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UPS coughs up $5.3M over alleged Postal Service fraud
Airlines are alleged to use fake timestamps on deliveries. (www.freightwaves.com) עוד...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Wow, this is rich! So USPS is worried about late and misdelivered mail, as long as it is someone else's fault.And faked delivery timestamps. I wonder if they can buy some mirrors with all that fine money.
Hasn't anyone else had a package shipped via the UPS USPS last mile process? You know, that Amazon seller who self ships the item to you and the package is picked up by UPS and you get tracking updates and everything is tracking along perfectly. And then it gets handed off by UPS to the USPS for the "last mile" delivery. You get USPS notifications about it bouncing from sort centers to it being out for delivery. And you are alerted the package has been delivered, except it hasn't- it is at a postal center still awaiting your route person to pick it up. The next day you have an email from UPS confirming your package has been delivered. Obviously, USPS is scanning non delivered items ahead of actual delivery just to meet delivery deadlines, but it must be OK for them to do it??
Hasn't anyone else had a package shipped via the UPS USPS last mile process? You know, that Amazon seller who self ships the item to you and the package is picked up by UPS and you get tracking updates and everything is tracking along perfectly. And then it gets handed off by UPS to the USPS for the "last mile" delivery. You get USPS notifications about it bouncing from sort centers to it being out for delivery. And you are alerted the package has been delivered, except it hasn't- it is at a postal center still awaiting your route person to pick it up. The next day you have an email from UPS confirming your package has been delivered. Obviously, USPS is scanning non delivered items ahead of actual delivery just to meet delivery deadlines, but it must be OK for them to do it??
Good rant, but it’s irrelevant. The charge here is that UPS specifically defrauded the Post Office so that they would get paid more money. The post office telling you your package is here when it is there doesn’t cost you any money. So… not the same.
I think you miised the point. USPS scans the package received from UPS as delivered (on time) and gets full pay for it. So in fact, it is the same level of fraud being done (for monetary benefit) by USPS as the USPS has fined UPS for.
Its called UPS Surepost. It is the worst by far! I cringe whenever my tracking shows this method. It goes snail-mail by UPS then gets to your town where UPS gives it to the USPS system for delivery. That process takes and extra day and sometimes 2 extra days!! I send negative feedback to everyone I buy from asking them Never to use UPS SurePost ever again!!
Interesting point.
That said, with a lot of airlines cutting destinations that could be part of the problem with delivery rates. There may be an easy solution to this without having to spend a lot of money to solve this problem.