The volume of mail in a USPS sorting facility is unimaginable. Some sort as much as a million pieces a day. Different machines for different types of parcels. UPS and Fed Ex have similar machines, but nowhere near the volume. There are instances where a package gets delayed because of a barcode misread. Overall, it's the best value for money of the three services. It all looks like chaos, but when your letter carrier arrives at your door, you never think of the process it takes to make it happen.
No, the best value for money is the one that actually gets the letter or package to where it was sent. Used USPS 5 times in 2020. 3 of the five were lost, never to be found. One was a certified letter. I still get emails from USPS saying they have received my case and are searching for the item. The item was sent last June. I have been notified that they just received my case 3 times since then. I will pay triple the price to use any other service besides USPS. I see that they announced a plan to LENGTHEN delivery time. How can an item take longer than Never Gets There?
@@marineman2298 I empathize with you. International mail is the worst. A package from Germany is SUPPOSED to take 8 days. Cargo flights have been very limited since the pandemic. There is no excuse for a certified letter being lost. The error ratio is very low, but when it is YOUR letter or package that never gets delivered, it impact is felt harder.
@@franklamagna3889, my lost Certified Letter cost me $350 due to a notification time frame. It didn't get there in time so they charged me (Medicare). It STILL hasn't gotten there. But they email me and say they are still looking. I wouldn't dream of sending something international via USPS no matter what the cost increase to use another company. Couple that with the alledged shenanigans of Trump and Company and...no thanks. Hopefully, they recover. The odd thing is that I come from a family with many USPS employees. Management to Letter Carriers.
Omg I started out as a mailhandler and then transitioned to a clerk. Those are OCR machines that process millions of pieces of letters. I stood there for 8 hrs daily, which took a toll on the back and legs. It was more like chasing letters to place in bins. Then, if you had a jam which stopped the whole system ,just had to be careful not to manhandle it and tear the letter apart. During tax season was f crazy we had to do mandatory overtime. Some days I didn't even want to look in my own mailbox after a shift. My last station was the James A Farley facility in Manhattan nyc. After 28 years, I called it quits as I incorporated my 6 yrs in the military,which made it 34 years of service. Think twice how that letter got to your mailbox 📬 and how many hands touched it. Thank God I left prior to the pandemic cause usps lost a lot of employees. 😔
Thanks so much for your many years of service! I'm sorry it took a toll on your body as you described, standing jobs usually do, so it's not just your position. If you experience arthritis comma you can improve your condition by investing in liquid trace minerals and changing your diet to a healthy one if you don't already eat that healthy. Arthritis believe it or not, can be successfully managed through diet and lifestyle changes. Watching our weight can also help tremendously. Liquid trace minerals, though are going to really be a big winner once you realize many people these days are nutrient deficient. That's why there are so many different medical conditions our ancestors just didn't have so much back then if at all. We need to get rid of pack and stack buildings, reduce the population by having fewer kids and letting the older populations die off in their time, reclaim land and start farming it again, just like our ancestors did. We need to start growing our own food, and become less reliant on grocery stores that only drain our wallets. Plus, we need to watch what's going in our water. Supperiod, it's been discovered. There are some things in our water. That's not good for our bodies. filtering. The water is one thing and I'm surprised they put chemicals. In our water along with drugs to keep the masses docile assail according to what someone in one area discovered. it's a slow drip, and we need to take over and reverse the damage to our water supply by filtering it and putting it through a heating system to sterilize it. Before running it into people's homes. Boil and filter should be the only things that should be needed instead of dangerous drugs and chemicals. Hopefully you'll be able to use these tips to help yourself, because Big Pharma only kills patients in the end. They don't want cure, they want lifelong patients. Wean off as many of your meds as possible. If you ever do have to use any, it'll be the best thing you could ever do for your body. Plus, not only will you be healthier, but you'll also live longer. 😊
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Yeah it is a crappy video. The machine that sorts the mail is massive. The mail sorting plant in Indianapolis is huge. The machine is the size of a football field.
Actually there more that goes into the process of sorting the mail out goes through a Machine about 3 or more times depending on the info (address) provided on the mail piece. Pretty much narrowing it down to a specific route to make it easier for a carrier.
It reads the zip code with machine learning technologies. That’s why we need to put the zip code in the center. It then pastes a clear barcode based on the zip code and sorts all letters with similar barcodes. The mail person would then just sorts the letters as they deliver them to your home. My question is, how is mail transported? Is it by those big trucks? I never see any, and I live in Chicago.
