Mail Carrier Woes!

[JayHHI6818]

My credit card and our gas statements were not delivered by the postal service this month! I received a past due text for credit card company!

 

[redrockranger]

I don't think location has anything to do with it. It's all individual attitude. The USPS doesn't pay as well as they did in the past and they ask the employees to work longer hours and sometimes do things the hard way. My route is cursed as the worst in the county. The pay is low and the labor is high. I've had three different main carriers in 3 years. Every once in a while a new person is thrown into the route to assist but the main carrier tells me they do more harm than good and they have to fix the assistant's errors. Somedays I think Jeff Bezos needs to take over and fix the USPS.

68W40

It's a great big world out there. Find a new job. That's the way it works.

 

[joshb]

My credit card and our gas statements were not delivered by the postal service this month! I received a past due text for credit card company!

Same thing happened to me. Two statements “lost”. Yesterday, my card was declined. I called the CC Company and told them I never got the bill. They acted like they heard that a lot. 30 years of paying in full, on time and they treat me like a crook.

Forum Boss: I had this issue with one card a couple years back. I now have Apps for all my Credit Cards and I pay digitally. It takes maybe 30 seconds. This is easier than writing a check, and my Credit Rating improved.

 

[Snuggie]

I do the same thing Boss! I do electronic banking/payments for everything. I haven’t written a check in years. Never a problem.

 

[358WCF]

My rural carriers have all been outstanding. Nothing to complain about in the last 40 years other than the black holes that certain distribution centers are. Jersey City & Chitcago come to mind.

 

[ben lurkin]

I have a fantastic mail carrier. I know both him and the postmaster personally. I also am signed up for USPS informed delivery. ‘Strangely’ the only pieces of mail that have gone missing in the past six years were my and my families mail-in ballots last fall! I called the postmaster who informed me that theft of ballots was rampant so I also filed a police report and contacted the local news channel. About 2 weeks later the police caught a couple stealing mail and found half our neighbors ballots in their possession! Many of the neighbors didn’t even realize they had been stolen. The news station? ZERO interest in the story. But it was the most secure election in history! I wonder how I voted before I had to go down to the county clerks office to cancel my ballot?

Previous household was more rural and they had a contract carrier. Things went missing with some regularity. They finally figured out she was stealing parcels from time to time.

 

[Fast14riot]

My new PTG reamer was marked as out for delivery yesterday. Get home from work, no reamer. Check tracking, it was sent back to Sacramento (~40 miles away) at 2am. This morning I checked again, it left Sacramento and was back in Stockton by 6am and marked out for delivery again by 8 am. It did show up today, thankfully.

Only 1 day delay, this time. Had worse. A vintage watch for my collection once sat in NJ for 12 days as a priority shipment, before heading west. Should have taken 2-3 days, but took 15 and a toll on my nerves.

 

[Dave Marshall]

The Post Office has the same problem every other employer of non-skilled/low-skilled employees in this country has. Generations of young Americans have been coddled and given everything they ever wanted handed to them without having to do any work to earn it. The end of the single earner household means the parents have neither the time nor energy to teach their kids any kind of work ethic. Parents simply hand over a few bucks in the morning and rush off to work. As a result, none of them have any sense of personal responsibility. Personal pride in a job well done is a foreign concept to that entire generation. Look around you, most people under the age of 30 can’t even be bothered to change out of their pajamas to head out to the store for their daily supply of soda and Hot Pockets. Dem politicians have capitalized on this and turned an entire generation of Americans into welfare slaves. Why get a job and earn a living when the government will simply write you check not to?

Until refusing to work means you go cold and hungry, nothing is going to change.

 

[joshb]

The Post Office has the same problem every other employer of non-skilled/low-skilled employees in this country has. Generations of young Americans have been coddled and given everything they ever wanted handed to them without having to do any work to earn it. The end of the single earner household means the parents have neither the time nor energy to teach their kids any kind of work ethic. Parents simply hand over a few bucks in the morning and rush off to work. As a result, none of them have any sense of personal responsibility. Personal pride in a job well done is a foreign concept to that entire generation. Look around you, most people under the age of 30 can’t even be bothered to change out of their pajamas to head out to the store for their daily supply of soda and Hot Pockets. Dem politicians have capitalized on this and turned an entire generation of Americans into welfare slaves. Why get a job and earn a living when the government will simply write you check not to?

Until refusing to work means you go cold and hungry, nothing is going to change.

Amen!

 

[MS50]

I mailed documents with tracking to my bank in San Antonio 8 days ago. It took 7 days to get to Cleveland, 80 miles away. The package did a reverse FedEx Smartpost transfer, and is now on it's way to Littleton, MA via FedEx. These things don't occur based on the decisions of individual postal workers. It's a system error. Outside of the bad actors that cause problems within the USPS, postal workers don't get up in the morning planning to do their job poorly. I use a one-person post office that always provides great service. Once a parcel leaves their hands, they've done all they can do.

 

[Richard Jones]

I can truthfully say, I have the best route carrier on the planet.
When anything unusual happens I can always count on it being
a sub carrier. For now, in my world, service is back to normal.
LDS

Not to get into a contest with you Mr. Scott, but I have one just as good. She even calls me if something looks squirrely or if there's something I have to sign for. The substitute: not so much.............

 

[338 dude]

I do the same thing Boss! I do electronic banking/payments for everything. I haven’t written a check in years. Never a problem.

Me too

 

[LuvDog]

My final postal carrier is great. I was outside one day years ago when he was delivering mail. I could smell cigar smoke when he pulled up so I asked him if he smoked.

