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I was going out to check if the mail came and saw something sitting out on our front steps, not on the porch but out exposed to the elements. It was a shipment from APS Sales. No doorbell ring, no knock, nothing. I called the carrier office and they told me the carrier we have today is a temp and they will speak to him.
I was told our regular mail person will be back next week. Maybe about Tuesday I'll get all the mail that wasn't delivered this week. Incredible.
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Last week I was waiting for a 6 pound parcel requiring a signature to arrive via USPS. I live at the first house on a cul-de-sac and saw the mailperson stop at our mailbox but did not come to the door. Hmmm. I walked down to the mailbox to see what was up and inside was the days’ mail but obviously no parcel. Instead, there was a USPS form indicting that there was ‘no one home’ so the parcel could not be delivered.
I waited in the street since the mailperson had no way out of the neighborhood without driving right past me. She saw me and clearly had no intention of stopping but I made sure she would have had to run me over to get past me. Coming to a stop, I approached the her door and inquired if she had a parcel for me today. She said yes, but it was too heavy for her because she had a shoulder injury. I said ‘no worries, I can take it from here’ but then she informed me that no heavy packages had been loaded due to her ‘disability’ and that a special alternative delivery would be made by someone who could ‘handle the heavy packages’.
Sure enough, the next day they sent a person out to my house to deliver just the parcel. So I have a suggestion to the USPS who just announced that they lost a whopping $8.8 billion last year; let injured employees stay at home instead of spending time filling out bogus forms and then running multiple trips for deliveries.
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A funny thing happened to me a few months ago. A parcel delivery man rang at my door, asked whether so-and-so was living here and showed me a parcel for said person. One glance without spectacles told me, it was for someone at No. 9 - I live at No. 6 ...
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The thing about holding back delivery of first class mail has been going on here for years. Usually by midweek I notice all we're getting is a few pizza coupons and then I phone the carrier station, they always say the regular carrier is out and act dumb. Then the next day or at most two days later my box is full of all the mail they were sitting on. I think this is illegal as heck, clearly contrary to regulations but there it is.
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"... At least the carrier office answers the phone ..."
Actually, you never want to talk to them on the phone, because phone calls don't count, and the place is run by the bean-counters.
They just go on doing what they are doing (activity reports, whatever) and wait until you run yourself out.
Put every complaint in writing (once upon a time, there was a form on the counter of every post office) to the PMG.
The complaint will get passed down the line but, most importantly, it will be counted as it is passed down the line.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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I always hate it when we have a sub carrier on my route. Funny little things happen, I don't get first class mail for days until I call to report it, that sort of thing.Then there's what just happened.
I was going out to check if the mail came and saw something sitting out on our front steps, not on the porch but out exposed to the elements. It was a shipment from APS Sales. No doorbell ring, no knock, nothing. I called the carrier office and they told me the carrier we have today is a temp and they will speak to him.
I was told our regular mail person will be back next week. Maybe about Tuesday I'll get all the mail that wasn't delivered this week. Incredible.
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re: Mail Carrier Blues
Last week I was waiting for a 6 pound parcel requiring a signature to arrive via USPS. I live at the first house on a cul-de-sac and saw the mailperson stop at our mailbox but did not come to the door. Hmmm. I walked down to the mailbox to see what was up and inside was the days’ mail but obviously no parcel. Instead, there was a USPS form indicting that there was ‘no one home’ so the parcel could not be delivered.
I waited in the street since the mailperson had no way out of the neighborhood without driving right past me. She saw me and clearly had no intention of stopping but I made sure she would have had to run me over to get past me. Coming to a stop, I approached the her door and inquired if she had a parcel for me today. She said yes, but it was too heavy for her because she had a shoulder injury. I said ‘no worries, I can take it from here’ but then she informed me that no heavy packages had been loaded due to her ‘disability’ and that a special alternative delivery would be made by someone who could ‘handle the heavy packages’.
Sure enough, the next day they sent a person out to my house to deliver just the parcel. So I have a suggestion to the USPS who just announced that they lost a whopping $8.8 billion last year; let injured employees stay at home instead of spending time filling out bogus forms and then running multiple trips for deliveries.
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re: Mail Carrier Blues
A funny thing happened to me a few months ago. A parcel delivery man rang at my door, asked whether so-and-so was living here and showed me a parcel for said person. One glance without spectacles told me, it was for someone at No. 9 - I live at No. 6 ...
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re: Mail Carrier Blues
The thing about holding back delivery of first class mail has been going on here for years. Usually by midweek I notice all we're getting is a few pizza coupons and then I phone the carrier station, they always say the regular carrier is out and act dumb. Then the next day or at most two days later my box is full of all the mail they were sitting on. I think this is illegal as heck, clearly contrary to regulations but there it is.
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re: Mail Carrier Blues
"... At least the carrier office answers the phone ..."
Actually, you never want to talk to them on the phone, because phone calls don't count, and the place is run by the bean-counters.
They just go on doing what they are doing (activity reports, whatever) and wait until you run yourself out.
Put every complaint in writing (once upon a time, there was a form on the counter of every post office) to the PMG.
The complaint will get passed down the line but, most importantly, it will be counted as it is passed down the line.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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