Let me tell you exactly how it works in Tomball, Texas. Step 1: order a rare 2012 NAMM Charvel guitar ($3,000). Step 2: Pray to god that the Pawn Shop owner down the street who just singed for (NOT MY NAME) your said $3,000 insured and signature required package. Step 3: Receive no email, text, call back or anything about the reported situation. I was actually told "We have no idea who singed for your package." Step 4: Pray to god whoever has your rare 1 of a kind guitar is decent enough to do the USPS job for them. I was lucky on that part.
They use a machine that tries at best to recognize hand writing, then if its succeeds it gets a florescent label on the back of it, which then the machines scans to sort. If it didn't recognize the handwriting, its pulled aside for inspection, then gets the florescent label. Its all sorting and transporting, via the bar codes until the mailman goes to deliver it, and most of the time the trucks are sorted so that they can easily deliver it. Then, finally they read the address and put it in your mailbox.
A zip+4 number gets a letter far closer to the ultimate delivery address than people realize. If there weren't so many addresses, a letter carrier could just about deliver it with just that information and a name. Of course, that would take a lot of time and be error prone, but for the occasional letter or package it works more often than one would expect.
What Insider doesn't tell you is that before the mail is loaded into the truck, there is a slue of steps made by the mail carrier first. And it's not as simple as they make it look. In fact, they only showed a snippet of what happens in the plant and not the process of how your mail actually gets to you via your mail carrier.
everyone hating on packages / letters being late or damaged but it’s not our fault lol we run big volumes of mail & sometimes stuffs happens the machine isn’t perfect
That's just how they sort it! There are many more steps until it actually gets to your home. More then anyone who is not a postal employee could imagine 😊
@@raffyv8460 I just started at a plant and I swear I feel like I'm in an episode of Reading Rainbow or Mr. Rogers so far. A little kid getting a tour of something absolutely fascinating.
I worked in the PO for a minute and that's just one aspect of sorting. They didn't show you the manual sorting that the carrier does at the station or how he/she has to rubber-band the bundles and pack the carriage. I saw coworkers with MBA's that couldn't sort their load within 2 hours, it's a skill and the way you deliver the mail, the scan codes in certain buildings..Check the behind the scenes video but this was a very systematic mechanical automated view but not the last step.
The USPS uses a form of machine learning built on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). They have lots of data and they do an incredible job! I hope to work with them someday.
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While that's sort of accurate as to the start of the process for letter mail, it is a gross oversimplification of the actual sorting process. And of course doesn't even mention sortation of parcels and flats (large envelopes & magazines)
No other country in the world has reliable mail delivery like this for 100 years like we have. Even today, only first world countries have mail delivery like this, and it's still not as reliable as ours. I have had many lost letters and packages over the years, but if you truly think about how there are almost a billion letters and packages that go out every single day, and it's only a couple bucks to ship it, it's truly amazing. And with all the protections that USPS offers, mail fraud laws, mail inspectors, federal protection for letters making it to your box, the USPS must be protected. Stop buying into the whole UPS/Fedex propaganda. Those are private corporations. If USPS ever closes, we WILL be screwed by Fedex/UPS. You really trust corporations to not triple or quadraple the prices? Support the USPS.
My advice--------if you have important documents that need to be delivered from point A to point Z then do NOT depend on the United States Postal Service to get them there. Simply put, the USPS is unreliable and cannot be depended on. Use a private delivery service like UPS, FedEx, or DHL. Personally, I use DHL and have found them to be very dependable.
@@marylouirick7316 - Like so many people who post their comments here on UA-cam, you need to go back to school and learn how to write a reasonably proper sentence.
@KeweKrypto 12 - I have sent important documents registered U.S. mail from La Honda California to San Francisco and they each got there in about two weeks. In 2019 I sent an important document from Thailand by registered mail to San Francisco and was able to track it from Bangkok, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, to a USPS facility in San Francisco ------where it disappeared down the black hole of Calcutta and was never seen again. After that I had to send another document but I used DHL and it arrived at its intended destination in approximately 30 hours. Bottom-line: I have to have results; excuses won't cut it in my line of work.
🤣🤣🤣 Yet the post office finds misdelivered items by UPS FedEx etc. All the time ! of course you don't hear about it because they just redeliver it without calling the news.!
Alright its been 9 days since a friend from florida sent a package from Florida to here Massachusetts and It still has not been delieverd. I think it might be late because of Hurricane Dorian. But the problem is that it was sent on Thursday of last week. My friend lives on Florida Jacksonville and Dorian hit the ground on Sunday or Monday. What should I do?
I just had a strange situation myself. Bought a statue from a seller, package arrived when I went down to the post office. Item was missing from the package and replaced with something else, a doorknob. The strange thing is that there was no sign of the package being broken into. It was a big envelope with bubble wrap on it. When I got home to match the tracking number, the package is still shown as "in transit". Seller has no idea what's going on and says he's never seen the doorknob before in his life. I believe him, as he has 100 percent feedback over 16 years, why would he start scamming now? So this one is a mystery. How my package content was replaced with something else, and also still shown in transit despite me already have received it. I guess I'm out of luck and will chalk this up to a loss. If anyone has any idea what might have happened, please let me know in the comments. I would appreciate it.
