Posted on 07/22/2014 1:30:58 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
Mail is being delivered after 5 p.m. almost 70 percent of the time to residents and businesses in the District and the Maryland suburbs in violation of U.S. Postal Service policy, an investigation released Tuesday found.
The number of letter carriers who are still on their routes after 5 p.m., even in the winter darkness, and the delayed delivery of letters and packages has grown so dramatically in recent years that the Capital District now ranks as the worst area in the country for late mail service, a report by Postal Service Inspector General David Williams concluded.
Northern Virginia also ranked in the top five areas of the U.S. where Americans received their mail late, auditors found.
Both regions were well above the national average for late mail delivery, which was 38 percent last year.
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That is MAIL Emily as in letters.
Em Never mind.
I pick up my mail from the mailbox in front of my house every four or five days. Sometimes I forget and notice the door is open and it’s stuffed to the gills.
Pretty much everything in it gets tossed.
They can’t deliver it to the right house in broad daylight, so what’s the difference?
If I find the culprit, I am going to rip out the post and shove it up their ass!
Watch for the NJ headlines" Man Arrested for Shoving a 4x4 up Victim's Rectum.
They used to just blow them up.
Happy anniversary!
Thanks.
We had a series of kids hitting mail boxes (including mine) with aluminum baseball bats. I tried to catch them once but was a bit too slow.
Fortunately someone else did catch them and I think they got a fairly serious conviction.
BS; lazy, fed union crap.
We went to our main post office in Cincy, were doing a passport. We were told we had to make an appt and had to come back, so I said, please, can you see if you can do it today while we’re here? BTW, no one was in line. While she was in the back room checking on whatever, I embarrassed my wife and said out loud, well, that proves we work for the government now not they work for us. The lady must have heard me because she got on it and got it done while we were there.
Newman doesn’t deliver in the rain.
They need to raise the price of junk mail”
Agreed - one rate, all first class. I empty my box once a week. 99 per cent of it goes straight to the trash.
We should call it TRASH MAIL instead of junk mail.
This bums me out. Now I have to wait until late to open my box and throw everything out.
I get NOTHING in the mail I need or want.
100% of mine does. And I don’t recycle! lol
Take that libs!
If I have them drive to my house and deliver the mail, it’s free. If I agree to have them put the mail into a box at the post office for me to pick up later, I have to pay for it. Seems kinda backwards.
I don’t recycle either. Last fall they delivered those horrid green trash containers with the yellow lids to our neighborhood. One neighbor commented that they noticed I never put mine out. Told them they were right and if they wanted mine, I would be glad to give it to them so I can get it out of my garage. I prefer to keep Glad and Hefty in business!
LOL. Here’s the irony where I live; the post office keeps their own white baskets in our community mailbox area and they actually take it (maybe they recycle it).
So they deliver it, know we’ll throw it all away, and then haul it off. What a scam.
Delivery service should be cut to three days a week.
So they’re cutting funds for mail delivery. Gee, I didn’t know mail delivery is what’s busting the budget.
Look at what they’re NOT cutting.
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