Just Sayin' USPS Update on 1-3-21, No tracking after 12-15-20

    First of all, I have no horse in the race, no dog in the fight, no bone to pick, and nothing to lose or gain either, unless I count those snarky  Fb comments, from family no less,  deriding my positive remarks about quick delivery from Amazon.  And, no, I don't want to pay their drivers' health insurance, sick leave, or any other benefits. I might reminisce about how I worked many, many years as a substitute teacher for low wages and absolutely no health insurance or a single paid holiday or day of vacation time, and after that for 15 years with much the same status. 

   I totally understand what horrors that  COVID inflicted and the monumental effect on the postal system. Let me emphasize my gratitude and thankful admiration for all the essential workers who labored under these conditions. And still continue to do so. 

   But to say the usps was unprepared would be a gross understatement; I don't believe it is incumbent on the post office system to show a profit. It is a service agency, but more organized management should be called for. 

    I cite 2 separate orders, for the same item from the same company, with the same credit card payment:

Order #1 was placed Dec. 4.  USPS Tracking estimated delivery by Dec.7, then delay to Dec. 12.  . OK, it was delayed, but tracking to this day only follows item to Dec. 15, then just says "delayed."  I'm ok with lateness;  times are tough and  nothing really matters that much anyway. No scanning information after that though, and it is rather annoying for the "tracking information" to not be available for 2 full weeks. Even so, I'm patient--que sera sera----but today when I tried to get the "updated" tracking status, the USPS Tracking site is NOT OPERATING.

Order #2  was placed Dec. 28, same company, same article. It arrived today, Jan. 2 delivered by Fed Ex. (I hope those drivers are well-compensated.

Now I await the arrival of Order #1, placed 24 days before Order #2. I don't know its whereabouts since scanning evidently ceased Dec. 15,  and since the tracking site is out of order, the package remains in Limbo.