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July 19, 2025 05:11PM
I was hoping to pick up a quick USPS shop today. I knew one had already been picked up and there is the 18 day rotation. When I tried to self-assign, I received a message stating there is already one scheduled at this location for 7-30-25. Now usually I get a three day window and its 11 days out. Are these being scheduled via the phone calls I never answer?

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July 19, 2025 08:06PM
I get a lot of my USPS jobs by phone calls and texts. I tell them once they are bonused, please contact me!

Shopping Arkansas, Louisiana, & Mississippi.
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July 19, 2025 10:56PM
one day I got calls, texts and e-mails from multiple schedulers about the same shops I could not get at the current day. I asked tham to explain the case of emergency in such communications if I can get shops two weeks aheard. It ended up simple: I blocked their numbers.

Shopping Eastern Pennsylvania since 2009
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July 19, 2025 10:59PM
A week ago anoher guy from different No called me and left message again. I checked shops available and discovered the same things you mentioned above. Tell them the story again it is waste of time. After doing recearch I picked 4 shops that were availble in few days.

Shopping Eastern Pennsylvania since 2009
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July 21, 2025 03:27PM
What drives me nuts about these is that they're listed, with available dates highlighted, you click the last permissible date and hit submit, and *then* it tells you that the 18-day requirement hasn't been met yet so choose a later date -- which you can't.
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July 22, 2025 01:21AM
exactly

Shopping Eastern Pennsylvania since 2009
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July 22, 2025 02:29AM
The new MSC has no idea how to use ISS scheduling correctly. I tried to help them, spent a couple hours actually outlining all the things that are wrong with the current scheduling approach for Jason Bare, and they basically said they didn't have anyone who could fix it.

So this "oh its available! Oops its not! Now a scheduler will call you to tell you its available. Oops, its still not!" behavior is not going anywhere.
@amyann2 wrote:

What drives me nuts about these is that they're listed, with available dates highlighted, you click the last permissible date and hit submit, and *then* it tells you that the 18-day requirement hasn't been met yet so choose a later date -- which you can't.
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July 22, 2025 02:21PM
If they actually beta tested thier offerings by …shopping thier own assignments as a test run, the glitches, flaws, and frustrations could be fixed before release, benefitting all involved.
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July 23, 2025 01:41AM
Now that is the truth! They really area operationally horrendous. I wish USPS would go back to the big eye.
@SBP wrote:

If they actually beta tested thier offerings by …shopping thier own assignments as a test run, the glitches, flaws, and frustrations could be fixed before release, benefitting all involved.
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July 23, 2025 01:48AM
the company who carried such shop before were on Shopmetrics. Actually the current company has another platform Sassie. They can switch USPS shops to Sassie.

Shopping Eastern Pennsylvania since 2009
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July 23, 2025 11:13PM
They already post them on Sassie when they can't get them filled. And so that introduces a whole other wrinkle of operational failure - the scheduling is not linked to the ISS scheduling availability.


@gene wrote:

the company who carried such shop before were on Shopmetrics. Actually the current company has another platform Sassie. They can switch USPS shops to Sassie.
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July 24, 2025 09:24PM
you are right. I got email from them about USPS shops mentioned Sassie (but I checked and could not locate any). I also got sms from scheduler. He asked if I can pick any such shops. I told him that I have nothing to ship for now.

Shopping Eastern Pennsylvania since 2009


Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/24/2025 09:25PM by gene.
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July 28, 2025 09:03AM
The current MSC who has them on iSS used to do them strictly on Sassie when they had this client the last time, which was probably over 10 years ago? I also remember doing them back in 2002 for a different MSC that mailed the packages i was to send and report forms to me. Oh, and does anyone else remember the oversized dimensional weight shops?
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