May 24, 2014

    I have lost three different packages that were suppose to be delivered to my mailbox just in the last three weeks. There is nothing that I can do, the post office says that they delivered them. Maybe someone has a key to my mailbox and they are stealing my packages.

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    Reviewed May 24, 2014

    I placed an online order and received the tracking information. The package was to be delivered on May 5th via USPS per the tracking information. On the morning of May 5th, the item was scanned "Out for delivery" to my Brewster home. When I checked the mailbox that evening, there was no mail and the delivery status still stated "Out for delivery". The next morning, I contacted the USPS via their customer service email option on their main website and waited. Four days went by and I emailed them, again. Finally, after 10 days, I received an email apologizing for the inconvenience and was told they would research the issue. After 14 days, I received an email telling me that my mail was unable to be located. The mail carrier was questioned and she told them that she had delivered my mail that day, but, forgot to scan the packaged delivered. To this day, the item is still "Out for delivery".

    I moved to this town 2 years ago and have had multiple problems with my mail delivery. I truly believe the mail carrier stole or destroyed my mail that day and I have no recourse at this time. How could she truly remember if she delivered mail to one particular house, on one particular day when she delivers hundreds of homes, everyday? What can I do now? I'm truly afraid that if I pursue an investigation with the police for mail tampering, I will be penalized by my post office. My hands are completely tied.

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    Reviewed May 22, 2014

    I was charged $39.95 for a change of address on line and it was suppose to be $1.00. Cannot find how to get my money back. Received an e-mail confirming but could not reply. Can you help me?

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    Reviewed May 22, 2014

    I shipped a package through eBay shipping on April 29, 2014 and it arrived at the post office in Santa Clarita, California where it was sent for delivery and came back to the post office "undeliverable as addressed". It sat in the post office until May 16th, after which it was shipped to the postal sorting center in Elk Grove Village, IL. It was supposed to be returned to me. Instead it was reshipped to Santa Clarita, California again. I called my local post office where they gave me no help and then Consumer Affairs, which was no help at all. I am an eBay seller and used the USPS for most of my shipping. Please tell me how to solve this problem. Since the item was not delivered, I had to give the buyer a refund and I don't know how to get my item back so I can recover my loss. Please help me.

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    Reviewed May 21, 2014

    On March 28, 2014, sent out a legal package/envelope of documents/mail signature required and confirmation to Judge ** of Washington County Court, Hillsboro, Oregon. As of today, the post office has not responded to my multiple inquiries and a claim that I filed against/to them regarding the loss or deliberate confiscation of this mail. The documents were of time sensitive importance, significant to get to the judge before a certain date, within a week hence I am in Washington County also. There is no further information and USPS is not responding nor have they paid the claim I filed against them! I also lost postage fees to ship the item. They have not even refunded this money! I am following up with a lawsuit against them in the near future.

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    Reviewed May 21, 2014

    The US Postal Service has lost just under $1,000.00 in products we've purchased over the past 2 years! The carriers have routinely dumped credit cards, certified letters, mortgage applications and small packages in front of the apartment building. There is NO ACCOUNTABILITY and zero work ethic! And is if this type of misconduct weren't bad enough, there are often many weeks in which the carrier shows up on only 2 or 3 days out of 6! If this were a private corporation, they'd have been closed down ages ago! We used to order from the big online retailers but will no longer do so unless they provide UPS or FedEx options for delivery. Based on our experience, the US Postal Service is THE WORST institution in the Western world! And they enjoy "executive immunity"! In a word: horrible.

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    Reviewed May 21, 2014

    I live in the UK and I ordered an item from overseas which was shipped USPS registered mail. Over the last few weeks tracking on USPS site was showing various stop off points at different sorting centers across the US but now says item delivered in ROLLA MO. How could an item be delivered to the wrong address in the wrong country and continent? I live in UNITED KINGDOM and USPS has delivered my parcel to ROLLA MO (USA). Does anybody understand this mix up. Thanks in advance.

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    Reviewed May 20, 2014

    Have had multiple dealings with same carrier, refuses to even transport my 4 x 70# flat rate boxes of lead to my door. Only leaves message with tag saying to pick up at post office. Need my mail that I have paid to delivered to my door.

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    Reviewed May 19, 2014

    I mailed a package on Wed 5/14 with Priority 2-Day shipping and was promised it would arrive on 5/16 because I stressed the importance of the delivery date. On 5/18, my supervisor contacted me to tell me it hadn't been delivered. When I came in to work, I saw that the Tracking information says it went out for delivery on 5/17 at 9:25 am. On 5/19, I received communication from my supervisor again. The posters were needed for a Medical Library Association Conference and the posters were needed BEFORE 5/19. I started making calls to customer service at 8 am on 5/19. It is not 10:15 am and I've been given the incorrect information to contact Consumer Affairs in Chicago. They sent me back to Consumer Affairs in Denver, and they have never answered the phone. I've also filed 2 complaint cases.

    When I couldn't get a hold of Consumer Affairs in Denver, I called the 800 # again and was told that even though the tracking information online indicates it went out for delivery on 5/17, the representative I spoke with said her system indicated it never went out for delivery and is still sitting in the post office as of 5/19/14. This rep gave me the number to the post office where the package is at but when I called, the employee there never asked for the tracking number and asked me for the zip code. She automatically gave me 4 other numbers to call and indicated that office "doesn't handle that zip code but everyone gives out that number." So I called the other 3 numbers: (312) 983-8355, 8357 and 8004 (manager's number). There was no answer at any of the numbers. When I called 8355, it sent me to a voicemail box that was full, then told me it would transfer me to an attendant. Then the system told me that there was no attendant extension set so there was nothing left to do with my call. After this I called Consumer Affairs in Denver again four more times and no one answered.

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    Reviewed May 16, 2014

    I had a package coming from Germany on an order I placed with asphaltgold.com on March 28th and was tracking the package as soon as I was provided tracking information a couple days later. I had package specifically shipped to my place of work because I would probably NEVER have received it at home due to the poor service in my neighborhood. I was provided with two tracking numbers from asphaltgold.com one of which was incorrect and had nothing to do with my package but that's a whole other story. So I was able to track the package with the correct tracking information through USPS and I expected the package about 2-3 weeks from the date of the order because of previous international orders. I got to track that package at USPS.com and I see that for some reason that the day the package would arrive it was refused?

    Why would I refuse shipment of a package that I had been waiting for over two weeks?!? So come to find out the same exact day for delivery the package was RETURNED TO GERMANY! After, I was calling around to every USPS representative possible to try and locate my package or have it held at a location where I could have it picked up and filed a complaint at the USPS complaint line. To no avail I was not able to locate it or get any solid information about my package. So since April 16th until now, I have had no information about my package being shipped back to asphaltgold.com and me getting a full refund for my package. This entire situation was handled poorly by USPS and I WILL NEVER USE USPS AGAIN TO SHIP ANYTHING OR HAVE ANYTHING SHIPPED TO ME BY WAY OF USPS BECAUSE YOUR CUSTOMER SERVICE SUCKS AND YOUR CARRIERS DON'T CARE ABOUT THEIR JOB.

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    Reviewed May 15, 2014

    On April the 22th, 2014 I purchased a Unisex Knit Wool through the internet. Nomorerack is the company's name. On May the 8th, I let them know via e-mail that I had not received this product yet, and they gave me a phone and tracking number to contact the courier. Then they found out they gave me the wrong tracking number, and gave me the correct one. I called the US Post office 1-800-275-8777 and they said that my product was delivered on May the 2. The person that assisted me gave me a confirmation number and told me that somebody from Bentonville Post office was going to call me back in two day. Nobody called me back.

    On May the 14th, I called back the same number mentioned above and the gentleman suggested me to call the Post office directly (479-273-2722), and instructed me what to do and if I cannot resolve my issue with them, to contact the Consumer affairs. I called the Post office on May the 14th around 1:40 p.m and the Lady knew about my issue and she checked the back office and told me my product was not there and I was going to be contacted by the courier same day yesterday; it is May the 15th noon and still nobody has called me yet.

    I called Nomorerack again and they suggested to file a police report. They also said they are crediting my account for the loss, but they are closing my account if this incident happens again. Since I don't want this to happen, I am planning to return the money they credited when I get my product from the Post office. Tracking number : **. Confirmation number: **.

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    Reviewed May 14, 2014

    I shipped 3 boxes on the 1st of May from Mill Creek, WA @ 01:13:38 pm to the final destination of my relocation address in Indianapolis, Indiana. Each box I shipped was purchased using USPS shipping material, taped securely, weight of the parcels evenly distributed, and confirmed ready to ship by Postal clerk 13 at Mill Creek Post Office at the total cost of $98.43. Postal clerk 13, advised me that shipping 3 fairly heavy boxes at the normal rate, without insurance will save me money, and it will be delivered in 5 to 9 days, to my destination, Indianapolis.

    In route from Bothell, WA to Federal Way, WA sorting, to Cincinnati, OH, and then to Indianapolis. The 1st of my securely taped boxes was delivered on May 6th 2014 @ 1:08 pm with none of my personal item inside. I asked the mail carrier at the time where's my items, and why would he just deliver a empty box? His condescending retort was, if you have a complaint, take it up with customer service, it ain't my problem! I immediately called the postal service with my complaint and received my case number **. The 2nd of my securely taped boxes arrived on May 8th @ 2:47 pm, with 3 items inside. Each box was re-taped with clear packing tape, not the original brown USPS packing tape I originally taped them with.

    Furthermore, each box was ripped, torn with puncture holes. The final box I have not received. I called today, May 14, 2014 spoke with a customer service representative and he told me that the 3rd of my securely taped boxes that left the Mill Creek Post Office on the 1st of May at 1:13 pm could not be found! Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Below are the tracking destinations where my 3 boxes departed.

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    Reviewed May 14, 2014

    On May 5th, 2014, I sent my mother a card with a $50 gift card inside. She lives in NYC and I live in Virginia. Three days tops to reach NYC. Today is May 13th, 2014 and she still hasn't received it. Last year, I shipped a package from NYC to Georgia, Priority Mail. It arrived exactly a week later. I work at night so whenever I have a delivery, I sit in my living room right by my front door and wait for the delivery carrier to arrive. 2 packages arriving via USPS were delivered to my house. However, the Postal employee left the packages on my front steps without knocking on my door. I realized the packages were missing when I checked the tracking number and noticed the packages were delivered.

    After filing a claim, they told me the "Driver left the packages on your front steps." I couldn't get a courtesy knock? It takes two seconds. I'm done with USPS. I will now send everything, INCLUDING CARDS AND LETTERS, via FedEx or UPS where I can get a tracking number. USPS service is terrible.

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    Reviewed May 13, 2014

    I ordered an item from a private seller in UK on March 1st. Seller shipped via Royal Mail on March 7th, 2014 and it reached the United States on March 8th, 2014. Same day item goes into ISC. Gets released on March 13th, 2014 and SUPPOSEDLY left the Los Angeles sort facility on March 14th, 2014 at 2:00 am. I contacted USPS and asked them where the item was since it should have been delivered 3-5 days after it left Customs and they stated that it was still in Customs. I said ok. Maybe it could've been scanned put then pulled randomly by the US Customs. Mid April rolls up and I still have nothing; tracking number states the same thing "Departed Sort Facility". So on my last effort to hopefully find my item, I emailed and called USPS again. Lo and behold, sorry we cannot find your item.

    I contacted my seller to start a claim with Royal Mail but from what they said it’s in the USPS's hand now since it did get to the United States, which I total agree with. Called to file an international claim and was told that the seller needs to file with Royal Mail. From the looks of it, looks like the USPS is just passing the blame. I mean come on; you lost the package. Man up and take responsibility for your mistake. So now my seller is trying to do everything he can from his part but it honestly looks like that nothing can be done since it hit US soil. So I'm out of the money I paid for the item and the actual item itself. Thanks USPS for messing things up!

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    Reviewed May 13, 2014

    On 5/5/2014, I went to the Chandler USPS office to mail a package to my son. the package contained clothes for my 2 young grandsons, a birthday gift for one of them and souvenirs for them from my husband's recent trip back from Egypt (Total value was about $90). I sent the package standard mail because I had a week for the package to get there and the value was less than $100 (cost for shipping was $14.96). The package arrived to my son's home while he was there and was handed to him with a sincere apology from the delivery man as the box was completely empty. The box had straight edge cuts on three edges with the 4 edge completely intact like a "jack in the box." It also had a sticker on it that said it arrived to them "damaged and without contents."

    My husband and I immediately headed to the post-office in Chandler where I mailed the package from. The man there was very rude and said he thought the box had broke open and because I didn't buy the extra insurance there was nothing we could do except call a number to log the items and they would see if they show up at anytime. I have called the number and filed a report of lost items and also filed a complaint with the consumers affairs office. I feel robbed with no recourse or compensation available to me. I may not have paid for the added insurance, but believe that paying the postage and hand delivering to them and hand receiving by my son in TN should eliminate some possibilities of who is to blame for the mishandling or theft of my packaged items. I am crushed to know that my grandsons did not receive the items I picked out especially for them, that my grandson did not receive a gift from us on his 4th birthday, and that the items from Egypt can never be replaced. Most importantly though, I feel abandoned in my efforts to find some accountability or financial compensation from the USPS.

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    Reviewed May 13, 2014

    I have changed my address online previous times with no problem, however, I changed my address in Oct. 2013 online as before. I believed I was on the USPS website. I only saw the 19.95 charge as I was exiting the site at which point it was too late.

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    Reviewed May 12, 2014

    The post office I go to in Virginia beach, that is close to court house, the employees never work. They have a drop off box inside a building that is suppose to be a 24 hour drop. I have gone several times, even during the day, and the box was locked. It takes forever to get any package sent to me. There have been times when I checked on the USPS website, so I could check the status of a package and it shows delivered, but I do not have the package?

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    Reviewed May 11, 2014

    I shipped a Priority Mail parcel from Boston to Colorado that the postal clerk mislabeled with a California ZIP. The package was bounced back and forth between Denver and California for several weeks before finally returning it to Boston. At some point in between, the package had been ripped apart/crushed and then taped back up. Some of the contents were missing (stolen?); the rest were damaged. During this time, I tracked the package and saw that it was being misdirected. I filed 3 tracking reports online, but never received a response (except a customer satisfaction survey).

    I called the sorting facilities in California and Denver (no one in Denver ever picked up the call). California sorting told me to call consumer affairs in Boston. I contacted them, but they were unable to intercept the parcel. I had insurance, but when I submitted a claim, it was denied; they said I didn't respond to their request for information within 30 days (I never received anything). I'm in the process of appealing and will stop at nothing to get this settled... NOTHING! I urge everyone to contact their US representative and share this information. The postal service loses billions every year and keeps raising rates. Service gets worse, but you can bet that the pensions and benefits of those working for the USPS are getting paid.

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    Reviewed May 9, 2014

    On Tuesday 5/6 at 4:30 pm, I noticed our outgoing mail was not picked up. I called the Raytown Post Office and was informed we did not have any mail that day, and I told him this was a business and still have outgoing mail. He said the mail person was already gone. The next day our regular mailman said the entire block did not get mail and not just us.

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    Reviewed May 8, 2014

    Had a money order stolen. We have the copy of who stole it, where it was cashed and when. No inspector for 6 months have called. The postal IG is as bad, and consumer affairs had our case for 7 days and said it was complex. They are idiots. Ask for the copy of the money order. Does Oklahoma even have any inspectors? That was our mortgage, you postal trash.

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    Reviewed May 7, 2014

    For the past two years, I have had many days without any mail, forcing me to get a PO box for my more sensitive info like medical bills, etc. On average, every month, there are easily ten to fifteen mail days where I don't get anything at all in my regular mailbox, not even junk mail. Used to be fine, no issues. Then the mail carrier asked me out after we talked on friendly basis two years ago. I wasn't interested, and suddenly I stop getting my mail. Had mail once in last week, this is typical any more. And numerous complaints to USPS and their so called investigations has done NOTHING! Absolutely despicable.

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    Reviewed May 6, 2014

    Ordered $200 sunglasses from eBay 2 weeks ago. I tracked the package daily. Package did not arrive the day the USPS says it did. Was at the house all day all week in my guarded and highly gated community. It has been over 2 weeks. Have taken time off to resolve this since it is my 3rd lost package in 4 months. The United States Postal Service (USPS) are not accountable to anyone. I will be contacting my local representatives and spreading this message via blog using SEO, SMO, SEM, etc. I am very unhappy with the USPS!

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    Reviewed May 5, 2014

    I went to the USPS secure site to change my address and agreed to a $1.05 identity verification charge for changing my address. I authorized this and found a charge for $39.95. I called USPS and spoke with 3 different agents and, after sitting on hold for over an hour, was told that they would do nothing to assist me in getting this refund because they didn't charge it. I vehemently stated that the charge was for them on my credit card statement and it was charged when I requested the change of address.

    One agent told me that I used an affiliate company and I asked how I was possibly linked to that site when I was on the secure USPS.com website and clearly saw $1.05 to be charged. This is an unfair and deceptive practice. I am now waiting on yet a fourth agent to speak to me about this. I am absolutely infuriated that a government agency can get away with not refunding a charge that was not authorized by the consumer.

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    Reviewed May 4, 2014

    I sell and buy things online and use USPS a lot. However, this company keeps delivering my packages to different addresses that make it so inconvenient for my customers as well as for myself. Within the last month, I did not get 2 packages that the tracking numbers stated that they were delivered. Also, in March, I sent one package to Littleton, Colorado. After 3 days, I tracked the tracking number and saw that it was in Littleton. Two days after that, it was in MA for some reasons. The package kept going back and forth between CO and MA. Right now, I have another package going back and forth between GA and CA for 2 weeks so far. USPS is a big company but the people working there are NOT smart at all. I hope one day some USPS authorities open their computers and see the complaints about their company (which are everywhere) and have solutions for missing mails issue that people have been suffering from USPS mistakes.

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    Reviewed May 1, 2014

    It is just a continuing problem with USPS that there is no one, and I mean NO ONE that you can speak to or answer your emails or whatever - this is as close to grand theft without consequence that I have found. I have had international boxes picked up and then never heard from again - they are not scanned into the system so there is no record of them and thus, I have no recourse. Some countries that you ship to internationally allow you to order insurance while others do not so you are basically handing your merchandise to a carrier who does God knows what with and then you are going to lose a customer, the cost of shipping, and merchandise cost which needs to be refunded to the buyer.

    If you or I ran a scam like this - the feds would show up at our business and throw us in jail. Unbelievable. And, the customer service numbers - I can't wrap my brain around this - you call the number for international orders and there is NO ONE THERE - you stay on hold for hours and then they disconnect you. The "askusps" number, whatever that is, forget it. I have tried to get help via email asking for both an email reply or a callback - NOTHING. Someone in the private sector needs to buy this agency out - I cannot believe in this day and age that a government agency would be allowed to be so lackluster and have no online consumer tools - who doesn't have online chat these days - what is this 1980? I have a better chance of winning the lottery than I have of ever getting any satisfaction from this poor excuse of customer service.

