So upset with Post Office
I order a lot of things, and thankfully I live around neighbors who AT LEAST IN THE PAST have always come by and given me my mail that was given to them by the post office. It happens a lot. Although more than once is too much considering I expect my mail that I pay for to get to me. Over Christmas, the amount of mistakes increased significantly. Like 3 people gave me my mail they got by mistake, and I had to drive to someone's place twice because I got their mail. I had TWELVE items delivered to me with tracking on 31 dec 09. I got 0 of these items!!!! Ugh... I swear I want to shoot someone. Sorry, I'm so upset I had to vent. I called the post office and they're trying to figure it out. I have made a few of these posts in the past (around Christmas at that) which makes me even more angry that I've had the worst luck with the postal service! ARGHHHHHHHH... Our present post office is so jank-ta-fied w/real ghetto folks that I'm not surprised, but it angers me that no matter how many complaints you AND YOUR NEIGHBORS make... nothing changes!!! |
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| I so understand this! When we moved - or actually just before
we moved I was getting the electric changed over to our new address. The electric company sent a letter that I would have to pay a deposit or they would not switch our electric. (I wasn't thinking, it was simply because the electric has always been in Vic's name - and nothing to do with my credit) A neighbor got the letter and opened it. The letter was worded in a way that made me look really bad. Hard to explain the impact after the fact, but at that point I'm sure my new neighbors were all talking about the new loser neighbors who couldn't get the electric hooked up. I was just horrified, but there was no explaining to our new neighborhood. It only would have made me look like a fool at that point. I get mail for neighbors and they mine all the time. It's not like it's even packages either, just plain mail in the wrong box! Makes me furious. Shellie |
| I will not do business with companies that only ship USPS. I never know if their on line tracking will work, usually not. The only time I thought it did, it had my package sitting in the local post office for 7 days before delivery!
Mail delivery, how else do I get to talk to my neighbors......as we exchange misdelivered mail. Whenever possible, ship big brown or green. |
"Jank-ta-fied"??? 
Im sorry Jo...but I'm scratching my head over this term!   ...translation? |
| trashy. I always say janky, usually to describe someone's actions or the person all together, which really is an old school term... so I threw in the "-ta-fied" to suit my statement |
Joahaeyo wrote: trashy. I always say janky, usually to describe someone's actions or the person all together, which really is an old school term... so I threw in the "-ta-fied" to suit my statement
Ahhhh...ok.....sheesh, I usually only have to ask "what the heck does "......" mean when talking to the Aussies!  |
| I'm right there with you. The Post Office has been skating by on substandard service for a long, long time. In my neighborhood we too do the 'After delivery shuffle' - It's not unusual to see 3 or 4 of us walking up and down the street delivering other people's mail after the Post Office has 'delivered' it. The worst is when their delivery confirmation shows it as 'Delivered' in their system - Who they delivered it to doesn't matter to them.
This is the same organization that stamped 'Deceased' on a mother's letter to her serviceman son and returned it to her, when he was in fact alive and well. Their response to that was 'Oops, well, we can't see that we did anything wrong'. There seems to be zero accountability here, which I have a problem with. After losing too many packages that were shipped USPS, I too will only purchase from companies who ship UPS or FedEx. While there's no rock solid guarantee that I'll receive what I ordered no matter who ships it, the private carriers seem to do a better job and, if something is lost, I don't have to step into the Twilight Zone of the Post Office.  |
Code: Twilight Zone of the Post Office.
ooo, I like that! I'll probably hum the tune each time I venture out to the mail box or.....gulp......into an post office. Let's not even talk about the foul language exchanged at church bulk mailing time and dealing with bulk mail and PO. Rules seem to change monthly or by the clerk's whim. |
| OH! I totally forgot my favorite from last month.
I had a part to ship and the company wanted it shipped (mailed) in a static-free envelope. I had no idea what that meant, so I asked at the post office. (me not thinking ahead hadn't read the instructions prior, because really, how hard could it be?) The post man asked what it was and I told him a computer part. I swear to you this is what he said (in very broken English I might add) ready???? "Wrap it in tin foil" I thought he was kidding. I was supposed to wrap it in tin foil and put the address on it and mail it. I just smiled and ran out of there before I dropped to the floor in hysterics. UNREAL! Shellie |
| When I get the wrong mail, which is almost never, I always just put it back in the mailbox with the flag up and it goes away. I think doing your own delivery will never allow the postal carrier to see all the mistakes that he's making. The place I live now has been the exception though. My mail carrier is great, even though he's terrified of the dogs. In past places where I've lived, I've had terrible service and I always expect the absolute worst in customer service if, God forbid, I have to go to the post office.
That being said, I don't know why mail hasn't been privatized by now anyway. If it was a for-profit situation, there'd be a lot more accountability built right in. |
I've always had great service. You all need to be on a rural route 
They are part of the USPS, but a separate union and all. Not to be a racist bigot, all our postal employees seem to be responsible, eduacted, "normal" midwestern people. Maybe in the cities it is an issue, but thankfully not in my part of the state. Like Jill, if I ever get a wrong envelope, I put it out w/ the flag up and they take it. Also, rural carriers sell stamps - I just put the money in an envelope in my mailbox, and they leave me my stamps. |
got sheep wrote: I've always had great service. You all need to be on a rural route
They are part of the USPS, but a separate union and all. Not to be a racist bigot, all our postal employees seem to be responsible, eduacted, "normal" midwestern people. Maybe in the cities it is an issue, but thankfully not in my part of the state. Like Jill, if I ever get a wrong envelope, I put it out w/ the flag up and they take it. Also, rural carriers sell stamps - I just put the money in an envelope in my mailbox, and they leave me my stamps. Ditto!! Always great service. |
| No complaints about my mail service either. And wrong mail goes back in the box or marked misdelivered and dropped in any mailbox.
