my local PO doesn't even sort local mail anymore, it ALL goes by truck to Rochester and back, ALL OF IT! even though there are slots for local delivery and out of town when you mail something
Posted on 03/04/2021 6:34:30 AM PST by Onthebrink
What amazes me the most is after witnessing incompetence & corruption of the USPS, IRS, DMVs, VA, FBI, CIA, Obama Care,and so on, that people continue to vote for and demand more government control over every aspect of their lives.
Beatings will continue until morale improves.
And the check clears.
I think they are taking cues from the teachers’ unions, and continuing to perform so badly that we will be forced to give them all huge raises. JMHO
Service has been going downhill for decades. In my early childhood, the mailbox was right next to the front door. (One neighbor had it hanging from her front gate. Apartments has the mailboxes in-building. When I rented a house in MA, the mailbox was at the foot of my driveway, as were everyone elses on the street. A decade ago, the USPS moved mail delivery for my rental house to a cluster box down the street. The last two apartments had a single cluster of mailboxes for each four-acre complex.
Let's not talk about package delivery.
More and more of my third-class mail does not have my address on it, let alone my name. That tells me that the post office receives this material in bulk, so it's not subject to the same sorting as first- and second-class mail. We are not the customers any more, the commercial mail people are. We are the eyeballs the USPS sells to the commercial mail people.
Which is why I round-file all mail addresses to "Occupant" or blank.
It’s really time to close up shop with these folks. They had a good run and a great history, but they’ve pretty much gone the way of the buggy whip. There’s other options out there for package delivery. Bills can — and should — be paid online. And we can do without the environmental impact of tons of wasted junk mail that never gets opened or read.
There’s really nothing more that the USPS can offer beyond that (unless you need a commemorative Elvis stamp)...
The Los Angeles Post Office has become legendary—when they don’t feel like delivering a package they just return it to sender.
I kid you not.
Covid has cut down on junk mail. Unfortunately, with states opening up, junk mail will increase.
I look at the mail only when I pay bills once a month. That’s 4 pieces of mail so all the rest goes in the garbage. The treehuggers would do well to protest junk mail. The greenhouse folk should protest all the fuel wasted delivering junk mail.
Defund the entire crapomatic entity! Use private businesses.
The Big Snow I think did it from three weeks ago
Mail’s not only late - I’m pretty sure one day was missed last week. I had letters out hours before the mail usually arrives - and brought then in after dark.
The lawyer handling my Mom’s estate mailed a letter sized envelope to me around Feb 6. On Tuesday, Mar 2, it was returned to her “Not Deliverable as Addressed”. And yes, the address was correct.
$26.35 for "overnight" "express" mail from Boston to Palm Beach that took eight days (mailed Feb 19) is apparently the new normal.
ML/NJ
I get plenty of junk mail nearly every day. The post office seems to keep up with that *important* stuff quite well!
my local PO doesn't even sort local mail anymore, it ALL goes by truck to Rochester and back, ALL OF IT! even though there are slots for local delivery and out of town when you mail something
Lucky the mail is delivered at all with the unions in control.
If the USPO, which is obsolete and not really needed in my view, wants to survive in some way other than milking the taxpayer here are some cost saving suggestions.
1. Every-other-day delivery. A snail is a snail by any other name be it daily or semi so.
2. Does a postmaster at a small town with less than 1,000 residents really need to be a GS-13? That is a little bit rich don’t you think? How about GS-9 or something like that? Seems more fitting.
Same here. I’ll flip thru the mail we get, cull the obvious flyer-type garbage and dump the rest in a basket. First week of every month, I open everything. Auto-pay has made me lazy. LOL.
Somehow it had sat in my PO for 10 days before their rushing of it to Virginia via truck.
I had some words with the local postmaster over it (when it was something necessary for the winter.)
I personally think it's corruption and sabotage by intentional slowdowns and bad staffing decisions. Then again I am sure that having multiple 2 week+ vacations might be nice for those working in the PO.
Lot of FReepers complaining about USPS service on this thread. Here’s mine, Cliff Notes version:
Ordered small item online mid last Nov. $9 with shipping.
Didn’t arrive, went round and round by phone with USPS. Worthless.
Jan 13, received an email from USPS saying how sorry they were about losing my package.
Guess what showed up in my mailbox on 2/26?
A previous tag line:
When it absolutely, positively has to get there, choose something other than USPS.
3:30 p.m. in the afternoon is a little late for lunch......
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