I am I the only one UPSET with USPS

sharky · Dec 29, 2008

Saturday I watched the postman LITERALLY drive down the middle of the road skipping half the houses on my side of the street and ALL of the other side ..... All except two house s had cleared a path by the boxes ... Houses on another block got notes to clear the snow..the road is far from bad as front wheel drive cars with NO chains are doing fine ... I am livid as it is now day 4 without mail or a note ... I am about to rip into the local postmaster and change to the local UPS store at least I can have it delivered if needed ... Today she did the other side of the street but made no effort on my side , I could see no chain marks on my side just down the middle ...

Thank you for reading my rant ..

weldrwomn · Dec 29, 2008

I would definitely complain to the postmaster about that.

Luckily for me, hubby and I are on good terms with our postal guy. He even gets concerned for us if we don't pick up our mail.

mews2much · Dec 29, 2008

That is terrible.
I would complain.
We complained last week.
Our mail lady is great but on her day off this guy comes.
He left a package out by our door.
So we told the mail lady and she said call the post office and complain.
She has had alot of complaints about him.
Its her route and it makes her look bad.

momofmany · Dec 29, 2008

Originally Posted by WELDRWOMN

I would definitely complain to the postmaster about that.

Luckily for me, hubby and I are on good terms with our postal guy. He even gets concerned for us if we don't pick up our mail.

Yup, I would complain. Fortunately for me, the postal guy lives next door.

trouts mom · Dec 29, 2008

Brutal! Complain for sure!

breal76 · Dec 29, 2008

Yeah when it snowed here, we missed mail for one day. Our girls chains broke on her vehicle. We like her a lot, of course we don't like the guy who replaces her sometimes. He is so stupid two weeks ago he put a box in our box that I COULD NOT GET OUT! He just jammed it in there. So I litterally had to open the package inside the mail box just to get it out. I left the box behind.

I can't say too much about the USPS...They did feed me for 21 years. lol My mom was a district manager, and postmaster until she retired. Oh do I remember the nights I would have to drive her to Portland so she could to late mail drop offs.

grogs · Dec 29, 2008

Well, no snow here so I don't have that problem with the USPS, but we do have problems from time to time. I live in an old neighborhood where most of the mailboxes are on the front porch, so the mailman has to spend the whole day walking from house to house. As a result, nobody wants the route and it seems that it's always the newest guy at the post office who gets stuck with it. As soon as he gets a little seniority he moves on and the next newbie gets it.

With incoming mail, it's generally not too annoying except for packages - they tend to just put the pick-up slip in my box and never even make an attempt to deliver it. The biggest problem I've had is that they tend to misplace my outgoing mail. Twice since I've lived here I've had groups of bills (all mailed on the same day) that took over a month to reach their destination. Needless to say, when that happens it costs me some late fees or interest. After the second time it happened I just quit mailing anything important from home. I'll either go by the post office or take it to work.

taterbug · Dec 29, 2008

I know what you mean, Sharky!

I complained to my PO, but they told me they didn't "have" to deliver the mail if they didn't have a clear shot to the mailbox, such as a vehicle parked in front of the box, trash, snow or anything else that required the "driver" of the USPS vehicle to get out of his ride!

sharky · Dec 29, 2008

I talked with a neighbor on a street over ( same street really but road curves... She had cleared her box area her next door neighbor got mail and had NOT cleared anything... BOY Am I going to give someone an earful

kittkatt · Dec 29, 2008

Originally Posted by Breal76

He is so stupid two weeks ago he put a box in our box that I COULD NOT GET OUT! He just jammed it in there.

Do you have the same mail deliverer that I do?

Mine did the same thing last week, and I had a heck of a time getting the package out of the box. I ended up breaking off the flag thingy in the process of getting the package out.

strange_wings · Dec 29, 2008

Originally Posted by Grogs

The biggest problem I've had is that they tend to misplace my outgoing mail. Twice since I've lived here I've had groups of bills (all mailed on the same day) that took over a month to reach their destination. Needless to say, when that happens it costs me some late fees or interest.

I've had this happen, too. Just last week in fact - we got a late payment notice saying they were going to cut off our water. I know we paid the water bill, it was $26 something... and I put it in the box on our porch. The obvious result is that they never got our payment and we got extra charges.

forensic · Dec 29, 2008

"Neither rain nor hail nor sleet nor snow nor heat of day nor dark of night shall keep this carrier from the swift completion of his appointed rounds."

breal76 · Dec 29, 2008

You know what's crazy? My mom worked for the post office for 30 years, and when she retired they finally gave her, her 25 year award for service.

She was a very hard worker and they spat all over her. When she was the district manager in Alaska they made her wear a pager 24 hours a day. When she took a step down to become a postmaster (more relaxing). Then she wanted to go on disability. They denied her. Seriously, you should see her hands. Plus she needs a cane to walk. AND she has suffered mini strokes to the point where she passes out and falls down hurting herself real bad. They still wouldn't let her go. Lucky for her, she got a lawyer involved. Then she retired at 60. Yeah...60.

