Posted on 01/11/2020 9:13:56 AM PST by RideForever
I found myself in the beginning of mailing 60 notices, and at the end of a roll of stamps. After poking around I found an unopened roll of 100 ct Forever stamps, with 2016 on the band securing the stamps, and continued to apply stamps to envelopes ... until I ran out! Again! Apparently the 100ct roll only contained 50! And the backing for the stamps was only about 4 feet long (stamps are 1" wide).
So I gathered up all the contents of the seal around the coil and the entire backing, which had been split off in 4 - 5 sections as the stamps were removed. I applied for relief at the local US Post Office and was denied for the following 'reasoning'. I had removed some stamps from the roll, so I could have just as easily cut the rest (50) off and tried to scam the PO.
In my discussion with the Post Master it was suggested I should have stepped to the side when I purchased the stamps, opened the package, and counted the stamps before leaving. I was also required to show my receipt for the stamps from 2016, which I cannot produce. After all, if you can't trust the USPS, who can you trust? And of course the USPS bar code for the stamps couldn't be used to confirm the purchase.
And it got me thinking. More recently the USPS has contracted out to third parties (NGO!) to produce their stamps. Are contractors shorting their stamp packages without even a concerned interest by local Post Masters?
Any Freepers with similar experience?
Don’t assume maliciousness when incompetence will do.
When I was in Vietnam about 1 out of 4 packages our families sent us never showed up. No. You can’t trust the post office.
Always count them before you leave the store.
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Are there mandatory IQ tests for employment?
My wife was complaining that once again, our local post office doesn’t have any stamps to sell.
One year around Christmas, they gave her Kwaanza stamps because they said that was all they had.
They didn’t really know how to handle my demand for a refund.
Technically they have to be able to sell you a single stamp at a time.
I'd like one stamp please ... put it on my visa.
Oh I'd like another stamp please ... put it on my visa.
Lather rinse repeat 100 times.
~Newman
Possibly, with a fairly low maximum acceptable score.
I’ve gotten stiffed by one or two prescription pills in a bottle of 90 from the large grocery chain pharmacy, from not counting them on site. At $1.50 per pill, this makes a nice little scam for the pharmacy tech or whomever is responsible.
Have you been to the Post Office lately?
It's pretty much nothing more than a federal jobs program for a certain demographic providing excellent pay and benefits, little work required.
You won't believe the pillage that goes on with goods in transit.
I was on a merchant ship (1966) delivering PX supplies to the Vietnam war zone. Upon arrival, it was discovered that approximately 25% of the goods were missing.
My new postman has purple hair and a stick to get the packages he can’t reach in his mail jeep without getting off his fat butt.
At least he is working.
Today four bubble wrap envelopes arrived in the mail. These all have tracking numbers and a tracking history.
The date on three of the four package is from last year: 02/07/2019, 4/29/2019 and 6/20/2019.
These three packages have all been cut open along the edges and the contents have been removed.
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