“If it’s a bill, it won’t sit still. If it’s a gift, not on my shift.”

The problems with the USPS now seem to extend beyond their distribution centers where some packages sat for weeks per their tracking system. Yesterday I had a package out for delivery. I was home for most of the day. The little white mail truck never showed up. People where I live are reporting the same, no usual mail delivery and sometimes for days. Yesterday a woman reported her mailman told her he was the only one in town making deliveries, this in a city of 30,000. Apparently many carriers are out of work for two weeks at a time due to having close contact with a person with Covid or they have the Covid. As you know this is and could be a serious problem, think of the people who get prescription meds via the mail and other important items. This is bad time to be mailing valuables or time sensitive items. If they want it I hope postal carriers get priority for a vaccine, a broken unreliable mail system has a lot of repercussions.

You nailed it Pete!





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I have a bead sight out there in space some where....charlie

So I just bought a cool double gun from a gent in the upper midwest and he shipped it on Monday Jan 4 by REGISTERED MAIL. If you're not familiar with Registered Mail, it's is held in high security/locked cages etc and every person that handles the package must "sign" for it. From what I understand it can't be tracked as typical and kind of goes into limbo until delivered. Let's see how long it takes getting to PA. :whistle:

Not long into Covid, I had a Reg mail package take 3-1/2 weeks to get to me. Most of that time was spent sitting in Jamaica, NY.

My mailman when he delivered my gun after 27 days said he had worked 35 days in a row. At Christmas time they go from a salary to being paid by the hour. He had so much mail he made the first trip out and then went back to the P.O. and loaded up again for a second trip. I saw him late in the evening with his beacon on top of his truck going long after dark.

He said one of the main hangups was the contract carriers that move the mail from one center to another. They also work for other delivery companies and they were booked beyond hope of timely deliveries.

Come on guys, cut the USPS some slack. They’re worn out from having to handle millions of fraudulent mail-in ballots.

Only time I ever had a damaged firearm was when it was shipped via USPS. Never had a problem with UPS or FedEx. I had that gun insured and the USPS fought me on that. As soon as the St. Louis office was contacted by our lawyer we received our insurance check.

Next election they will accept mail in ballots thirty days late instead of three.