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What the earliest USPS delivered a package for you?
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Invariably the source of the package doesn't matter. The mail carrier has predefined routes and unless the item is a priority delivery, you'll get it when you get it, not before, not after.
Some folk are lucky to be at the top end of a route, others the bottom.
True.
Here the earliest was 6 am to 6:30 am. It shocked the heck out of me.
I never had that happen before.
Though I do know when monitoring the tracking number it reached the post office early at 3 to 4 am.
Depends how close you are to a UPS center! Me in Upstate NYS see them around 1-3 PM almost on normal speed! So you in suburb should get around the same time! They will drop it off and leave it at the doorway!
UPS (United Parcel Service) ≠ USPS (United States Postal Service)
At least in my town, the USPS delivery trucks typically leave the post office on their routes around 7:30 am. The priority service deliveries are dealt with first, as well as to businesses and other organizations that are known to be open early in the morning: hotels, hospitals, fire stations, certain government office mail rooms, some large business mail rooms, etc. No sense trying to deliver mail early to the hair salon that doesn't open until 11am.
Residential delivery probably won't start around 10:00 am.
The holiday season is an exception.
Several years ago I was mowing the front yard on Sunday and my mail person stopped and handed me my package.
I was surprised and said, “I didn’t know you delivered on Sunday.”
She replied with a pissy tone, “Well, you can thank Amazon for that.”
🤨 Ever since then I try to order on Friday for Sunday delivery. 😏
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Here we have contracted carriers for the rural routes from the township's post office. They must be paid more for Sunday delivery, or else it's a different contract and so a different carrier? I can't recall ever getting an Amazon package on Sunday anyway. What I really can't imagine is working seven days a week to begin with, as a new standard work week, never mind for no extra pay.
Nah, the USPS (nor their contracted carrier) isn't going to pay overtime. They will spread the shifts amongst their employees.
The USPS mail carriers had already been delivering six days a week. That means carriers received another day off sometime during the week and it wasn't always a Saturday or Monday. It's the same as a restaurant that is open six days a week. Most likely this means occasional split days off in practical terms.
The Sunday routes are probably lighter anyhow and require fewer staff since they aren't making regular residential mail deliveries nor delivering to businesses.
The USPS mail carriers had already been delivering six days a week. That means carriers received another day off sometime during the week and it wasn't always a Saturday or Monday. It's the same as a restaurant that is open six days a week. Most likely this means occasional split days off in practical terms.
The Sunday routes are probably lighter anyhow and require fewer staff since they aren't making regular residential mail deliveries nor delivering to businesses.
I once had a shipment arrive 5 days before I placed the order.
It was a flux capacitor, so really, this was the standard service level.
It was a flux capacitor, so really, this was the standard service level.
In many (mostly urban) areas Amazon has its own delivery trucks and drivers so that they aren't using the USPS, UPS or FedEx for their deliveries at all.
Amazon uses multiple services for last-mile delivery.
In the USA, this includes USPS, full blown UPS, UPS SurePost (the post office does the last mile delivery), FedEx, Amazon's own trucks, and local parcel services (such as OnTrac here in the SF Bay Area).
Note that Amazon Affiliates may dictate a certain delivery method based on their partnership with a common carrier.
Being an Amazon customer since the late Nineties, I have recognized that there is no guarantee that a delivery will happen one way or another if you select the cheapest shipping option.
In the USA, this includes USPS, full blown UPS, UPS SurePost (the post office does the last mile delivery), FedEx, Amazon's own trucks, and local parcel services (such as OnTrac here in the SF Bay Area).
Note that Amazon Affiliates may dictate a certain delivery method based on their partnership with a common carrier.
Being an Amazon customer since the late Nineties, I have recognized that there is no guarantee that a delivery will happen one way or another if you select the cheapest shipping option.
What has surprised me recently is that although I was expecting delays in shipments even though I am an Amazon Prime customer, several items I've ordered in the past couple of weeks have come one or two days earlier than expected -- rather a pleasant surprise!
If they have the delivery capacity, they will put the package in your hands. It's just like the holiday season.
The package is guaranteed by the delivery estimate date. There is nothing that says that it must be delivered on that specific day.
This is like public transit. If you take a train that said that it should arrive at Station X on Platform 1 at 12:04pm and it arrives at 12:02, that's great. That gives people an extra two minutes to make hot connections departing on Platform 5 for Station Y. Arriving two minutes late is the problem.
If the delivery services have time, there is no reason not to deliver early. They might be slammed later.
The package is guaranteed by the delivery estimate date. There is nothing that says that it must be delivered on that specific day.
This is like public transit. If you take a train that said that it should arrive at Station X on Platform 1 at 12:04pm and it arrives at 12:02, that's great. That gives people an extra two minutes to make hot connections departing on Platform 5 for Station Y. Arriving two minutes late is the problem.
If the delivery services have time, there is no reason not to deliver early. They might be slammed later.