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    Reviewed April 30, 2014

    GO AHEAD!!!! Make an order. You won't get it when you want it and it won't come when they claim. Their shipping time says and all the cool updates on the package that lets you know when it will be there will be way off so if you like sitting home waiting for something that will never come, order USPS there like when you have to take a HUGE ** and all it is a **. What a letdown. Have fun waiting for nothing!!!!!! Gotta love "USPS".

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    Reviewed April 30, 2014

    USPS lost my asthma medicine shipped by Rx company; mis-sent my 1099 which I got a month later OPENED with a little postal service sticker on it; and they LOST a paycheck from the County I work for which had to have a stop-payment and reissue, taking two-and-a-half months. They took three weeks to ship a small jar of bath salts and called it "priority 2-day shipping". I filed a complaint with the postmaster at my local rural post office, and within a week the carrier came speeding up my driveway, got out stomping and ranting and raving, "How dare I complain about her" and shouting. So complaints are not confidential and the carriers appear to be on crack. Surreal.

    USPS Express Mail Overnight Delivery (which cost a fortune) in Manhattan fake-scanned an "attempt delivery" to my son's dorm's 24-hour security desk on a box containing my son's retainer and debit card. I reported the "fake attempt" and the guy ADMITTED IT. I live in a rural area, and I have to go to the post office to pick up packages which UPS and FedEx and every other carrier in the world will leave at my gate with no problem. THEY DO SUCK. I just notified Amazon I won't purchase anything else being shipped via USPS.

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    Reviewed April 29, 2014

    I ordered a pair of shoes from China a month ago. On April 12, the shoes were sent to Chicago, IL and on April 16, they went to Grand Rapids, MI. I don't understand why the shoes were sent to Grand Rapids from Chicago when I live in Memphis. On April 17, the shoes were dispatched from Grand Rapids' sorting facility, and since then, I have not heard anything from USPS. I've called USPS several times and in so many words, they said that the package has been lost. I needed this package by May 1 for my prom. I have cases that hasn't been addressed. Today, I called USPS and a rep told me that there was a note on one of the case numbers saying that I've been contacted about the problem, but I was never contacted. My tracking number is **.

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    Reviewed April 29, 2014

    A package that I tracked and knew that delivery was today, 4-29-14. For the last three deliveries, I have had to stand out in the snow waiting for the rural carrier because they refuse to leave their vehicle and set the package on the deck as instructed. Today, my husband was waiting outside in the rain for the rural carrier. She never attempted to make a delivery but instead had the "card" filled out indicating that an "attempt" was made when she DID NOT even bring out the packages for delivery. Her response was, "Your gate is always closed." We track our packages and the gate is not closed when we are expecting a delivery. Furthermore, we have been forced to wait outside for the rural carrier since they refuse to leave their vehicle.

    I just called the Suring Post Office and register this complaint and told Sandy, the woman who answered the phone that I am going to expect the packages today. One of the packages contains medicine and the carrier refused to bring out our packages. We paid each vendor to have the packages sent and yet the Suring Post Office will refuse to deliver them. Please do not try to make up an excuse. I was an RCA at the GMF in Green Bay, WI and my supervisor, Tim, is now the Post Master. I am aware of the rules of a rural carrier. The woman at the Suring Post Office said that the rural carrier would bring the packages out this afternoon. Now either my husband or myself will have to go back outside in the rain and wait again. I intend to send this complaint much further, to our representatives and to every business we order from.

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    Reviewed April 29, 2014

    I'm writing to express my anger and frustration over the way the post office in Fort Jones, CA is handling my mother's mail. What recently happened is uncalled for and needs to be addressed. My mother has lived at her current address for well over 30 years and rents a PO Box at the Fort Jones post office. This is a small town where everyone knows everyone. For some time now she has been complaining to me about the service she receives from this post office. She says the woman in charge is openly rude to her but the real problem is the fact that my mom's mail is intentionally returned to senders with a note stating that my mother has moved. Also, she has received mail that appears to have been opened but is told by the woman in charge that it came that way. I normally take my mom's complaints in stride not really thinking that the USPS would behave this way, however, after my experience today I now know there is clearly a problem. Most of my mother's mail is addressed to her PO Box; however, there are times when mail is addressed to her actual physical address. When mail is addressed to her physical address, it is put in her PO Box and for the most part my mother has had no problems receiving. Yet whenever the manager is on duty things don't go so well.

    Back in February 2014, I order a certified document from the State of Illinois. Upon following up, I was told that they had mailed out the certificate in early March to the physical address. They won't mail to a PO Box for security reasons, only to have the document returned to them with a note saying there was no such address. This is a time sensitive document which is needed to obtain a US passport. I now have to request that the document be sent to my home address so I'm sure to get it and then I'll need to re-mail it back to my mom's PO Box to be sure she gets it. Unfortunately, this puts us further behind in obtaining the passport. Needless to say, this is extremely frustrating and I would like to see an end to this kind of treatment of my mother, especially the interfering with the US mail, from the staff at this US Post Office. Thank you.

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    Reviewed April 28, 2014

    When does it take 6+ days to ship within the state of Ohio. Tracking on day 6 and now it's in Minnesota! Really? Trying to get customer service on the phone was over 20 minute, dealing with an automated attendant - and on hold finally - for hour!

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    Reviewed April 28, 2014

    We run a small business 18 miles from the post office. We rely on the rural mail delivery because it is just so far from town. We are closed Tuesday and Wednesday but open all weekend. Our store is off on a dirt lane (well maintained) with a big flag at the end of the road which indicates that we are open or closed. Since opening we have had continued problems with getting deliveries from USPS. Our mail is left on the ground at the highway, or pink slips have been left. We have explained to the carrier many times that we are closed 2 days, what they are, and to please try to redeliver. Most recently we received a pink slip on 4/16/14, a Tuesday. Marked Business Closed. Marked parcel, but no sender info at all, no final notice date. No number of times tried to deliver. Got the slip on Thursday when we reopened. Expected delivery that day. Nothing.

    Tuesday we go to the PO. (18 miles away) No one has any idea, can't find it. Regular carrier on leave but back on Thursday. Postmaster promises that they will follow up and CALL US on Thursday. NOTHING. Carrier comes in on FRIDAY to deliver another package. Says that the PO had known where our package was for 48 hours, it had been sent to WARSAW NC? And that we should call them. Well, we are running a business, we have customers, there is no time between 1 pm when she delivers this message and 3 pm when I get it, to sit down and ignore the customers to call the PO. Still don't have or know anything about the package. This is just the last of so many such incidents. We tell everyone that plans to ship us a package not to use PO. We have gone to pick up PACKAGES over and over. We open at 9 am and close at 6 pm. They will only retrieve packages from the back between 10 am and 4 pm. Burns me up that they charge so much, constantly whine about not having money, treat customers very poorly, and don't offer any service.

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    Sales & MarketingReliability

    Reviewed April 26, 2014

    My daughter sent me small package for my birthday gift, thru Priority mail international. It was supposed to sent to South Korea. But package was sent to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by USPS Chicago sorting facility. Currently that package has been hold in Brazil for over 2weeks. There is no update of delivery status now. Still holding in Brazil. I got a lot of international packages from England, German, Japan, also korea. I never had experienced this stupid delivery mistake. What a shame on the reliability of USPS! It is very amazing at seeing USPS official advertisement playing with Amazing Spiderman.

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    Reviewed April 25, 2014

    I sent two packages via priority mail & they have yet to be delivered. The first one they sent to a wrong city, supposed to go to Edwardsville, IL but went to Jacksonville, IL. It also had no tracking activity for two whole days. I want to be reimburse for the priority rate I paid. It will arrive via a regular mail time frame. They both show leaving local post office of destination at 2 & 3am last night yet I was just told they will still not be delivered on today. Why did they got to two Missouri facilities? That doesn't normally happen. Tracking #'s: **

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    Reviewed April 25, 2014

    Went into the US Post Office in Del Rio, Texas. This is the one on Bedell Street on 04/21/2014. Needed to buy 2 postcard stamps and this US Post office DID not have any such thing!!!!! I had to pay full postage ($0.49) each to mail 2 postcards to register my new appliances!!!! I think it is very sad that one cannot buy a postcard stamp in a United States Post Office!!!!!!

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    Reviewed April 24, 2014

    I have a Registered Mail sent to me from China. On Apr 3 2014, USPS first tried to deliver it to me. I was not home so they left a notice. I scheduled a redelivery online (**) on Apr 3 for Apr 5. I went to the Elmhurst A station on Apr 5 and was told the package was taken out on Apr 4. The carrier will redeliver it to me. I didn't get my package on Apr 5. I went back to Elmhurst A station on Apr 7 and was told the package was taken out on Apr 5 and the carrier will redeliver it to me. I still haven't got my package as of today Apr 24 2014. The tracking online (**) stopped updating at Apr 5. I have called customer service multiple times and opened at least 3 three cases and got no response from the Elmhurst A station. I was told the case has been escalated to the regional consumer affairs office but I got no response from them either.

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    Reviewed April 24, 2014

    I have received mail from my lawyer's office and other mail from the VA regional office already opened. These documents are in envelopes that have their return address on them. Why would the postal service believe that there would be anything illegal in them and give them a legit reason to open them?!

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    Reviewed April 23, 2014

    I put mail out to be picked up, the same piece over and over for 8 days. I've had issues with interrupted service but usually a call takes care of it. I had to physically walk up to the mail truck and hand my mail to him. He never said anything and never removed the earphones. I returned to my home and called my local PO. I was told, “Perhaps you're just one of those people that do not receive a lot of mail.” I rattled off specific companies that I receive mail from by particular dates. When I told him I've lived here for 6 years, he decided to listen and told me he'd "quiz" the mail carrier when he returned that day.

    Yesterday, I was outside and saw the carrier; I waved to let him know I wanted to speak with him. I wanted to introduce myself to him and ask if he was aware that I live "here". As soon as I said, "I want to", he started speaking loudly over me, he would not listen. He informed me that my mail is being held, that he will not be delivering it and I need to move the box to the front of the home. He stated that he will NOT deliver my mail because ONE day he saw a dog in the yard. Not my dog, I do NOT have one. What he MAY have seen was the upstairs neighbor's puppy, very playful, not at all vicious...by the way THEY are receiving THEIR mail.

    I called the PO again. I told the supervisor, “I guess, he never identified himself, that the dog is NOT my dog.” He told me to have my landlord call him. Why?? And Why was I not notified of their intention?? Honestly, he doesn't want to walk 10 feet to deliver MY mail to MY door. I pay my taxes, I'm paying HIS fat salary and he can refuse to deliver MY mail?? My PO will NOT hand mail over the counter... I'm ready to speak to a lawyer.

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    Reviewed April 23, 2014

    In the past year, since I got engaged, I have ordered a lot online from Amazon and Etsy. Both websites I absolutely love to work with. However, almost every item was lost, damaged or significantly delayed in deliver by the postal service. When I file a complaint, it takes at least 2 complaints per incident for the issue to be addressed and once it is, the office tells me there is nothing they are going to do to correct the issue. How can so many packages be lost and damaged? My father lives with me and after my second complaint one of his packages was left in the middle of our very long driveway. No one will help me and I am losing money by having to reorder so many items and I am losing time, which is making me very nervous as I get closer to the wedding and finish ordering my items and mail out my invitations or wait for my RSVP cards.

    My most recent complaint, I explained all this to the woman who gave me a case number and she told me that in her 35 years she has never had a problem with USPS. That doesn't make me feel better or help me but instead made me feel like she didn't believe me. The head person at my local office straight out told me that all complaints come back to her and she won't do anything with them (so basically I am wasting more time by filing them). They told me that if my package doesn't have insurance there is nothing they will do. Why should I have to buy insurance (which most sellers don't even offer as an option) for something that should come standard - Delivering my packages?

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    Reviewed April 22, 2014

    Recently, I've been targeted by my local mail carrier and she has refused to deliver any of my mail. I've contacted the local office several times. I've contacted the USPS directly and no one seems to be in charge. This person has purposely returned important items I've needed to maintain my finances and other business dealings. I'm very angry at this point that I am unable to obtain any direction on how to resolve this matter.

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    Reviewed April 20, 2014

    So I ordered a package on April 15 on eBay and I found out that I had to go and it was shipping with USPS. So yesterday was the day they were supposed to come and they said they came. The problem is I was completely awoke at the time and my doorbell did NOT ring once. Then I went to the post office where they said to go and the lady check my tracking number, she doesn't even go to the back of the store or put the number in the system and says "it's still with the carrier". I left thinking she was probably right. Then after I got home I thought this makes no sense whatsoever.

    I then went on today to track my order and it says that yesterday they came again…at 6:02. My food from 2 Ton Tony's came exactly at 6:05 and I was standing at my front door from 6:00 to 6:05 so I want to know what is up with USPS lying to their customers! It’s not professional and it needs to stop and they keep saying "they left a notice on the door"! They didn't leave !@#$%! I had to bring my iPhone just so she could see and btw I was laughed at by the lady that talked to me when I walked in. A worker for USPS. This is the last time I order from anywhere involving USPS !@#$ them!

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    Reviewed April 18, 2014

    We have a mail box at our front door. There is also an old mail slot in our garage door which we have heavily taped up with a permanent note that says "NOT a mail box please deliver mail to front door". On most days the mail man delivers our mail to the front door but about once a month the mail carrier removes all the tape and the sign and put our mail in the garage. We don't use our garage on a daily basis so we will go in there and there will be mail on the ground that is a month old. I have had to pay late fees on bills because of the mail carriers' incompetence and inability to follow directions. Also the fact that he or she has the gall to remove the tape and sign which I put there to help ensure he does his job properly is just astounding. That is my property and he tampers with it just so he doesn't have to take the 2 extra steps to our front door where the actual mail box is.

    I have called the post office in my area multiple times to ask them to have the mail carrier only deliver mail to the box at the front door and to stop removing the tape on the mail slot on the garage. Either his manager who I speak w/ doesn't deliver the message or he just doesn't give a crap. I will now be asking that the post office reimburse me for any late fees I incur on bills due to their inaction on this issue.

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    Reviewed April 16, 2014

    Several of my neighbors block my mailbox because parking is limited on our street. Our mailman does not drop our mail off; he does not have to. My neighbors get their mail but I have to wait for the next delivery and hope that no one blocks the mailbox at that time. I have contacted the PO via email but no one has responded and it seems that they do not care. BUT THE PO WANTS ANOTHER INCREASE. If there was another way to get my mail, I would not use our postal system. Maybe they should be privatized as most other businesses because their service does not warrant their increases.

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    Reviewed April 13, 2014

    The form to change my health insurance from one plan to another arrived on the last day of the option to do so at 4:31. Rather than sending it first class, I paid extra to have it mailed Priority so that the form would arrive 5 days before the deadline. I am certain that the very late arrival of my form contributed to the delay in having my health insurance processed.

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    Reviewed April 11, 2014

    I just want to file a complaint against USPS. I want a refund of my money in an insured package and whatever apply. I sent a package to be delivered to my customer who bought from me some used watches on eBay and the package was sent on 3/24/14 to be delivered on 3/26/14 but never was delivered, so I gave the money back to my customer and I complained USPS twice and never contacted me again when they will call me in 24 hours and never did. This happened twice. Now is 4/11/14 and no news of it at all. I do not know what happened to the package, no idea????

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    Reviewed April 11, 2014

    We are not only dissatisfied but very angry with the U.S. postal service for such poor service now for quite sometime. My family is very large and recently at a family get together the entire family is dropping the U.S.P.S. services and will no longer use them. Their services have absolutely gone in the toilet. They deceive customers with their screwed up services like priority mail by saying it will arrive in 1-2 days when in actuality it take 3-4 or longer. People are paying high prices for very little service and no one at U.S.P.S. takes responsibility for their serious mistakes.

    Just as 1 example, I'm waiting on a package now that was mailed to me on April 9th by priority 1 day and today is the 11th and just checked tracking and my package was sent to Wisconsin 121 miles north of us this morning. Now that package won't get here for another 1-2 days. This package was mailed from a town 120 miles south of us in the same state of Illinois going to Illinois so why is it sitting in Wisconsin 120 miles north of us. They drove right thru my town to get to Wisconsin, crazy, and this happens all the time, daily. Needless to say their services are no longer required by my entire family of about 50 members. Like any business if you're treated bad you find another to take their place. So long U.S.P.S.

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    Reviewed April 10, 2014

    UPS and FEDEX are now handling our parcels over to USPS for the last leg of larger package deliveries. Three packages (originally shipped UPS) last month went missing (but USPS tracking confirms all were delivered between Feb 28 and Mar 5, 2014) and when the fourth one doesn't arrive (originally shipped FEDEX) off I go to USPS. 45 minutes or so after leaving, I get a phone call and miraculously all of my missing packages from the past 6 days will be in a parcel box with the key to that in my mailbox. FINE. My husband did ask, "where were they all this time?" I didn't think to ask and didn't really care. We've got them. This has never happened before. Here we are 4 weeks later and again, first a package from FEDEX was turned over to USPS with a delivery confirmation on April 2, 2014 and was not in my mailbox.

    One week after that a box with 500 feet of speaker wire my husband ordered USPS reports as delivered on April 7. NOPE. Called the post office THE NEXT MORNING and explained the problem and said they would check into it. After calling twice more (remember only 45 minutes went by last month) and still nothing by 4:30, I e-mailed customer service of USPS of these two issues and 2 supervisors came to my home the next day. I explained the problem and they said they checked all the boxes and can't explain it but the postal carrier said it was put in box C. At this point, I break out all of the delivery slips from last month and told them those packages were found after being missing for a week.

    He must have asked like 4 times "but where were they all that time?" Yes, stupid me, I never did ask. But I pulled out my cell phone and showed him the number that called me on March 6 at 11:00 am to report the packages were all together in the box. Another supervisor, funny, he doesn't remember now how he found them. At this point they are telling me they are still investigating but if the merchandise ordered is under $200.00 the company might just replace them. So our postal carriers can continue to misplace or just plain steal from us after UPS and FEDEX have turned our parcels over to them. UPS and FEDEX need to drop USPS because postal carriers are obviously too overworked and can't handle the extra load or they know they can steal from us and we have no recourse.

    By the way...my husband and I have surveillance cameras so if UPS or FEDEX makes a delivery to our home we would know if it arrived and if it was stolen. With USPS, delivered means delivered and postal carriers when questioned will say the parcel box key went in the right mailbox. Twice in one month is absolutely ridiculous for this to happen to the same person. Waiting to see what their investigation turns up but, in any case, tomorrow morning I will be filling out a form at USPS to have all future packages held at the local post office and not doled out to our postal carrier. BUT... we still have to pay those shipping charges and even though USPS is being paid for their part in the delivery, we just can't trust them anymore.

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    Reviewed April 9, 2014

    I live in an apartment complex that has very small mailboxes. I check my mail on a daily basis and therefore there should be no reason why the following scenario happened. On Friday 4/4/14 I received a notice in my box along with about 3 pieces of other mail saying that my mailbox was overflowing. So I went to the designated post office that was on the notice to pick up my mail on that Monday 4/7/14. After waiting for 30 minutes at this post office for my mail, the supervisor came back to the window and said that she could not locate my mail and that she would check with the carrier when he returned from route. The supervisor was extremely rude in her response to me.

