My insulin is/will be (going on Meidcare) local or delivered FedEx, so don’t expect any impact there. The Regional VA Medical Center sends supplies/meds via mail. I’ll be careful to refill early to maintain buffer supply.
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I thought tu diabetes isn’t supposed
To be non political
The hubbub about the
Post office is all political
Let’s focus on our disease here
Sorry I don’t agree, The post office is all about delivering mail and packages to more final destinations in the US than any other carrier, not politics.
This is no place to discus politics, but certainly a valid platform to discus postal policies that affect us as diabetics, regardless of the politics involved.
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Thank You @Dick_engel for your concern. You are correct that we wish to keep TuDiabetes non political.
Posts such as this one have potential to become political but this one has not. I give great credit to our members for not taking it there. The question asked by the original poster is a valid question since many depend upon the post office for medicine and supplies deliveries.
While this whole issue may be politically generated, we as diabetics must consider the possibility because our lives may depend on it. I think this is a fair topic.
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Ok
The post office is not political agreed
The current hubbub about the post office is political
Designed as a political ploy to make one party look bad
They have the funds they need and seem to be doing a good job
I receive my Amazon within one or two days regularly
My drugs come on time
Me DME Is delivered via a package service
This I agree but this hubbub does raise valid concern, political consideration aside. What concerns me is when people use our community to argue one political agenda over another. So far no one has done so in this thread, it is my hope that it will stay that way.
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Well please
Monitor it
I sense this item was based on the recent politicalization in the press
I will bite my tongue and keep my thoughts to myself but please don’t let this turn into a political frenzy
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It’s really not an issue from my point of view. Any diabetic related product that is shipped to me, the company business model is usually to send it FedEx. I own and run an e-commerce business and use the USPS exclusively for the last 13 years to ship product. I’ve never experienced an issue with delivery delays to customers even during holiday season in both the U.S. and globally. So, I don’t believe “the sky is falling”.
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I too have had Type1 for 35 years. I sm presently 72, and a retired family doctor. Most of my pump and CGM monitor supplies come via Fedex. I am worried about many of my former diabetic patients who ate veterans snd get insulin and other supplies delivered by the post office. What happens to them If meds are delayed? And what happens to the rest of us if all the post office mail gets diverted to Fed Ex and UPS if the post office goes belly up? Will they too slow down because of s surge in demand?
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Most of the US population gets very creative when things like this happen. I would expect new services to pop up while other services such as Amazon direct delivery grows. Perhaps there will be a sharing platform where we will be able to trade our excess medications and supplies with others in need. As individuals, we will find overt or covert methods to build a stash of medications and supplies. Some folks will be reactive and complain while others will be proactive and find a solution that meets their needs.
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Go back to picking up RX at pharmacy. I still do. With mail delivery, no control over temperature or delays.
Pick up drive through pharmacy is very convenient.
Pump supplies is the only thing I get through mail.
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The USPS has been on a slow spiral towards belly up for a long while. Suddenly it is the crisis of the year. I have nothing more to say about it.
I recently had a transmitter fail at 10:30 P.M. as I crawled into bed. I had just gotten a new transmitter in July and that was the one that failed. Of course I didn’t have another one! I called Tandem tech support and they apologized for Dexcom but they were backloged and didn’t have any transmitters. I would get one in 4-6 business days. Luckily Walgreens had one I could buy for $299. 96 our of pocket of course. Had to use the glucose meter and sticks for 4 days until the transmitter showed up. If insurance ONLY understood! All I can say is THANK GOD for meter sticks. They are reliable ALL the time unlike Dexcom G6.
No, it’s really not an issue just fake news.
Somehow my bills never have the slightest bit of trouble finding me through the mail.
I shop on eBay a lot and USPS has never once been late on their delivery estimates and have very often been early.
It’s all BS.
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I have no concerns, as I choose to trust no one other than myself to supply my life giving needs. Even though mail order is considered cheaper, cheaper is rarely better, just cheaper.
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Neither United States Post Office, nor FedEx will deliver to me. Either UPS or FedEx ( I always forget) wont deliver to a post office. It gets tricky.
Lots of people have unreliable USPS.
It all comes down to where you live, how familiar you are with your local options, and if you can get 1 out of the 3 options to come through for you.
I’m super uptight about reliable mail/package delivery because I get expensive medical supplies through the mail and because our state government really struggles to send mail, so its a necessary factor in troubleshooting government paperwork failures that determine if I can drive a car or not.
Those couple of cited variables (If you can drive and if you can get medical supplies) are pretty darn vital to being a functioning human. If @Larissa3 is in CA, then her diabetic community is dependent on regular government paperwork transactions in order to maintain driving privileges. They need mail or the system starts to collapse. CA will be like MN.
We make appointments to go to the DMV, now. The whole computer system has been changed. Maybe its less broken, now. The only way to find out is to use it and see if they try to arrest me for driving. Its the worst, CA. Dont be like us.
Kaiser ships by USPS, so I have some risk there. I get 90 days’ supply of maintenance meds at a time, so unless something takes more than a month to reach me, I’m fine. And since I’ve gotten through the summer without suffering overheated insulin and don’t need more for many months, I have no fears. Dexcom doesn’t ship by USPS, so that supply stream is not affected.
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I use kaiser too and historical have gotten my insulin by usps, however got my most recent from fedx
Are you getting direct from Dexcom?
Many are being notified to switch to DME/pharmacy for future orders.
Direct. Dexcom has a “Kaiser team.”