How is the Post Office (and UPS,FEDEX ETC.)doing? Does anyone know? These businesses are essential to my job. Haven't heard anything on the news about the post office.

-- Ann Fisher (zyax55a@prodigy.net), January 02, 2000

Answers

The post office does not open until Monday, you will have to wait and see. I doubt anyone knows any more today then they did last week.

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), January 02, 2000.

My local post office branch is still standing! Amazing, huh?

-- Truk (Truk@loa.moc), January 02, 2000.

The post office is closed. The flag is down. The lobby is open for post office box customers. The blue boxes are still standing, yawning, waiting for mail. We won't know much else till they open on Monday.

-- duh (duh@dodo.com), January 02, 2000.

UPS is up and running. A package that I am expecting on the 5th was scanned this morning 1/2/00, and is in transit. yay =)

-- cin (cinlooo@aol.com), January 02, 2000.

(Sorry, I cannot resist and no offence intended.)

They just brought in some horses and are building a barn...and they say everything is going as expected.

Regards with chuckles,

-- (He Who) Rolls with Punches (JoeZi@aol.com), January 02, 2000.

Since Fedex, UPS and the like are increasingly dependent on the internet, and since the 'net is obviously broken and not working, you're SOL baby!

-- Fubar (fubar@foo.bar), January 02, 2000.

I can't connect to the Internet right now. I'm having lots of problems and I can't post to Y2K forums. Is this a Y2K bug? Can someone help me? Am I SOL?

-- Truk (truk@loa.moc), January 02, 2000.

Heard that postal processing centre in Toronto has experienced a larger than usual computer problems during the month of December. Staff was told this was routine and not to worry as it was not Y2K. Systems were down for several minutes almost daily for the latter part of Dec.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

-- wow (wowee@net.net), January 02, 2000.

My understanding is that most heavily used Post Offices were staffed and running tests. The Cactus Branch in Phoenix ( 85032 ) had four employees on duty for the Roll. If any problems detected, they were to haul out the less computerized system from a couple of years ago (still stored on site) and if that failed, there is a truly last ditch MANUAL system they have been drilling with.

Obviously, I won't know the results untill Monday, but let's just say that they took it VERY seriously.

-- K. Stevens (kstevens@ It ALL went away 39 hours ago .com), January 02, 2000.

I was off today (Saturday) I'll know more Monday. I know that we didn't recieve ANY automated mail Today. This is unusual. I posted here once before and was guoted on Norths board. I posted on Hyatts forum earlier today. I will post what I find out tommarrow after work.

I expect we will have problems. We can and do work manually, but we don't have enough manual capacity to handle the normal volume. Expect a slowdown. I'll post what I know Monday.

-- MegaMe (CWHale67@aol.com), January 02, 2000.