Frustration with usps

I read just last week where they found a mailman that had a couple thousand articles that were supposed to be delivered in his garage dating back for years.

Ho-Hummmm ... I worked for 6 hrs, so I guess I'm done for the day.
 
You folks are lucky, down here we have Australia post, been broken for years. One delivery per day 5 days a week if you are lucky. Items go missing all the time. lost or stolen they don't know or care. A standard letter is A$1.00 even if only going next door.
 
I read just last week where they found a mailman that had a couple thousand articles that were supposed to be delivered in his garage dating back for years.

Ho-Hummmm ... I worked for 6 hrs, so I guess I'm done for the day.
I remember that story and there have been a few others like it in the past.

Possibly the root cause of the problems is the compensation going from hourly rate to a salary type. I don' know what the current compensation package is, but I can recall when it was one of the highest paid jobs and there were waiting lists for applicants that were miles long. You had no chance of getting a USPS job unless you were a veteran, preferably a minority, disabled and female. But the USPS was a government agency then , not a for profit corporation.

My wife is a fan of the post office. She will often say "what other service can you puut a letter in the mail box, with a $.50 stamp on it and have it delivered into someone's hands 2,000 miles away three days later". When I worked in engineering, we had the rule of threes, "good, fast, cheap, pick any two, you can't have all three". If postal rates were to go up to $2.00 letter, there would be a lot of griping. The fact that FedEx,and UPS have partnered with the USPS is an tacit admission that the USPS can do final delivery more efficiently than any other service. On the other hand, USPS contracts with third party carriers to move packages long distance.

I feel for those who are experiencing poor service. As I said previously, I am fortunate that I don't. But don't judge the whole basket by a few bad apples.
 
I signed up for an USPS account. They e-mail me a picture of the mail that is going to be showing up in my mail box every day. I like it, it keeps me from going to the mailbox on the days I only get junk mail. They also send me updates on all the packages that are coming my way. Once they sent me a notice that I re-routed a package I had not ordered. Looked at my credit card and sure enough someone used my credit card to order a top of the line laptop. Then they rerouted the package to another city.

I reported it to my bank... then figured I had better call the local police. Local police called the police in the city that the package had been routed to (Thanks to the address on the rerouting notice email). The Portland police went to the address and retrieved the package that had been delivered about an hour prior. Worked out pretty well. The recipient was an old lady that agreed to forward the package to someone online she had never met. (I think they should have pressed charges against the lady... just because you are old doesn't mean you are honest).

Anyway I reccomend signing up for a USPS account... it is quite convient... (I really don't have any love for USPS so it says a lot for me to actually complement them!)
 
Why send a letter when you have email. I write a message and hit send, it travels from SoCal to Orlando and back to my associate 10 feet away from me within seconds.
 
Why send a letter when you have email. I write a message and hit send, it travels from SoCal to Orlando and back to my associate 10 feet away from me within seconds.
Certainly true except for those who don't use e-mail.
 
I am a supporter of USPS because it is possible as said earlier to send a letter across the country for $.50
Our community has resisted changing to un-attended mail boxes successfully to date. The USPS has developed a high tech transportation system that does move the mail quickly. For example, letters addressed to Cortez CO ( 15 miles away) go to Albuquerque NM (270 miles) get franked and back to Cortez in one day. The local post office hours have been reduced to 4 hours per day 6 days a week. I enjoy exchanging plesantries with the post mistress also.
Have a good day
Ray
 
Well an update mysteriously the package was in the mailbox today. Weird thing no mail though. Now it could be a neighbor that dropped off or ??? Will see if mail comes today.
Earlier in the day after a hour of phone calls I finally got ahold of someone that cares about their job. They said the carrier in question is off today so they will ask her Monday. Will see what they say. I'm not calling them I'll wait.
As for the postal system the lady told me today that" the carrier could of scanned all the packages when they loaded their truck that's why it says it was delivered. I said why the hell would they do that when they didn't. She said that's how some drivers do it. Nice checks and balances !! I don't know how long the postal service has been around but that's ridiculous. No wonder why they were almost bankrupt. Thanks to eBay and Amazon packages?
My father in law is a retired postal carrier. Drank heavily for thirty years on the job he's a drunk. So I have a bad taste in my mouth about the postal service unfortunately.
 
I too am very frustrated with USPS lately (see my post about losing the 19 pound 4 jaw chuck in the mail). I was supposed to have a new pistol delivered to a local FFL dealer today from out of state to transfer to me but the carrier couldn't figure out where his business was, even though there are 3 - 4'x8' brightly painted signs with arrows on them pointing to the end of the parking lot of the building where his establishment is AND a yellow flashing light on the side of the building above the door with another smaller sign about 10' away from that pointing to his door. The carrier left the notice that no one was there to sign for the package on a storage building office at the front of the parking lot that nobody is ever at. I made a trip to the post office to ask them to make sure the carrier knows where to deliver the package on Monday thinking maybe the regular carrier may have been off today or something and got attitude from the guy behind the counter. Thanks for your personal service. :rolleyes:
 
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