There was a mail carrier that hung out at one of my customers shop. He said we don't deliver packages on Saturdays, it gets scanned and left at the  post office then we just update it couldn't be delivered and would get dropped off Monday. He was a walking carrier. Would drive the little mail truck and park it deliver the block the move to the next one.

As someone who worked part time with the USPS 25 years ago, I can vouch that their quality of service has taken a big hit. Packages that are scanned "delivered", but actually not, mail going in the wrong boxes, ect.  My coworkers to a person used to do their jobs with a sense of pride, now I'm not so sure the people that are there now do.

As someone who worked part time with the USPS 25 years ago, I can vouch that their quality of service has taken a big hit. Packages that are scanned "delivered", but actually not, mail going in the wrong boxes, ect.  My coworkers to a person used to do their jobs with a sense of pride, now I'm not so sure the people that are there now do.

I had the same thing in another neighborhood where we had the group mailboxes.
He would make them all as delivered before taking them out of his vehicle.
3 time in one year I didn't get packages that had been marked as delivered. I think it was a total of 5 times over a couple years.
I went to the post office to complain to the supervisor and was told there was nothing could be done unless there were complaints from multiple people.

Our M-F carrier is top notch!

I have to say the mail service in our area has been great.  Maybe it is because we live in the lower slower Eastern Shore of MD however over the 16 years we have lived here the US Postal Service has been very reliable.

I have a PO box in a small post office, it was close to where I worked so easy to get to. The lady that runs it used to work at one that was close to my former house.
 
 She will call or send me a text if a package is there and I don't get it before it is due to be sent back. I get  my mail maybe twice a month. The benefits of small town living. If she is out front when I stop, she will say stamp prices are going up next week to get people buying before the increase.

Our current mail man is the perfect picture of an angry, disturbed person. He has not yet gone "postal", but if you say "hello", he just gives you the "dead fish" stare. Has been on our route for about 10 yrs. Perhaps he is just deaf and mute? Not!
I was raised in Oklahoma City, and we had the same postman for 30+ years. He was on foot with large bag, and was always smiling. He knew everyone and was well liked and trusted. 
Times have changed--I never place mail of value in the mail box, as we have been witness to mail robbery. As we watched someone drove up to our box and quickly removed a letter with a check enclosed. Reported it to the police and and was told to call and report to postal service since it was a federal crime. Did so and was then told that the postal service had no ability to go after these folks. I did not have a license number to investigate anyhow. Now I pay all bills on line, or take them to the post office.

As I write this an automated FedEx tracking system is sending me a series of conflicting and, probably out of sequence, texts about an incoming package.  It may be due to my signing up for the text messages just this morning.

Whatever, the information is next to worthless.

I'll wait and see how well their system performs on my next delivery.

 Isn't there any good news out there?

Not much.
I didn't mention the UPS package that I shipped to my son that had the contents removed and a bag of nuts & bolts put in it.
Contacted UPS and was a waste of time.
First person I talked to and explained the situation transferred me to one in their "investigations" department.
She had no interest in looking into it and transferred me to claims department.
Just by persons attitude I knew I was never going to get any compensation.
She took all my info and as expected, nothing happened.

...UPS package that I shipped to my son that had the contents removed and a bag of nuts & bolts put in it.

Had this been a USPS package it would have been a federal crime and the Postal Service is tenacious in investigating.

Of course!  Our M-F carrier knew where our address was and did not seem to have issues with the address on the package...the package was delivered today, to the doorstep!

 Isn't there any good news out there?

 All of this reminds me of one of my friends telling me about a postman he knew.  He used to take any interesting magazines home, read them, then deliver.  This was decades ago.

I am also finding many companies seems to be given a date that is further out so that you feel good when it arrives early. Just wondering if this has been happening to anyone else?

Amazon has been big on that for me.