Open disdain and hate for the USPS, let's celebrate Festivus

More USPS foolishness

 

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It's the holidays, so...

I got that excuse the other day. Some sort of slip was in my PO box saying a parcel was waiting in a bin. Not the usual barcoded delivery notice. It was a slip of paper they obviously printed themselves and cut into strips, with a spot for my PO box number filled in and a couple checkmarks or maybe "bin 9A" or whatever. I showed it to the clerk, he looked in a tote thing behind the desk, nothing. I wasn't expecting any delivery. I said, maybe check in that tote for an adjacent PO box number. Nope, no help. At least I tried. "It's the holidays, so..." - phantom packages just fly around in there and they write up phantom slips of paper for them I guess. I hope whoever it was for got their package.

 

Three different occurrences in the past couple of years. When auction companies send me my winnings they usually come through New York. After customs the USPS sends the package my way. Twice my packages have gone west to Denver and to California. They saw more of the west and north west than Lewis and Clark. The third was more recent. Sent the package to Wisconsin and once it got there the USPS sent the package to Florida and and then to New Orleans. Hopefully this Monday it will be back in Wisconsin, per tracking, and arrive to the destination. Happy New Year everyone!!

 

Wisconsin? They should send a care package of cheese your way also.

 

I've had that happen more than once. It shows delivered to the nearest distribution center and I get excited because the next stop should be my local post office. Nothing happens for a while, I check, and suddenly it's all the way back at the originating distribution point on the other side of the country.

 

All I can say is its a government agency with very little accountability
you can put them in the same category as social security and the DMV
they just dont care and your opinion means nothing

 

I personally know several postal workers and they do care. You're wrong. I find that private business cares a whole lot less about the consumer and answer to nobody.

 

Festivus was a week ago

 

I think it depends on your local PO too. I've used two within 2 miles of each other. One handles our physical mail. I had a PO box there for a while but they kept mis-delivering mail to the box. One clerk there has been there at least 25 years and is gruff and unfriendly. The zipcode covers an immense area going up mountain canyons so I'm sure it's very stressful and they just don't give a dang after a while. I moved my PO box to the other one but they still put the wrong mail in my box. The clerks are really friendly but not the sharpest tools in the shed. You can tell they genuinely care though.

 

I'll just leave this here. Apparently you can no longer send packages with just stamps.

 

What on earth does mailing a package with stamps have to do with "heightened security concerns"?

 

Unfortunately not enough

 

I haven't the foggiest idea. What makes this worse, to me anyway, I live in a rural area, and this is only going to a friend in a nearby burg. It doesn't NEED to go to the city. However that is how it works now. It MUST be routed through the machine in the city, then back to the same area for delivery.

The USPS, like so many other entities, has lost its way. Lost what made it what it became, what made it great. Ashame really. Now when they ask if I want to buy stamps, I'll ask 'What for?'

 

My local post office is horrible. The clerks are unfriendly and rude, my carrier doesn't care. She actually left a package in my freaking yard instead of in the locker in the mail building.

 

I'm really lucky. My local PO is really fast. They may be a hub, don't know. This year I sent out a large number of high value packages and they all made it in 2 to 4 days. Local mail only takes 1 or 2 days. I mailed my property taxes the other day. The postman picked it up at my front door and the city had it the next day and cashed the check the same day.

 

I recall we went through this years ago and even the mail from and to someone in the same town went to Denver and back. I'm not sure if that's still the case. There was a separate drop box for local mail and they changed it. Everyone was talking about how stupid it was.

 

Same here. All but ONE I've encountered is gruff, nasty, obviously hates their job and own existence and therefore everyone they encounter. The good one doesn't care if you get hit by a bus leaving if it speeds up their next coffee break. I rarely see my home delivery carriers but when I do, those people are actually friendly and civil. I think they are contractors though, not official USPS curmudgeons. lol

 

So after having to be made to do much the same, trudge miles into town just to go mall something, I was told "This many stamps is indicative of someone trying to avoid going into the PO." That this was implemented during the anthrax scare a few years ago during Covid lockdown.

I said, " Well part of that is correct. I was trying to avoid coming in. But not for those reasons." Again let's punish rural America.

We need a new service. One with old world quality. I'd pay more for it!

 

I have yet ANOTHER that seems to have gone into the black hole that is the regional distribution center. I'm actually hoping this one doesn't make it. I immediately had buyer's remorse after I purchased it on flea bay. That still doesn't excuse the suckage that mail distribution center has, it's notorious according to google reviews. I would be extremely paranoid if I purchased anything valued over $1,000.