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Why would it take 20.days? The longest it should take once you mailed it is 3 to 7 days. Someone in that post office isn't doing their job. ☺

Jun 23rd, 2019 at 10:34:57 PM PDT by

I live in the country, on the rural mail route. Our regular mail carrier does not arrive to my house until after 1 pm. (If a sub is on, then it's 2 or 3 pm) The mail delivery truck arrives at the Post Office in town around 4 pm. Most days the mail carrier is not finished with the route and back to the Post Office with the mail he/she has collected by then. Because of this, the mail sits in the building overnight and does not get picked up until the next day. Then it is taken to the Detroit area to the sorting facilities where it is postmarked.

We have had 11 (sigh) different "postmasters" since June 2015 until now. (they are usually just qualified) No one wants to work at this PO due to none of the modern machines. The mail is postage stamps/metered mail.

As of February 2019 - I am no longer mailing from the Melvin post office unless it has to go out right away. I am making a trip once a week into a neighboring town to mail items.

Lastly, the USPS in general has gotten terrible over the past few years and is getting worst all the time.

Example: I had a package go missing for 3 months. It had tracking on it and showed it was picked up at my home, then no tracking information until it showed up at the receivers home. Would love to know where it was for those 3 months...the stories it would tell.

I mailed a package to my niece who lives about 150 north of me in MI. I mailed on a Tuesday. I had tracking on it and checked it on Friday, thinking it would be delivered that day. The package was in PA. The postal system is crazy. Why did it even leave the state?

So you are right, it's the entire postal system that isn't doing their job. But until there's a better way or mailing or they finally get their stuff together this is what it is.

Jun 24th, 2019 at 12:02:55 AM PDT by

Omg 3 months. Geez that's awful. Yea these mailman here do crazy things too. You would thing that as much as they get paid they would do their job huh. Ok well I'm willing to wait till it comes. ☺

Jun 24th, 2019 at 12:53:04 PM PDT by

The problem is that the PO got rid of All the “older” employees.
The new ones don’t make nearly as much. My nephew’s girlfriend was hired last year. She works 2 hours in one PO, then drives 45 miles to work 3 hours in another PO. She basically works for the insurance and gas money

Jun 24th, 2019 at 2:15:36 PM PDT by

Omgosh that's crazy, 2 hrs in one and 3 in another. Why would they do that? Yea I've had problems with some of these mailman. They get lazy sometimes. But mail is important so it shouldn't be allowed.

Jun 24th, 2019 at 3:01:57 PM PDT by

Some of them just don’t care or don’t want to work. Over the winter in a few towns from me they found out that one of the mail carriers was throwing the mail away so he could get home and play video games

Jun 24th, 2019 at 3:06:14 PM PDT by

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