It seems like you just told us what is happening to our UPS Stores. Thanks. More on reddit.com

Friend works at Amazon. He said they are delivering the newest orders before the ones late because of the storms. That way their metrics are less impacted by an increasing number of late packages. Forget the customer let them wait longer as long as it looks like Amazon has a better on time delivery rate. More on reddit.com

if you’re only temporary in Oregon i don’t suggest getting a mailbox at that UPS store. Convenience does have a price and ups stores receives hundreds of packages per day so it’s up to you if you think having a mailbox is worth it or not.

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Having lived in a few different parts of the country, I'll just say that everywhere has jerks. One's likelihood of encountering a jerk is mostly just a function of random chance rather than where you are, although in my experience the more crowded a place feels, the more people's jerkish tendencies come out. (See: Manhattan) As for the other stuff, yes Bend has a number of issues, but I think they are hardly unique to Bend. Some of them are related to the tensions between an increasingly urban city and the surrounding rural areas. Unlike Seattle, the moment you leave the city limits of Bend, you're surrounded by actual working farms (or public lands). It's not like we have suburbs surrounding us full of people who commute into the city for work and back to the suburbs at night. It goes straight from urban to rural, so there are stark difference in the day to day lives of the people you might run into at Costco or wherever. Some of them are related to the relatively rapid growth Bend has experienced in the last decade or more. The infrastructure, the housing supply, etc. have struggled to keep up, so when people are facing worse traffic or can't find an affordable place to live in Bend anymore, they start looking for someone to blame, and the easiest people to blame are people who moved here the most recently. And Californians and Washingtonians get blamed the most because that's where a lot of people move here from (which was bound to be the case since Oregon borders California and Washington and people are more likely to move from a nearby state than one further away). Also when it comes to driving, the state your license plate is one of the few things that someone else driving can easily determine about you, and since most of them are gonna be Oregon, if it's not Oregon, that's just easy pickins for a jerk. If it was an Oregon plate, they'd just come up with something else to be a jerk about. Some of them are related to the increasingly polarized political climate in this country as a whole. Trump certainly emboldened the idiots with their No Step on Snek flags, for example. That's not specifically a Bend thing, that's an America thing, though obviously less prevalent in places where less of the population favors Trump, like in cities with heavy Democratic majorities. And of course with regard specifically to the racism, Oregon as a whole has a specifically terrible legacy. Before Oregon was even a state, its territorial government passed laws making it illegal for any free Black person to remain in Oregon. Slavery was also outlawed in Oregon, so it was essentially illegal for a Black person, free or enslaved, to reside in Oregon at all. When Oregon created it's Constitution, the exclusion of Black people was written right into the text. Although the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution invalidated those racist provisions of the Oregon Constitution, it wasn't until 1926-1927 that they were officially repealed by the voters, and it took until 2002 for a vote to actually remove the language from the Constitution. So yes, Oregon, Bend included, still has more than it's fair share of racists and racism, and a considerable lack of racial diversity. More on reddit.com