Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click and Hope it Ships
Click-N-Ship... I've been using this USPS feature for years and I've watch it get worse and worse as they make it better.
Navigating the USPS Website was never easy or fun. However, Click-N-Ship was once a fast way to get business letters out and delivered typically in two business days on the East Coast for about $9.00 which was totally worth the cost and effort. Now it's $11.12 and takes 3-4 days which by the way is what First Class mail delivery times used to be but haven't been for years.
Yesterday was something all together new as I navigated the Click-N-Ship maze and then pressed "Print" only to have my screen flash and close. When I logged back in my shopping cart was empty. I checked my history and only got this:
No matter what I did I couldn't see my recent activity. I created a new label and it worked just fine... Too many clicks, etc... but I got my label. I then checked my email and of course I had two charges.
On a whim I read the red wording shown above and tried the "Shipping History" hyperlink and got this:
The initial shipping history didn't show your recent history or let you scroll down. This begs the question who in the hell is responsible for testing the USPS website? I'm guessing the same folks who created the Affordable Health Care website. How little effort is being spent just seeing if the USPS website works. I'm convinced they make changes and then let the unsuspecting public test the site. Click-N-Ship was pretty darn good but now it's just sucks. How does a website become worse over time when most things become better?
I clicked the view order in the actual history and requesting a refund which was crazy easy... Too easy. I bet I will never see a refund?
For most of us life is not about the big things that break you. It's typically about the little things that keep adding up to a point that you just snap. Some people start drinking. Some people curl up and basically hide from the world. I think this modern day crap reduces our bodies immune system resulting in illness and early death.
So many things have gotten better over time and generally life has gotten so much easier...
WHY DOES GOVERNMENT GET BIGGER AND LESS EFFICIENT OVER TIME?
Young people and the old drug using hippies that support Socialism and it's brother Communism as the solution to their lack luster lives need to visit the DMV in a big city, file a complicated tax return or in this case use Click-N-Ship to discover the truth. Government is not efficient. Government is not the answer. Yes, government in extreme circumstances is able to do a few things better than the private sector but Click-N- Ship is not one of them.
Doubt me?
Well ponder this ticking time bomb: $39,429,000,000,000