I know it’s been two years but honestly, that’s most likely the seller. I’m a mail handler at a USPS distribution plant and trust me, no one messed with your package. For one it’s a federal crime to do so and we are watched from every angle and two, we simply don’t have time to mess with people’s packages. We work hard to get that mail out door as we have deadlines to do so.
I have often thought that the USPO does a fantastic job of getting the mail to its final destination. The ratio of mis-delivered or lost mail is minuscule relative to the mail that gets to where it is supposed to.
This is how the United States Postal Service sorts though 700 million pieces of mail a week. Yet they are in debt??? 700 million at 50 cents each? that is 350 million each week! I know that there is bulk mailing in there taking that in they still are making at least a 100 million? Not counting the parcels delivered? The Post master general needs to cut her wages and her helpers wages to help with the deficit!!!!! And pay the carriers more for the shit they have to put up with, being pushed so hard that they make mistakes and get hurt and get into accidents, then the PO blames them because they "have safety talks", and say the carriers should have been more careful???? I call bullshit! Carriers be safe out there don't let the Supervisors harass you!!! Stand up for your rights as a carrier!
They're in position they are financially because congress sabotaged them at the behest of UPS and FedEx. They're also required to deliver first class mail for the same price, no matter where in the country. Something that the private carriers don't have to do.
very bad service lost 4 parcels 3 of which I managed to find in a nearby warehouse 1 I can’t find a form where my parcel doesn’t load, terribly without responsibility who will answer where is my parcel for $ 65, the tracking says it was delivered but I didn't receive it !! why the status was delivered if you delivered it to some unknown where
Yep, they used to deliver 7 days a week and multiple times a day in major cities. But, yeah, they don't just shut down because it's Sunday. Sunday is a sort of catch up day for all the behind the scenes stuff that isn't directly delivering things.
My Christmas card from family arrived few days ago... just before Xmas 2019....With the actual Christmas card missing and only the envelope arriving in a sealed clear bag like a zip lock with the words.... “sorry we misplaced your mail. We seem to have damaged or lost your item, sorry, but we care....” so I came here to try and understand how mail would get “misplaced” .... or how my packages always arrive damaged
Heard of people mailing unsealed letters all the time? Yup! Contents flying all over the place, impossible to decide which letter goes in which envelope!
@@C_Kava Happens, and sometimes mail falls behind a machine without anybody noticing. It's amazing how infrequently letters are lost in the mail just because of how small they are compared with the size of the buildings they travel through.
I mailed a lettee and it got to its destination in a day so crazy how humans and machines created by humans help move things in a fast and convenient way so thank you!
I sent a notarized document by registered mail from Bangkok to San Francisco. It arrived in San Francisco on the 18th of June and as of this writing, July 8th 2019, the document has not been delivered and no one in the USPS seems to have any idea where it might be. Now, I do understand that no one is perfect and that every once in a while someone's mail is going to get lost given the volume of mail that the USPS must handle. However, on two previous occasions when I sent registered mail from San Mateo County to San Francisco it took fourteen and fifteen days for it to be delivered. Anyway, I have learned my lesson and in the future when I send anything of importance to someone it will be by DHL because I know they are reliable and can be depended on.
Funny how the public never hears about the misdelivered mail by FedEx, UPS, etc that ends up at the Post Office so they assume only the Post Office made a mistake.
@@superdupert6 Really? I've had far more trouble with the private companies than USPS. The main issue I have with USPS is that the delivery times can border on fraud. That priority mail may or may not actually arrive any quicker and isn't guaranteed to get there in the specified time frame either.
Trump wanted to derail the vote-by-mail system under the excuse that mail is slow and unreliable and the Post Office needs to cut costs Duh! Do you save money by taking out the microwaves at a restaurant chain?
They left out the local carrier who arranges mail by address for the mail route. Back in the day my Dad delivered letters from Nam to those families first...then started his route.
These days the camera reads the address and pulls it from the database. But software that can OCR handwriting hasn't been on the market for longer than 10 years. However, they had to sort hundreds of millions of letters every day long before that. How did they do that?
They suck. My mail gets returned without scanning, scanned and not delivered. IRS check returned twice, the food stamp card also returned twice. And the bank card Misplace packages and when arrive they open. And write that you made suggestion to leave at neighbor that being a fat lie and you not knowing which neighbor. Gross. That service in Miami likewise in Puerto Rico. Who cares? no one. Who liable for the damages? No one. A lawyer would not answer your call unless he sees that you look like Marilyn Monroe.
