Priority Mail Delivery???

[SickofSnow]

Is anyone else having problems with mail delivery? A 3 day priority mail envelope was mailed to me March 22 from New England. I have yet to receive it. Meanwhile, a package was mailed from the same location regular mail this past Friday to Los Angeles, and it was delivered yesterday! What is up with the Florida mail system?

[Bogie Shooter]

Is anyone else having problems with mail delivery? A 3 day priority mail envelope was mailed to me March 22 from New England. I have yet to receive it. Meanwhile, a package was mailed from the same location regular mail this past Friday to Los Angeles, and it was delivered yesterday! What is up with the Florida mail system?
What does the tracking show as the location of the envelope?

[vb993]

Is anyone else having problems with mail delivery? A 3 day priority mail envelope was mailed to me March 22 from New England. I have yet to receive it. Meanwhile, a package was mailed from the same location regular mail this past Friday to Los Angeles, and it was delivered yesterday! What is up with the Florida mail system?

As I understand it, the USPS does not deliver directly to your Postal Station. It goes to a central mail facility at the Villages. From there it gets distributed to the Villages Postal Stations. Might be why there is a delay. Check your tracking number, if it says delivered, it probably means delivered to the central mail facility, not your local Postal Station.

[Stu from NYC]

Old news unfortunately.

From time to time the post office seems to lose track of a package and takes forever either to get to destination or lost in space.

[SacDQ]

I never use USPS for any needed over night delivery it never happens.
Use UPS pay the higher rate and you’ll get the service you wanted and payed for. ( one exception Weather)

[vintageogauge]

I had one last month that took 14 days to get here, according to the tracking number it was stuck in Orlando for most of that time.

[retiredguy123]

As I understand it, the USPS does not deliver directly to your Postal Station. It goes to a central mail facility at the Villages. From there it gets distributed to the Villages Postal Stations. Might be why there is a delay. Check your tracking number, if it says delivered, it probably means delivered to the central mail facility, not your local Postal Station.
Your local postal station is managed by the USPS. If you have a message that says something was delivered to you, it means to the local postal station, not to the central mail facility. And, it usually says "placed in mailbox".

[Bilyclub]

USPS employees were supposedly allowed to take paid leave for almost anything related to Covid. Most of them did. Our postal stations are subcontractors, but the supply chain to them is the problem. The USPS leave policy ended on the 26th. so hopefully things get better.

[Number 10 GI]

About a week before Christmas I bought an item and the seller shipped it by USPS. It took 18 days to get from Missouri. The seller provided a tracking number and for two weeks when I checked the status it was always "In transit". It was still listed as in transit when it was delivered to me.

[SickofSnow]

The tracking shows "In route to next facility".

[Tmarkwald]

wow - I've been sending Priority Mail 2 day envelopes to DC from here every other day with documents. Always been delivered in two days. But, coming here? I'd be careful - I've already had stuff too big for the box get held up...

[Fredman]

I had a package mailed from pittsburgh on March 8th. Still have not received it

[EdFNJ]

Your local postal station is managed by the USPS. If you have a message that says something was delivered to you, it means to the local postal station, not to the central mail facility. And, it usually says "placed in mailbox". Yea, unless they put it in the wrong one which has happened to me AT LEAST 4-5 times in the last couple months once with a $800 item that needed a signature and the mail person actually signed it with their name as DELIVERED and put it in one of the large boxes. It keeps going to a person with the same NUMBER part of their address but on a different STREET who gets my packages and I have no idea how much of my (junk) mail as I rarely get "important" mail .

[jedalton]

Is anyone else having problems with mail delivery? A 3 day priority mail envelope was mailed to me March 22 from New England. I have yet to receive it. Meanwhile, a package was mailed from the same location regular mail this past Friday to Los Angeles, and it was delivered yesterday! What is up with the Florida mail system?
I actually had some items that were delivered but never received them. Asked postal worker and she knew nothing about it. showed her the confirmed delivery receipt and she said she never saw it? what's up with that?

