Mail carriers accuse USPS of faking Amazon delivery records

It feels good to be vindicated about this. As a San Francisco and Berkeley resident, this has happened to me more times than I can count. Seemingly every item carried by USPS was marked delivered prematurely. This was a factor in cancelling my amazon prime membership.

Every time I reported the problem to amazon, they offered a credit or replacement, but the effort of contacting customer support so often was too much of a time sink.

USPS employees, in my experience, tend to be low-energy, lazy and inconsistent. I pay for a PO Box and they can't be bothered to leave packages in a self-service lock box and the key in my box, that is available, more than 15% of the time. Instead they waste time filling out a package available for pickup card, leave that and waste an hour or more of my time with another trip.

I'm tempted to go back to UPS Store, but they also don't do self-service packages. Amazon Lockers could work for small packages, but they're always full... and don't work for eBay, AliBaba, etc. Another issue is that PO Boxes are treated as second-class citizens because some carriers, many items and many sellers refuse to deliver to anything but a physical address.

The ideal carrier and drop-off/pickup point integration would do self-service sending and receiving of nearly any reasonably-sized package and amount of letters with a real street address, open 24x7. And if necessary or for a small fee, bring it to you wherever you were: basically, like a carrier/post-office with an integrated courier capability.

I would agree with this. Typically when UPS drops off an Amazon package I get an alert with away on my Amazon app. The other day I had a USPS one, picked it up at the mailbox, and didn't get the alert till hours later.