    In any case she proceeded to take down my phone number along with a copy of the notice that was left in my box and said she would call me after speaking with carrier. I received no call the following day on 4/8/14 so I went back to the post office to see if they had located my mail. I spoke with this time a friendly counter representative and she went back and checked with the supervisor for me. They still had no information on where my mail was. This sales associate took down my number again and said she would call me in the morning or have the supervisor call me in the morning with answers to where my mail was. I again spent another 30 minutes of my time at the post office for the second day in a row.

    I received a call on 4/9/14 from the same rude supervisor saying that my mail was returned to sender because this was the second notice I allegedly received. I proceeded to inform the supervisor that I NEVER received a first notice. She proceeded to argue with me saying that I had received it. I asked her when the first notice was allegedly delivered and she could not tell me a date, just that it was about a week ago. Keep in mind the notice that I received on 4/4/14 said nothing about it being the second attempt or that my mail would be sent back if I did not pick it up by a certain date. It simply said "Mail box Overflow". After expressing my concerns about not receiving my mail to the supervisor on the phone, she proceeded to tell me that my carrier told her that my mailbox is ALWAYS overflowing.

    I then re-informed her that I check my mail on a daily basis and that it had been ALWAYS overflowing like she says it is. Don't you think I would be visiting this local office more frequently? I think so. She continued to argue with me very unprofessionally disputing the fact the she said my mailbox is over flowing, which it is not. She kept putting me on hold, checking with what seems to be a nonexistent person because she said I would receive a call from my carrier's supervisor which I did not. (I'm not holding my breath since they didn't call me the day prior as they were supposed to.) I then asked her what I should do about getting my mail, she said there is nothing she can do as it was sent back to sender (WITHOUT NOTIFYING ME KEEP IN MIND).

    I received the notice on a Friday 4/4/14 and made my first attempt to pick up on Monday (4/7/14) and you mean to tell me that they send it back after 1 business day (Saturday) has passed? I find it hard to believe. I have lived in the same apartment complex for 3 years and have never had an issue receiving mail until about a month or so ago. About a week prior to this, I noticed that I had not received a package that I ordered 2-3 weeks prior and when I had checked the website that I ordered from it had said my order shipped just a couple of days after ordering. I never received a notice in my box (this package is too big to fit in the box in any case), so I went to the same local branch to check.

    They initially had said that if there is no notice then there is no package. I proceeded to ask them to please check anyways and gave the supervisor my ID. By no surprise to me, my package was there, (it had been about 16 days since the site said my order shipped). SO once again, I received no notice in my box, but this time they held my mail for 16 DAYS! But they sent it back after 1 day in the more recent case? UNBELIEVABLE!!! I received no help or assistance thus far in this matter and it seems to be an ongoing issue. VERY UNIMPRESSED!

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    Reviewed April 9, 2014

    All our mail goes through United States Postal Service, and naturally, sending mails and packages through USPS sounds like a good idea. This is how we get our mail, and it doesn't work. At one time USPS might have been dependable, but it's no longer a reliable service. I sent out a package as a priority mail that was supposed to be delivered by two to three days, and now it's been over two weeks. In between that time, I thought the package was lost or stolen. I have made three cases, and initially they told me to use the online service to file.

    Second time, they told me to call the branch, and when I did they forwarded me to call the customer service call center. Now confused, and frustrated with an upset recipient, I am beyond upset. Third time I called, I tried to speak with supervisors right away. The first one hung up on me because I wasn't going to let her talk over me. The second time, I was given a phone number to call consumer affairs for my zip code instead of another case number. All in the end, I still don't know where my package exactly is, and the package still needs to be delivered. They market as reliable, but from this experience, I am forced to look for other mailing services. What else is next?

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    Reviewed April 8, 2014

    On Monday 03 31 2014, I went to the post office to send an important letter internationally. The letter should be there by 04/09/14, I said and I ask to send it within 3-5 business days. The man from the post office assured me it's gonna be there in time. Guess what?? After 7 business and 9 regular days, no package, no tracking besides it has left New York facility on April 2. I want to know why I paid $54 for 3-5 days delivery, if this is a rip off???

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    Reviewed April 7, 2014

    I subscribed to this magazine in Sept 2013. In Dec it stopped coming until I made a complaint at the Evans, GA branch. I got my Mar issue but in Apr it stopped again. I find this suspicious because I get my Golf Digest magazine without incident.

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    Reviewed April 5, 2014

    I moved from Bronx, NY to Acton, MA. And up to this date, I have not been receiving my mail forwarding like it should be. Many of my mail pieces is not being forwarded. I am so tired of calling and getting vague story when I know expected mail is not in my hands. I only updated who I can recall on my address and mail list. But I didn't have everyone's address. I went to the Whitehouse.gov web and reported government agency. Because worker who does not do their job as demanded by the agency and in good faith should not be paid for working on conspiracy, retaliation or tampering. And should be home without wages.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2014

    I ordered a phone and it was sent smart post. I tracked my pkg a week later and it said it was delivered on April 2nd at 12:4pm but I never received my pkg. I contacted the P.O. the next day and was told they would call me back and never did. I called the next day and spoke to a woman who contacted my mailman and asked had he delivered apogee to my address. His response was he had no pkg for me at all. I was told to call FedEx for their tracking number for the USPS trk number which starts with 9. I did, I called back and spoke with a guy. He said he'd call back when he spoke with driver because the pkg showed scanned and signed by him. The mailman now told the guy he had a small pkg and put in my box, which is impossible because it wouldn't fit and he earlier stated he received no pkg for me. What should I do?

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    Reviewed March 31, 2014

    The USPS is extremely disrespectful and does NOT care about customer service. I have called my location numerous times about packages claiming to be delivered and not arriving, and they never respond. They would tell you the exact same thing you find on the tracking information and you can never speak to a real human being. I am also disappointed about how they handle Media Mail and First Class Packages. I weighed and printed prepaid labels and dropped these packages off at the post office only to have them returned to me days later with a stamp I could barely read. When I weighed them again and returned to the post office and asked why these items were rejected after waiting on a VERY long line, the rude employee told me that they were weighed incorrect and were off by TWO OUNCES. USPS wasted my money over 2 ounces as when they scanned my prepaid labels, they were considered "used" therefore I lost money on the previous postage I paid for.

    I asked him if I could just pay the difference for those two measly ounces and he said I had to print a new one. When I told him this was frustrating to bring back, he somehow finally agreed to add extra postage to my packages. He told me the First Class mail package I had did not qualify for first class anymore because it is now two ounces heavier. Again, I receive NO refund for the already "used" first class mail label, and he charged me $7.13 for a Priority Mail label for an item that was ONLY about a pound! When I left and thought something was fishy because I shipped out Priority Mail packages that were 1.5 lbs and never costed over $6. This employee added $100 insurance and charged me that extra $2 for and that I sold for literally $11. On top of that, why would he do this when Priority Mail gives a free $50 insurance?

    Again, I said, USPS are out to rip you off, scam you and they do not care about you. I have lost a total of $20 from these two packages for items barely costing $11 each. I basically gave items to customers for free and have to pay out of my pocket to do so. Absolutely ridiculous and disappointing. If UPS or FEDEX was cheaper, USPS would be out of customers because they are liars.

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    Reviewed March 26, 2014

    I tried to resolve a missing package with USPS from March 14, 2014 and up to date I have not hear anything in reference to my missing package.

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    Reviewed March 26, 2014

    Purchased some guitar cables and cable plugs under order #** from www.lavacable.com on 30th December 2013. The total order plus shipping valued at USD 244.75. Items shipped with tracking info given on 6th January 2014 via United States Postal Service heading to me in Malaysia. Last update on tracking was 27th January 2014. It said "Processed through sort facility" at ISC Chicago (IL). Despite chasing many times, USPS does not reply many of my tweets, facebook messages and emails. Any reply I get is vague without a confirmation of where the order is. Last proper update was via twitter on February 14 saying "no it was not cleared Customs yet." Last update to my twitter was on 26 February telling me to write an email to socialmedia@usps.gov. Email reply received on 7th March with no info provided on where the package is. Today is the 26th of March and I still have not received my items. USPS should refund me USD 244.75 due to their negligence in having my order either lost, stolen or misplaced.

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    Reviewed March 25, 2014

    I sent a box of personal items, $ amount priceless. Sentimental value only. Left home town Mar. 10, got to Denver Mar. 12, left Denver Mar. 20, got to rightful address Mar. 24. Items in box received was not what I mailed and it weighed 13 pounds less than it did when I mailed it. Let local post office know and they told me that I would just have to wait to see if the person that received my items call me and let me know. On a couple items in the package had my name and address on them. So hopefully somebody reading this will contact me. If so name and phone number is available when you call information. Items were home videos a few pictures and a couple golf magazines. No use to anyone except my family. Thank you ahead of time.

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    Reviewed March 25, 2014

    Post office claimed they delivered the package to the right address. But on the day they said they delivered it I was home and had no one deliver a package as neither the dog barked, doorbell rang, or was left anything at the door or mailbox. Not only that, but for most of the day I was sitting at a desk in front of a bay window overlooking the mailbox and driveway and saw no such delivery. I paid for the contents of the package and expect delivery to be accomplished when it is paid for. There is no accountability in the USPO. If this happened in the private sector someone would be accountable for these types of mistakes.

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    Reviewed March 25, 2014

    Important documents were mailed from AR to FL via USPS Priority Mail and nobody in the Postal System can find the package. It was my late Dad's Death Certificate with important family documents. No wonder the USPS loses billions of dollars a year of our hard earned tax money. I vote to privatize the mail system.

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    Reviewed March 24, 2014

    I thought I was on the official US postal change of address. Once I submitted my info, I notice a 39.95 dollar charge amount immediately out of my bank account. There's no 800 number to call them. They would only respond through email. They told me I would get my money back. That clearly didn't happen. Then I was too late and read the reviews. People were complaining about them taking money out of their account monthly. So I went and changed my banking info to be safe. I suggest if you accidentally go throw them, change your account info asap.

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    Reviewed March 21, 2014

    Yesterday I received email tracking that express mail was out for delivery # **.... at 10:30 am. I waited all day for mail... then at 5 pm, mail was delivered, but no express package. I called the post office # on line. After an hour waiting to answer, I was given # for local post office, who told me package was there... @ 6pm. I did not receive package or notice for package. I was told it would be redelivered today. Its now 4:30 pm, still not delivered. Was delivered at 4:35 pm today, a day about it was to be delivered before 3 pm...

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    Reviewed March 21, 2014

    I ordered a package in February, package was delivered to wrong address. I called the 1800 postal service number and lodged a complaint on March 10th. The representative sounded as if there was no resolution until I demanded to speak to the supervisor. He informed me that they will try to see if the package was returned to the main post office and i should receive a call from them in 24 hours. I requested they return to the address and retrieve my package. Tuesday Morning, I decided to call and make certain everything was okay. The representative I spoke to told me the case number was closed. I stated I didn't get a phone call. He stated the package was delivered. I said to him, "I know that, the complaint is that it's not my address." He provided me with a new case number. Wednesday someone calls me from a blocked number and left a voice mail when I checked it. It's the post office stating the package is not in the office and that the item was delivered. I called again this Monday and was given the number to consumer affairs. I am currently awaiting a response. Why is it so difficult to retrieve my item from the address delivered or reimburse me my doggone money. It's theft. I'm out money and out my item. I absolutely cannot believe the USPS.

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    Reviewed March 20, 2014

    USPS has envelopes that say one day Priority Mail on them when they don't guarantee it. If they don’t guarantee it then I can just buy a stamp and send out for 50 cents. They have been charging me $5.05 for my shipments for years and now this month most of my packages were arriving within 20 miles 5 days after shipping. Over 15 packages. They won't even refund my money saying they don't guarantee it. Well I ask them why is on the envelope ONE day Priority. It's misleading and ridiculous where they won't even give me $5 back for each packages when they cost me over $5000. They are Broadway tickets and my clients they did not receive them within 3 days, I had to refund. They would have got to them if I just did regular mail. Ridiculous.

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    Reviewed March 20, 2014

    I recently moved to a new household and one of the members of my family moved to a completely different household. As we were supposed to, we each put in Change of Address Forms - me for the house I was moving to, my dad for the house he was moving to. However, apparently it's okay for the Local Post Office to ignore the fact some people in the world have a different first name and they forwarded all my mail to my father, which would be fine if it weren't for the fact he lives 3 hours away. The problem was discovered when I was tracking a purchase and on the day it should have arrived, the updated tracking information said "Forwarded".

    Each time I contacted the Post Master at the Montgomery, PA Post Office, it sounded as though it was an inconvenience to have to help a customer over the phone. She told me she could not tell me where the package was forwarded but that it was in fact forwarded to the address I would have put a forward in for. Except that I didn't put a Forwarding Address request in FROM my new address; my dad did. Instead of being thorough and making sure they were forwarding the right mail, they just looked at the last name and forwarded it all. For 2 days now I've been trying to get this woman to assist me. Today I called her and yet again that "I am above you" tone in her voice, claiming she gave me all the info I wanted the previous day, when in fact she didn't because had she done so, I wouldn't have called her ** back.

    Consumer Affairs was extremely helpful. In fact, they knew what the local post office had done almost immediately (based on logical assumption). It turned out they were 100% correct. I didn't even get an apology from the local Post Master, just an email that FINALLY admitted they ** up and had finally corrected the situation. Except the problem isn't corrected because I'm STILL waiting on the package and the rest of the mail. Priority Mail mail is supposed to be 2-5 days, not 2-5 weeks.

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    Reviewed March 19, 2014

    Anything left up to our government to manage or operate is garbage... USPS is no exception. I refused a package and my post woman wrote in large marker "refused". The package was checked in and showed via the original tracking that it was "refused" however from there it simply vanished. WTF!? Leave it up to the complete incompetence of the USPS to royally screw the simplest of requests up. Now I am on the hook for a package I never even touched or was even delivered... Way to go. Nothing but a pack of nicely dressed idiots and losers! FedEx be sure to Thank USPS for my future business with you.

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    Reviewed March 16, 2014

    I ship a lot of Priority Mail packages and the 2-3 day service USED to be dependable however, it seems to me that ever since they totally revamped that service it has been 1 issue after another shipping! I use the correct boxes, labels etc. and just disgusts me every time I look at the label and see "2 Day" etc. knowing that 99.99% of the time that will NOT be the case! I am in the process of my 2nd "lost package" and anticipate a 3rd in the next few days. I have tried repeatedly to get answers about the poor service and keep getting passed around after finally making contact with a human being only to be treated very rudely. During my most recent phone call to them, the individual was more concerned as to how I was able to reach her and refused to assist me and ended the call with "You will have to contact your local office" when it was my local office that referred me in the 1st place!

    The 2 packages "lost" occurred at the Cincinnati center and the possible 3rd involves the same location also. Taking into account inclement weather, missed scans (excessive amount of those too) etc. approx 10 days for the 2 Day label for a recent package is unacceptable!!! Why bother with the whole new marketing plan when I could drive to the destination faster? Not to mention, WHY are packages "mysteriously disappearing" when the Cincinnati center is involved during transport? It causes me to question the honesty of the employees lately.

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    Reviewed March 14, 2014

    Package shows as delivered, never received. It's the second time in a week that this happens. Last time the was package delivered next day after I visit the post office. The Package was delivered to **, and not to my address ** around 500 feet away in a community of houses. I also receive correspondence of ** to my address. This time at the post office they sustain the package was delivered to my door and I'm sure It was not, my wife was at home at that time. I spent 30 minutes before I went and knock at the postmaster office, located in Belden Ave (Norwalk CT) and the only I received was attitude. Post Master is Ricky **.

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    Reviewed March 14, 2014

    Many days in recent months we are not receiving mail. Others in this small town of Alpha, NJ are experiencing the same problem...no mail delivery. This is unacceptable and needs to be addressed immediately!!

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    Reviewed March 14, 2014

    I went to USPS on 2/24/14 to mail a package to Florida from New Jersey. The package was not received nor was it returned. Speaking with numerous post offices (approx. 4) the package is still lost and the answer I received was CALL CONSUMER AFFAIRS!

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    Reviewed March 14, 2014

    I have filed over 20 complaints in the past year, problems over and over for three years now. I run a business out of my home (the post office knows this). I set up pick ups each day for outgoing packages, and also have supplies coming in each day. Today, the mail arrived after 5 pm, the carrier left mail on top of the outgoing mail, and did not take the outgoing. I also knew from online tracking I had three packages of supplies to be delivered today, they were not. I went through the neighborhood to get the mailman to take my boxes that he did not pick up, found him and gave him the outgoing boxes. I asked about the deliveries, I was told he did not have them. I asked him to look in his truck, he refused! I told the carrier if he did not at least look I would be filing a complaint. The carrier, tells me, "Go ahead". So, I go back into my house and call the local post office, I was hung up on two times. So then I filed three complaints online about the boxes that were not delivered. Two hours later, the tracking was updated, saying "Notice left", which is lie, no notice was left, and I was told he did not know where my packages were. This is the worst service ever, as a business I think I need to take my business elsewhere.

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    Reviewed March 12, 2014

    I sent a package to Ireland on February 8th. As of March 12th it was still being listed as: Processed at USPS Origin Sort Facility. The package was an eBay auction item and eBay is refunding the buyer their money. Someone needs to stop the theft that is occurring at the Chicago Postal Sort Facility.

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    Reviewed March 12, 2014

    I own a business, I had did $30,000 in shipping cost last year alone. Since USPS had included insurance into the cost of shipping. I have had 10 ordered damage. I filed the claim, attach needed proof of payment, value and picture of damage items and boxes.. My buyer and I both taken items in to the local USPS. Month later for no reason known or any word, the claims are refused. ONLY 1 out of 10 was honored. I tried emails through USPS.com and just get an email back telling me to appeal them, I have done that twice and just keep getting the same email back, I have appealed and been turned down again. I tried talking with my local postal office, they told me they could not do anything. Called the USPS 800 number, put on hold for 20+ minute than got cut off. Call the complaint line, put on hold for 22 minutes, did talk to someone that said there was nothing they can do. Claims are handle online. So USPS insurance is a scam. They ruin your items, have you turn them in to them and then never pays you. There is no one that will help, even if you're a business customer. If I ran my business this way, I would not be in business for long.

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    Reviewed March 11, 2014

    How can the post office be solvent? It is run by fools with Rights for Great Benefits. When I called and asked for an explanation about what I found when I tracked the package the customer service couldn't understand why I am upset that the package that was supposed to be delivered on Thursday 6th of March 2014 went back same day to the place it was sent from and set at that there for 6 days. Seeing is believing.

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    Reviewed March 9, 2014

    On Friday, March 8th, 2014 at approximately 2:34 p.m., I sent a piece of EXPRESS mail out from the Altoona, IA. post office. It was to be delivered today Saturday, March 8th, 2014 to my fiance in Aurora, Colorado. Surprise, surprise, it was NOT delivered. It was a very important piece of mail, and I had been tracking it since it was sent. It says on the tracking label, GUARANTEED DELIVERY BY 12 NOON ON 3/8/14! That time came and went. He never received the mail.

