Another nail in the coffin: The postal system

Epignosis wrote: clarkpegasus4001 wrote: Epignosis wrote: clarkpegasus4001 wrote: I don't think it's the mail service that's the problem anyway, at the end of the day if you insure your package you will get a refund if it's lost right? More and more folk choose to download which is going to impact on cd sales being sold and posted. Why should one have to pay extra for insurance?  The post office is providing a service and I am paying for that service.  If they fail to safely deliver whatever it is I am sending, then I should be compensated for my loss. Should people have to pay for insurance in case the pizza they ordered and already paid for doesn't arrive? I'm taking about a high value item. Tony C. I'm talking about any item. If I pay a moving company to transport my furniture from one house to a new house, and they wind up destroying it all, should I be compensated for my loss, or is it just "too bad, you didn't pay for the insurance?"

clarkpegasus4001 wrote: Epignosis wrote: clarkpegasus4001 wrote: I don't think it's the mail service that's the problem anyway, at the end of the day if you insure your package you will get a refund if it's lost right? More and more folk choose to download which is going to impact on cd sales being sold and posted. Why should one have to pay extra for insurance?  The post office is providing a service and I am paying for that service.  If they fail to safely deliver whatever it is I am sending, then I should be compensated for my loss. Should people have to pay for insurance in case the pizza they ordered and already paid for doesn't arrive? I'm taking about a high value item. Tony C.

I'm talking about any item.

If I pay a moving company to transport my furniture from one house to a new house, and they wind up destroying it all, should I be compensated for my loss, or is it just "too bad, you didn't pay for the insurance?"

The T wrote: Should people pay for insurance if the pizza they ordered caused them stomach indigestion?

No.

clarkpegasus4001 wrote: I don't think it's the mail service that's the problem anyway, at the end of the day if you insure your package you will get a refund if it's lost right? More and more folk choose to download which is going to impact on cd sales being sold and posted.

Why should one have to pay extra for insurance?  The post office is providing a service and I am paying for that service.  If they fail to safely deliver whatever it is I am sending, then I should be compensated for my loss.

Should people have to pay for insurance in case the pizza they ordered and already paid for doesn't arrive?

I have never had a problem with any of the mailing companies, USPS, UPS or FedEx. I order quite a few packages and use Netflix frequently and not once has there been an issue.

Here in Germany the problem is that a lot of delivery service is outsourced to external companies, and a lot of them are either incompetent or bent (I know that from repeated personal experience and when uncovered, it's been in the media). The joys of privatisation.

On the other hand we must agree that the post has a price stability beyond belief for years and years; the price of any postage stamp has remained completely unchanged.

The T wrote: US' version's efficiency. They should have more employees in their offices though... There's always a line.

Edited by KoS - January 19 2011 at 16:48

Packages have been delivered to my house by my neighbours. Mostly this happens during the holiday rush when the post office hires temps to assist the regular mail carrier. It's a bit of a mouse trap to get yourself into. I prefer UPS and they have proven to me in the past that they can fix a problem. The prog vendor who hires extra people to pull orders in the warehouse and they print half of your previous address and half of your new one. The package will sit on a shelf in a UPS building until you call....which is really cool because your shipment has not been subjected to theives or smucks who will toss it in a trashcan. After you identify yourself over the phone and specify the new address, UPS will deliver your package that day. Most mix ups in things such as the wrong address printed by the sender or a lost package 75 percent of the time has to do with the flaws performed by extra hired help in a shipping department.

^ They go to heaven?

There have been quite a few letters in the papers recently about people not receiving parcels. I guess there was a problem over Christmas with the snow impacting the service, but to be honest I send quite a few parcels out for eBay sales and have not had a problem yet.