Posted on 07/17/2019 5:40:05 PM PDT by Libloather
So YOU are the person who gets letters! It’s been years since a letter has been in my box.
(I know, you have to write them to get them.)
LOL, I do have a cousin who’s old school and sends cards and letters throughout the year but she’s the ONLY one......:)
Also, the USA, via the USPS, subsidizes the cost of mail sent from China to the U.S. Just heard that on FBN a day or two ago. We pay full price to send mail; China gets a discount, compliments of us.
Well if it works as well as tracking, forget it. I don’t get squat for tracking. I buy stuff off of ebay all the time and it pretty much always has tracking. I see;
* Tracking number created
* Dropped off at facility
2-3 days later
* Delivered
No in between stuff like there’s supposed to be because the usps workers never scan it at every point like they’re supposed to.
Where you are clearly ignorant is that the mail isn’t scanned in any other place is because it doesn’t go any other place. It goes in the container and it doesn’t get scanned until it’s out of the container, which is usually the destination post office.
The postal service is so automated that a letter sent will be sorted down to the carrier route—in Oder—without anyone touching it. No one. Until the carrier takes it out of his tray.
But this does improve accountability for mail service. One or two cases of expected mail vs actual mail being different and there will be an explanation by the mail carrier.
This threat will improve service.
My sister and wife both worked for USPS. I know exactly how it’s supposed to work. For something to get to us from another state, it should get scanned at Kansas City or Springfield, MO distribution center where everything gets sorted to go to the next spot which would be a medium sized city about 30 miles away. Then the driver is supposed to scan it there when he/she loads it in their bin for the day’s delivery.
That’s the whole point of tracking. To trace it’s tracks. Not scan at the start and at the end.
Ain’t no damn container unless it’s going overseas. It’s cloth sided bins in trucks. Might go in an airplane if it’s going from one coast to the other.
I’ve had this for about a year actually. I signed up for it for our house in the mountains b/c we don’t check the box much (weekends at the most) but the PO there could never get it right. I do get an email every morning at 8:30 showing me what I am getting later in the day at home. I find it very helpful to see what is coming, especially if it is important. Once we got down from the mountains on a Sunday night and our box was wide open and empty. I was able to look to see what we had missed and report it as having not been received. I think a storm had blown the box open and the mail got buried in the plowed snow on the street but it was still nice to know what had been in the box.
OCR takes an image of the envelope in order to work. In any case the outside of an envelope has never been covered by privacy law. That goes back long before automation was taking pics of it.
I am giving a 5-year notice, the USPS will shut down October 1, 2024.
Now if it had a “just throw that one away” button it would be useful. lol
Understood.
But privacy has changed as a concept with the advent of technology.
the outside of an envelop was never private, however now that image can be captured along with all other envelope images and kept indefinietly.
Life becomes an open book subject to manipulation and ridicule.
This service is not that new. I’ve been using it for probably two years. I travel a lot and like to know what mail is waiting for me.
“No you don’t know.”
More than you’ll ever know.
We’ve been using it & like it.
I’ve had it for about a month. Meh.
Ain't that the truth!! LOL!!
Silicon Valley already has exceeded George Orwell’s dystopian nightmares when it comes to spying.
He thought it would take an oppressive gov’t to force privacy eradicating ‘telescreens’ on its people. We eagerly buy them and call them “alexa” and “siri”.
Cloth hampers are not containers? I pushed enough of those things around for four summers.
I did not mean containers on a ship. Ha ha.
REAL useful! lol
This would only be useful if I could click to not have it delivered.
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