Sounds like a recurrent problem. Usually points to a defective or unprotected mail receptacle system ( read someone at YOUR residence is tampering with your mail). You should consider moving
That's correct! You cannot sort tens of thousands of packages in 8 hours by actually walking each one across a gym- sized room. That's why the sender has to package the item very well and add extra padding to fragile items.
I am waiting for my elementary school guidance counselor and my elementary school music teacher to write back, but they never did and they probably never will.
Misinformation about the orange florescent bar code. Its an ID tag that unbarcoded mail receives allowing that mail piece to be later sprayed with the correct bar code and sorted.
Package gets delayed after a misread barcode? What about a package I sent to England from FL USA that disappeared to Honduras never to be seen again. The USPS a worker told me I had no recourse !
Or you protect it in a hard container and pay the extra cost to register and insure it so that it gets hand processed instead of the $0.50 cents you are willing to pay for standard service.
What sucks is most of the mail seems to be stupid junk ads. Half my mail seems to be offers on stores I’ve never been too, dentists when I already have one, or sketchy credit cards. Waste of time and resources because these go straight to the shredder or trash when I get them.
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the worst part about the post office are the people working there. too many bad attitudes. i got into a couple of fights. always defend yourself and resign if necessary. you can always apply to another station in the future
Is cute how it says then the mail man loads onto his truck. Mmm not first goes to a giant truck to the corresponding post office someone then there organize the DPS for the mail man then load into the mail truck to be delivered.
Mail is sorted then delivered to incorrect addresses then the person with the misdelivered mail must deliver it to the correct address. About sums up what the us postal system is like now….it’s not like it used to be.
The volume of mail in a USPS sorting facility is unimaginable. Some sort as much as a million pieces a day. Different machines for different types of parcels. UPS and Fed Ex have similar machines, but nowhere near the volume. There are instances where a package gets delayed because of a barcode misread. Overall, it's the best value for money of the three services. It all looks like chaos, but when your letter carrier arrives at your door, you never think of the process it takes to make it happen.
I guess that explains why my niece never got her freaking letter that I sent her the day before Thanksgiving.
No, the best value for money is the one that actually gets the letter or package to where it was sent. Used USPS 5 times in 2020. 3 of the five were lost, never to be found. One was a certified letter. I still get emails from USPS saying they have received my case and are searching for the item. The item was sent last June. I have been notified that they just received my case 3 times since then. I will pay triple the price to use any other service besides USPS. I see that they announced a plan to LENGTHEN delivery time. How can an item take longer than Never Gets There?
@@marineman2298 I empathize with you. International mail is the worst. A package from Germany is SUPPOSED to take 8 days. Cargo flights have been very limited since the pandemic. There is no excuse for a certified letter being lost. The error ratio is very low, but when it is YOUR letter or package that never gets delivered, it impact is felt harder.
@@franklamagna3889, my lost Certified Letter cost me $350 due to a notification time frame. It didn't get there in time so they charged me (Medicare). It STILL hasn't gotten there. But they email me and say they are still looking. I wouldn't dream of sending something international via USPS no matter what the cost increase to use another company. Couple that with the alledged shenanigans of Trump and Company and...no thanks. Hopefully, they recover. The odd thing is that I come from a family with many USPS employees. Management to Letter Carriers.
4 million on a regular easy day.
Props to whomever invented this complex machine to do such complex task.
No worries, man! It was great fun
@@RexGalilae yeah when I did it it was easy (I made the complex machine)
Omg I started out as a mailhandler and then transitioned to a clerk. Those are OCR machines that process millions of pieces of letters. I stood there for 8 hrs daily, which took a toll on the back and legs. It was more like chasing letters to place in bins. Then, if you had a jam which stopped the whole system ,just had to be careful not to manhandle it and tear the letter apart. During tax season was f crazy we had to do mandatory overtime. Some days I didn't even want to look in my own mailbox after a shift. My last station was the James A Farley facility in Manhattan nyc. After 28 years, I called it quits as I incorporated my 6 yrs in the military,which made it 34 years of service. Think twice how that letter got to your mailbox 📬 and how many hands touched it. Thank God I left prior to the pandemic cause usps lost a lot of employees. 😔
Yeh ill think twice , before using usps since they score the worst in missing packages
Did you ever see your own letter or package while at work?
@@pawpatrolnews no .
Thanks so much for your many years of service!
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Hopefully you'll be able to use these tips to help yourself, because Big Pharma only kills patients in the end.
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Anybody else watching this because you are waiting for mail or a package?
omg yes
That’s exactly what I’m doing lol it’s killing me rn
No. It’s just amazing how much mail they send
I’m desperately waiting for my package while watching this video lol
Ong I am
All those machines moving fast and my shit still never gets delivered on time.