He was very cautious when he replied. Because others had complained that some of their stuff would smell.

I told him that I had a care package for him the next time I caught up with him. About a week later, I was home again when I heard him coming down the street. I grabbed a couple of cubans and handed them to him.

Ever since then, we've been good friends Makes sure our packages are out of the weather, delivers signature items to the door, gives our dog a treat when he sees her. He leaves us jars of jams too that his wife makes. Whenever we're on a walk in the neighborhood and see if, he pulls over and we chat for a few minutes.

 

[redrockranger]

My junk mail comes every day whether I want it or not.

And on time.

 

[M-61]

You should see what shows up for job interviews. Short pants, shower shoes, and a Walkman. I wonder about this and who really is to blame. The "KID" (35 and under) was never probably taught very many social skills. The mother staying home ended years ago due to the need for two parents working. Now you've put them in their bedrooms to 'go' to school. That ends what social skills may have been acquired in a classroom.
I ran across an obscure article years ago titled "How air-conditioning had destroyed American family life."
I thought the author was nuts until I read it.
This what you see now started some time ago and has gotten worse yearly.
The mail is the least of the problems.

 

[KMart]

I'm retired from Fed Gov. People some times feel empowered because they work for the GOVY. Recently we got a new carrier. We have lived at this address 6 years. Never a problem. Mailbox is on the front porch. The number is on front of the garage for 15 years. This genius walks within 20ft . Suddenly the top on the mailbox has the hse number scrawled on it in black marker . I had to hunt to find the Post office phone number. Acting post master suggested to use some cleaner to remove it. I asked when the carrier was going to clean it ? Post master showed up later with some cleaner and immediately smeared black marker and the finish. It was a bout 10* above zero. Decided he would pay for the box out of petty cash. $30 bucks.
Strange as the the $30 bucks was cash and i had to sign nothing as to have received it ? The carrier supposedly done this same trick more than once in another town.

Nothing compared to your situation. But he felt empowered.

If the carrier destroys enough mail boxes, they will move him to the inside to work. He won't get his little tootsies cold in that 10* weather. THEY WILL NOT FIRE HIS SORRY ARSE AS THEY SHOULD.

 

[spitfire_er]

Update!

I was expecting the package to get RE-DELIVERED today and nothing. I called the post office and nicely explained the situation (as nicely as I could being in a small town where everyone knows everyone) and I told them I was expecting it to get re-delivered today. The reply was "Just because they left a note doesn't mean that they will try and re-deliver it"! I wanted to say "Since When!" however, I asked if my package was there at the post office, which they confirmed. Had to go pick up the gun at the post office. Not the end of the world, but time out of my day.

I asked again about the carrier, and mentioned both my wife and I were home, heard the carrier and no knock, no doorbell. Reply "We have a bunch of new carriers!" Maybe this person had yet to take the test to get certified to knock or ring door bells!

This in the past hasn't been a big deal, but the problem I have been running into lately with shipments is when someone orders a firearm to get transferred into my business, the customer has the tracking. I have a day job, and my wife usually signs for stuff. I get customers texting me to come get their guns before I know they arrived. No big deal. On the flip side of that, people wonder why their gun didn't get delivered. That's where I get headaches from the post office and certain carriers not doing their jobs. I'm not expecting anything more than what is within their job description! When the carrier fails to do their job, I then have to explain a situation like this to a customer, which I would rather not have to do and shouldn't need to do.

 

[redrockranger]

You should see what shows up for job interviews. Short pants, shower shoes, and a Walkman. I wonder about this and who really is to blame. The "KID" (35 and under) was never probably taught very many social skills. The mother staying home ended years ago due to the need for two parents working. Now you've put them in their bedrooms to 'go' to school. That ends what social skills may have been acquired in a classroom.
I ran across an obscure article years ago titled "How air-conditioning had destroyed American family life."
I thought the author was nuts until I read it.
This what you see now started some time ago and has gotten worse yearly.
The mail is the least of the problems.

That's an interesting observation. A older worker many years ago saw it this way. Women entered the work force in numbers for the WW II effort. Many held their job after the men returned home. During the WW II savings soared because there was nothing to spend your money on. About 1950 prices began to rise because business community realized the workers had more spendable income and started raising prices. Two family income had arrived .

 

[JayHHI6818]

Maybe this is why they can’t deliver the mail

I thought the postal
Service was in the business of delivering mail?

The head of the U.S. Post Office law enforcement division running a covert social media collection program is expected to brief lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee Wednesday morning about its surveillance work.

U.S. Post Office to brief lawmakers on its covert surveillance program

The head of the post office law enforcement division running a covert social media collection program is expected to brief lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee Wednesday morning about its surveillance work.

news.yahoo.com

 

[PhilC]

My rural carriers have all been outstanding. Nothing to complain about in the last 40 years other than the black holes that certain distribution centers are. Jersey City & Chitcago come to mind.

Same here for over 30yrs. Never an issue with our rural PO or carrier, the distribution center, well, that's another story but thankfully not often.

When I know I'll be receiving a heavy package I call or stop in to let them know (3mi away). They call and I go to PO to pick up. Nice to be on a first name basis with everyone there.

UPS, OTOH, can't seem to read the large, high visibility, bi-directional, reflective sign on the mail box post and delivers packages to neighbors expecting me to retrieve them. Told UPS "I paid for delivery to MY house" and people here don't' take kindly to strangers, even neighbors, wandering around without permission, very likely you'd be facing a muzzle.