Should USPS be sued for false advertising?

[CigarStone]

On their flat rate boxes, and on every label I create, it says "priority mail" or "two day priority".

What "two day priority" means for the post office is "it might get there;............possibly within 10 days". "With tracking" means they will tell you that your your package "is moving within the system". Not that I want someone to do something with my package, but if someone agrees to tell me what they are doing with my package, I expect to know what is happening with my package. What "insured" means is "if we agree to insure it, it will be insured.....the rules governing what we agree to insure are not available"

I understand that COVID-19 creates the ultimate excuse for everyone in every business but I think 90% of the people in the United States know the post office is a joke.

How long can the enormity of incompetence go on? That was a big word!

There has to be someone here who works for the post office and can explain why the post office is even less reliable than the government?

If I had a fucking soap box, I would get off of it now!

 

[Thoughts]

I am hoping that once more platforms get access to quick deal likes ‘everything ships in this size box at a flat rate’ and gets more publicity, Americans will flock away from usps and they will have to change their game so they don’t have to lay off people.

side note I do commend the people that work for usps, most of them cause there are always those few...but you can’t make promises like that to keep up with an online chain that has thousands of different shipment points of products, sending thousands of item from one area to another through warehou....oh wait....

 

[jfields]

 

[kann]

The cynical part of me believes USPS bosses are using the pandemic crush as an excuse to gin up more funding. Maybe they really do need the additional manpower and facilities -- if so, I hope the money is there for it. There's enough pork here and there that can be cut to allow for the addition on it.

 

[CigarStone]

Does anyone know if there is any recourse when you pay for 2 day priority and the package takes 8-9 days to show up?

 

[cabaiguan juan]

Call your credit card and tell them that you did not get the service that you paid for and ask to file a dispute with the vendor - in this case USPS.

 

[stogie fan]

I have been using USPS Priority shipping for the past ~25 years to ship guitars to buyers, in the lower 48 US, Alaska, Hawaii, and PR.
I use Priority for a lot of other things too, like recently, as in 2021, I sent two bombs.
I sent a bomb to @FroOchie that arrived in 3 days.
I sent a bomb to @Armer that arrived in 2 days.
I sent five Reverb sales items (guitars) this year to lower 48 US destinations: three items arrived in 2 days, one items arrived in 3 days, and one item arrived in 7 days but that was the first week of January, 2021 so, it was likely slowed down due to the 2020/2021 holiday lag hangover.
For me, having issues with USPS Priority shipping has been extremely minimal, and that's over a ~25 year time frame.

Always make sure your packages have the correct recipient address on the shipping label; that always helps.
As far as filing a dispute with your CC company for a Priority dispute; been there/done that, and good luck with that one.