06-19-2023, 03:22 AM
(06-19-2023, 12:32 AM)Obie Wrote: I'm at my place in Ohio and ordered a cover for my smokeless firepit.
It was Friday about 5 PM and they promised delivery on Sunday.
I got a message that the delivery would be by USPS and I laughed because they don't deliver on Sunday.
It was in my rural roadside mailbox at 4:00 PM.
In some areas the USPS bid on Amazon's Sunday delivery contract. The USPS delivers Express Mail on Sundays, so it makes sense that if they have more delivery people than express mail deliveries, they would deliver on Sundays.
Related anecdote: When I lived in Alaska I ordered some canned haggis from the UK. I didn't pay extra for Sunday delivery but that is how the international delivery worked out. Somebody called me "from the USPS office" that Sunday and said they had an international Sunday package for me, and I could come pick it up. Since I wasn't having a haggis emergency I said no thanks, I'll get it with my regular delivery.
About an hour later, somebody was at my house delivering it. And then it dawned on me that they had to deliver it, they only offered for me to "come and get it" because they were trying to save a trip out to my house. It was a small town, the "delivery" or "come and get it" person was a contract carrier, not a USPS employee.