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Old Jul 29, 2016 | 10:32 AM
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We are so lucky... UPS guy goes to our garage door and leaves packages in front of the door into the house...super nice guy... fedex just leaves it on the porch which is ok... usps leaves it in a bag hanging on the mail box, at the end of the drive way or leaves a note to pick it up at the post office which is open for about 1 hour a day at some random weird hour...that is usually time sensitive IRS crap...
hope you get your LMC5 module soon and get back to enjoying your C5..
UPS and Fedex are great, I had issues with a Summit order and called them, they were fantastic, told me from now on they would have a note with my info to use only Fedex Amazon no such luck they use USPS for weekend delivery
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Old Jul 29, 2016 | 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by 65GGvert
Be sure to get back on here and apologize when your package shows up today on time (regardless of tracking info).
Pretty hard to do that when my package was guaranteed to be here by noon yesterday. It's still not here.
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Old Jul 29, 2016 | 10:51 AM
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First world problems....you'll live man lol
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Old Jul 29, 2016 | 10:53 AM
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https://www.usps.com/help/refunds.htm
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Old Jul 29, 2016 | 11:01 AM
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Originally Posted by 65GGvert
I appreciate the link. Local Post office said it should be here tomorrow. To their credit they have been very pleasant and helpful.
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Old Jul 29, 2016 | 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by LemansBlueStingray
I appreciate the link. Local Post office said it should be here tomorrow. To their credit they have been very pleasant and helpful.
I'b be happy too if I had a government job and knew Hillary was going to be the next president...
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Old Jul 29, 2016 | 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by LemansBlueStingray
I appreciate the link. Local Post office said it should be here tomorrow. To their credit they have been very pleasant and helpful.
It won't get things here any faster, but USPS has a program you can sign up for on their website that sends you a text every time a package is scanned and the moment the carrier drops it in your mailbox. It's free, and works great.
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Old Jul 29, 2016 | 11:11 AM
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I'b be happy too if I had a government job and knew Hillary was going to be the next president...
It could be worse.
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Old Jul 29, 2016 | 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by JR-01
It could be worse.
True. He could be waiting on his hood to be painted instead of USPS.
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Originally Posted by tmirisola
There's a reason why the USPS loses Billions of dollars every year.
And here's the reason:
USPS was profitable by $313 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2015, and operational revenue was up $233 million over the same period last year, the agency announced Friday. The growth was due in part to the temporary emergency rate increase on postal products that took effect last year, but also aided by a 14.4 percent increase in package volume.

The Postal Service still suffered a net loss of $1.5 billion in the quarter -- down from $1.9 billion in the same period last year -- due to its obligatory payments to prefund retirees’ health benefits and workers’ compensation costs. Postal officials were eager to note the agency maintains $90 billion in unfunded liabilities, and a simple fix to the prefunding requirement would not solve all of its issues.
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True. He could be waiting on his hood to be painted instead of USPS.
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Old Jul 29, 2016 | 02:26 PM
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The underrated USPS is one of the institutions that make us a great country. I'm sure they screw up sometimes but I have no complaints. They consistently provide on time delivery to us with a smile, provide passport service, free shipping boxes and envelopes. All this despite minimal support from Congress.

Count me as a big supporter of the US Post Office
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Old Jul 29, 2016 | 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by vetintheblood
The underrated USPS is one of the institutions that make us a great country. I'm sure they screw up sometimes but I have no complaints. They consistently provide on time delivery to us with a smile, provide passport service, free shipping boxes and envelopes. All this despite minimal support from Congress.

Count me as a big supporter of the US Post Office
I have never had a problem USPS.. Now FedEx is another story
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Old Jul 29, 2016 | 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by vetintheblood
The underrated USPS is one of the institutions that make us a great country. I'm sure they screw up sometimes but I have no complaints. They consistently provide on time delivery to us with a smile, provide passport service, free shipping boxes and envelopes. All this despite minimal support from Congress.

Count me as a big supporter of the US Post Office
maybe in the city but in my rural area it more than sucks, there are two offices in a 2 mile area serving two small towns and nether knows what the other is doing!!!!
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Old Jul 29, 2016 | 02:50 PM
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Going postal

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For other uses, see Going postal (disambiguation).



Memorial of the 1986 Edmond post office shooting in Edmond, Oklahoma.


Going postal, in American English slang, means becoming extremely and uncontrollably angry, often to the point of violence, and usually in a workplace environment.
The expression derives from a series of incidents from 1986 onward in which United States Postal Service (USPS) workers shot and killed managers, fellow workers, and members of the police or general public in acts of mass murder. Between 1986 and 1997, more than 40 people were gunned down by current or former employees in at least 20 incidents of workplace rage.
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Very mixed feelings on USPS, overall poor service. Am glad we have other alternatives.
Having lived in other countries their postal systems are worse!
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Originally Posted by akapounder
maybe in the city but in my rural area it more than sucks, there are two offices in a 2 mile area serving two small towns and nether knows what the other is doing!!!!
I bet the town I live is smaller than where you are.
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Originally Posted by Smoken1
I bet the town I live is smaller than where you are.
Whitehall pop = 1 akapounder, madman in Corvette scares everyone out of town
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Whitehall pop = 1 akapounder, madman in Corvette scares everyone out of town
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Originally Posted by vetintheblood
The underrated USPS is one of the institutions that make us a great country. I'm sure they screw up sometimes but I have no complaints. They consistently provide on time delivery to us with a smile, provide passport service, free shipping boxes and envelopes. All this despite minimal support from Congress.

Count me as a big supporter of the US Post Office


Never had any problems either
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