    Upon reviewing the tracking, it says the following, "Dispatched to sort facility", but that it is still in Des Moines, IA. where I sent it from! There was absolutely NO tracking history on it today when it should have been delivered. I emailed the USPS 3 times to try and figure out what happened, and didn't get any response. I also called the Customer Support number that was provided on the website, but it was all automated and said they are experiencing high call volumes (go figure). There was a card in this piece of mail with a 100 dollar gift card in which I sent him because I love him and wanted to help him out for work and such! He was expecting that and needed it to buy supplies for a paint job that he had lined up on Monday.

    I would like to know where this piece of mail went to, and why it hasn't been delivered! I do NOT want a refund, I just want the mail to get to him. My relationship is now strained as we are in a fight over this! I have attached a picture of the most recent tracking I did of this package. PLEASE locate this item and send it to him expeditiously as I spent a lot of money to have it sent overnight!

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    Reviewed March 8, 2014

    This is second time the same thing has occurred. I sent a package that was going less than 100 miles away but needed a signature and somehow it ended up in another state. When I try and call, I give my tracking information and then it tells me it can't help me and hangs up not allowing me to speak with anyone. When I call back and try to get to a customer another way, it still blocks me. This is a disgrace and I will never use them again.

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    Reviewed March 7, 2014

    I paid 3 day priority to send an envelope from Ohio to Oregon. I track the package the day it was to be delivered in Oregon and it was still in Ohio. Only about 50 miles from my house. I could have saved money and put a stamp on it for faster and cheaper. Then when you call any of the customer service numbers you sit listening to dumb recordings telling you how they value their customers. What kind of bull is that? I sit for over 45 minutes just waiting for a real person then she was rude and snotty. So I ask for a manager, she said they will just tell you the same thing. I said "that's fine I want one," just to get put on hold for another hour and no one ever answered the call. I guess that's the goal. Don't answer, don't have to listen or fix anything. So the moral of my complaint is, my package never made it on time and still not sure when it might get there. And USPS has the worst customer service I have ever dealt with. At least most companies hire foreign people to take complaints.

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    Reviewed March 7, 2014

    When I went in, there was only 2 other customers. I was describing my PO Box issue to a cashier clerk when I saw the employee door open and the supervisor, Pat ** opened the door to receive flowers from her son for Valentine's Day. I recognized this supervisor as the one who I had explained my PO box issue to from a previous date so I told the cashier clerk, "She's the supervisor who I talked to about this issue." Then her son finished greeting the supervisor and as soon as I saw that the supervisor was done with her son, I called out to her while beginning my steps toward her say, "Excuse me! You helped me with --" That is when I was cut off by Pat shutting the door on me without a single word as she looked straight at me closing the door. This is very rude especially for a supervisor who is suppose to set a good example of good customer service. The very least she should have done was acknowledge the customer like say something such as, "I cannot help you right now," or "I'm busy now, the cashier will help you," or "I'm on lunch break now, be back to work in 15 minutes." At least give some kind of polite acknowledgement, not just ignore and close the door on the customer who is safely over 10 feet away.

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    Reviewed March 6, 2014

    Where to begin? I mailed a package to Colorado and it somehow ended up in Illinois. The online tracking information says that my package left the distributing center in Illinois and there has been no updates with it in three weeks. I went back to the post office where I mailed it from a few days after it went astray and they told me that it probably just went into a wrong sorting bin and there was nothing they could do. Frustrated, I went home and filled out an online request for some sort of action to be done, to which I put that I wanted a reply. That reply never came.

    So a few days after that, I went back to my post office and spoke with someone else. They gave me a phone number for the local consumer affairs department for me to call, which I did, six times. No one ever answered the phone and no one ever responded to my messages. I filed another request online, I called the phone number on the website and waited on hold for 20mins. When I finally got hold of someone, they took my information and said they would open a case for me and someone would be in contact with me in one business day. No response ever came.

    I went back to my post office and spoke with the manager, who also was completely unable to help me. He said there was no way for him to contact the Illinois post office and even if he did, he was sure that, even though all packages are electronically labeled, there would be no way for them to know which truck that my package had went out on. Furthermore, he told me that no one in all of Austin would be able to help me and instructed me to return to the main 800 number on the website.

    Totally dejected and not knowing any other recourse, I did return. After another 20 min hold, I explained my situation and gave the person my case number that was suppose to have been responded to two days ago. The woman gave me the phone number for the regional consumer affairs department. I called, someone answered! And then they transferred me to a voice mailbox where no one has returned my call.

    I just cannot understand the complete and total systemic incompetency that the US post office runs under. There is no chain of command, no communication and absolutely no accountability! I have turned to here simply to vent my frustration and commiserate with what I now see as a wide community of people screwed over by the post office. I will forge ahead, another week and I can try to apply for the insurance that I had on the package. Of course, I will have to go through the website that I have made two complaints on and have gotten no response to, so I don't have much hope.

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    Reviewed March 6, 2014

    I got an email from my shipper, that said my shipment has shipped. I go to track the package. It said that they left a notice on 2/25 at 11:55 a.m.. But, I never gotten any notice from anyone. I was home at that time. So, it showed it in my local PO. I went down there to pick it up, they tell me it's not there. So then I call USPS, there tell me it's at my local PO. Again, they tell me it's not there.

    As of Feb. 25, the shipment was accepted in WOODBINE, NJ 08270 I don't know how. On the 26th, it didn't show that it was in Woodbine, it still showed it was in Jersey City. It says, "Your shipment was accepted/picked up at 2:30 pm on February 25, 2014 in WOODBINE, NJ 08270." There's no reason it should be down there. They should know where it is. Every hub that it goes to, it's supposed to be scanned. When it gets unloaded, it should be scanned. When it get loaded, it should be scanned. When it get to the PO, it should be scanned. When it does out for delivery, it should be scanned. This way you know exactly where it is.

    Every time I call customer service. They all tell me the same thing, it's at my local PO. I go down there, they tell me that they don't have it. And that it could be on the truck. If they look in their systems, and they see that it didn't get scanned to go on the truck. Then why are they telling me that it's on the truck?

    On 3/2, I get an email saying: "Your Priority Mail Express Hold For Pickup shipment is being returned to you due to failure to pickup within 5 days by the recipient at GENERAL LAFAYETTE STATION 322 PACIFIC AVE JERSEY CITY NJ 07304. The shipment with Tracking Number: is being returned to the sender and will no longer be available for pickup by the addressee at GENERAL LAFAYETTE STATION 322 PACIFIC AVE JERSEY CITY NJ 07304." That office has been closed for a couple years.

    I contacted the USPS like 10 times about this package. No one knows anything. They were all telling me something different. Then they said, that they're going to put a trace on it. And they will call me back. No one ever calls. I again called USPS customer service on 3/5. They said that they don't have any case number for the package. And I had to open another case. So I did.

    And she gave me the number for the consumer affairs. I called them. The machine said that they were busy, and to leave my name and number and someone will call back. No one ever called. I go to USPS and track the package, again. It says, Unclaimed Your item was returned to the sender on March 6, 2014 at 10:22 am in JERSEY CITY, NJ 07304 because it was not claimed by the addressee.

    I called the Bergen Ave. branch then, they said that they don't have it, and they didn't scan any package. I again call consumer affairs, they tell me the same thing that everyone else is. It's at the post office. But I call, it's not there. Now consumer affairs tell me that they will call the manager of the Bergen Ave. branch, and that he will call me back. I know no one will call back.

    I want to know why are people telling me that they left a notice, when they didn't? Why isn't it at the Bergan Ave. branch? Why did I get an email on 3/2 saying, "Your Priority Mail Express Hold For Pickup shipment is being returned to you due to failure to pickup within 5 days by the recipient at GENERAL LAFAYETTE STATION 322 PACIFIC AVE JERSEY CITY NJ 07304. The shipment with Tracking Number: is being returned to the sender and will no longer be available for pickup by the addressee at GENERAL LAFAYETTE STATION 322 PACIFIC AVE JERSEY CITY NJ 07304."

    That office has been closed for years. Why would they say my package is there? When it closed years ago? Why are you people lying to me, and giving me the run around? I send a complaint using the USPS site. They just send me back the same answers. Saying that they are sorry for the inconvenience.. I just want to know where my package is? And why are they lying to me?

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    Reviewed March 6, 2014

    I wrote a review February 11, about my issues with USPS. As of this date, I've received an email from the Postmaster where my PO Box is, that informed me basically he has no idea where my package is and is not even sure which address it was being sent to! I had already spoken to the sender and gotten a refund for the item, but the fact that it could just disappear from a local sorting facility is a bit distressing. When I track, the same information from Valentine's Day appears. I'm now worried about every package that I order online, online retailers oftentimes do not give customers an option to choose carriers and many times packages under a certain weight limit will get pawned off to the USPS for the last leg of the journey. It's a bit frightening!

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    Price

    Reviewed March 5, 2014

    I'm wondering why it is that each and every time I mail out the very same type of package or large envelope with the very same weight that the price quote I get varies between my local post offices. Whenever I go to my local post office in Covington, GA I get a higher price but when I travel all the way to the next town over to Conyers, GA I get a better price.

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    Reviewed March 4, 2014

    A package I ordered was sent to the Allen Park sorting facility on February 14, 2014. Several inquiries have been made by me with my tracking number (**). There has been no further updates since that date of February 14, 2014. I called the customer service line on February 25, 2014 and was given a case #**. I was told someone would get in touch with me in 24-48 hours. On March 3, 2014, there still had been no activity on my claim. My package is still missing. Nobody has even began any type of investigation into the whereabouts of my package. All I ask is that my package get delivered to my address - **. I already paid the vendor for the products that I am waiting for. The cost of the package is $78.00.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed March 1, 2014

    I live in Hawaii and I understand that things take longer to get to the mainland US, but why does the post office tell me that a package will be delivered in 3 to 5 days to west coast and it almost never gets there in 7 days? I mailed a flat rate priority box 2 weeks ago to Oregon. It took seven days. Last week I mailed another flat rate box to California and 6 days later it still isn't there. In fact the tracking said it left Honolulu on a Monday and it finally was in San Francisco on Saturday. This is priority? What kind of airplane was it? I think they could have put it on a boat and it would have arrived sooner. Why oh why do I keep believing what they say? I think I have just given up on them - at least I can rely on FedEx or UPS to get my daughter's birthday gift to her before her birthday. It's over between us. They can take their long lines and misinformation (I still am unable to call it lies) and forget about me. I absolutely have to move on and go to an organization that is competent and professional. Goodbye, adios, aloha...

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    Installation & Setup

    Reviewed Feb. 28, 2014

    Ok. I would like to give the USPS overall a great rating..this is based on my 43 years of using the service. However, recently...and I mean RECENTLY.... from Dec 2013 to Feb 2014...I have had the following SIX EVENTS in two months!!! 3 pieces of mail LOST. (one from Ft. Lauderdale to NYC, one from NYC to NYC, NYC to Brooklyn) - ALL GONE AND 2 pieces of mail NOT DELIVERED (Both to same address in Brooklyn from NYC). Both were returned to NYC. I took photos of the "not delivered" sticker on both and mailed those photos to the recipient. The address was correct and he had to take it to the post office to clear up why they were not delivering his mail. I don't know what came out of it.

    1 piece destroyed, one package of ceramic mugs. 3 cups crushed...even though it was packaged well. We feel that there must have been some kind of high impact event to do this. The recipient sent a photo. We were both very sad at the result. Is something going on recently at USPS? Are there people opening up envelopes looking for cash around the holidays? Maybe opening and finding a check..they know they cannot cash....thus they just trash the entire envelope and contents? Are they just throwing boxes around and dropping them? I think they need to install security cams around the post offices and in delivery trucks.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Feb. 28, 2014

    For most of the year now I have not been receiving most of my mail. I do receive utility bills. Most of my clients mail in their payments in the form of a check. For the past couple months I have not received ONE check via USPS. Of the ones that have resurfaced have been returned to sender. I always have the clients send me that original envelope so I can confirm that the address was printed correctly and to collect evidence. Every one of them that got to me was printed correctly and legibly. I have spent hours on the phone, on hold, talking to one person or another at USPS trying to get to the bottom of this. they directed me to visit the local post office, something that I already did. They confirmed that there was no obvious problem and that the problem was in Trenton (the main office that ALL NJ mail goes through). all of my mail is going to Trenton and then directly back to the sender from there. This information doesn't do anything for anyone other than frustrate me. They are still not able to locate the problem. Having my cash flow slowed to a trickle has made running a business very difficult to say the least. I will go back to the local Post Office on Monday to talk to some more useless people (getting bitter) and open a P.O. Box. They can't mess that up, can they?

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Feb. 28, 2014

    PLEASE BEAR WITH ME AS I GO INTO A LONG EXPLANATION THAT HAS TAKEN A MONTH TO DEAL WITH.

    This is not my first time experiencing shipping issues with USPS. I have a small home business where I ship on a daily basis. My online shop host supplies USPS shipping labels, where I paid $25.22 for Express shipping, because my package needed to be delivered overnight. I dropped the package off at the post office in their designated drop location. The next day instead of delivering the package to my customer in NJ, they returned the package back to me in FL, with no explanation on the package as to why.

    So, I went up to the post office waited in line for 10+ minutes (because for some reason they only have 1 person working at a time) and the USPS employee advised me that I needed to pay more for postage. Confused, I didn't argue because I just wanted to get the package there. She said "well we'll just add on to the already printed label you have." I trusting the USPS employee, said "okay," what do I know. I paid $22.60 more totaling to $47.60. She kept the same tracking number, left my label on the box and scribbled something on the label. It was a Friday so I wanted to make sure that this package was to deliver the very next day. Saturday comes and of course the package does not deliver. I call customer service and they have no clue where my package is located. Thank my lucky stars that my customer is loyal and patient. She ended up receiving the package the following Monday, the day she needed the items.

    I went back to the post office and again waited in line for 10+ min for the same postal worker to tell me that there was nothing she can do as far as returning my $47.60. I asked her why, she said because I need to receive my first refund from the online host where I originally printed the label. Well that doesn't make any sense because they are just a 3rd party providing the labels on behalf of the USPS. Again confused, I went home and immediately emailed the hosting site. They emailed me back immediately and advised me that they are just a 3rd party and any shipping issues would have to be dealt with USPS. So, I call USPS Customer Service (on hold for 45 min before anyone took my call, and to mention their auto service sucks, but this is another USPS issue for a later time) and spoke to an agent, advised her of the issue and she advised me that I am entitled to a full refund and that I needed to go back to the post office and get my refund.

    I then go back to the post office a few days later which means another 10+ minute wait in line. I asked for a manager when it was my turn, the employee tell me to wait to the side where I waited another 10 minutes before a "Supervisor" came up didn't look up any information on the tracking and basically told me there was nothing she can do for me, because it wasn't their fault that the package did not deliver in time, because some post offices aren't open on Saturdays and the business I sent the package to was probably closed. UMMMM WHAT!!! I calmly explained first it was not a business it was a home the package went to, second I paid for "GUARANTEED DELIVERY" as it says on the receipt provided to me via USPS, she stumbled on her words and then told me "well you have to come back 3 days from now when her Manager is there, because she doesn't have any authority over refunds.

    Now I'm not only confused but very very upset. I go back home and contact USPS Customer Service a 3rd time, which means another 30-40+ minute waiting time and then was told "well this seems to be a Consumer Affairs issue" and that I would need to contact USPS Consumer Affairs, because they as "Customer Service Agents" are only in charge of advising customers where their packages are located. Again confused because they are called "CUSTOMER SERVICE" and I have yet to receive any helpful service.

    Today I called Consumer Affairs and was on hold for 35 minutes before their auto service hung up on me, I called back and waited another 30 minutes and still no one answered, I looked up another phone number for them online, called it waited 30 minutes before anyone picked up the lady tells me, "oh let me give you the "same" number I already called." I just hung up on her. Again, called the Consumer Affairs number waited this time 45 minutes and FINALLY someone answers, but tell me "oh, my manager is not here and he will be back at 3" (which was 3 hours from that time) and he will give me a call back. Now, again I am waiting. This is the most ridiculous situation I have ever dealt with. It has been a month of driving back and forth, calling, and waiting. For $47.60, which I am entitled to receiving back.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Feb. 28, 2014

    It's really no surprise that the USPS is facing what they deem as a budget crisis. The customer service and mail processing regarding certified mail is horrible. I've experienced situations in which the carrier won't even attempt to come to the door (with the purpose of attempting to deliver the item), but will instead just put the orange card ("unavailable" in the box). Even when you call customer service they don't give accurate information. Try calling consumer affairs and you will get this crazy recording about office hours (even if you are calling during their opened hours). If USPS wants to become a productive entity, then it should clean house and get some basic common sense practices in order when it comes to running a business.

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    Verified purchase

    Reviewed Feb. 28, 2014

    I sent a package to Ghana since 31st December 2013. Any time I check the label number on the internet to know the status, it tells me it's on transit at ISC New York, it been there on transit for 2 months and I want to find out if there is any way to request the package returned back to me since I live in New York and is still on transit in New York. Please anyone help me. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed Feb. 28, 2014

    2-27-14 Contacted Consumer Affairs dept Seattle, Wa. Woman who answered was clearly annoyed. I had bothered her from the moment the phone rang. I had called regarding a overdue/lost shipment that usps couldn't locate. My attitude was reasonable and professional, No vulgarity or raised voice. I inquired about options regarding the missing parcel in hopes it could located and finally delivered. The woman rudely replied that I would need to complain to the items seller. And that, it essentially wasn't usps's problem unless the shipper filed a complaint.

    At this point, I began to ask if there anything I (the receiver who paid for item and shipping) could do to resolve the issue. Before I could complete my sentence the woman interrupted by saying "Goodbye Sir!" I asked her to stay on the line, She sighed and paused. I began to ask her name and again she stopped me mid-sentence with a "GOODBYE SIR!" The duration of the call lasted less than 2 minutes. Yet she was apparently so annoyed. She felt compelled to intentionally and blatantly terminate the call! This treatment was unprofessional and entirely unwarranted. I am a customer with a legitimate concern regarding my lost property.

    This woman clearly hates her position and should Not be interacting with the public or customers. There are other complaints on this site that appear to be about the same woman at the Seattle Wa Consumer Affairs Office. Its sad that such unprofessional and rude people are being paid to represent to the public. I attempted to ask the woman's name, But she had hung up on me before I was able to ask. I would like to be clear this was not a "lost" call. This woman knowingly and intentionally hung-up on me after less than 2 minutes.

    Overall, I have called USPS 4 different days trying to find or resolve my lost package and spent a combined 5 hours on hold waiting to speak to someone. Despite my package being physically scanned into the system at several usps locations, I was ultimately told that usps had never received the shipment. This is obviously false since the shipping label on the package has to be physically scanned in at each location it passes through.

    The package in question passed through and was scanned at multiple usps locations until ultimately arriving in the local distribution warehouse approx 50 mile from my location at which point it mysteriously disappeared from a pallet. The package has now vanished and usps has informed me that I can do nothing other than complain to the seller who did exactly what they were supposed by shipping the package.

    The end result is I waited 3 weeks for a package that never arrived. Do not have the item I ordered. And the money I paid for the item is essentially in "limbo". USPS has wasted 6+ hours of my time to pretty much tell me to take a hike (give up). In addition, this is the 5th consecutive package USPS has failed to deliver. The previous 4 packages had to be picked up in person as USPS couldn't be bothered to deliver them as i payed them to.

