![]() You can decline the printed receipt, too, as the transaction has already been logged, and a proof of mailing is not relevant to an Item Not Received complaint later on anyway. The menu item for scanning in a pre-paid postage item on the Point of Sale terminal at the front counter (both old and new terminals, it doesn't matter which one) is ''Pre-Paid Mailpiece Acceptance.'' It takes significantly less time to process a prepaid item than a full retail item since of course no money transaction has to be conducted it's just point-and-click. I have found other post offices to take my packages to when the daily pickup carriers JUST forget to pickup my packages. ![]() They won't take our packages and if we are lucky, they mostly ignore us. If there isn't a truck on the ramps we get screamed at for walking up the ramps because we are not USPS workers and are NOT allowed on the loading dock. I gave up because 90% of the time the ramps have USPS trucks parks on the ramps. There are signs everywhere inside directing people to bring packages to the loading dock around the back. Here in Los Angeles at a very large post office we cannot bring a group of already labeled packaged to the counter nor put them in the bin we MUST bring them to the loading dock where only the mail trucks are allowed to park and we must haul our packages be it 4 or 100 up the ramp and knock on the door for anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour before someone opens the door to take our packages mostly with an attitude. Every day it piles up more and more, and you gotta get it out, but the more you get out, the more keeps coming in! And then the bar code reader breaks! And then it's Publisher's Clearinghouse Day.Are Postal Clerks Required to Scan at Counter? It just keeps coming and coming and coming. I just see them sorting and tossing them into big bins behind the counter. ![]() I'm starting to suspect that that was then, and this is now, and USPS just hasn't issued a statement outlining the changes to the flow I suspect have taken place recently.Įverything seems to be indicating a shift to offloading the scan work to auomated systems at the sorting center.Īll guesswork based on talks with the pickup drivers a while back, a lot of scrutiny of tracking locations and times, and the fact that I haven't seen a single package I've dropped on the counter get scanned recently as they used to be. according to what USPS has said, every package is supposed to be scanned at the local PO. (and dropping at the PO doesn't fix that for me - dropped 3 2 days ago and only 2 are showing any scans starting at the sorting center) Those two constitute more acceptance scan fail in a week than I saw in the last year, and my metrics here on eBay are going to take a hit. In the last week I've had 1 that never got scanned until it made it across the country, and another a couple of days ago that still has no scans and may do the same. Now scans are hit and miss, some around 8pm, some later, but some pkgs are not getting scanned at all. Recently (because the Aug 1st USPS APV system rollout?) things changed again. ![]() Something changed to where nothing was getting scanned until 7 or 8pm at the local sorting center, but pretty much everything was getting scanned. In some cases blue box pickups go to the local PO, and are scanned there along with PO deposited mail, in others (like it used to be here) the pickup drivers drag their truckloads straight to the local sorting center to be scanned, or alternatively, as I think is happening here now, the pickup driver goes to the local PO and transfers his unscanned load to a semi on the loading dock headed to the sorting center along with all the unscanned mail that the local PO isn't scanning anymore either.Ħ-12 months ago the pickup driver here was scanning everything he pulled from the blue box at about 5pm and things were good. I'm not aware of a general answer to that question, and don't know if there is a defined, universal protocol for blue box mail - I suspect it totally depends on your location and the local setup. They get scanned when they get scanned (if they get scanned). ![]()
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