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.
Sounds good, but you might want to read this...
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“We used to have a fantastic mailman. You could set your watch to him. “
I used to hear that a lot when Amazon first POURED into our PO. There is no longer “setting your watch” to the USPS because you never know whether Amazon will dump two pallets or eight pallets in our small office. I bought small cars for my delivery “office” about 6 months before Amazon came on. I now must make extra trips as per the new normal.
We used to do 20-40 packages total, per day on average. Now my average is closer to 140 per day, and they’re BIG items. Many exceed our max weight limit, and max circumference limit.
Then comes the Christmas rush, featuring bad weather, snow, short daylight hours, and HUGE piles of packages.
Don’t even try to set your watch by the post man any more.