    I am now so disgusted and disappointed with USPS. I am realizing it will be necessary to pay more to have private carriers deliver my packages, More expensive but atleast my packages will ACTUALLY ARRIVE! I will also be filing an official complaint with USPS but realize that it will likely never be answered or addressed. So hopefully, this will serve as a cautionary tale and just maybe aid in getting this rude woman removed from her position.

    Should someone from USPS see this post and bother to look into it, the call was placed to 1-253-214-1800 Seattle Wa Consumer Affairs at approx 3:15pm on 2-27-2014. The woman refused to give her name, but I am sure USPS has a call/shift log that could reveal this woman's identity. Ultimately, the lesson I've learned after repeated failures on the part of USPS is to pay the higher price to ship items through a carrier who actually bothers to do the job they were paid to do!

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    Verified purchase

    Reviewed Feb. 27, 2014

    The US post office does okay with regular mail but when it comes to packages, it' a whole different matter. I really do not recall in my 64 yrs not receiving something as regular daily mail. I think most of us in business that requires parcel shipping are all aware of the risks with the US parcel service. So why the big difference? Well in my opinion why should theft in this area be any different than the rest of the world? Yes some parcels do get lost but at the rate this happens this would not explain the difference so it comes down to INVENTORY SHRINKAGE a.k.a. THEFT. GEE IMAGINE THAT.

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    Reviewed Feb. 26, 2014

    In January: Two packages sent first class, arrival in 3-5 days. It took two weeks. An envelope labeled "Important Tax Document Enclosed" from Boston to NYC - arrived literally in shreds and unusable. All this to the big Farley post office in midtown Manhattan that serves my workplace.

    February - two more packages with tracking - USPS arbitrary just sent one back to sender after inexplicably attempting to deliver on Saturday at 8 pm (this is my WORK PLACE, and USPS is supposed to know to try again on the next business day). The other - FedEx says: "USPS delivered to addressee." Well, I'm the addressee and it's not here.

    To my home address, also in Manhattan - the resent tax document, as well as a check sent from one zip code over, both are missing in action after two weeks. I have gotten almost NO regular mail to either work or home address in a month. Just the occasional Time Warner Cable junk (and TWC bombards me with mail) and random junk mail. I am not even getting my regular Citibank statements. At work I usually get tons of periodicals and letters, as I am a journalist -- for the past several weeks, NOTHING.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Feb. 26, 2014

    USPS misrouted my package, provided misleading and inaccurate info when I tried to track it after it was late and then refused to show further updates when I persisted with email alert requests and finally a real person said she has no info at this time....never again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will file a complaint for reimbursement.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Feb. 23, 2014

    Sometimes we don't get mail for a week. We live at the end of a dead end street. I have called the post office and they say they are short handed and must pick and choose where the mail gets delivered. Apparently, we don't get picked or chosen too often. Then on tracking they make stuff up like, package could not be left or available for pick up.

    I am paying for two day delivery and don't get it on time. I have even spent a half hour on hold to speak with the government post office phone number. They give you a case number and you never hear anything else. Something needs to be done. This has been going on for months!

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    Price

    Reviewed Feb. 22, 2014

    I have not received 3 packages that say they were delivered in the last 2 weeks. One was a very expensive ring and the other a black Diamond necklace... I told the post office and they told me they would look up the person who scanned and who delivered it... I am expecting several more shipments... What legal action can we take? I want my items!!!!! I'm expecting a Kindle soon... I hope I get it.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Feb. 21, 2014

    My son moved to Mesquite Texas on Dec 4, 2014, from Virginia. On Feb 5, 2014 at 1:33 pm I sent him an Express mail package which contained his original car title which he needs to register his car in Texas. I was told that he would received the package by 3:00 pm. On Feb 6, 2014 his has not received the package which I paid $19.99 for. When I tracked the package it says that it was delivered on Feb 6, 2014 at 1:14 pm at the Mesquite Post office, in Garland Texas. He lives in Mesquite Texas. I filed a compliant with Consumer Affairs on Feb 13th 2014 and was told to give them a week, that a e-mail would be sent to the station manager.

    I called back on Feb 20, 2014 and was told the manager had not even looked at the e-mail. The person with consumer affairs said that she would talk with her manager and call me back today and I never received a call back, so today I called USPS consumer service and requested that a email be sent to the postmaster. So right now I have to bear the expense of paying to get another title and am also out of the $19.99. To make matters worse my husband just retired for the Postal Service, and he is ashamed.

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    Staff

    Reviewed Feb. 20, 2014

    More than one lost Priority Mail package with online generated shipping labels & signature confirmation. Packages were sent to a customer in Opa Locka, Florida. The USPS sorting and distribution center there is a joke. Management is substandard as well as the people they hire. I honestly hope this post office center in Opa Locka gets permanently closed.

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    Reviewed Feb. 20, 2014

    I have been trying without success to get the US Postal Service to respond to my problem and complaint. Perhaps you can help. On January 22, 2014, almost a month ago, I encountered one of the most surly and unhelpful postal employees, it has been my misfortune to deal with. I was at the Engleside Branch PO at 8588 Richmond, Hwy, Alexandria, VA. I had several books to mail, as I run a small book-selling business out of my home. I had a combination of regular postage (the $2 inverted jenny stamp) and postage vended by one of your Automated Postal Centers. The APC postage had been purchased several weeks earlier. When I presented my packages to USPS counter clerk ** she informed me that because the APC postage was more than two days old, it was no good. I tried to explain to her that this was not a meter, and that APC postage never expired, just like regular stamps. She asked a co-worker if that was true.

    The co-worker asked if it had the word forever on ital., irrelevant question. ** replied that it did not. Then, said the co-worker, it is no good. Once again I tried to explain that this was wrong and that the APC postage was valid. ** informed me that if I put the packages in the box they would be returned to me. A supervisor then told another clerk to process the packages for me, and so far as I know, they were delivered. That same day January 22, I submitted a complaint at USPS.com explaining what had happened. I have yet to hear from anyone from the USPS with regard to my complaint.

    On February 4, 2014, I sent a letter to the Postmaster General, Mr. **, relating my experience and asking for a response. I also asked for something in writing stating that APC postage does not expire. I have yet to hear from him. On January 16, 2014, I sent another email inquiry to faq.usps.com. That may not be the complete URL, as it is printed off the page. Needless to say, I have not received an answer to my inquiry, which was whether APC postage ever expires. I am hoping that you can cut through this BS and get me some answers and tell ** and other less-than-informed clerks what APC postage is. Thanks.

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    Punctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Feb. 19, 2014

    We live in DE. We spend winters in South Florida. We pay for Premium mail forwarding to our winter address in Florida. It's mailed once a week from our Delaware post office. Sometimes we do not get it for 10 days or more. I know our postmaster personally and I know for certain my mail goes out on schedule weekly. Once it gets to the Miami area... it's like a log jam. Nobody knows where it is, etc. The box arrives beaten like it took a journey from the other side of the world. The distance from our P.O. is 1150 miles. We drive it in 1.5 days. What happens at processing or sorting centers in Miami areas? I am not alone… other snow birds tell the same stories.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Feb. 19, 2014

    This post office located at 1315 INWOOD AVE BRONX, NY 10452-9998 has time and again either lost my packages or claimed to deliver them when it's not true. The latest is a package that has been purchased for $552.22 and I'd like to have either my package delivered to me or my money in total refund. Can you help me with this. I've tried to call them only to have them pick up the phone and hang it up. Something needs to be done about their behavior. Thank you.

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    Coverage

    Reviewed Feb. 19, 2014

    I ordered some essential oils from a seller on e-bay. When the package arrives at my home it had been opened, even though the seller had taped up the padded envelope very well. The postal carrier basically put an empty padded envelope in my mail box. I contacted the post office who basically said they are not responsible for "damaged" items!!!! I contacted the ebay seller who did not insure the package she sent and she says she is not responsible! I on the other hand am out of my items and out of my money! Is there nothing I can do? Frustrated!

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    Reviewed Feb. 19, 2014

    Our law firm is located on one of the main and oldest streets in Charlotte. We have the WORST mail delivery ever. Our mail is delivered sporadically and calling the delivery office (704-566-3105) is pointless. They leave you on hold for as much as an hour and then hang up. This is beyond unacceptable - it is no wonder the whole USPS is losing money - they can no longer operate effectively much less efficiently!

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    Reviewed Feb. 18, 2014

    I understand a delay from last week’s 18+ inches of snow but today was 2 inches max and my neighborhood did not receive any mail delivery. There are mailbox flags still up. This is not the first time I have not received mail for a minimal amount of snow. It’s unacceptable especially when their rates continue to go up and we pay for this service. Sometimes I don't receive mail until after I get home from work (6 pm). Something must be done, on a local level. I'm very unhappy considering my parents live 2 miles away and get mail by lunch time.

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    Reviewed Feb. 18, 2014

    A registered letter with a cashier's check was sent to me from Canada on 12/09/13. The tracking number states that it was processed through ISC NY on 12/11/13. As of today 2/18/14 (2 months later), the letter has not been received here in Oregon. A claim was filed at source of sender. Sender was told by Canada Post that the USPS didn't know where it was. I just wanted to add my experience with the USPS because I have been reading the many, stories of similar experiences. What a sad state of affairs.

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    Reviewed Feb. 18, 2014

    My senior citizen father, living on a limited income, paid extra to ensure delivery of a package to his granddaughter. He was told it would be delivered on Saturday. We waited and watched as the mail lady delivered our mail and then watched her drive away. When I checked my mail, to my surprise I found a "Sorry We Missed You" slip. I'm a stay-at-home mom and I can assure you NO attempt was made to deliver my package. We have no dogs or any gates or obstructions to my door and the box is smaller than shoe box. The only answer I can give myself is that she didn't bother to try because it was pouring rain that entire day. NOT A GOOD ENOUGH REASON! This isn't the first time this has happened to me and a few other people in town. Customer service at USPS doesn't pick up. Now I have to go pick up my own package. So why exactly are we trying so hard to save USPS???

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    Reviewed Feb. 18, 2014

    This must be the worst postal company I have ever seen my life. I purchased a watch from Atlanta on 13 Jan 2014 paid $65.00 for priority international post. We are now at the 18th Feb 2014. The parcel was last scanned on the 27 Jan. From there it cannot be found. From Atlanta to NY last place that it was scanned took 15 days to reach there but from there nothing. No one will help on the phone when call them. I will get customer services and the agent is either having a chat with their colleagues or tell you "please wait I need to take a drink" then burps down the phone, absolutely disgusting... This is the worst company I have ever had to deal with in my life. I would recommend that no one in their right mind should never use USPS. We are now at 18-02-2014 and no clue where my parcel is

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    Reviewed Feb. 17, 2014

    The USPS is now charging eBay and Click and Ship customers $1.30 to drop off packages at the US Post Office and get a receipt. The US Postmaster at Rodeo, CA cannot provide any documentation as to why they now charge for a receipt. I am NOT referring to a Certificate of Mailing. I pay for USPS Tracking when I buy my Postage Label on PayPal. That should mean that I am entitled to receive tracking from my possession to the USPS Acceptance. I think this is an unauthorized fee and I want to file a claim against the USPS and/or receive an official response from the US Postmaster General explaining the new fee and providing me with the correct DMM Code for the fee.

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    mukti increased rating by 2 stars.
    After a positive interaction with USPS, mukti increased their star rating on Feb. 20, 2014.

    Updated review: Feb. 20, 2014

    Package misplaced by Apartment Lease office staff finally got it.

    Original Review: Feb. 15, 2014

    Issue: Package Missing from USPS Carrier. Tracking Number: ** - I placed order on Amazon "January 24, 2014." USPS Status say it Delivered but never reach to me or Apartment leasing office. I went to local office, supervisor give information "Carrier Delivered" Package to Apartment Leasing Office but Leasing Office saying they never received Package. I called 1-800- Help Line number. Below is Case number from USPS: **. Please help me on this. Can I make police report against USPS on this? (False Status) **. Thanks!

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    Online & AppStaff

    Reviewed Feb. 14, 2014

    My normal mailman is great; that is, when he works. He has medical issues and missed 2-3 days a week. The USPO gives his route to other employees, and they're supposed to deliver our mail after they do their own route. The problem is, whoever it is is NOT doing that. For a few days now, no mail. It doesn't seem to be the snowstorm; their website says nothing about New Jersey mail delivery being affected. This is a service we pay for, and a service we have no choice but to use. Not getting mail for days on end is inexcusable!

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    Reviewed Feb. 14, 2014

    I'm so pissed! I received an email from UPS stating that my package was delivered at 10:30 this morning. When I get home there is nothing on my porch, so I called UPS. They tell me my package was delivered by the post office. So I call the post office and the lady says, "Girl, you like the 10th person whose package has been stolen today," and she had the nerve to laugh. Then the lady hung up. Update: After calling them for three hours, I was finally able to speak with somebody and she told me, "Well I don't know why the box was scanned two time but its showing it was delivered at 10:20 and 10:30." So I asked her why didn't they leave a notice on my door, stating that it was attempted to be delivered and she said. "Well we don't do that, that's UPS. We put a notice in the mailbox." So when I asked her why didn't they put the notice in the mailbox, she said, "Oh you have to call the other post office in the morning. I can't answer that for you."

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    Reviewed Feb. 13, 2014

    We are a very small business based out of Peyton, CO. We depend upon our receivables to survive. It is now taking 4+ days to receive a first class letter from Colorado Springs, CO (from a business located 30 min from our location). I realize that all of the mail now has to travel to Denver to be processed. The mail we are waiting on was mailed 20 miles from us... so far it has been 4 days and has yet to be received. It was great when the mail was processed in Colorado Springs and we could depend on overnight local delivery. This is getting very frustrating.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Feb. 12, 2014

    I bought a item on eBay on 1-10-14. It was coming out of Illinois. It was shipped on 1-14-14. It was shipped by UPS sort service. It ended up in So. San Francisco on Jan 17th-20th... When tracking in eBay it indicated it would 2 days late, I should receive by the 22nd. The automated tracking system said item was misrouted which caused the chaos in the first place, it should have been routed to San Francisco, not so. San Fran. to begun with. Since the 30th of Jan. item has been lost. No follow up/updated phone calls since initial complaint. 1st of 4 phone calls getting same response (which was we are trying our best every means to find out what happened to my lost pkg)7.

    The 3rd phone call on Feb. 3rd indicated pkg. ended up on 2111 Lane Ave. branch, Bayview district, but since that time still nothing, calls, anything. Updates, nothing. I am very angry and probably out 16 dollars due to incompetence (poor customer service). I tried calling consumer affairs on phone couldn't get through, no call back anything.kind of par for the course, poor customer service.

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    Staff

    Reviewed Feb. 12, 2014

    The number I just called for US Postal Services was 1(800) 222-1811. It took about 12 minutes before I was able to speak with a live person. I had paid for overnight package and extra for guarantee to get there by 10:30AM and now it's past the time and my last known tracked address is still in the same vicinity. Filed a claim and someone is contacting me tomorrow. Good luck!

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    Reviewed Feb. 11, 2014

    On December 12, 2013, I sent a priority package to my sister in California. The post office representative input the zip code incorrectly. She used 96368 instead of 95364. She advised papers were to be completed for an APO address. Postal representative was advised this is not an APO address. I was advised it was corrected but later learned it was not. This package has been in California 4 times and since February 3, 2014 in Chicago, IL. I tried calling 1-800 number for help and have a case number #. My local post office has not been able to help. Please advise how this can be resolved, Also Consumers Affairs' number in PR 787-622-1817 messages are full and there is no redirect.

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    Reviewed Feb. 11, 2014

    I'm a seller on eBay. I Mail a package and it disappeared on Chicago IL 60666. My tracking number is **. eBay refund the buyer $61.79 and I lost my items. The package remains in transit. It shipped on November 29th of 2013 and remains undelivered 2/11/2014. I mail another package and it disappeared in Chicago at ISC USPS. The Tracking number is **. eBay refund the buyer $32.25 and I lost my items. The package remains in transit in the USPS system. It shipped on December 2, 2013 and remains undeliverable 2/11/2014.

    Mail theft is a federal crime and is defined as anyone taking any piece of mail, be it a letter or a package, for any purpose. This includes stealing from postage workers, from private mail boxes, from collection boxes and even from mail trucks. Mail theft alone carries a penalty of either five years imprisonment, a fine or both. Other crimes may also be added to this charge, such as assault or breaking and entering, depending on the method of theft.

    I have read other posting from other sellers and their merchandise are disappearing in Chicago. Crime is happening in this Post offices. The Federal Government (FBI) should launch a undercover investigation to bring those responsible of stealing. I will be contacting federal agencies and Postal inspectors to get to the bottom and bring Justice. Please share my feelings with other similar people. A new Law should be made to make The USPS liable for lost items. The USPS is not doing much to protect our shipments. You can always check my unique tracking numbers above on USPS and see I am not a liar.

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    Reviewed Feb. 11, 2014

    My problem started about a year ago when I moved to an area that didn't get door to door service and had community boxes. A few months ago the lock to my community box broke and I was advised to call the PO where my mail comes from (which is 15 mi away from me, in a different city which I don't like in but unfortunately been cursed w/ the same zip code). I called and spoke with a Sup who informed me that they would have someone come out to repair the box and it could take a while so in the meantime they were going to hold my mail. That wasn't an option for me for a number of reasons, so I told the Sup I would just deal with the broken lock for a while.

    One day I checked the box and it was open and there were sensitive pieces of mail inside that could've easily been stolen. I made the decision to get a PO Box and went to the PO five minutes from my house and bought PO Box and completed a COA. During that time some packages were being sent to me and I thought they would be delivered by FedEx, but were being shipped FedEx Smartpost; so the last leg of the race would be USPS' job. I knew when they were coming and the day they were supposed to arrive. They were no way to be found. I tracked and that's when I realized they were coming SmartPost. I also discovered that USPS was claiming the packages were undeliverable and being sent back to the sender. I tried to contact USPS to see if I could just google the PO where they were and p/u the packages.

    By the time I received a (on the 2nd day) reply back I was under the impression and this was confirmed when speaking to a USPS rep that the packages were indeed getting sent back to the sender. I was also told the packages could've been just dropped at my house but the mailman had no idea who I was. She/He has no idea who anyone is because we had COMMUNITY BOXES! I tracked the packages that evening to see how far along they were to getting back to the sender so I could plan to reorder them and to my surprise I saw that they had been forwarded to my PO Box and one even had an ESD which was Sat 02/08/14.

    I go to the PO to p/u my mail that day and indeed there was a package there for me, but not these two. I spoke w/ some that worked in the PO who was nice and informed me that there was only 1 there for me, but she would definitely be looking out for the other two and not sure why it didn't arrive when it said it would. Since that was a Sat, I thought I would try again Monday and see if my packages were there. They were not and the worker again had no explanation for where they could be.

    I called USPS and after being on hold for more than 30 minutes and going through that insane automated system, spoke w/ a rep who was kind and helpful, what I gathered is that for large packages it can take up to a week to get rerouted because it has to go back down to the main facility to get resorted to the correct PO for delivery. He believes that I should have them by the end of this week when I should have had them before the end of the previous week. I loved my previous mail carrier (back when I got door service) and hopefully my packages arrive and I don't have to waste time calling USPS and writing scathing reviews about them.

