It sucks when you realize that........

..........this was your mailman AND he knew what was coming to my house. I am SO glad I was nice to him and bought him a beer that time I saw him sitting at the bar of the restaurant I was eating at.

Seriously though, I wondered where he had gone, he treated me really well. Guess now I know.

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

Yikes.

 

I did title bait, although it's a good subject. I've been thinking ALL day about how vulnerable my coins were.

Guess you just never know about people

 

I never insure because I've never had a problem. But holiday season, packages are almost expected to go missing. Fingers crossed

 

I have an awesome postal worker. I also like some of the changes the postal service is making. Their not directly related to coins but:

• self serve kiosks for shipping packages
  • Used it this week and avoided long lines
• Forever Stamps: no need to go back and get miniscule value stamps because the 1st class letter rate went up
• Sunday deliver: I got a $1K coin from HA delivered to me this past SUNDAY

 

I'm glad mine are honest although unfriendly. The girl who delivered my Mail before was very friendly as well as cute unfortunately she no longer does my route. The woman now acts like its a huge inconvenience to deliver a package. I get a lot of them. I've had big money delivererys from ha $5k+ just left in my mailbox for days. I am gone from time to time and my neighbor does get my mail every few days but..

 

Being a postal carrier is one of the highest paying jobs (with benefits) that you can get as an unskilled laborer. Jeopardizing such a job by petty theft has to be some sort of madness.

 

We used to have the sweetest rural delivery guy when I was a kid. He had over 30 years in but had a drinking problem. Eventually it got so bad, he was hiding billing statements in his garage and that did not last long. Instead of getting him into a program they just fired him and took his pension. My carrier now is a throwback to three foot long hair and an attitude from the 60's that says "I'm spoiled, and I can do whatever I don't want to do". In fact a couple of times I have gotten my neighbors heart meds and had to deliver them to him. After two years on the route you would think he knew his way around. But this is the new Postal Service with contract carriers.

 

USPS carriers and some clerks at the counter are downright lazy and like to challenge customers. Many customers are rude too and I'm sure it's a painful job but in no other business do I encounter such in-your-face contempt of the customer by employees. I've complained many times, formally in writing and submitted online as anyone can and should do, about poor customer service by carriers and inadequate branches, but it never gets resolved and the same, tardy and sloppy service goes on. Branch Managers are often a step above and give the impression they care and will help you but the problems are deeply rooted. If it's their employees protected salary and pension that allows this culture of laziness to take root something needs to change and we ought to hold individuals more accountable. If other public servants are held accountable in their positions, so too should those carrying private letters and communications. There is zero sense of duty and a total lack of care in handling of patrons mail, things we even pay a service fee for to have sent and brought to us on time and securely. I'm sure there are some model carriers and clerks out there, but they are far and few.

In contrast, I see how UPS can be problematic for residential customers but they are innovating their traditional service to finally meet the problems of delivery and tracking that often plagued service for non-business delivery. In fact, I see UPS drivers busting their butts to improve customer service and the addition of UPS Stores is a great challenge to the USPS branch operations. UPS seems to have business to residential delivery down pat and moving faster than ever, in my experience.

Just today, I finished packing my UPS driver's holiday greetings card stuffed with a Thank You gift card for great service and will hand it to him tomorrow when he shows up to deliver my latest US Mint package.

 

A mail carrier in my town was dumping mail in the sewer. Luckily he wasn't mine.

 

The complaints noted above are only a few of the reasons why the Postal Service is in the 'dumper' .........

 

I still use the postal service as it's convenient but anything that's fragile large or absolutely has to be delivered on time I either use ups or fedex I've had far better luck there

 

I read where they caught to postal carriers in their trucks in the forest preserves with sacks of undelivered and open mail in their trunks . This was in suburban Chicago .

 

Back in the days when I was temping for the PO and the stories goes like this. One PO worker was fire because he was doing drugs and getting prostitutes. Another never deliver them Priority. He has them in the back of his truck until one day one of his temp discover it. I just don't understand why them workers are so lazy. They get pay alot for doing something that is so easy.

 

I didn't get the transfer. They knew it wasn't me out there making the deliveries. Too many people got their mail.

Probably one of my favorite lines on Seinfeld. (+1)

 

But you can't track a carrier dumping mail in a sewer, not making final delivery, dumping into lobbies of city apartment buildings unsorted to individual boxes, or stuffing everything for a multi family dwelling into one unit's box for them to sort out. Direct Mail (I have had to create a fair amount of it in my area of work) accounts for a lot of waste, wasted time, money, resources and effort, and when the final leg of that effort fails, the whole venture fails. Only volume attempts to break that failure, but it's also breaking the backs of carriers and a vast majority of recipients loath it to no end. I know companies depend on advertising and services depend on jobs it creates, but it's a completely illogical one. I would liken it to the pet industry and the amount of waste to planetary resources that has become, despite the love and companionship pets are said to benefit their owners.

I too have had a slim percentage of lost or damaged items using USPS (sending and receiving), but they DO occur and even when people seek coverage for a claim when a parcel is insured, the system is Byzantine in rectifying their errors.

 

I personally didn't have any issues with this guy. He was always cordial and even made an effort to flag me down and give me my packages when I was merely riding down the road I live on.

I would pester him and catch him at his truck sometimes if I spotted him while I was passing through. (I frequently ride down the road I live on to cross town or pop in real quick in between errands at work)

Every time he always had a smile on his face and seemed happy to get my package so he didn't have to lug it around.

Still, it makes you stop and wonder, and I know what was delivered to my house, and I am so thankful it all made it here safe and sound.

Bummer for this guy though, lost a good job over something so petty.