[mikreb]

It's not just Florida. I had my son in Philly two day priority mail a license tag to the North Carolina DMV. It took 42 days to arrive.

[banjobob]

Nope!!

[T186021]

Thank the Postmaster General Louis DeJoy for his excellent leadership and operational plan.

[patty40]

I have had problems for years as a snowbird with mail forwarding, but thus year is by far the worse. I received a Christmas card 3 weeks ago!
Lost packages twice that were never found. Then last week I sent mail to Idaho and they got it in two days!!

[jimkerr]

The USPS isn’t known for good service. :)

[mydavid]

Is anyone else having problems with mail delivery? A 3 day priority mail envelope was mailed to me March 22 from New England. I have yet to receive it. Meanwhile, a package was mailed from the same location regular mail this past Friday to Los Angeles, and it was delivered yesterday! What is up with the Florida mail system? I sent cards out reg. mail 10 days before Christmas, one card was returned to me the middle of Jan. resent it the same day in a new envelope, reach the US destination first week in March.

[mlmarr1]

Why pick on Florida...look at NE better yet the entire snail mail .. postal system has been a mess for years and getting worse.. do you have a tracking number?....check it, file a claim and move on..

[JimmyDebbie]

We have had problems with mail delivery off and on since we moved here permanently this past May. This included forwarded mail and mail addressed to our current address. I have “informed delivery” emails so I can tell from the scanned pieces of mail what has been received and should be delivered. I had several important documents to never get delivered. Going to the main post office in Lady Lake to discuss with a supervisor didn’t help either as all she did was make excuses and blame it on the “new carrier.” Even now, after all forwarded mail has been updated to the new address, there continue to be delays and undelivered mail.

I also mailed Christmas packages from the new post office. There were 5 boxes sent out, with 2 going to the same address. One of those 2 arrived a month later! I will use FedEx or UPS for packages in the future.

[SHEEBEAR]

Insured Priority Mail package with all our tax documents on its way to our accountant lost in mid-February. Still somewhere in Orlando? Inquiry closed—twice. Trying to recreate contents. Stupid me didn’t keep copies. No more USPS for me!!

[jamorela]

I sent cards with money (check) to my granddaughters on December 5. They just got them 2 weeks ago. Also, Amazon notified me that 2 packages were delivered on 2 different days to the Villages Postal Station. I never got them.

[mike519]

The issue with the post office is money. For years the post office has not been bringing in enough money to cover its costs and as a result was depending on federal government supplementary funding. The former administration installed a new postmaster general to cut costs. He has accomplished this by reducing overtime and slowing mail delivery. All very reasonable given his mandate.

The problem is that some of us would like to have a faster and more dependable mail system. The question is how to pay for it? If we take no action, mail service will keep getting worse until its inline with its revenue. Possible solutions include increasing postal rates and/or federal government funding.

If you are unhappy with the current path of slower less dependable mail service, you should write (really email) your congressmen telling them so and what you would like to see done about it. In the same light, if you agree with the current plan to reduce costs, you should also tell them so.

They really do listen and do respond to issues that their voters write them about.

You can find links to email to your members of congress at govtrack.us .

[sallyg]

Yes. Several times recently it has taken weeks for me to receive mail and visa versa. Odd that my Rx by mail comes immediately and of course Amazon manages to deliver practically overnight, but US mail has definitely changed. It's almost as if it's intentional.

[Lady Di]

As the mother of a postal worker, and based on their information, Fed Ex and UPS pass some of there smaller parcels, boxes, etc. to the post offices. Since before Christmas mail and parcels have been piling up in semis because many people ordering from businesses online has increased tremendously due to the pandemic. So please be patient and be kind to your local mail delivery person.

[Bay Kid]

Anything important should be sent FedEx or UPS. The govern mail is a gamble on even being delivered.

[debmc]

I recently paid $13 for three day priority and it took two weeks to get there. Never again will I send priority. Regular mail would probably have arrived sooner. Also have issues with our mail house. Often we get others mail and vice versa.