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    Reviewed Feb. 11, 2014

    I just want an explanation as to how my local post office can decide our neighborhood only gets mail 5 days a week since Jan. There is no rhyme or reason to the 5 days we get mail, just when they are overworked I guess. I thought the post office had to get approval from Congress to go to 5 day delivery! I guess our post office is special. Talking to them is USELESS… they apologize and say it should not happen, but they are very careful to make sure they don't tell you any action plan to ensure it doesn't happen again. I swear I did not retire to fight with the post office every day just to get them to do their job or find someone who can!!!!!

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    Reviewed Feb. 10, 2014

    My parents have a house out in the country they have left sitting empty for about 3 years after purchasing a new house in town (Ames). I recently moved in to the empty house to help upkeep the place and keep it from deteriorating. For about the first year, there were no major problems except that we would get other people's mail from time to time. My parents have owned this house for 20 years and the only mail that gets delivered there is all addressed to our last name. So when I get mail that is supposed to go to someone named Emily **, I am confused to say the least, but it's not a big deal to me, so I let it slide for about a year.

    Then, out of the blue, I got a letter from the post office saying the mailbox needed to be moved because it was no longer in a safe location, and that they needed to protect the safety of their drivers. I didn't take it very seriously and set the letter aside. I contacted my dad who informed me that the post office told him to put the mail box where still is 20 years ago. Why would they all of a sudden consider it unsafe? The only thing that had changed since we moved in is there are now a couple of cars in the driveway, completely out of the way and not hindering any mail carrier from driving to the mail box. After a couple months went by, I got another notice saying service would be suspended until the mailbox was moved.

    I called the postmaster to see what the deal was. Jaylene **, the incredibly rude postmaster I had the displeasure of dealing with, was absolutely zero help. She repeated the same wordage in the notices over and over and couldn't really give me a reason as to why it was all of a sudden unsafe. The only legitimate point she made was that my driveway is slippery in the winter sometimes. Ok.... How is that different from all roads in the winter? Maybe USPS should just stop delivering mail Nov-March. Doesn't their slogan say something about rain, snow, or gloomy nights? I told her I would oblige to her request to move the mail box (although I completely disagree with the logic behind it) in the spring when the ground thawed out enough to dig a new hole for a new mailbox post. Apparently there is no reasoning with this power tripping witch, as that was not good enough for her and my mail was still suspended.

    I contacted Consumer Affairs by phone after this all happened. They told me they would check into it. Never heard back. I ended up having my mail forwarded to my parents house in town. The problem with this is that it takes an extra week to get there, and since I got this service, I have had many items just plain missing. You also do not receive local mailers or coupons and such when you use mail forwarding, some of which I actually like to get. I also recently started a business and am using my home address to get the mail for it. I was in the process of getting my business listed on Google so that more people could find me online. Google was sending me a postcard with time sensitive information on it to make this happen. It's been about a month and 12 days now and it's still not here.

    I think it's safe to add it to the list of things that 'are lost'. At this point I'm convinced that my post office has it out for me. I don't know what I did to piss them off so much besides start living there. I'm convinced the driver is just too lazy to drive the extra 20 feet to the mail box and had his postmaster do his bidding for him, citing safety as the excuse. At this point I am beyond pissed and would gladly pay good money to sue/see people fired. After reading the incredibly large amounts of complaints others have posted just on this website alone, there is no doubt in my mind that USPS is a complete failure of an organization. I think my dog could do a better job than any of their employees.

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    Reviewed Feb. 9, 2014

    I live in northwest Indiana and this winter has been a particulary hard one with extreme cold and snow (as it is almost every year). Cold and snow is nothing new for our mail carrier, or any mail carrier from around here. We haven't received mail since January 29, 2013. Today is February 9, 2014. My husband and I both have called our local USPS to find out why we aren't getting our mail. The woman we spoke with apologized said our mail wasn't being delivered b/c we need to remove the snow in front of our mailbox. There is no snow in front of our mailbox. However, about 6 ft away from our mailbox is an 18x20ft snow mound that our city snowplows keep adding snow to. Since this pile is there in order to get to our mailbox, our carrier would either have to open his door and take one step out to reach the box, or he'd have to pass it and then drive in reverse (USPS drivers are not allowed to drive in reverse for "safety reasons").

    The alternatives that were offered to us were to remove the snow or buy a new mailbox to place in front of our other one or stand outside and wait. I asked if we could just pick up our mail at the post office and her response was "Absolutely not, you can either use one of the options I gave you or continue to not receive mail." After this comment I asked to speak with a supervisor, who said they told our mail carrier to deliver to us on February 8, 2014 no matter what. We still have not received mail. I get that mail carriers can "refuse" to deliver for basically any reason if it is a "safety hazard" but for the post office to refuse in store pick up is absolutely ridiculous.

    The USPS is withholding our mail illegally and without warrant. I tried to call and complain to corporate and I tried to email an complaint. The email service is down, and they are not open on Sundays (which I figured they wouldn't be). I am extremely disappointed with USPS at this point. Can someone please tell me if this has happened to them as well? Unwarranted and illegal mail withholding?

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    Reviewed Feb. 8, 2014

    Last week, I've placed an order online. The package came in today, but the content of the box is empty. Someone has opened the box and took all my orders, left only the invoice and bubble wraps. It is very obvious someone cut open the tape and re-tapes it with another piece of tape on top of it. First thing I did was calling the online shop and told them what happened. They replaced my orders right at way even it is not their fault whatsoever. Then, I went to my local post office to file a complaint. The supervisor I talked to was nice, but it doesn't seem she's going to do anything about it. She kept suggesting other possibilities about the missing package contents, not once she said that she will looking into it that maybe someone at postal office end has something to do with it.

    Until I told her I am here to telling her about this are not because I want any kind of reimbursement from the postal office. I just want they aware and doing something about the stealing. Then, she told me all she can do is to talk to the people work there about this. I have to call 800-275-8777 number to file a complaint. File a complaint? What am I doing now talking to you? Anyway, I called the 800 numbers after I left the post office. For about over 30 minutes of waiting, no one ever pick up the phone. In frustration I search information online which lead me to this website.

    I can't believer there are so many complaints against the postal services. One of the big frustration of people which I share is where can you take your complaint about the bad postal service, and is there anyone ever going to do something about it? Maybe there is a reason why the US Postal Service is on the verge of bankruptcy. If any corporation has this amount of unhappy customer complaints, they will if not already done something about it. Also, couple of months ago, I had another online order (that online shop used USPS) that I never received. I thought at time that maybe the package got misdelivered. Now, I am not too sure about it. I think stealing is pretty serious matter in shipping business that should be look into.

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    Reviewed Feb. 6, 2014

    For more than 7 years I have asked the Bedford, Ohio Post Office to tell the carriers to stop going thru my shrubs. I had told the carriers, but they ignored me. They trample on my shrubs, solar lights, Christmas lights and flowers. They show no respect for other people's property. This year, again I called and complained to Mr. **. He would tell the carriers. Either he didn't tell them or they ignored him. I called about 10 times in 2 weeks and those people still ignored this. I finally told them that the carriers are not to cross my lawn anymore. That they will have to go down the neighbors drive, out to the street and then up my drive. The one carrier who probably only went to the 3rd grade said, “I ain't goin' down the drive and walking in no street.” Really sounds intelligent. Like she never walked in the street. Who is she to tell me that she will cross my lawn?

    I called Consumer Affairs, but they were no help. They said I could put up a fence. Why? Why can't she understand my wishes about my property? I had even said that they could cross the lawn further down, but that is ignored also. So, when I file my taxes, I will claim damages to my property that the carriers have caused, especially since the post office said they do not pay for things like this. You have about an attorney to contact me. That is funny. Why can't these carriers do like they are suppose to?

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    Reviewed Feb. 5, 2014

    I am really upset. I have been waiting for a package containing my driver's license that was sent from South Africa via Express mail to the USA. Already, 2 weeks has passed from the indicated date of arrival by the USPS. And if I track the package it says it is in New york (JFK), but I'm in Minneapolis. I am in a foreign country for work and you can understand my frustration in the fact that I cannot rent a car and therefore every day is a struggle to get around and to work. I also can't get hold of ANYONE on the phone numbers that is listed on the USPS website. NO ONE ANSWERS THE PHONE.

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    Reviewed Jan. 31, 2014

    I sent a package out on the 14th to an address I could have driven it to in 3 hours, the item showed up 9 days later. Upset that the item was so late, I called the 800 number on the receipt which was a whole other experience for me, I am used to automated systems that you can interrupt to expedite your way through, Not this one. If there is any sound on the caller's end it resets the automation point of reference. But that was nothing compared to the cycle I would experience from that point. I have spoken with 9 different people from the intake center, delivery center, call center, and Consumer Affairs and there are more problems than solutions.

    When I dropped the package off, I was given an estimate that the package would be delivered within a couple of days because it was so local, when I informed the clerk I needed it there no later than the 20th. She told me I had options I could take that was more expensive, the contradictions didn't take long to start. That evening when I got home, I checked tracking on it. And it had an estimated delivery date of the 17th, which wasn't that bad, even though it was two days later than quoted. When the 18th came and there was no delivery, there was a problem for me. I called the delivery station and after voicing my concern was advised to refuse delivery so it would be returned to me. Which we did when the delivery attempt was made on the 21st.

    On the 23rd there was no movement in tracking so I called back and was told it would be processed through that day. On the 24th and 25th, there was still no movement. I called customer affairs and the treatment I received was not stellar. And all I could think, with all the business I do with USPS, 100s of packages a year to get this kind of service I thought was isolated. I received a call back on the 27th from a guy whose name escapes me. He told me in certain terms that there was nothing that could be done, and I refused to believe that. On the 28th, I called the local Post Office who know me pretty well, and was given direct numbers that I should call. On the 28th I called consumer affairs, hoping to find someone, anyone that could resolve my concerns.

    Here I am, loyal USPS customer, been using the service above the competition for years, even when I knew the prices were comparable and even better for some of the deliveries I needed. I paid you $66.00 to deliver a package 130 miles away, because of your clerk's calculations, the tracking system confirming her calculations, granted giving two extra days. When it doesn't show up, from the bottom floor to the top of the chain, everyone blames me for not knowing that the package option I used was not guaranteed, One clerk even told me because it was a low priority, it may have sit in the station for days while others with a higher priority would edge it out no matter how many days it was there.

    The bad part about it all, it sat in the receiving station from the 21st when it was refused, until the 29th when I called back to voice my concern, it was attempted delivery again, but never reached the delivery location to be refused, which was communicated to me by the other end. No one showed up to the door to deliver the item for it to be refused. Today is the 31st, and there is no movement in tracking for it. And I need it in GA by the 10th of Feb. I have recorded every conversation from the 21st. I don't understand this, No one has tried to resolve this for me. It's my fault, I can't get a refund, I can't get the item forwarded to GA, and I have no idea when it will be returned, and no one knows where it is. What can I do?

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    Reviewed Jan. 29, 2014

    I order merchandise on Ebay and it's delivered by USPS. Many times some items are delivered to OTHER addresses but the person receiving it brings it to me. On January 21st, I checked the tracking number of an item and it was marked "delivered". I could not find my item at my home. Later I tracked the item and found that it was delivered at: ** Upland, Ca 91786. I went to the post office at 91785, spoke to the supervisor and he informed me that he would look into it. The date was 1-23-14. As of today, 1-29-14, still have not heard from the USPS supervisor and that is my complaint. In other words, even the USPS has not shown me a solution to their problem.

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    Reviewed Jan. 29, 2014

    December 08, 2013 - Sent Package to Brazil - vitamins for my sick grandmother. January 08, 2014 - Tracking showed the package was "stuck" in Miami since December 12,2013. I called USPS, and was on hold for 40 minutes, got hanged up on, and then was on hold for 45 minutes again, and the representative told me to contact Brazil Post Office and there was nothing USPS could do. I called Brazil post office, and they told me to call USPS because they don't track packages. January 15, 2014 - stopped by my local post office and they informed that the package left Miami and that there is nothing they could do.

    January 20, 2014 - Got very crazy and mad for spending $150 in vitamins my grandmother never received, besides my card and photos she never received. I filed a complaint on both USPS and Correios Brasileiros website. I received a reply from Brasil Correios two days later, but not USPS. January 24, 2014 - Sent at least 100 complaints on both USPS and Correios Brasileiros - Copied and pasted the same letter with tracking number, address, my info, over and over again on their website under: Claims, Complain, Sujestion, Domestic, International, Praise, Question, Mail address change, etc.. January 27, 2014 - 48 days later - the package arrived in Brazil... I think somebody out there heard my plea.

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    Reviewed Jan. 28, 2014

    The Carrier informed the PO that I moved and left no forwarding address. I have NOT moved and have gone to the PO in Vista, CA 7 times asking to have my mail delivered, and still it is being returned. I am, as I write this, waiting on hold with the Complaint Dept of the USPS, and timer on my phone shows I've waited, without speaking to anyone for exactly 33 Minutes 10 seconds.

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    Reviewed Jan. 28, 2014

    This is the 3rd time I ordered an item from a vendor in Elk Grove Village, IL. I live 30 miles away. The item was sent first class mail with tracking 2 times. It took 7 days to ship. 3rd time it took 9 days, It spends 6 days in a sorting facility according to tracking. What kind of crap is this, I could see 1 time maybe but 3 times is a joke.

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    Reviewed Jan. 28, 2014

    I bought a dress online for my wedding. It's my daughter's flower girl dress. I paid a decent amount of money for this dress to be custom and handmade. The designer said that it would take anywhere from 4-6 weeks to get the dress made and delivered. This was mid-November 2013. The beginning of January I checked the package tracking to see what the status of my delivery was. I didn't feel the need to check any earlier based on what the designer told me and the fact that it was right before Christmas. According to the package tracking, my package had arrived and been received on November 27 2013. When I called the post office, they said that they couldn't tell me what carrier had delivered my package because it was past 30 days of delivery date and they don't keep any paper records. The freaking u.s. postal service can't tell me who delivered my package! Seriously!

    I was then told that someone would have to have been at the place of residence for the package status changed to delivered and received. I told the postal supervisor that no one at my residence had signed for any package and that I want to know who did. They again said that they didn't keep records back that far. I was told that I would have to get in contact with the dress designer and see if she could file a claim for me since she was the one who bought the insurance on the dress. They wouldn't let me do it. A report has been filed by the designer but now I'm being told that i might have to file a theft report but it's my responsibility to prove that it was stolen.

    I ask this question... how can I do that if I'm being told that they keep no records past 30 days, they can't tell me who signed for it? So pretty much it's my word against the United States Postal Service. What a joke of an establishment! I will never opt to have any package sent through the postal service again! No one is willing to help me! I'm out money and a dress! I will pay any extra amount to have it sent through FedEx! It's amazing to me that the post office can even operate and are still around. The lack of customer service and the lack of satisfaction makes me sick.

    And to top everything off, I was told that I should get in contact with the mail recovery center to see if my unclaimed package might possibly be there. And that I would need to do it asap because they auction items that are unclaimed. Wow! Is all I can say! Funny that I would need to do all of this. Funny that it's my obligation to track down a package that I never received. Never again will I deal with this.

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    Reviewed Jan. 28, 2014

    Initial complaint: Sets of vandalized cluster mailboxes were removed from our subdivision in Dec. 2013 & have not been replaced. No information to residents as to when they will be replaced, or getting keys. Required to go to P.O. to pick up mail. Most people work, so can only go on Sat. but "window" that handles this closes at 12:00 and only has one VERY SLOW person working..... usually over an hour wait in line to get mail here. Today (01/27/14), I went to P.O. at 7:30am (posted hours) but "window" on the blue door was closed and there was no response to "ring the bell for service". Went into main area, but clerks behind that desk would not help me. Said I had to go out to the "blue door" (closed). Said "ring the bell" (did that). I asked if supervisor was available? Told me "go ask at the blue door". Would not even tell me if there was a supervisor there.

    Waited in line at "blue door window". Heard the clerks walk around and tell someone to open the door. They did. After I got my mail, I asked if there was a supervisor there? Person walked away (I assumed to go get a supervisor), then came back with a form & told me to fill it out. "What for?" I asked. "You asked for a supervisor". I just want to know if there IS a supervisor. "Fill out the form". "I have to fill out a form just to get an answer to if you have a supervisor?" "Fill out the form". BROTHER. I fill out the form. It asked what was main purpose of my request, I said, "Window not open at posted times, workers refuse to answer questions, extremely unfriendly treatment." Worker takes form & says, "Someone will be with you shortly," leaves me standing at the window 45 MORE MINUTES while he waited on customers behind me.

    Finally "Byron" comes out and asks what is my problem? I ask if he is the supervisor? He says yes. I say, "NOW my first problem is that you let a customer stand here for 45 minutes without coming out here". He says, "Do you have a postal problem?" (Doesn't apologize, doesn't offer to help, stands with his hands on his hips.) BYRON is very curt, rude, snippy. Does not offer any information or apologies. I ask how much longer before our subdivision will get our cluster mail boxes back? He says, "We reported it. That's all we can do. It is out of our hands". I ask whose hands they are in now? He says "Field" (like that should mean something to me...) I think it is the name of a company. I ask how we can contact "Field". He gets a salmon-colored form 3849 and points to an 800 phone # on there. Says, "You can call them here." (It is the post office phone #). I just look at him. Still standing there with his hands on his hips.

    He says again, "Do you have a postal matter to discuss?" I asked him why he was being so rude? Says again, "Do you have a postal matter to discuss?" I walk away. Go out to my car & call the stupid 800-275-8777 number. ON HOLD over 20 minutes & finally get someone in INDIA. They took a report & gave me a confirmation #. Said someone will call me back...Yea, right.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 27, 2014

    When I got my tracking number, I realized the receiving address was wrong. I called customer service and waited for 20 minutes to reach a human. She sent an e-mail to the postal service that is going to receive my package to change the address. She said that is all she can do. Two days later, I called customer service again. I had to press 0 constantly because if I didn't it would keep derailing me to a computer. After 30 minutes of waiting, I finally reached a human but she wasn't helpful at all. She told me the last customer service representative did my case wrong. When I asked her what I can do she got upset and said, "Well why did you put the wrong address?" She continued with a lot more of "Why didn't you do this? Why didn't do that", should have, could have, would have, etc., etc.

    I explained to her my situation and told her that hindsight wasn't going to help, but when I try to explain she would cut me off and kept derailing how wrong I was to make the mistake in the first place which okay... but I needed to know what I can do NOW. Why is that so much to ask? I needed that package asap. I tried to explain her again that I needed to know what actions I can take in present moment but in mid-sentence she hung up on me. What sucks is that the USPS makes it impossible to make a complaint. They have no special section in their customer service to make complaints but they have a "compliments" section ugh. I tried looking everywhere on the internet. The only way to notify USPS of complaints are complaints of senders not USPS themselves. I just can't with this business.

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    Reviewed Jan. 25, 2014

    I ordered a gift for my sister from Canada. She lives in Chesterfield MO. The expected delivery date was Jan 13. According to track number it seems stuck at ISC Chicago Sort facility since Jan 11. Since then no update, no movement. It's been more than 2 weeks. I don't know what to say just angry. I filled an email after 4-5 steps on website of USPS 4 days ago. They told me that they'll inform me in 1 or 2 days. No information at all till now.