It’s Covid what do u expect?
@@RealGalaxyGamers even before this whole covid shit they still never deliver stuff on time
@@RealGalaxyGamers uhuh sure. That excuses them taking 6-7 months for priority mail.
XD
@@RealGalaxyGamers They're just making excuses most Federal employees couldn't keep a real job
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Missing all of mine!
Hahah I finally get what you said after watching the video twice lol
@@B_HarTz I'm still lost. Please explain lol
And then it goes directly into the recycling bin.
lol true
I wondered where my packages have been ending up. Lost my fourth one two days ago
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How does the letters get sorted? I don't understand how the machine can read the address.
Yeah it is a crappy video. The machine that sorts the mail is massive. The mail sorting plant in Indianapolis is huge. The machine is the size of a football field.
Same question I have.
Actually there more that goes into the process of sorting the mail out goes through a Machine about 3 or more times depending on the info (address) provided on the mail piece. Pretty much narrowing it down to a specific route to make it easier for a carrier.
It reads the zip code with machine learning technologies. That’s why we need to put the zip code in the center. It then pastes a clear barcode based on the zip code and sorts all letters with similar barcodes. The mail person would then just sorts the letters as they deliver them to your home.
My question is, how is mail transported? Is it by those big trucks? I never see any, and I live in Chicago.
@@MrHellsing1055 - dont matgter where the zip code is, the reader will find it and I.D. it
Cool! Big thanks to the mailmen and women!
Olivia Oh what about the clerks
Welcome
I worked for the PO for over 23 years ..there is a lot more to this then what you showed...
Clearly, I don't know the last time I saw the letter carrier show up in such a large truck.
Let me tell you exactly how it works in Tomball, Texas. Step 1: order a rare 2012 NAMM Charvel guitar ($3,000). Step 2: Pray to god that the Pawn Shop owner down the street who just singed for (NOT MY NAME) your said $3,000 insured and signature required package. Step 3: Receive no email, text, call back or anything about the reported situation. I was actually told "We have no idea who singed for your package." Step 4: Pray to god whoever has your rare 1 of a kind guitar is decent enough to do the USPS job for them. I was lucky on that part.
They use a machine that tries at best to recognize hand writing, then if its succeeds it gets a florescent label on the back of it, which then the machines scans to sort. If it didn't recognize the handwriting, its pulled aside for inspection, then gets the florescent label. Its all sorting and transporting, via the bar codes until the mailman goes to deliver it, and most of the time the trucks are sorted so that they can easily deliver it. Then, finally they read the address and put it in your mailbox.
A zip+4 number gets a letter far closer to the ultimate delivery address than people realize. If there weren't so many addresses, a letter carrier could just about deliver it with just that information and a name. Of course, that would take a lot of time and be error prone, but for the occasional letter or package it works more often than one would expect.
What Insider doesn't tell you is that before the mail is loaded into the truck, there is a slue of steps made by the mail carrier first. And it's not as simple as they make it look. In fact, they only showed a snippet of what happens in the plant and not the process of how your mail actually gets to you via your mail carrier.
Not to mention the pse clerks who work at 4 am or earlier before the carriers even get to work 😅
Yeah! I was wondering how it could know which zip to despense to
everyone hating on packages / letters being late or damaged but it’s not our fault lol
we run big volumes of mail & sometimes stuffs happens the machine isn’t perfect
That's just how they sort it! There are many more steps until it actually gets to your home. More then anyone who is not a postal employee could imagine 😊
exactly lol it’s crazy
@@raffyv8460 I just started at a plant and I swear I feel like I'm in an episode of Reading Rainbow or Mr. Rogers so far. A little kid getting a tour of something absolutely fascinating.
tell us. you hold the knowledge
Wish they held tours, I would pay for one.
I worked in the PO for a minute and that's just one aspect of sorting. They didn't show you the manual sorting that the carrier does at the station or how he/she has to rubber-band the bundles and pack the carriage. I saw coworkers with MBA's that couldn't sort their load within 2 hours, it's a skill and the way you deliver the mail, the scan codes in certain buildings..Check the behind the scenes video but this was a very systematic mechanical automated view but not the last step.
NO ELASTICS! STOP PUTTING ELASTICS IN BUNDLES! It pisses off the carriers and for good reason!
The USPS uses a form of machine learning built on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). They have lots of data and they do an incredible job!
I hope to work with them someday.
