Hey Arelor..

I just got a notification that the international parcel has been delivered.

Not too bad at 14 calendar days total.

June 18
9:18 am
Item successfully delivered
24008, Spain
7:23 am
Item has arrived at the delivery office in the destination country
2403396, Spain
7:23 am
International item is in transit to the delivery office.
Esmadb, Spain
7:22 am
Item has been released by Customs Spain

June 16
6:58 pm
Item has been sent to customs in the destination country
Esmadb, Spain
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Re: international parcel has been delivered
By: Ogg to Arelor on Fri Jun 18 2021 06:19 am

Hey Arelor..

I just got a notification that the international parcel has been delivered.

Don't you have private Netmail over there? I sent you one but I think you didn't get it.

Nevertheless, the pizzas arrived no problem. Also, I loved the extra toppings added to the pizza. I am nearly crying, stupid me :-)

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Hello Arelor!

** On Saturday 19.06.21 - 04:27, Arelor wrote to Ogg:

Don't you have private Netmail over there? I sent you one but I think you didn't get it.

No netmail from you, yet. I thought that you might use our
other private channel, but nothing is there either.

Nevertheless, the pizzas arrived no problem. Also, I loved the extra toppings added to the pizza. I am nearly crying, stupid me :-)

Awww. ;) Glad you approve.


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Ogg wrote to Arelor <=-

Hey Arelor..

I just got a notification that the international parcel has been delivered.

Not too bad at 14 calendar days total.

Thanks to changes at my local post, it took 28 days for a letter to get
across town, via certified mail.

Due to changes in mail routing, all mail (including local mail) needs to go
35 miles away to a processing center instead of being processed locally.
Then it needs to go back to the local center for sorting and delivery. All
in the name of cost-cutting and efficiency.

These changes were rolled out in advance of a national election that had record turnouts and record number of ballots mailed in because of COVID.

Our current postmaster general is in the process of being fired. It couldn't happen fast enough, but we'll be disgusted to hear the terms of his
severance. Hopefully they'll mail it to him.


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Thanks to changes at my local post, it took 28 days for a letter to get across town, via certified mail.

Due to changes in mail routing, all mail (including local mail) needs
to go 35 miles away to a processing center instead of being processed locally. Then it needs to go back to the local center for sorting and delivery. All in the name of cost-cutting and efficiency.

Several of the changes being blamed on the current postmaster have actually been going on for years. What you describe in the second paragraph there happened to us 20+ years ago. That means if you have to post anything to our state capital, it goes to one of two cities first, one of which is ~ 50 miles away. Local mail goes all the way to one of those two towns before coming
back.

It may all go to one of those two cities now, but it used to get split
between the two which made me really wonder how efficient that could be.

Multiple blue drop off boxes started disappearing in 2009 or 10. I live in an area where the mail is delivered on foot so I used to rely on the one at
the front of the subdivision for my outgoing mail. It disappeared shortly
after I moved in, which was in late 2009. I really noticed it being gone
when the pandemic hit and I quit going to the office every day.



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Re: Re: international parcel has been delivered
By: Blue White to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Jun 23 2021 01:22 pm

Several of the changes being blamed on the current postmaster have actually been going on for years. What you describe in the second paragraph there happened to us 20+ years ago. That means if you have to post anything to ou state capital, it goes to one of two cities first, one of which is ~ 50 mile away. Local mail goes all the way to one of those two towns before coming back.

It sounds like the logistics agency I use for running my business. When you leave a parcel in their office, they always send it to Madrid and, from Madrid, to its final destination. This is stupid because it often means that a package supposed to go, say "north", is sent "south" first and then "north" later.

I have had parcels delayed because there was some weather issue in Madrid despite the fact the parcel was to be delivered to a nearby province and there was nothing blocking a direct delivery from my province and its destination.

That said, incidences are less than 5%. So far I have never had something really bad happen. Therefore I conclude that shipping everything to a central hub for distributing it later is actually effective for both the agency and the customers.

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Arelor wrote to Blue White <=-

It sounds like the logistics agency I use for running my business. When you leave a parcel in their office, they always send it to Madrid and, from Madrid, to its final destination. This is stupid because it often means that a package supposed to go, say "north", is sent "south" first and then "north" later.

A comedian (I think it was Scott Adams) suggested that, to look busy, you should take all the papers off of your desk, and send them via inter-office email to yourself. It'll take 3-5 days, he said, and your boss will think you're burning through your work.


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Hello poindexter FORTRAN!

** On Saturday 19.06.21 - 07:37, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Ogg:

Thanks to changes at my local post, it took 28 days for a
letter to get across town, via certified mail.

I don't understand how that is even allowed to happen.

Due to changes in mail routing, all mail (including local
mail) needs to go 35 miles away to a processing center
instead of being processed locally. Then it needs to go
back to the local center for sorting and delivery. All in
the name of cost-cutting and efficiency.

Something similar happens to mail destined to a small town that
is only a short 25min drive north of my town. If I address a
letter for that northerly town, that letter gets sent SOUTH to
a larger sorting facility about 130km away. Then, it comes BACK
to my local town, and then it gets loaded onto vehicles that
take it north.

Our current postmaster general is in the process of being
fired. It couldn't happen fast enough, but we'll be
disgusted to hear the terms of his severance. Hopefully
they'll mail it to him.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

LOL. And certified!


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Ogg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

LOL. And certified!

Did I mention that the letter that took 28 days was sent certified mail?


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Ogg wrote (2021-06-27):

Hello poindexter FORTRAN!

Thanks to changes at my local post, it took 28 days for a
letter to get across town, via certified mail.

I don't understand how that is even allowed to happen.

I thought it was the main strategy of one party for the last election:

1. delay mail (ballots)
2. ?
3. win

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