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    Reviewed Jan. 25, 2014

    I shipped a package to my son and paid for the 3 day delivery. It took 8 days to get there. I was informed that they do not guarantee the 3 day delivery, and therefore I was not entitled to any kind of refund.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Jan. 24, 2014

    Mailed two packages via USPS on January 6, 2014 from Wichita, KS. One to Shorewood, WI and one to Covington, LA. The one to LA was delivered yesterday on January 23. The one to WI has not made it there, yet. Calls to the post office were not helpful. According to the tracking info, the package is still "on-route". I paid $11.57 for parcel select delivery. I'm just out of luck. There is not anything they can do to help me.

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    Reviewed Jan. 21, 2014

    I run a business and use USPS to deliver orders. Since October, I have had 4 international packages simply VANISH. NO ONE can tell me where the packages are, all I get is "the tracking says it arrived at sorting facility in NYC". Yes, I can SEE that. I have lost customers, had to replace merchandise at my own cost, this time using FEDEX to ensure delivery, and USPS is not even TRYING to help me, pay me back or even reimburse my shipping costs. I am SO frustrated, I'm lost for words. Is it possible that they cannot be held accountable for a service you pay for and they DO NOT provide??!?!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 21, 2014

    The purpose of this letter is rude service . You will read different conversation for three different people that I spoke to on Jan 15, 2014. My mail was on Hold 7-14 at KPO (Kilgore Post Office). I call my carrier and explain I was waiting important mail. The carrier (**) I spoke with said it was there, so I sent my daughter to pick it up at K.P.O get the paper for me, and for some reason they didn't give her all the mail. The carrier said she gave the mail to the supervisor. So I begin call to see where my mail was several times.

    Finally someone gave me a different number 903-981-2313. The supervisor answer the phone **. I said where is my mail , and why didn't you give it to my daughter.She said I rubber band it and left it on ledge and don't know where it was. She said hold on. Then a gentleman got on the phone and said rudely "I Don't know what post office you work, or where your mail is, but don't call here anymore," and slam the phone down. The next day the carrier sent word to me, to meet her on her route, and she'll give me my important mail and that the supervisor had the mail, and don't tell anyone. I meet her the next day and was given my mail the 16.

    To solve the problem, I would like to know why my mail wasn't given to my daughter. I appreciate the carrier for giving me my mail. I personally feel the postmaster has no place interacting with the public when he lacks the basic sense of propriety and kindness. Whatever action you decided to take my daughter and I are certainly willing to act as witnesses. I hope to hear back from you about this incident.

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    Price

    Reviewed Jan. 20, 2014

    I shipped my girlfriend's Christmas package and noticed they only offered 2 day express mail and some other overly expensive form of shipping, so I went ahead and paid $8 for what used to cost 3-4 bucks. Hoping it was just a temporary holiday driven decision to offer unnecessary over priced services, I went over today to mail her a pre Valentine gift. She lives in VA and I in TX. Couldn't believe it but they still only offer two services and I had to pay $8 again to mail a package to her. I gather USPS has decided offering reasonable priced first class service through their kiosk will no longer be available. If anyone can help clarify/verify this increase, I'd love the input. Being a long time eBayer and although not really a seller anymore, I'd bet there are some stressed out sellers on there! There's a UPS store nearby.

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    Reviewed Jan. 17, 2014

    2nd time this happened within a year, waiting for a package from Germany that was shipped without tracking 2 weeks before Christmas still not here, also another package that was shipped before Easter never arrived. The packages that got shipped with tracking got here no problem. Checking with other people from Germany same thing happens, no packages, no explanation. I WOULD LOVE TO FIND OUT WHERE ALL THE LOST PACKAGES GO????

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    Reviewed Jan. 16, 2014

    It has been two days since our mail carrier has come out to our neighborhood in two days now. No one out here on Girl road or Tucker rd. has had a pick up on mail or have we gotten any mail brought in. A lot of our medications come through the mail from the VA hospital and it's very important that we get our mail. When I called the post office to inquire about this, I was told that we had a sub. working this week and that it was a man and not to worry that they would be here tomorrow. Well, that's not good enough. I want something done as to the reason the mail carrier hasn't shown up for the last two days.

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    Reviewed Jan. 16, 2014

    Sent out an International First Class package to Canada on Dec. 9 2013. It took 7 days just to reach the L.A. Sort Facility (ISC LOS ANGELES CA (USPS). It sat there for 11 days until finally sent out. Per the tracking, Canada customs received it and cleared it one day. I know USPS can't be held accountable for how long Canada takes to deliver (they took 4 days), but it is absolutely ridiculous to mail out a USPS flyer and post it on their website that Canada International packages, if postmarked by mailed by Dec. 10, 2013 it will arrive before Dec. 25, 2013. The package finally arrived on December 30, 2013.

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    Punctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Jan. 16, 2014

    I get other people's mail, when I get mail every 3 days and when I finally get it I have tons of mail. I have gone to my post office to complain and the excuse I get is that the mailbox is blocked, which is not true. I make sure to take the trash container back in. I have my complaint to the manager of the post office and nothing has happened. I have gotten bills very late because of this.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Jan. 15, 2014

    I have been waiting for a package. It is 1/14/14 and is still being held at the carrier facility in NEW YORK, NY, US 10199. It has been in the same facility as of 1/6/14 so what makes me so angry is the fact that it is going on 9 days. It's mind blowing to me and I don't understand how they can just have that type of operation and don't even get me started on customer service and my local USPS mail center... My wife is highly angry because in all honesty that package I'm waiting for is not just some regular package, the package that I'm waiting for is her wedding ring and trust me when I tell you nothing is worse than going through this and the only thing I get is we have not got it yet and that I have to wait. What more can I do... And another thing those expected delivery dates are useless.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Jan. 14, 2014

    I sent a box to my son, he is active duty army at Ft. Benning GA. It was his first Christmas away from home. I wanted him to have Christmas gifts to open. I mailed his box, a big box, heavy (19 pounds) on Dec 21st. I insured it and sent it priority mail. It was "delivered" Dec 23rd. My son never got this box, I have no idea where they delivered it to, it has been lost ever since. I tried getting my local post office here in Florida, Columbus GA, ft. benning post office and the USPS toll free phone number to help me locate it. But to no avail. I finally did a claim online and just today found out they denied it saying tracking shows it's "delivered". I can't help that, my son never got it, had no gifts to open on Christmas, a 18 year old kid, serving his country, away from home for the first time at the holidays and they cannot get a box to him properly, and now they won't pay the claim because they say it was "delivered'!! Good grief!! All I want is someone to find this box, surely it was signed for by someone since it had 300.00 of insurance on it.

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    Reviewed Jan. 14, 2014

    My mail carrier is actively harassing me. I first reported his "jamming" packages into the mail box to avoid walking them up to the porch and nothing was done. My second action was reporting his ripping my mailbox off of its post and nothing was done. I purchased a PO Box to avoid my crazy mail carrier and packages that were supposed to be delivered were now being rejected. I was on hold for 23 minutes. Luckily, I finally spoke to someone who advised me that they will file the complaint. If I am not contacted by Friday, I will call back and hopefully get "Consumer Affairs". I will keep posting...

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Jan. 14, 2014

    Ever since we got a new mail deliverer about a year ago, our mail delivery service has deteriorated. First, there was the consistently wet mail, all summer long -- I'm talking about bills so wet, they came out of the envelope limp and blurry. Then, the missing bills -- three of them, for which I had to pay late fees and suffered damage to my otherwise excellent credit rating. Misdelivered mail, almost every day, I receive mail for other postal customers. Makes me wonder who is getting my mail. Now, it's 5:30 on Monday, January 13, which is not a federal holiday, and there has been no mail delivery at all.

    Believe it or not, some of us still do some business through the US Mail. Is it too much to expect service that actually works? I've filed a formal complaint against the USPS for the earlier problems, and someone was supposed to call me back within a week -- of course, no one didn't. When I call, I get the runaround or get put on hold and my call is disconnected. I even gave the mail carrier a nice tip for the holidays, hoping come baksheesh would get the job done -- but no go. I AM SO SICK OF THESE PROBLEMS!!!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Jan. 13, 2014

    I called USPS customer service on Wednesday Jan 8th 2014, and ask what my options were for receiving mail, because I cannot get out to the curbside mailbox due to being disabled and home bound. The customer service rep said the post master would contact me by Friday Jan 10th 2014, and if he didn't to contact Consumer Affairs. No one from USPS has called me, and it is Monday Jan 13th 2014.

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    Reviewed Jan. 13, 2014

    Package sent registered mail to Mauritius on November 15th, 2013. Opened a case just after Christmas **, held on phone for 40 minutes, informed that package was still in New York, but it has been flagged. Now January 13th and package still looks to be in New York, so guess I have to start the process all over. This is just one complaint I have mentioned over the Christmas period, but I have 2 other International ones with equally poor results.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 12, 2014

    I have had USPS parcel pickup and delivery from my house for the past 5 years... no problem. On 1/8/14, I found a missed delivery slip in my mailbox, even though I was home all day. I scheduled a redelivery online, got a confirm and a reminder. The parcel was still not delivered. When I went to my PO, the employee I spoke with told me the drivers are no longer allowed to drive into any driveway for deliveries. So, if a parcel does not fit in the mailbox at the street, I will now have to go in person to mail or pick up my parcels. I was told this was due to a mail truck striking a child in someone's driveway in some area far from here. So, does that mean, if a mail truck has an accident, they will no longer be able to drive mail trucks at all. Nonsense. I am furious that a service I should be entitled to is withdrawn for such a random and ridiculous reason. Worst of all, the website took my redelivery order saying it was available at my address and no one had even the decency to put a note in my mailbox letting us know of the discontinued service! Of course, you can't reach anyone on the phone. Even their email link on USPS.com is broken.

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    Reviewed Jan. 12, 2014

    I have not received mail for a week, local Post office not any help at all. I use the post office every day but this is not acceptable if the post office would give some information I wouldn't be upset but ignoring a customer is no way to run a company.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 11, 2014

    For 7 months I have had packages continually go missing. My dog died because the medication was not delivered for over a week. They lost the package. Packages do not come on time when they do finally arrive. When I call supervisor for help, I cannot understand him because English is not his first language and he just screams at me and puts the phone down in my face. Online redelivery is completely ignored, even though I have all the confirmation emails. The mail person does not leave any notices, but the tracking says a notice was left. Emails for complaints are not responded to. No one calls back. I want a refund.

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    Price

    Reviewed Jan. 11, 2014

    I was sending an envelope to China, weighing less than 1oz. I asked for the least expensive way, which they wanted $6.55!? Excuse me.! I asked for the least, not the most expensive way to send it.! Apparently they don't know or probably are instructed to "suck-it-to-the-customer". An unofficial website has a list of ways to send mail much cheaper than $6.55! The same time I was to send a small package to Hungary, weighing about 5oz, again they quoted over $12.00! If you don't specify how you want to mail anything, they will charge the most they can!

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    Customer ServiceSales & Marketing

    Reviewed Jan. 10, 2014

    I recently had a problem with an international delivery for which I had paid $25 for Priority Mail International. My P.O. told me to dial USPS Customs at 800-222-1811. I tried calling multiple times for four days. Each time I waited for up to 20 minutes listening to music and P.O. advertisements. I would go no further than 20 minutes. Then, I tried the email link on the USPS website. I tried that twice. Three days have passed without a response. I inquired at my local P.O. again. They took a copy of my information and said the Postmaster(mistress?) would call, since the clerk was unable to answer my question. I'm still waiting for that call. A week has gone by and I still have heard from no one. My simple question still remains to be answered. So, I do not sympathize with the plight of our "poor" postal service and its decline. Let it wallow in its own third-rate competence. From now on, it's only private-sector companies that I'll deal with.

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    Reviewed Jan. 10, 2014

    Two years at my address Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago and I have had my mail opened and resealed with clear tape or never receive it at all. I have had several packages scanned by carrier that they were delivered and have never received the packages. The crazy thing is I always tip and acknowledge my carriers where ever I have lived, and I did the same for this one, but it seems like that made her begin to steal packages and tamper with mail of residents. No resolution. Numerous complaints.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Jan. 9, 2014

    Approx 12-20-13 thru 1-6-14, we had a few strange incidents with our mail delivery. 1st time found mail on ground at driveway gate (thought neighbors got by here and left on post and fell). 2nd time finding our mail was husband's pill delivery left at property gate again (now this has not ever happened before). Then last incident I happened to be walking by window and actually saw a mail truck at my gate (never before in 20 yrs), opened gate to meet truck. Carrier was leaving. I'm thinking WT? He stops quickly, jumps out and grabs stuff from the ground behind our decorative post by the gate (not visible from house).

    When asked why you are here and not leaving mail in mail box 2 mi down HWY, What I got for an answer was, "Okay, Thank you, bye," then he left. I walk back to house to close gate and couldn't walk back down the 300' drive to our front gate to find big rock blocking gate from closing. Being furious at this, I called local PO when head of rural delivery was back after holidays on 1-16-14 .Told story, she laughed then said, "I know this isn't funny," but did I call before cause she's having deja vu. I said NO, NEVER in 20 yrs has this happened. She takes address, first couldn't find it. Found it, tells me, "Oh your carrier is (name) and he's Filipino and probably didn't understand too well (Funny he can understand her)." She then says they'll tell him not to mess with gate. I Said, "No, Please Note that all mail goes to mailbox, not property, PERIOD." AS it always has been for years and if our attention is needed, leave notice like before. Do Not let this happen again. We have no box or receptacle at property. She said it will be taken care of on her end. Only time will tell.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Jan. 9, 2014

    I called my local post office on Jan. 8, 2014 to inquire if regular mail was being delivered. After several rings on the phone someone answered. When I asked if mail was being delivered I was greeted with a very rude "yeah" and the phone was promptly slammed down. We recently had a major snowstorm which happened on Sunday. I understand that mail might be delivered late but I'm certain they've not delivered or attempted to deliver. I'd like to add that I don't live in a rural area, all of the streets have been plowed. I've lived in rural area in the past and the mail made it to me. What happened to their old creed of "No matter rain, sleet, snow or dark of night, the mail will go through"? Did they forget that one?

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 9, 2014

    Have you ever had to call USPS? If not don't bother, either their lines are busy or they just tell you they are busy and ask you to call some other time, no mater what time you call, still the same. I'm retired and sell vintage stuff online, I love click and ship it convenience for a semi disabled person such as me who makes little money to pay medical expenses. It's a great idea except that local post office and your mailmen don't like it at all, they feel that their job is in danger so they don't offer any help and assistance. You can ask for a mailman to pick up your boxes from home, but they refuse to scan it, means that you have not mailed the packages. If you have time and take it to the post office, again people at the counter refuse to scan it , then you have to drop it in the box, and hope for the best. If you lose the item, you are on your own.

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    Staff

    Reviewed Jan. 6, 2014

    For the second Christmas in a row, my totally inept Post Office (ARCH RD USPS) has stopped delivering my mail. No normal thinking person would make the unbelievably, breathtakingly ignorant decisions that the USPS makes - there is no difference between the USPS and Obamacare - all of it is broken down, run by inept underachievers that cannot be fired - if you cannot be employed in the real world, you work for the government, where the stupid go to make a living. (Can you tell I am beyond angry?) Christine who is the supervisor there is a psychotic liar, because I complain, she is also lying about delivering my packages.

    During the year she (because I have signed 5 waivers) leaves packages on my porch, because I complained about my mail delivery to Sen. Diane Feinstein (who seems not to care) is not only not delivering paper mail, but has stopped package mail as well, and told Amazon that they attempted delivery and sent my packages back. The Arch Rd Post Office stopped delivering my paper mail because my mailbox bank is broken and again will not fix it - they do not maintain the mailbox banks, and the locks stick. They tell people that report the locks sticking that they do not fix the mailbox until it is broken, and then they do not deliver the mail for at least a month because they say they have a waiting list of broken mailboxes and are overwhelmed - IMAGINE if you will, in a private business telling people that they still have to pay for a service and they are on a waiting list to get around to servicing you when they get to you - no time frame - no sense of urgency, nothing. That is not a business, that is CHARITY- and I give enough charity to the US government for them to squander - they have ZERO respect for us, the customer. I SAY DO AWAY WITH THE USELESS USPS. They say they deliver the mail - but they cannot be relied upon to do so.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 5, 2014

    On Friday, 3 December 2014, my fiance visited the local USPS office in Del Rio, TX (the only one within ~30 miles) to send back some packages to various retailers following the holidays. Unfortunately, we do not have all of the necessary supplies in our home to properly package and prepare all packages for shipping. We have always been able to bring boxes and packages into UPS and they would always ensure that our packages were properly secured before shipping. When she visited the USPS, however, the experience was quite the opposite. The clerks behind the counter made rude remarks and belittled her for showing up unprepared. Instead of politely directing her to where she could finish packaging the items that were to be shipped, they continued to ridicule her and cause her a great deal of frustration.

    The rudeness was not contained to just behind the counter as some of the customers waiting in line joined in and made unnecessarily degrading comments. Unfortunately, we are a minority in this town and are constantly made to feel unwelcome. Although I understand that we may not be wanted here, we make every attempt to be polite and fit in as best as we can. It is one thing for people in the community to act in such a way, but for United States Postal Service employees to act this way while wearing the uniform and in front of other customers is unacceptable. These actions just act to reinforce the notion that we are not wanted here and that it is acceptable to treat people this way. I would like a follow up and hope to see some action taken to prevent future incidents.

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    Elaine increased rating by 4 stars.
    After a positive interaction with USPS, Elaine increased their star rating on Jan. 23, 2015.

    Updated review: Jan. 23, 2015

    This has been resolved.

    Original Review: Jan. 4, 2014

    Used the automated kiosk. It took my credit card and failed to print out postage for the package. I did receive the tracking number which instructed me to place it to the left of the postage. I didn't get any postage! AVOID USING USPS AUTOMATED KIOSK!!!

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    Reviewed Jan. 4, 2014

    I have been selling and shipping textbooks for the last year with no problems until this last month. I have had 3 different packages with textbooks go missing. The USPS delivers an empty envelope to the receiver. The tracking # says it's in the dead mail center and there is no way to get it back. This is costing me a lot of money. I'm very angry. If this is how USPS treats its customers then they deserve to be shut down. I'll use UPS and FedEx from now on.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 3, 2014

    12/30/13, a package was placed in my LOCKED mailbox, opened and the contents stolen. Keep in mind, supposedly, I have a key and the carrier has a key. I called the police for a report and the Post Office has yet to contact me about the theft. I called the Post Office and the guy who answered, **, was uncooperative. I immediately placed a HOLD on my mail and requested no mail delivery at all. I went to another nearby Post Office and rented a mailbox and have forwarded my mail. However, today, 01/03/14, I get an email stating another package is out for delivery. I called the Lexington Park Post Office and ** answers and confirms my package is out! I explained to her I placed a hold on my mail. I have lost all faith and trust in that carrier. How dare they allow him to handle another package of mine? The Postmaster has not made contact with me over the theft, now this problem! They cannot follow instructions, they have a thief on their hands and someone needs to investigate. I will never do business with this Post Office again. I have made phones call, wrote letters, contact the media, and taking this to the web. The Post Office has to be held accountable. Be aware of the Lexington Park Post Office, they steal!!