The post office is one of those things where you love em or hate em. We do like our regular gal. She knows my mom has arthritis and diabetes, so when it comes to packages or anything weird. She will come to the door. (We live on a cult de sac postbox and the begining of it and we are at the very end)

I will say that we did have according to the news one of the biggest snow storms in 40 years. Yet except for that one day her chains broke, we got mail.

essayons89 · Dec 30, 2008

The USPS runs in spite of itself. Upper management starting at the top with the idiot we have for a postmaster general and the mental midgets on the board of governors are so bad they almost make Congress look competent. How's that for a scary thought?

flisssweetpea · Dec 30, 2008

Your posties would find it difficult delivering the mail in England. Postie walks around with his post back slung over his shoulder and......has to walk right up to EVERY door. There is no mailbox at the end of the garden, he has to walk up to the door and actually post the mail through the letterbox.

US friends - it must be so frustrating when your service isn't working properly but......YOU GET MAIL COLLECTED FROM YOUR MAILBOX

Now that is something we could do with. Here, we have to go to the postbox for simple mail or.....for more complex or larger postal items have to go to the Post Office. Bear in mind, that they closed all the Post Offices down and located them inside a big department store instead.

I must say, I'm quite taken with your idea.

cruisermaiden · Dec 30, 2008

I live in an apartment and our mail service isn't any better, especially with packages. We have those big mail centers where all of our mailboxes are in the same place and you have to go there to pick it up. If you get a package that won't fit into your box (which is tiny) they leave a note saying nobody was home to receive it (in the box, like I'm supposed to be sitting in my mailbox awaiting delivery...) and send it back to the district post office. They also like to cram the package in there so it is impossible to remove!

According to my complex, they are supposed to attempt delivery at the actual apartment and leave the notice on your door, but they don't. Also you are supposed to be able to request delivery to the complex office and they will hold it there for pickup but the mailman refuses to leave anything there. Oh and if you call for re-delivery (which they say is offered) you'll wait at home all day and when they show up they won't have your package or even know where it is. I had more than one package returned to sender when I first moved here simply because the USPS couldn't figure out where they put it for me to come pick up!

So yea I gave up. I take all of my outgoing mail to the office, and have all of my packages delivered either there or to my parents' house nearby.

weldrwomn · Dec 30, 2008

Originally Posted by flisssweetpea

Your posties would find it difficult delivering the mail in England. Postie walks around with his post back slung over his shoulder and......has to walk right up to EVERY door. There is no mailbox at the end of the garden, he has to walk up to the door and actually post the mail through the letterbox.

US friends - it must be so frustrating when your service isn't working properly but......YOU GET MAIL COLLECTED FROM YOUR MAILBOX

Now that is something we could do with. Here, we have to go to the postbox for simple mail or.....for more complex or larger postal items have to go to the Post Office. Bear in mind, that they closed all the Post Offices down and located them inside a big department store instead.

I must say, I'm quite taken with your idea.

We don't get mail collected from our box. We have to either take it to the post office or search for those blue mailboxes that used to be on every corner but are disappearing faster than snow on a hot day. It would be nice to have it collected from our mailbox.

Also, everybody's boxes are on their porches or a slot in their door so our nice mailguy gets his exercise every day going from house to house, up and down porch steps. He is still very good about getting the mail delivered.

littleraven7726 · Dec 30, 2008

Where I live everyone's mailbox is right up by the door. We make sure to keep our sidewalks clear and I've had no problems with the USPS.

I usually take my mail to be mailed out to the post office or a secured mailbox. I've lived in places where the mail was sorted through (unsecured boxes) so I'm paranoid. I feel better knowing it's in a secured mailbox.

whisky'sdad · Dec 30, 2008

My driver would drive up on our grass just so he wouldn't have to walk 2 steps to our box!! He finally stopped after I complained twice!

So much for the creedo...through rain, or sleet or snow, the mail will get there! Or something like that!

spudsmom · Dec 30, 2008

I wish everyone could spend a day with their mail carrier, from the beginning of the day (around 5:30 am) to when it gets done. Especially a small office like mine, where we sort our own mail into a case in order of delivery, then pull it down and load into our PRIVATE cars, no LLV's for us. Then we take it around for delivery. There is a reason we drive on the right hand side of the car, so we are able to reach the mail box from the car. I would pick a day for a rider to be one like we had last week. Snow so deep that I had to plow my way with my car up the street, after putting on my own chains, and getting out at every box so we didn't take out a mailbox by trying to get close to it. Walking up the cul-de-sacs and so forth. Not to mention the day I broke a chain, that's probably a day a rider would not have wanted to be with me.

With the Christmas Crush and the weather, I added AT Least 2 hours to my route every day. Yes, I do get paid by the hour...but only for a certain # of hours. Rural carriers work by evaluated time, so I certain amount of time to get the job done and the rest is my own time. Though I would love to just say "OK my time is up, I'm going home now" I am obligated to get the mail delivered to the BEST of my ability. So if I get paid for 8 hours and it takes me 10....I get paid for 8. I understand...I had no idea what a mail carriers job was all about until I became one. Now I HAVE walked many a mile in those shoes.

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