I haven’t, but I did get a notice from my bank last week that was encouraging people to use autopay instead of writing checks because there were mail delivery delays taking up to 14 days for mail to be delivered and causing late fees because bill payments were late.
Combine these delays with flat out theft.
Our bank said check theft (from bills, etc) began w/the curbside mailboxes...but, has now progressed to items even LEFT WITH THE P.O. !!
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I got the same notice from my bank. And I got a notice from the ranch I order my beef from that they wouldn't be shipping from now until a week after Thanksgiving because shipments would probably be very delayed and the meat would go bad. It's not just customers being affected by lousy shipping service, it's small companies.
I use checks to write all my bills. We used to have a fantastic mailman. You could set your watch to him. Never a problem getting wrong mail. Then our great mailman got some sort of promotion and everything went downhill fast. I guess about a year ago I noticed we weren’t getting the usual amount of mail. Lots of days we would get nothing at all. Very unusual for us. Then I read an article quite awhile ago how people would steal mail out of mailboxes [house or public ones]. I didn’t want to chance our mail, especially my checks with the bills getting stolen. So now what I do is take all my bills and mail directly to the local postal depot. It’s not far from our house, I know all mail is routed through there, so my checks/bills get out in a very timely matter. Almost every time I take mail to the depot, it gets to the destination in 2 days.
If I were to take my bills to our local post office, the mail goes from there to that depot I currently use. Adding almost a week before the stuff actually goes out! Now since using the depot, I never worry about my bills getting out in a timely manner.