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    Customer ServiceContract & Terms

    Reviewed Dec. 31, 2013

    I bought a cell phone online at Cricket.com on December 6, 2013. They shipped the phone to the wrong address. Only to return it to Cricket, then on December 14, 2013 the U.S.P.S. returned package to sender. On December 17, 2013 the package went to Richmond, California sort facility and since then there's been no activity when I check the tracking number online. I need assistance because no one is helping me resolve this issue. Cricket will not issue me a refund on the phone and the U.S.P.S. has not returned my calls and has not lived up to the agreement to contact me within 24 to 48 hours of my complaints. So I sit here in limbo, not knowing what to do.

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    PriceReliability

    Reviewed Dec. 29, 2013

    I highly recommend USPS! They are efficient and make good on their 2-3 day priority shipping promise. I mailed my Christmas packages to my family in Colorado on Friday, 12/20/2013, and it was delivered as promised on Monday, 12/23/2013. I have always trusted USPS over the other privately held mail carriers because they are very reliable. I was an internet seller and have mailed 5 plus packages daily utilizing their flat rate priority shipping boxes with a 2-3 day delivery promise. USPS has always delivered as promised! If there were any delays, it was always the fault of the buyer giving incorrect address info. I have tried the other popular mail carriers but found that the shipping prices were more expensive and the delivery was not reliable...in fact I experienced damaged delivered items through these other carriers. I trust USPS:)

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 29, 2013

    [There have been more unpleasant things happened in the Post Office before this complain. But this is the worst in my experience.]

    Location: United States Post Office in Oakhurst NJ
    715 W Park Ave
    Ocean Township, NJ 07755

    (732) 531-6566

    I would rate for 0 star. The short dark hair middle-aged light-skinned ** woman at the front desk (the right-side counter) was rude, prejudiced, and stupid... Her colleagues were not much better. She uses her little "power" to make customers miserable... too stupid to understand her pitiful life. It is the worst post office that I have ever been in... a place of stupidity. Glad that I am moving soon, so that I won't have to deal with them anymore. I won't go back to this post office again until things improve.

    Many Post Office cashiers are cold, rude, and sometimes stupid! They are often the "arrogant **, not the local residents. Post Office is in a service industry, same as other commercial delivery companies. So they have no excuses to be rude, just because there is one US Post Office. If they keep doing that, people will use less and less USPS service, therefore, more branches to be shut down. I honestly think that they should invent an automatic service or check-out machine, therefore no more rude cashiers!

    More than a month ago, I came into the post office to mail an international package. I waited in line. When it was my turn, she said that I needed to fill out a form. So I spent several minutes to fill the form. After I finished, she then asked me to go back to the end of the line to start over... What kind stupidity is this?! Didn't I not wait in line already? Although I was angry, I did what she asked because I needed to get the package out that day... I had no choice.

    After that, she kept giving me hard time whenever I needed service... telling me that I did this wrong or that wrong, while I did correctly after using USPS and mail the same kind stuff over and over for years. Today I needed to mail another international package, but not urgent. Because of her previous stupid action, I asked her a short question on which form that I needed to use, while she was with another customer. Then she gave me a "speech": you are "walking over" a nice customer... This is not fair... I don't want to be interrupted when I am with a customer...

    If she had been fair and nice to me at the first place, why would I want to "walk over" other people? Was it fair for me to wait in line twice???

    By the time when it was my turn, she deliberately didn't want to serve me. She called out the manager and said "I want to clear something here." They both were rude. By that time, I decided to walk out and ignore their harassment which waste my time. Moreover, I wouldn't trust them with my mails and packages anyway. Then she called out loud "she steals that envelope" which I bought from another post office. I was kind enough to show them the red seal on the envelope from the other post office. However I was speechless by her behavior. Finally I said loudly to her "You are so STUPID!" She should be shamed of herself. Why such person is working for USPS?

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    Punctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Dec. 28, 2013

    I shipped my son's Christmas package to Japan on December 10th in USPS packaging, priority, and paid $75 to have it shipped. On December 24th, it was STILL IN CHICAGO'S SORTING FACILITY. As of today, December 28th, it was still -- YES STILL -- in Chicago. He had no gift to open on Christmas Day when we skyped together. We opened his, which arrived on time because it was shipped FROM JAPAN, but he had nothing -- why? BECAUSE IT WAS SHIPPED FROM OUR WORTHLESS UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE. I will never use this service again to ship internationally. That is inexcusable delay. What did I pay for?

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Dec. 27, 2013

    I had a priority mail package picked up by the USPS from my home for delivery to my daughter in Seattle, WA. This was a Christmas gift and my delivery date was 12/21/2013 and the package was picked up on 12/18/2013 from my home. My daughter contacted me on 12/21 and said it had not been delivered. I tried to track it and it showed it still sitting at the Bostonia post office in El Cajon, CA. I emailed the USPS about my priority mail delivery and gave my email address so they could tell me why the package had not been delivered - THEY NEVER RESPONDED!

    As of today, 12/27/13, it is still not delivered and I have spoken to a USPS employee who gave me another case # and said her supervisor will be getting back to me - we'll see. Oh, and now my daughter's gift is at Federal Way, WA and is supposed to be delivered tomorrow. It doesn't mean as much now and still no one has told me why it didn't leave my local post office until yesterday, 12/26/13.

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    Reviewed Dec. 26, 2013

    Before I tell my story, I would like to say thank you to my local post office for they are the only postal employees who are helping me locating a 23lbs 9oz box shipped from the Bethpage, NY sorting facility. My father mailed out the package on Dec 17, 2013 with insurance, expected date of arrival Dec 20, 2013 from the Brooklyn, NY post office. My father called and asked if we received the package, which it never arrived. I was given the tracking number and the lovely customer service phone number, which is nothing but a joke. My father went back to Brooklyn, NY post office, where the package was mailed from and spoke with a supervisor and was informed that Brooklyn's facility and Bethpage's facility is so underman; that they gave my package to UPS.

    I contacted the Brooklyn office and was told we don't give packages to others and just because you pay for priority doesn't mean you get priority. Nice, right. I contacted Bethpage and was asked for my information and someone will contact me. Yeah, right. Still the run around from Bethpage and Brooklyn. It left Bethpage and after that, who knows. The Cincinnati Advocate Office is no help, either. Rude, disrespectful. Truly, if you don't like your job, someone who needs a job, with a sweeter disposition would love to take over and offer assistance. Merry Christmas from the post office.

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 26, 2013

    I have shipped several packages in the last 2 months through the Post Office that took forever to get to their destinations and the Postal Service is not updating their tracking information. I have one package right now (from California to Indiana) that has been in the Postal System for 16 days and not delivered. I shipped the package on Dec. 10 that went to Richmond, CA sorting facility and sat for a day (often times they sit in Richmond for several days). The last tracking information is December 11, 2013 when it left the Richmond sorting facility. It has never reached its destination in Indiana. It is very confusing to file a complaint on line at USPS, so I called the Customer Service number. I got to listen to a recording over and over and over, but was never connected with a representative so I finally hung up. I finally found a physical address to write to and that is my next step. I will also go to the local Post Office and complain. And since the Postal Service is a government contractor, I will also send a letter to my congress people.

    Another package has been in the Postal System for 10 days without being delivered. This package took 5 days just to get from Northern California to the Southern CA sorting facility and there is no tracking info since it left the Bell Gardens facility. Another package I sent took 12 days to get from Northern CA to Texas. 3 days to the Southern CA sorting facility and 9 days from Southern CA to Texas. It actually got delivered. Another package that was shipped to Southern CA from Northern CA took 5 or 6 days and was delivered some time ago but the tracking info doesn't show it was delivered at all. I sent a Priority to my son who lives 4 1/2 hours away which took 3 days. The tracking information on that package states that it was delivered in my own town the same day I sent it.

    There are more package deliveries I could complain about but I will stop there. The Post Office not only is not at all careful with packages (I have received a lot of broken stuff through the Post Office), but they have become totally incompetent. They keep raising the prices and the service gets worse. My son sent a very expensive coin to Canada (from his home with his mailman). He had to put a Customs form on it, of course showing what was in the package. The coin either never made it to the Post Office or just never left our town. It just disappeared! I have had similar things happen to me. And to end this, a few years ago, after an election there were 2 bags of absentee ballots later found in the local post office that were never delivered to the neighboring town 3 miles away.

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    Reliability

    Reviewed Dec. 24, 2013

    Never use this shipping service again, supposed to be 2-day delivery, 6 days now still no box... What a ** joke... I am back to a reliable service... FedEx or UPS... That's why the postal service is going out of business... I hope so!!!!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Dec. 24, 2013

    I was told today by our Post Mistress at 4:30 PM (as I called to inquire if the mail was picked up of yet) that this was a courtesy by the post office. My flag was up & I have had pick up at this address for over 26 yrs. She said if the deliverer didn't have mail to be delivered, she doesn't have to pick up even if the flag is up. But maybe she didn't see the flag was up if no mail was to be delivered. That she might be looking at other mail boxes. When I questioned a courtesy was something I never heard of she said it has always been a postal system rule. That if I had mail to be picked up to put it in those blue boxes & proceeded to tell me where the closest one was. Or if I had mail to be picked up & no mail to be delivered to call in the morning to be picked up.

    When I asked how am I supposed to know if there is mail to be delivered, she said to call again. Does anyone on here know what this is about & why do we need the post office. Or is this something our post office has made up by themselves. By the way she acted like the mail deliverer was back at the PO but she came by 5 mins. later when it was dark.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Dec. 23, 2013

    I have been mailing things to myself to prove we're not getting mail before I took it this far. I have the utility companies among others asking me have we moved because our mail is coming back. We used to get mail everyday, we're down to maybe once or twice a week. When we purchase things through the mail we're not getting our items. I can go on and on. I have been at this address for 14 months and it is unbelievable that we're not getting any answer. I have reported the issue with supervisors and the postmaster and still haven't gotten an answer.

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    Reviewed Dec. 23, 2013

    I mailed on 12/09/2013 two Priority Express Mail packages to Russia to two different cities: St. Petersburg and Saratov. My relative in Saratov received the package in ten-eleven days. The package meant to my friend in St. Petersburg, simply disappeared. I called twice to the customer services. They started an investigation, so far, no results. No one called me to inform what is going on. I mailed another package to my brother in St. Petersburg via Priority Express Mail on 12/11/2012. The Usps.com tracking part informed me that the package was exported to Russia on 12/12/2013. I called my brother to ask if he has the package. I was shocked to learn that my package was re-exported to Russia on 12/21/2013 again. If it was not exported on 12/12/2013, then the Usps.com is a company of liars and thieves. Or totally incompetent idiots.

    I called the customer services and asked how this could happen. I was told: "Oh, you know, we had snow..." What a snow? One inch of snow is a catastrophe now? Then life in Russia in winter should cease totally, but somehow they work in worst kind of snowfall. President Obama, fire the head of the USPS.COM: he does not earn his money! Tell them to find my package ASAP!!!! Or I will be writing about them everywhere I can write. Scumbags!!!!

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    Reviewed Dec. 21, 2013

    I have had 2 recent packages that did not move for a week and when I submit a claim on it... I receive no call or email on the matter. It just shows up one day with no followup. I am now certain that most claims do not get researched. I have another package that has not moved in 5 days. I am on internal phone queue for the 2nd time. My first call I had to wait 3 hours and I got Barbara. She was rude and said Damn to me. I explained I am calling to open a case and today is the 5th day. She felt it necessary to argue that it is only the 4th day. There was no point talking to a person who sounded like she could care less. I am now on the phone again waiting on internal queue to nowhere.

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    Reviewed Dec. 21, 2013

    Sent package Priority Mail on December 9. Thank goodness I insured it. Thought, "Oh good, my family will get presents early." NOT. The package left California, arrived in Hazelwood, MO about 10 miles from where it was to be delivered. It sat at that facility for 4 days. I called Melvine at the 800 #, made a claim. She told me to call the Post Office in Hazelwood, MO myself. I tried multiple times, no answer. I called my family and begged them to go there, as I had unreplaceable family photos in package. Sure enough, then the package has activity. It showed up all of a sudden back in California. I am so upset.

    The Post Office is no help. I called again to make an inquiry... the 800 # and she tells me this is normal. Made another claim. Now the package has left California, but it doesn't say to where. I can only pray my family gets package or it get returned to me. I will not use the USPS by choice ever again. These are Turbulent Times and this company will not survive this economy. Oh unless the employees steal to survive from their customers.

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    Punctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Dec. 20, 2013

    I shipped my package on the 5th of December, International Priority Mail, purported 6-10 day delivery timeframe. It is now the 20th and it is still waiting to be cleared through customs. The packages I have shipped to similar destinations in the same country have already made it to the customers' post office. It seems that the Priority Mail status does not mean anything including the extra hard earned money that I spent to make sure the package made it on time was a waste. What I do not understand was the obscene amount of time it took to get the package from West Sacramento to LA International Airport.

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    Staff

    Reviewed Dec. 20, 2013

    These guys have to be the shadiest people in USPS. Paid for two-day mail (week later still nothing), tracking and still my family has not received their gifts. Never sending anything through USPS again unless I hear they fired every scumbag at the facility. Screwed me over for the holidays, bunch of pieces of **, and what makes it worse is even the USPS 800 reps confirmed they have so many complaints about this site, SO MANY COMPLAINTS. Do these guys a favor and go through FedEx or UPS so we can put them out of business or maybe they'll lay off some of the ** at this site.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Dec. 19, 2013

    I recently (November 26 2013) ship 1 large package but was ask to split into smaller package for easy shipping. I told the USPS staff to make sure all 3 of my package arrive to the buyer and I'll paid whatever it cost. I was assured by the USPS staff that all 3 package will arrive. 4 days later, 2 of my packages were delivered but the 3rd package was kept at MEMPHIS TENNESSEE. My package was shipped to TN on 11/27/13, then processed on 12/03/13. Now 16 days later (12/19/13) it's still processing in TN. I've tried to contact USPS about my case but nobody knows what's going on. Everybody says that "your package may be damaged because too heavy or lost somewhere, but we're (USPS) not sure. We don't know at this moment." That's all I keep on getting when calling.

    I was told to call the TN USPS plants, but consumer affair told me that TN USPS plants don't accept outside call. USPS customer service is very rude and the way they talk like they don't care about you. They advertise that they will take care of you!! Yeah right..... They don't give a **.... I will never ship with USPS again... NOW my client haven't received all his item & I have to paid him to ship my partial package and I have to refund him!!!!!!!! That's a total of $300.00 for shipping around!!!!!!

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    Staff

    Reviewed Dec. 19, 2013

    Pathetic is almost too good of a word. Stop taking money for service you cannot provide. Take your commercial off the air of how your priority service has improved - it is currently the worst I have ever dealt with!! I even paid extra for express with signature and it made no difference, 4 days later still in the post office black hole. Come on, your excuses are old and I have yet to be greeted by a postal employee with a positive attitude. Privatize the USPS and quit using my tax dollars to pay for nothing!!!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Dec. 18, 2013

    I ordered something offline and it got shipped out on Monday. I paid $20 more to get it express 1 day shipping. Once I received my tracking number, I tried to track my order and it said express one day. I tracked it again a couple hours later and it changed from a one day to a two day express. WTF! So I went to USPS and got my money back. So now it was supposed to come today at or before 12:00pm. It's currently 2:00pm. I called USPS and they said that they can't do anything about it but they told me to call my local post office. I did and they said that they didn't receive my package. I tracked it and it says "Dispatched to sort facility." WTF!! Omigosh! I'm so irritated! I will not deal with USPS again!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 18, 2013

    OPA-LOCKA FL. To the person with the same problem, call customer service and ask for the consumer affairs office phone number in your area. I did (STL). The young lady stated that they are having some issues down there and I wasn't the only one with a problem from my area. She took my tracking # and sending an email to the hub. She did say that they are trying to fix the problem but wasn't sure how it began in the first place.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Dec. 16, 2013

    Merchandise ordered from Amazon on 12/6/13. USPS has listed package as delivered on 12/8/13. Called USPS on 12/10/13, spoke with "Imani", REDELIVERY scheduled for 12/12/13. On 12/12/13, Still NO DELIVERY. Contacted USPS and spoke with "Shaquilla", REDELIVERY rescheduled for 12/13/13. On 12/12/13, Amazon "Janine" was contacted, and placed a 2nd request for redelivery on 12/13/13 (**). There was no redelivery on 12/13/13. From 12/13/13-12/15/13, all of my emails except one was returned "sender's address rejected."

    The response from the only one that got through: "Unfortunately, RIBBS is not related to package/mail tracking. Below is a link and contact information where delivery issues may be addressed along with the hours. There is also an e-mail link where more specific information concerning your item will be needed. I regret being unable to assist." I have done everything within my power for USPS to deliver my merchandise, to no avail. No only have they refused to deliver the item, USPS has also refused to respond to my communiques. I gave USPS a one star review because I didn't have the option of giving them a no star review! USPS, you've earned the right to remain on the wall of shame in Customer Care.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 16, 2013

    7707 Merrill Rd Jacksonville, FL - I went there today and was using the kiosk to get stamps. As I was reaching down to get my receipt I noticed someone reaching down to grab this. I looked up to see who it was and it was the manager of USPS. She put the receipt up against my chest and told me to have a nice day in a very rude tone while shaking her head. This is not the first issue I've had with this lady. I have come to find out that there has been a lot of complaints on this individual.

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    Reviewed Dec. 16, 2013

    I purchased two shirts from a company in New York. They should have gotten to my house on Nov. 20th. They never came. I have gotten all my other packages from eBay in the mail. So I call the company and they tell me it's not their fault, but my post office. So I call the post office and I get no answer from them but to call consumer affairs. I call consumer affairs and open a case. A week goes by and I call them back. They tell me my case was resolved and that the courier said it was delivered Nov. 20th. I reassure them it was not delivered to my house because I am home all day, everyday and am awake very early in the morning.

    They tell me to call a supervisor and give me her number. I call and she don't get in until 3pm, I call and 3pm and she's not there... I call at 3:30 and she's not there... I call at 5 and get a voicemail. I call the next day and get a voicemail. I call again the same day and get a voicemail. I am wondering what's going on and why I'm not getting a response or any calls or mail regarding my lost mail! I call the company back and talk to a rep and she tells me maybe they could give me the shirts back but probably not the money. That was fine with me, I just didn't want to lose $58.00.

    Two weeks pass, and I never get the call. I email the company, make a complaint, and do not get any response except a verification email that they received my email. I feel so ripped off! I want my money back or my mail! Why doesn't the post office help me and answer my calls? I don't understand? The company just doesn't help me period and it's not fair. Would it have killed them or made them bankrupt to help or accommodate a new customer? Jee... still waiting. Spoke to a consumer affairs rep about a week back and she says she'll send some mail for my complaint. Hope I get it... not fair.

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    Company Name:
    USPS
    Year Founded:
    1775
    City:
    Washington
    State/Province:
    DC
    Country:
    United States
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