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Michigan
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Handle with care?
October 18, 2022

This is is very upsetting! I even wrote handle with care on the box and they still smashed it! Pissed! Do not trust usps people, do not! I even used priority mail and paid extra to have this happen.

Date of experience: October 18, 2022
New Jersey
5 reviews
14 helpful votes
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100'S OF NEGATIVE REVIEWS ON FACEBOOK. Millions of package taking over 2 weeks to deliver.My package sitting at this distribution center and tracking states in transit for 5 days. The next transit point Otisville USPS is only 31 miles away. I realized that there is a pandemic but the USPS delivered my packages in 3 days in NYC and NY State and they were harder hit. I would walk faster. Extremely poor service and a disgrace for the USPS. The USPS Postmaster in Allen Park, MI NEEDS TO BE FIRED!

Date of experience: April 10, 2020
California
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Do not buy stamps online
December 5, 2016

I ordered Christmas stamps. After 7 Days I called to see where they were. I was on the phone over an hour and was told someone else would call me back in 3 to 5 days. UGH

Date of experience: December 5, 2016
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I had a package that was supposed to be delivered to my apartment in NYC, and I was not around to pick it up. I followed the steps to reschedule this package and the post office filed it as a self pick up not redelivery! I called the USPS to have this fixed and they said they would redeliver it but the day of redelivery came and went and it still was marked as a self pick up. Had to haul a large package through the streets of NYC and up my 5 flight walk up, will tell friends/family to never use USPS to send me anything ever again.

Date of experience: October 15, 2021
Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Delivered 3 days early
August 26, 2023

I just wanted to thank USPS. I ordered medication from Oregon and was told it would be to my door Monday August 28,2023 by 9pm.

I ran out of my meds Friday August 25,2023. Then God answered a prayer, and my package was delivered 3 days earlier than the USPS Site said it would be delivered.

I don't know anyone who works at USPS, but I would like to thank every employee from drivers to sorters, God Bless you all for the wonderful job you are doing!

Date of experience: August 26, 2023
North Carolina
1 review
2 helpful votes
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My stamps were ordered 2/23 and here it is 2/27 and they aren't here. This happened the first time I ordered them too. CONVENIENCE as a feature of ordering them online NO LONGER EXISTS when I have to go buy some because their delivery is inexcusably late!

Date of experience: February 27, 2022
California
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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They are terriable constant rude mail carriers biased supervisors who take carriers side and turn it around against the customer. Some letters just disappear and never found.

Date of experience: August 5, 2023
Tennessee
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Multiple Items Broken
April 14, 2023

I have had multiple items damaged shipping through the post office. Even with insurance they come up with excuses to not pay for items. Save your money and insurance money and send it through UPS.

Date of experience: April 14, 2023
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I overnighted an important package to insure prompt and insured delivery. It has been sitting in Maryland since I mailed it. And you wonder why people have abandoned the USPS. NEVER and I do mean NEVER again!

Date of experience: August 2, 2023
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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IT'S THE WORST CARRIER SERVICE I HAVE COME ACROSS IN MY LIFE... I SENT THE PACKAGE AS A BIRTHDAY GIFT TO MY NIECE FROM MIAMI AND ADDRESSED TO INDIA. THE POSTAL OFFICE WORKER GAVE A RECEIPT WITH INDIA ADDRESS BUT THE PACKAGE LANDED IN INDONESIA. WHEN I SPOKE TO THE AGENT SHE WAS RUDE... AND CLAIMED TO BE A HUMAN ERROR... WHICH IS FREQUENT IN USPS AS THERE IS NO LIABILITY... IT WAS THE SECOND TIME THIS HAPPENED TO ME. I WILL NOT SHIP WITH USPS IN FUTURE! PLEASE BE CAREFUL ITS WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY...

Date of experience: November 1, 2020
Oregon
4 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I have had to deal with my packages and my sons packages being returned to sender and marked Addressee Unknown or Moved- No Forwarding Address even though we have lived at our apartment complex for over 7 years now. People who are hired to only deliver parcels are the ones scanning my packages this way. My postal carrier is awesome and will go and find my package and personally bring it to my door whenever this occurs. But I first have to call the 800 # and speak with an agent to make a complaint which then gets sent to my local post office. You cannot call the local post office anymore, since DeJoy was appointed. When you call it says you are being transferred to an operator but the phone just rings and rings, no one ever picks up. I once stayed on the line for 30 minutes to see if anyone would pick up and no one ever did.

Also, even though they have a chat line on informed delivery, know one has ever actually joined the chat when I have tried to connect this way. Usually the chat line is unavailable for the majority of the time. So, getting an issued solved rapidly is often a joke. I have been having issues like this for over years and it still keeps happening. The FBI is supposedly dealing with an issue involving my Informed Delivery account as well because someone has tried to redirect our packages elsewhere. Yet, I have not been contacted by them as to what is going on with the case. Uber frustrating and I am over it!

