{"id":1299,"date":"2007-07-17T09:17:24","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T16:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/07\/17\/usps-united-states-parcel-smashers\/"},"modified":"2007-07-17T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T16:44:09","slug":"usps-united-states-parcel-smashers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/07\/17\/usps-united-states-parcel-smashers\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS &#8212; United States Parcel Smashers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/bent-pkg.jpg\" title=\"bent-pkg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1298\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/bent-pkg.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"bent-pkg.jpg\" class=\"left\" \/><\/a>Is it just me, or does everyone get their parcels smashed by the Postal &#8220;Service?&#8221; This box only contained a book, so there wasn&#8217;t any serious damage done. Click the image for a close-up.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time that we have encountered this sort of scrunched package &#8211; once we had to return a ceramic crock which had been jolted into shards even though it was packed to withstand a ten foot drop. It looked like one of the handlers went &#8220;postal&#8221; on it.<\/p>\n<p>And this isn&#8217;t the only USPS incident. Once, we ordered something on-line and the package didn&#8217;t arrive even though the on-line tracking showed it as delivered. We called the USPS to complain, and they didn&#8217;t own up to losing the package. They told me that my only recourse was to contact the seller with a lost package request. We did that and the seller (Amazon, in this case), made it good and shipped a second package. Weeks after the second package was received, lo and behold, the USPS finally delivered the original package! We followed Amazon&#8217;s instructions and refused delivery, and hopefully, they got their merchandise back.<\/p>\n<p>We experienced another recent incident where a bank deposit by mail failed to show up in our account. A call to the originator of the check got them to put a stop on it, and they issued a new deposit, this time as a direct deposit to our account. A few days later, the original deposit showed up at the bank (which was dishonored, of course).<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t USPS have some sort of quality goals like most viable service organizations? When we use Fed Ex or UPS these things seldom happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me, or does everyone get their parcels smashed by the Postal &#8220;Service?&#8221; This box only contained a book, so there wasn&#8217;t any serious&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curmudgeon-rants","category-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}