[merrymini]

Postal service here is terrible. Now the USPS wants to raise prices and extend delivery times to a system that stinks to begin with. Surely, that will attract a vast number of increased customers! Daaaaa.

[retiredguy123]

In many cases, priority mail will be transported the same way as regular mail. So, you pay more for nothing.

[JC and John]

Yes, I mailed a check going to Apopka, FL Feb 2, 2021, from my local postal station here in the Villages. As of today, they still have not received my payment and the check has not been cashed.

[DAVES]

wow - I've been sending Priority Mail 2 day envelopes to DC from here every other day with documents. Always been delivered in two days. But, coming here? I'd be careful - I've already had stuff too big for the box get held up...

Not at all an expert. Wife said, two day delivery now says three day delivery.

[DAVES]

Yes, I mailed a check going to Apopka, FL Feb 2, 2021, from my local postal station here in the Villages. As of today, they still have not received my payment and the check has not been cashed.

You might want to check with your bank. There is a time limit on how long a check is good for. A stop payment on the check will cost you about $20.

I would also note who you spoke to at the bank. They can put a note on your account.
Someone you know not who has both your account number and your signature. You can easily close that account and open another one. Likely at little or no cost.

[DALEPQ]

We are "Seasonal" here about 6 months from WI.
The mail forwarding to us is very very slow, usually 14 days or longer.
If important use other methods for sure!!!

[Indydealmaker]

wow - I've been sending Priority Mail 2 day envelopes to DC from here every other day with documents. Always been delivered in two days. But, coming here? I'd be careful - I've already had stuff too big for the box get held up...

Swamp Mail?

[retiredguy123]

My junk mail always arrives on time.

[PaulUnderwood]

I mailed a bill payment from Lady Lake to Summerfield and it arrived 1 a month later ended up driving up and hand delivered the check.

[RuthA]

Very slow mail system here. I guess they have a hard time hiring good employees.

[newgirl]

Yes, all the time. I had a package that said it was delivered to the villages in Jan and did not get till March. I still have many things I bought months ago that have yet to show up.

[NAB20]

Postal service here is terrible. Now the USPS wants to raise prices and extend delivery times to a system that stinks to begin with. Surely, that will attract a vast number of increased customers! Daaaaa.
If USPS meets their "new" extended delivery targets, they will vastly improve their current times. Two-day Priority takes 30 days. Christmas cards take 45 day. Packages sent out sit in a distribution facility for two weeks. This goes on. I wonder where all of the missing mail is sitting. Will it ever be found? Do they just burn it? The really bad thing about it is that tracking does not work properly and, above all, you have no recourse.

[Curtisbwp]

What makes you think it is THE FLORIDA mail system??

[vettman01]

Is anyone else having problems with mail delivery? A 3 day priority mail envelope was mailed to me March 22 from New England. I have yet to receive it. Meanwhile, a package was mailed from the same location regular mail this past Friday to Los Angeles, and it was delivered yesterday! What is up with the Florida mail system?

I mailed a letter on 8/4/20 in Lady Lake, that had to be signed for and it was lost in Albany, N.Y. for 6 weeks. It was delivered exactly 6 weeks later.

[billyb1950]

I had one that took 8 days via Priority Mail to get from here to Ohio.

[valuemkt]

I'm surprised they didnt tell you that delivery times have doubled and tripled. Blogs are full of advice to use UPS or Fed Ex

[Bay Kid]

Never use the USPO for anything important unless you like to gamble. UPS delivers in less than 24 hours. Probably less expensive.

[Dilligas]

It is not the Florida mail system, it is the postmaster general the last administration put in power over uses to slow down mail in votes. He is still slowing mail.
That is misinformation

[graciegirl]

As I understand it, the USPS does not deliver directly to your Postal Station. It goes to a central mail facility at the Villages. From there it gets distributed to the Villages Postal Stations. Might be why there is a delay. Check your tracking number, if it says delivered, it probably means delivered to the central mail facility, not your local Postal Station.

I see USPS trucks come and go every day. We live just across from our Village postal station. Wrong about who is not getting vaccinated and wrong about this too.