It’s Christmas-What do you expect? The other 50 weeks of the year, USPS does an incredibly good job. Most of the Priority Mail I’ve sent has arrived in two days—including coast to coast!
Participating in experimental medication studies for extra Christmas cash are we?
That, or you're a mailman.
For the first four months I lived here, even after filling out their stupid cards and packets and several visits to see the postmaster, ALL of my mail forwarded to someone in a city 45 minutes away. It was such a joy stopping for gas or to withdraw money and discovering YET AGAIN all of my bank cards and credit cards were suspended because my statements were returned my financial institutions as my address is in correct.
I also had to petition several times to the Big 3 credit bureaus to have that address removed from my credit history. And, now when I have to verify financial information this other address is used as a "in the past 5 years you have lived at xxxx question" - damned if I could ever remember that zip code.
Then, after it was "fixed" I started getting the mail for whoever was getting mine previously.
Or how about packages left in the rain to be destroyed - I guess the "Christmas" you were referring to really is in July for that excuse to hold as much water as the box in the driveway did (because those three extra steps to set it in the corner by the door on the covered porch would just be so difficult).?
My grandmother's Christmas card was returned to me this year because it was addressed to "Grandma," even though my mother's addressed to "Mom" at the same residence with the same style address labels (only the name changed) was able to make it.
My personal favorite is the one jackass carrier that likes to fold everything in half when she stuffs it into the mailbox. I can always tell when she's filling in for the other one
The post office is a sad sad joke.
The USPS is a disfunctional POS of an organization!
At my last company, we are in a skyscraper, and the building had a mailroom down on the first floor. We ordered quite a bit of computer equipment, and at some point we would order equipment and it simply wouldn’t arrive. The mailroom was inaccessible except to the mailman, but one of my employees stuck his arm through the mailbox with a camera and videotaped the mailman sleeping in the mailroom, and with a couple of the very unique-looking equipment boxes stashed in the corner, beside his chair. Mind you, this is after the USPS claimed they could not locate the boxes.
I reported this to the local Postmaster, who called me and informed me that due to this gentleman’s age and race, he could not open a complaint against him or reprimand him, as the offender was close to retirement and had already opened a racial discrimination case against the Post Office. The Postmaster said they would get someone else to handle our mail so it didn’t happen again.
True story. In a private company, that guy would have been FIRED ON THE SPOT and probably criminally prosecuted! Only in a worthless, union-controlled organization like USPS can all the lazy Newmans and other hangers on survive.
A pox on them all.