Thanks for losing my package for 2 weeks after I ordered it with 2 day shipping :D
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It’s insane how much mail is sorted and in time
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While that's sort of accurate as to the start of the process for letter mail, it is a gross oversimplification of the actual sorting process. And of course doesn't even mention sortation of parcels and flats (large envelopes & magazines)
Mines that piece of mail that gets shredded and cought in the machine
I thank the Lord every time I get my good mail, and after watching this the miracle seems even greater
Nice mislead. Actually inside those machines are multi-armed alien creatures sorting them manually.
No other country in the world has reliable mail delivery like this for 100 years like we have. Even today, only first world countries have mail delivery like this, and it's still not as reliable as ours.
I have had many lost letters and packages over the years, but if you truly think about how there are almost a billion letters and packages that go out every single day, and it's only a couple bucks to ship it, it's truly amazing.
And with all the protections that USPS offers, mail fraud laws, mail inspectors, federal protection for letters making it to your box, the USPS must be protected. Stop buying into the whole UPS/Fedex propaganda. Those are private corporations. If USPS ever closes, we WILL be screwed by Fedex/UPS. You really trust corporations to not triple or quadraple the prices?
Support the USPS.
My advice--------if you have important documents that need to be delivered from point A to point Z then do NOT depend on the United States Postal Service to get them there. Simply put, the USPS is unreliable and cannot be depended on. Use a private delivery service like UPS, FedEx, or DHL. Personally, I use DHL and have found them to be very dependable.
They dont delv letters, only USPS. PLUS DELIVER U UR
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@@marylouirick7316 - Like so many people who post their comments here on UA-cam, you need to go back to school and learn how to write a reasonably proper sentence.
@KeweKrypto 12 - I have sent important documents registered U.S. mail from La Honda California to San Francisco and they each got there in about two weeks. In 2019 I sent an important document from Thailand by registered mail to San Francisco and was able to track it from Bangkok, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, to a USPS facility in San Francisco ------where it disappeared down the black hole of Calcutta and was never seen again. After that I had to send another document but I used DHL and it arrived at its intended destination in approximately 30 hours. Bottom-line: I have to have results; excuses won't cut it in my line of work.
🤣🤣🤣 Yet the post office finds misdelivered items by UPS FedEx etc. All the time ! of course you don't hear about it because they just redeliver it without calling the news.!
Alright its been 9 days since a friend from florida sent a package from Florida to here Massachusetts and It still has not been delieverd. I think it might be late because of Hurricane Dorian. But the problem is that it was sent on Thursday of last week. My friend lives on Florida Jacksonville and Dorian hit the ground on Sunday or Monday. What should I do?
I just had a strange situation myself. Bought a statue from a seller, package arrived when I went down to the post office. Item was missing from the package and replaced with something else, a doorknob. The strange thing is that there was no sign of the package being broken into. It was a big envelope with bubble wrap on it. When I got home to match the tracking number, the package is still shown as "in transit". Seller has no idea what's going on and says he's never seen the doorknob before in his life. I believe him, as he has 100 percent feedback over 16 years, why would he start scamming now? So this one is a mystery. How my package content was replaced with something else, and also still shown in transit despite me already have received it. I guess I'm out of luck and will chalk this up to a loss. If anyone has any idea what might have happened, please let me know in the comments. I would appreciate it.
I know it’s been two years but honestly, that’s most likely the seller. I’m a mail handler at a USPS distribution plant and trust me, no one messed with your package. For one it’s a federal crime to do so and we are watched from every angle and two, we simply don’t have time to mess with people’s packages. We work hard to get that mail out door as we have deadlines to do so.
You got scammed!!!!!
Fwiw ordinary letters aren't delivered on Sunday, but some packages are. And all types of mail are sorted and processed around the clock, 24/7.
well.. that didn't explain anything at all..
1:24 LOL! I know that episode of blues clues 😂
Lightning Mcqueen Approves
isnt that in every episode of blues clues
Seeing all those letters of various sizes and shapes get organized is quite impressive.
I’m only here because I wanna see if it’s possible for my wax sealed card will survive the process
It goes through all of this and the postal person cannot distinguish 38 from 33 a lost cause
Steve's appearance from the blues clues makes the video sense lol
I wish the Allen Park Distribution Center operated this smoothly. Mail goes there and disappears for a few months or longer.
That's why my bloody wax seals end up cracked or broken every time!
Nope! They actually got rid of the sorting machines. Now it's even worse :) (only 36% of all mail makes it on time)
I have often thought that the USPO does a fantastic job of getting the mail to its final destination. The ratio of mis-delivered or lost mail is minuscule relative to the mail that gets to where it is supposed to.
Does the machine decide bar codes, or do people input them? How do they sort it by specific address after that?
There's industrial strength OCR involved, people only read it if that fails.
