Posted on 08/29/2016 7:22:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin
I have to send packages UPS or FED EX to my daughter in Chicago to her husbands work address.
I’ve never had any complaints about a mail carrier, until they assigned us a different mail carrier about a year ago.
The man is ill-kempt, wears his long grey hair, long (but greasy) and is more wrong that he is right about addresses. A house on the next street over has the same house number, but a numbered street, I have a named street.
However, time and time, and time again I get the other home’s mail. I write delivered to wrong address and return it to him the next day, and still it persists. I don’t think he’s “not delivering the mail”, I just think he’s delivering it to the wrong place half the time.
See my post #13. I was talking about the union head.
“Muschamp and Watanabe are from South of the Border??”
The Wantanabe clan is an old Chihuahua line.
LOL!
The USPS around here is infamous for marking mail “delivered” when it never was. You track your package and see “delivered” as the latest entry, only there’s nothing on your porch or in your mailbox. The employees steal it. And, my mail ends up in my neighbor’s mailbox 12” away half the the time. The lazy garbage mailman can’t be bothered to sort the mail, so he just dumps it all in their mailbox.
Mexifornia is becoming more like Mexico every day.
While in Mexico some time ago I was advised not to mail anything important as they will often steal the stamps off the envelope and anything valuable inside.
Sure enough, many of the letters and postcards I mailed ever got through.
I had an issue with my mail, and I went directly to the head of my local mail delivery office; showed them the torn corners of my mail - and it was always because there appeared to be a credit card inside the envelope - but it was only an ID card - to join some group.
After I showed up in person with my damaged mail - the USPS was not happy .. but I didn’t care. Handling mail is a scared trust and when the employees are trying to take advantage of that trust .. it’s time to take the snooped-in mail directly to their boss and tell him - STOP PILFERING MY MAIL.
And .. it did stop. I still do not know who it was .. but we recently got a new mailman .. and there’s no sign of mail snooping anymore.
Don’t leave it to phone calls .. you don’t know who you’re getting on the phone. It’s better to do it in person because if you’re a Senior - there is a law against any type of abuse toward seniors - It’s called ELDER ABUSE - and it’s punishable by a $1,000 fine and jail time for certain offences. When they see you are a Senior - most of the time they will go out of their way to resolve the situation. And .. if they don’t take you seriously .. go to a boss higher up. I’ve even written to the top person in a company .. and when you do - you get results.
Also, if you get mail addressed to some person you don’t know - but it shows your current address .. here’s what you do. Write a letter to the company who sent you the mail and demand this person’s name/with your address BE REMOVED FROM THEIR MAILING LIST. Then, you remind them of the “Elder Abuse” law and the $1,000 fine and jail time. I’ve had people fix it so fast their head was spinning.
Being a Senior does not mean people are allowed to walk all over you.
My tenant’s rent check took 12 days last month to go about 12 miles, verified by post mark. I guess they walked it from the mail box to my po box which by the way is in the mail sorting facility for this are.
Sounds like they would have just stolen single boots in Mexico.
One more reason the USPS is likely to go belly up; or,failing that, should go belly up.
There was a similar problem here in northern Virginia. Thieves would drive around looking for raised flags for out-going mail on the street-side mailboxes and then check the contents for checks to pay bills. Once they got the check’s account and routing numbers, they’d empty the checking accounts.
We always drop letters containing checks in the slot inside the post office now.
Pilfering from the mail is SOP south of the border.
"Jarol Garcia," "Sherry Naomi Watanabe", and "Norman A. Muschamp"
I think you are misplacing the blame. The USPS somehow manages to combine the worst habits of the civil service with the worst aspects of private business. To include incredibly poor supervision of employees.
This is corrupt employees combined with poor management. Affirmative action and "south of the border" values are not the issue this time.
While it was before my time, my impression is that the old Post Office Department, as inefficient as it was, better served the public than the USPS.
What you describe sounds like an abuse of the ‘elder abuse’ law.
Surely it doesn’t cover such inconsequential things. But what do I know?
I remember the postman coming around several times a day at Xmas time back in the early fifties. It’s a different outfit, for sure.
Well .. “... such inconsequential things”, lead to theft of credit cards .. so NO, tampering with your mail is not an inconsequential thing.
The fact the corner of an envelope was torn so the person could see inside the envelope - and the envelope appeared to have some sort of discernible card inside .. I’d say the chance of credit card theft was not just possible; the person delivering my mail was in effect attempting to steal from me.
And .. having worked at a residence for Seniors for over 6 years, stealing from Seniors is not a NEW thing; and you’d really be shocked to find out what people steal from seniors who can no longer care for themselves.
The mail carrier sometimes... all too often, will stuff my mailbox with an extra portion of the junk mail. The kind that is loose and always has some fall to the ground when you take out the mail.
On August 1st, as I did not want to deliver it in person, I mailed a book to a teacher who was literally 3.5 miles from the post office. Same zip code but in a residential, not commercial, neighborhood. Normally, a letter would be received overnight or second day in that situation. The snarling postal clerk asked if I wanted to send it “book / media rate”. I apparently saved two dollars by doing so and got a tracking slip. Mailed it on a Monday morning. It was delivered on Tuesday morning. Not on Tuesday, 2 August, but Tuesday, 16 August. I’m sure they just let it sit behind the counter for a couple of weeks.
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