The post office has been semi priivatized actually - "Contrary to what many people might guess, the USPS is not a government agency. It hasn't received direct subsidies since the early 1980s. Aside from a miniscule fraction of its budget for free mail services for the blind and Congress' franking privileges, the Postal Service pays its own way with postage revenues, which in fiscal year 2008, reached $75 billion." WHat I am confused about is being mad at the post office for a misdelivered letter that your neightbor opened and read in direct violation of a number of Us laws.  |
got sheep wrote: Not to be a racist bigot, all our postal employees seem to be responsible, eduacted, "normal" midwestern people. Maybe in the cities it is an issue, but thankfully not in my part of the state.
You are very lucky. Houston isn't known for "normal" folks for their average population. I used to always call when something bad happened, so someone higher up would know (Always speaking to the correct people), but none of that works here. They just pat you on the back to make you feel better and let their postal person stay until they die (from everyone I've talked to). |
| Personally, I love the USPS. They'll take a letter from my house send it 3000 miles and deliver it to the front door of the recipient for 44 cents. I'm not sure, but I'd bet that's the best rate in the developed world! What a bargain!
When I was selling DVDs of the NEOESR picnic for NEOESR's benefit, sending a DVD in a slim case in a padded bubble-wrap envelope anywhere in the country via First Class Mail was 86 cents. Our carriers have always been great, too. They leave treats for Mulligan in the mailbox when not defending themselves from his enthusiastic greetings. My only issues are with one of the three clerks in the Post Office. She's very nice but not the brightest bulb in the pack and quite slow at her job. On the other hand, she did save me $4 once when I was sending a package after she went through all of the possible shipping options with the package on the scale, even though I didn't ask. The other was when they sited the new PO in our small town. The town refused to give a tiny variance that would have allowed the new building right on the main highway through town, so the PO built in a small out of the way stripmall and made the building ugly as sin. That'll teach us hicks. |
| I understand your frustration Ms. J...but with a few odd exceptions, ive had much better experiences shipping USPS than Fedex or UPS.
What drives me nuts (and some of you have already heard this rant from me ) is when shippers refuse to acknowledge that I live in the United States...USPS thankfully doesn't have the option of considering Alaska and Hawaii to be foreign countries.  |
Ron wrote: The other was when they sited the new PO in our small
town. The town refused to give a tiny variance that would have allowed the new building right on the main highway through town, so the PO built in a small out of the way stripmall and made the building ugly as sin. That'll teach us hicks. Thanks for the laugh Ron. |
got sheep wrote: I've always had great service. You all need to be on a rural route
They are part of the USPS, but a separate union and all. Not to be a racist bigot, all our postal employees seem to be responsible, eduacted, "normal" midwestern people. Maybe in the cities it is an issue, but thankfully not in my part of the state. Like Jill, if I ever get a wrong envelope, I put it out w/ the flag up and they take it. Also, rural carriers sell stamps - I just put the money in an envelope in my mailbox, and they leave me my stamps. Eduacted, huh?
When I was a kid, we'd just tape a quarter to the letters that we wanted t mail and the carrier would take care of it. |
I also live on a rural route and Diane, our carrier ( yes we are on a 1st name basis, we've had her since moving here 15 years ago ) is absolutely wonderful. When we have a package we always find our mail banded to it with a bone attached for Chauncey waiting by the side door if we are not home. Jake (OTB) was so excited to see her would jump in the mail truck with her....and he was the well behaved dog  |
kerry wrote: No complaints about my mail service either. And wrong mail goes back in the box or marked misdelivered and dropped in any mailbox.
The post office has been semi priivatized actually - "Contrary to what many people might guess, the USPS is not a government agency. It hasn't received direct subsidies since the early 1980s. Aside from a miniscule fraction of its budget for free mail services for the blind and Congress' franking privileges, the Postal Service pays its own way with postage revenues, which in fiscal year 2008, reached $75 billion." WHat I am confused about is being mad at the post office for a misdelivered letter that your neightbor opened and read in direct violation of a number of Us laws. Yeah, but they still work like they're fueled by the government, lol. |
Quote: WHat I am confused about is being mad at the post office for a misdelivered letter that your neightbor opened and read in direct violation of a number of Us laws.
Well actually I am angry at the neighbor, but I have no way of knowing which one it was. It was the deliverer's original error so I feel sort of justified in being a bit angry at them as well. Maybe I was unclear. Shellie |
ButtersStotch wrote: got sheep wrote: I've always had great service. You all need to be on a rural route They are part of the USPS, but a separate union and all. Not to be a racist bigot, all our postal employees seem to be responsible, eduacted, "normal" midwestern people. Maybe in the cities it is an issue, but thankfully not in my part of the state. Like Jill, if I ever get a wrong envelope, I put it out w/ the flag up and they take it. Also, rural carriers sell stamps - I just put the money in an envelope in my mailbox, and they leave me my stamps. Eduacted, huh? yeah, I noticed that way too late to fix it. I key in faster than my brain can sort, I guess.... |
got sheep wrote: ButtersStotch wrote: got sheep wrote: I've always had great service. You all need to be on a rural route They are part of the USPS, but a separate union and all. Not to be a racist bigot, all our postal employees seem to be responsible, eduacted, "normal" midwestern people. Maybe in the cities it is an issue, but thankfully not in my part of the state. Like Jill, if I ever get a wrong envelope, I put it out w/ the flag up and they take it. Also, rural carriers sell stamps - I just put the money in an envelope in my mailbox, and they leave me my stamps. Eduacted, huh? yeah, I noticed that way too late to fix it. I key in faster than my brain can sort, I guess....Then I must read faster than my brain can sort. I read it as spelled correctly. |
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