This is how the United States Postal Service sorts though 700 million pieces of mail a week. Yet they are in debt??? 700 million at 50 cents each? that is 350 million each week! I know that there is bulk mailing in there taking that in they still are making at least a 100 million? Not counting the parcels delivered? The Post master general needs to cut her wages and her helpers wages to help with the deficit!!!!! And pay the carriers more for the shit they have to put up with, being pushed so hard that they make mistakes and get hurt and get into accidents, then the PO blames them because they "have safety talks", and say the carriers should have been more careful???? I call bullshit! Carriers be safe out there don't let the Supervisors harass you!!! Stand up for your rights as a carrier!
They're in position they are financially because congress sabotaged them at the behest of UPS and FedEx. They're also required to deliver first class mail for the same price, no matter where in the country. Something that the private carriers don't have to do.
so wait.. how does mail get sorted?
Hahaha
1:25 yep and there's my mail stuck on the side.
very bad service lost 4 parcels 3 of which I managed to find in a nearby warehouse 1 I can’t find a form where my parcel doesn’t load, terribly without responsibility who will answer where is my parcel for $ 65, the tracking says it was delivered but I didn't receive it !! why the status was delivered if you delivered it to some unknown where
Anybody else have penpals and are watching this imagining what your beautiful decorated envelopes are going through once you send them out? Cus same
ME!!!!!! Actually, there is a letter on the way to America RIGHT NOW
There may not be delivery on Sunday, but mail is processed 24/7, 365..
exactly.... it is PROCESSED 24/7, 365 not DELIVERED 24/7 lmao
Yep, they used to deliver 7 days a week and multiple times a day in major cities. But, yeah, they don't just shut down because it's Sunday. Sunday is a sort of catch up day for all the behind the scenes stuff that isn't directly delivering things.
Does mail sent to get there next day get sorted in the letter sorters?
That’s roughly how the process goes, but there is a lot more steps left out. This is only looking at it from a smaller scope
Then they hire DaBaby to deliver it
🤣🤣
My Christmas card from family arrived few days ago... just before Xmas 2019....With the actual Christmas card missing and only the envelope arriving in a sealed clear bag like a zip lock with the words.... “sorry we misplaced your mail. We seem to have damaged or lost your item, sorry, but we care....” so I came here to try and understand how mail would get “misplaced” .... or how my packages always arrive damaged
Heard of people mailing unsealed letters all the time? Yup! Contents flying all over the place, impossible to decide which letter goes in which envelope!
The machine get jammed, tearing up the mail
@@C_Kava Happens, and sometimes mail falls behind a machine without anybody noticing. It's amazing how infrequently letters are lost in the mail just because of how small they are compared with the size of the buildings they travel through.
I mailed a lettee and it got to its destination in a day so crazy how humans and machines created by humans help move things in a fast and convenient way so thank you!
I sent a notarized document by registered mail from Bangkok to San Francisco. It arrived in San Francisco on the 18th of June and as of this writing, July 8th 2019, the document has not been delivered and no one in the USPS seems to have any idea where it might be. Now, I do understand that no one is perfect and that every once in a while someone's mail is going to get lost given the volume of mail that the USPS must handle. However, on two previous occasions when I sent registered mail from San Mateo County to San Francisco it took fourteen and fifteen days for it to be delivered. Anyway, I have learned my lesson and in the future when I send anything of importance to someone it will be by DHL because I know they are reliable and can be depended on.
Funny how the public never hears about the misdelivered mail by FedEx, UPS, etc that ends up at the Post Office so they assume only the Post Office made a mistake.
@@superdupert6 Really? I've had far more trouble with the private companies than USPS. The main issue I have with USPS is that the delivery times can border on fraud. That priority mail may or may not actually arrive any quicker and isn't guaranteed to get there in the specified time frame either.
And these machines had to be removed why? >.>
Trump wanted to derail the vote-by-mail system under the excuse that mail is slow and unreliable and the Post Office needs to cut costs
Duh! Do you save money by taking out the microwaves at a restaurant chain?
They left out the local carrier who arranges mail by address for the mail route. Back in the day my Dad delivered letters from Nam to those families first...then started his route.
These days the camera reads the address and pulls it from the database. But software that can OCR handwriting hasn't been on the market for longer than 10 years. However, they had to sort hundreds of millions of letters every day long before that. How did they do that?
Much less efficiently with actual people.
Can I pick up the parcel from the office? I am not a US citizen.
did an employee steal my mail cause its lost :/
Then it gets stored in an employees garage
They suck. My mail gets returned without scanning, scanned and not delivered. IRS check returned twice, the food stamp card also returned twice. And the bank card
Misplace packages and when arrive they open. And write that you made suggestion to leave at neighbor that being a fat lie and you not knowing which neighbor. Gross. That service in Miami likewise in Puerto Rico. Who cares? no one. Who liable for the damages? No one. A lawyer would not answer your call unless he sees that you look like Marilyn Monroe.
