I don't often get angry...

[handmade34]

I didn't listen or watch DeJoy today... but I just got a phone call from the hatchery I order from every year (NEVER a problem before) they can't delivery until at least the end of April

I just checked and found out that a Priority package (Valentine stuff) I mailed 2 weeks ago is still not delivered...

I am beyond livid... I always in the past trusted and used USPS extensively... what the hell is happening in this Country

I am so disappointed

[piddyprints]

1. Well, to put it not so delicately,

MF45 and DeJoy really fucked things up. It's going to take some time to straighten everything out. We got a Christmas card that was mailed before Christmas just a few weeks ago.

This is what they wanted. Now they can say, "See? The USPS doesn't work!"

[Evolve Dammit]

21. Exactly

[plimsoll]

26. I love self fulfilling prophecies.

I'm from the GOP, I'm here to help. (myself.)

[doc03]

2. I know the feeling I talked to a Trump cult

member today.

[Blue Owl]

3. Louis DeJoy is Donald tRump's finest

This hulking boob can get things done slower, less efficiently, and more costly; and he's tRump's cream of the crop

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. That is a huge problem. How do you send stuff if the

USPS is no longer reliable.

You can't send living things. If they get stuck somewhere they die.

I have friends trying to send items they sell on EBAY. It is costing a fortune to ship packages.

It's a massive problem.

[handmade34]

8. it not only makes our lives' difficult

but really hurts businesses... the hatchery is really going to hurt from all this

[leftyladyfrommo]

11. I remember when this started and thousands of

birds died.

[doc03]

5. Do you know are there post office closings

in the works? I keep getting emails from Democratic party
that our PO is going to close.

[WardChurchel]

6. I don't get angry...

The answer is TRUMP

[niyad]

20. Like chickens coming home to Roost?

[vlyons]

7. DeJoy and Republicans want to wreck the Post Office

So they can privatize it, sell it off to UPS, FedX, or some other private corporate entity. They'll lie and say that gov can't do anything right. Free enterprise would do a better job. But they won't tell you how they will jack up the costs to consomers.

[handmade34]

9. I have always considered the USPS

a wonderful public service... there is so much good that has come from the USPS... I am really sad and hope that we can bring it back

[Bayard]

10. I was planning on ordering chicks from Ideal Hatchery in April

I've also ordered from them for years. If it takes chicks more than two days in transit, they die.

Is your hatchery saying the delay is because of the PO?

[handmade34]

12. Yes... specifically because of the USPS!

I have ordered from Murray McMurray for 40 years... this is the first time there has ever been a problem

[Midnight Writer]

13. Two bills I mailed Jan 22 have not arrived. I got notices (in the mail) of late fee penalties.

First time in forty years that I have been dunned for a late payment.

I talked to a couple of clerks at the local Post Office.

They tell me they went from twelve full time clerks at the beginning of 2020 to four clerks at the end of 2020. The current clerks are working seven days a week, 72 hours per week. Yes, they are getting paid tons of overtime pay but they are exhausted and they can't keep up.

In addition, full time carriers have been transferred out and replaced with "loaners" from smaller area offices. These loaners have never delivered in this town and some have gotten lost on their routes. They are working overtime every day, as well.

Hate to see this happening. The Postal Service is being intentionally destroyed by the people hired to run it.

It's like a hedge fund bought the outfit and are dismantling it piece by piece.

[Solly Mack]

14. I know several people who are angry over the hatchery deliveries in my area.

Some buy their chicks local but many buy/sell/ship through the mail and have lost shipments (dead on arrival from delays) and are experiencing slow shipments. Some have stopped selling.

We've been looking into keeping some chickens and have gotten to hear the stories.

Still, in this area, they'd vote for Trump again in an instant.

[getagrip_already]

17. Fwiw, my local tractor supply has plenty in the store......

Didn't notice the breed, but they were cute af.

[Solly Mack]

22. Mine does, too. But even their shipments have experienced delays and deaths.

Pre-pandemic, I coo'ed over them too.

Lots of people 'round here raise exotic (ornamental) chickens/roosters. Some for eggs, meat.

I live in the back of beyond rural.

[getagrip_already]

23. I'm not quite that rural, but

Everyone around me has at least 5 acres and most is wooded, so good separation. My neighbor has chickens, I have bees, we both watch for bears....

[Solly Mack]

25. Have bears, but they're rarely seen in these parts. More likely to see a wandering gator or two.

They travel between the various bodies of water. Seen one taking the train tracks once - straight shot from the bayou to the lake.

I watched as he went by and waved.

[Ferrets are Cool]

15. rePuq's are what's happening in this Country.

They destroy everything they touch, except tax breaks for millionaires.

[live love laugh]

27. +1

[getagrip_already]

16. Anyone who ordered packages of honeybees will be sol.....

If you did, call whoever you ordered them from and have the carrier changed to anything except usps.

It sucks, because that is dejoys plan, but it's better than getting 3 pounds of dead bees.

The usps has been delivering packaged bees for 75 years without any major problems, but has warned that live shipments won't be prioritized.

Yes, bees by mail is a thing.

[handmade34]

18. I pick up my bees

they are trucked up from SC and I drive down to NY to pick them up... so glad I don't have to depend on the mail for them

and, bees do come a little later

[getagrip_already]

19. I'm going the local nuc route this year....

That gets me frames of brood already growing and northern queens. End of April I think this year.

[Raine]

24. I used to subscribe to a couple of craft magazines

but I never would get them so I dropped the subscriptions. I got sick of laying out good money for something I never ever get. I don't know where my magazines ended up, in someone else's mail, in the trash or sitting in a bin at the PO (???) all I know is they never made to my mail box!