Date of experience: July 5, 2023
Ohio
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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No more usps
February 23, 2024

That's the last 3 day delivery I'll ever trust USPS with. The last one took 9 days and the present one just took 11 days and I missed a deadline. The service is broken.

Date of experience: February 23, 2024
Michigan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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If I could rate them lower, I would. This $#*! is ridiculous because I filed a claim and now I can't get a refund when THEY lost my 70$ package that I've been trying to get from them for 2 MONTHS. This is $#*!ty customer service.

Date of experience: January 12, 2023
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Incompetence is par for the course for the USPS. Someone please explain to me how a package to be delivered to an address in Dallas, TX on April 19 arrives in the Coppell, TX distribution center on April 18 in the early AM and is then shipped to the Birmingham, AL distribution center later that same day? The delivery date on the USPS website changes from April 19 to 20 to it'll arrive at some date in the future...if you're lucky. No sense of urgency, no recourse for customers relying on on-time delivery, just embrace the suck and excessive delays due to sheer incompetence, and be grateful if and when your package arrives. LOATHSOME, DETESTABLE, INCOMPETENCE!

Date of experience: April 22, 2023
Indiana
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Pathetic!
December 18, 2023

Just spent 45 minutes in line to ship a package. 12/18/23 10:50 AM at the West Lafayette Indiana branch. During that time 4 people were serviced by the "one"! Employee working! That's correct only one counter was open out of 3! During my time there 2 people pulled out of the line because of the ridiculously long wait time, I was the third. With 10 others people in front of me and 4 people per 45 minutes to be served it would take another 2 hours the get serviced! West Lafayette has a population of 45,000 people and the postal service can only scrape up one per on a Monday during the busiest time of the year to work? That is beyond pathetic service! If there were 3 people working and the line was that long I could be more understanding and would most likely not leave such a negative review. I stopped by the Saturday before this and when I saw the line I just turned around and left. I didn't even get through the second door so I couldn't see how many people were working the counter, now I'm wondering if it was for the same reason. I will never use the US Postal Service again! I'm already using automatic withdrawal for monthly bills and will now use UPS or FED-EX for packages. Seeing the 1 1/2 star rating for the USPS I would safely say I'm not the only one thinking their service is pathetic. Good bye USPS!

Date of experience: December 18, 2023
Ohio
2 reviews
12 helpful votes
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Habit of losing mail
March 23, 2017

USPS has lost quite a bit of my mail, including MONEY, CHECKS, and, MEDICATIONS. I have lost literally $$hundreds of dollars in cash and fees for replacement money orders and lost medications. The employees have never been polite when I file missing mail report. I can't understand why this has happened to me so many times.

Date of experience: March 23, 2017
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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0 Star
December 22, 2022

If I can give a 0 Star rating I would this mail company sucks don't ever use them there always late on deliveries and won't pay you back for it and they always overcharge if you can use FedEx or ups even Amazon I wouldn't be surprised if an Uber can get my package here faster then USPS

Date of experience: December 22, 2022
North Carolina
46 reviews
92 helpful votes
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The US postal service started back in 1775 and over the years it have become a separate entity under the US government, that is the background. At our home we have had many problems with the postal service, wrong packages and mail, missing mail. Since President Trump made the statement to defund them, I was amazed, they got even worse. For this reason I am under the belief this poor response from the postal service is intentional. Part of the reason we have a difficult time with mail delivery is because of the equality in position rather than the top candidate. I really don't care if the entire population of the US Postal service is Asian, or Hispanic or Black or White or any other color you like, BUT they should ALL be chosen due to their testing score, to ensure we are being given the best. Right now that is not the case, in fact we have the just the opposite in some cases. The other problem is they have been given too much and expect more. They have the best healthcare, very good wage and the work is not hard but still they complain. It is time to defund the government operated postal service and give it to the free market so that we can start to get our mail on time, undamaged and from some company that will take responsibility for actions or lack of actions from employees.
Defund and Replace--sooner than later

Date of experience: October 25, 2020
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Sent a certified mail letter on 6/11/21. No tracking info was provided until 6/27 which told me it's on it's way to its destination. My local PO had no idea of what was happening to the letter. GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO STAY OUT OF BUSINESS! They screw-up and corrupt everything they touch.

Date of experience: June 27, 2021
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Fairly often when I get a package sent in through USPS I often get messages such as this one: "Your item could not be delivered on May 26,2022 at 12:51 pm in CANADA due to the addressee not available at time of delivery, It is being held while the addressee is notified."

WTF
This does not make sense to me, It is a tactic often used to cover up poor service, as the address I use to ship my stuff at, IS my home address and I have been living there for over 30 years, so how could the address not be available!

Very frustrating to deal with businesses such as this one! And of course as usual you cannot send them an email message, Great strategy and good customer service, YAH RIGHT :(

Date of experience: May 27, 2022

Overview

US Postal Service has a rating of 1.4 stars from 893 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with US Postal Service most frequently mention post office, customer service and priority mail. US Postal Service ranks 392nd among Shipping sites.

service
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value
412
shipping
425
returns
309
quality
384
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