Sounds like a recurrent problem. Usually points to a defective or unprotected mail receptacle system ( read someone at YOUR residence is tampering with your mail). You should consider moving
This music is stressing me out
SAVE THE USPS
not always
Most large companies sort their own mail for instant delivery and discounted rates
Sorts so well that’s why I hardly ever recieve correct mail. Informed delivery sucks ass.
Do you think any letters get jammed and damaged in the sorters?
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how they sort packages: they throw whatever you have around, and ruin it.
I've heard Fra-Gi-Le means throw me harder in french
That's correct! You cannot sort tens of thousands of packages in 8 hours by actually walking each one across a gym- sized room. That's why the sender has to package the item very well and add extra padding to fragile items.
Dang, I’m surprised my Pokémon cards I order don’t get bent up😳
I am waiting for my elementary school guidance counselor and my elementary school music teacher to write back, but they never did and they probably never will.
Misinformation about the orange florescent bar code. Its an ID tag that unbarcoded mail receives allowing that mail piece to be later sprayed with the correct bar code and sorted.
Package gets delayed after a misread barcode? What about a package I sent to England from FL USA that disappeared to Honduras never to be seen again. The USPS a worker told me I had no recourse !
It's cool how they sort the mail out.
It's been a month and my package hasn't arrived yet. My location is in Cambodia and they shipped it to the new zealand post. What a banger.
Yes that's exactly what I want. My rare Japanese Charizard card getting smacked over and over by a robot
we didnt ask your weaboo ass to purchase a overpriced card that has no value outside of a game. idiot.
thats why they triple sleeve it with hard plastic
@@billwaluse6728 damn
Or you protect it in a hard container and pay the extra cost to register and insure it so that it gets hand processed instead of the $0.50 cents you are willing to pay for standard service.
What sucks is most of the mail seems to be stupid junk ads. Half my mail seems to be offers on stores I’ve never been too, dentists when I already have one, or sketchy credit cards. Waste of time and resources because these go straight to the shredder or trash when I get them.
This channel is so gigachad they left in a Blue's Clues scene in there. 1:24
Oh, but the Bell System was a monopoly... 🙄
USPS...HAVE YOU SEEN OUR MAIL CARRIER? ??? OUT OF UNIFORM. PHONE ATTACHED TO HEAD. HALF TIME SUSTITUTES MIXES UP MAIL . NO SHOW.
BUT HEY THEY GET PAID.
Its nearly impossible to get fired at the usps. Nothing will ever happen until they retire or move to another route.
very impressive to see how it works. i wonder what they did when there were no machines
Looks like we're finding out now...
Sorting mail by hand at the time warping speed of 18 letters per minute. Fact.
And after all this sorting through machines, a letter addressed for 17 Nicky Street, Chester NY gets delivered to 17 Nicky Avenue, Cold Spring NY.
On my way!
@@teachmefraud (Not real addresses lol)
SAVE USPS
anyone else watching this while waiting for their package
the worst part about the post office are the people working there. too many bad attitudes. i got into a couple of fights. always defend yourself and resign if necessary. you can always apply to another station in the future
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We just got a letter, I wonder who it's from.
My shit was supposed to be sent 3 weeks ago😂 lol it’s going on the 4th week what’s up with them😂
hahah nice touch adding steve in there at the end :)
How does this only have 5 comments? Cmon we're better than this
Marion T 25
Dang!!! I got dizzy just watching this... totally amazing!!
Newman doesn't work when its raining
Does the postal service use mercenaries/subcontractors?
Just for truck drivers but nope, they do not
I feel like I'm watching a Mr. Rogers Neighborhood picture picture film. I can just hear Fred and Mr. McFeely narrating it.
Is cute how it says then the mail man loads onto his truck. Mmm not first goes to a giant truck to the corresponding post office someone then there organize the DPS for the mail man then load into the mail truck to be delivered.
Why does it look so easy to work there when I heard it was a living fast paced hell?
USPS is definitely not that bad, at least in the plants. Far better than 'private' sector positions.
Mail is sorted then delivered to incorrect addresses then the person with the misdelivered mail must deliver it to the correct address. About sums up what the us postal system is like now….it’s not like it used to be.
I swear usps is a very good company
You don't know the meaning of Stress until you bumping on the DBCS
for some reason this is very cute and satisfying
Like a Mr. Rogers trip to the post office.
Yea next time don’t loose my 750 dollar package 😡
next time don't order things you don't need like a idiot :)
Should have been sent insured
When You Control The Mail, You Control....Information!!
When I started this video, I knew nothing about how UPS sorts mail. After watching this video, I still know nothing about how UPS sorts mail.
00:24 great product placement