Posted on 09/17/2004 10:32:17 AM PDT by television is just wrong
Last Night, I received my mail after 8:00 pm, PDT. What gives with the Post Office. I remember growing up, the mail person would be quite punctual. Clean and orderly. Now the employees are teenagers (as of last night), and more than 3 hours late...
My Uncle was a supervisor at the Van Nuys post office for over 30 years. He would be furious with how things are run today.
Help,,, need input...
Go down and shoot up the place, they're used to it.
That happens to us when our regular mailman goes on vacation and a new person fills in for the week.
I wouldn't get too upset.
Union rules!
My mail carrier is punctual, clean and orderly. She's got nice legs, too.
I ship 10-20 packages a day via Priority Mail for asmall web based business that I own and I can count on 1 finger the number of delivery problems I've had in the last 2 years. Was never a fan of the USPS in the past but I am now.
Look at it this way, maybe you're getting your Tuesday mail on Monday night. How would you know the difference!?!?
I dont know whats going on there .. here I have the BEST mailman...Hes older probably in early sixties....I get lots of packages and he always brings them to my front porch, stops and gives the pups a milkbone, whatever and is genuinely nice and I just love him....
I dont go to the Post Office, so I cant comment on that..
This has happened before, and one time I drove by the mail truck, two people, one wearing the pants, the other wearing the uniform shirt, one was shuffling the mail to the other. It appeared to be a husband wife team.
I dunno, but every single Wednesday my mail comes at approximately 7 p.m. and it's ALWAYS JUNK MAIL. Every single week, the same thing. Neighbors get only junk on Wednesdays too. Wednesday, the regular guy (who looks as if he was in the movie Deliverance) is not working. Kinda weird.
Hey, at least you got your mail that day. Wasn't it Newman who horded the mail?
Perhaps they were shortstaffed that day and your mail person was doubling up. As someone else stated, this happens on our route when our regular guy is on vacation. I can set my clock by my regular guy.
it is government run, enough said
I cannot count on the mail being delivered at any set time. We get mail personnel who speak no english as well, I don't know how they can do the job.
That said, I believe that our Postal workers want to do a good job for their customers and they have pride in their work. It's the supervision that screws things up.
The incompetents are taking over.
In those cases folks have to work overtime to get your mail to you, even if it takes until 8 PM.
While the Bush42 Boom continues, expect your mail service to deteriorate, and if we can get the unemployment rate down around 4%, expect it to become absolutely abominable, as well as your UPS, FEDEX, Purolator, Billybob's, etc. delivery services. You'll begin having some serious problems moving household goods even down the street to say nothing of across the continent!
The folks at the fastfood restaurants will become surly, and Heaven forfend that you try to get assistance at your local Kinko's, particularly after standing in line 3 or 4 hours for a $2.00 job.
We'll be begging for More Mexicans to emigrate before you know it.
There has also been times I have received two deliveries in one day after receiving no delivery the day before.
My mailman will fold and crumple bills and magazines to fit into my (admittedly small) apartment building mailbox. It does save me from having to drive downtown (to a not-so-nice area) to get mail that was held because it was too big, though.
The UPS and FedEx guys are great, though!
*snrk*
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