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.
Our mail was 7 hours late yesterday too. I see you're in Calif also. I'm in Simi Valley. Did we experience the same slowdown?
We just moved to a new house and the change of address drill was a nightmare. Still not sure if we got all of our mail. The first card we sent them was sent back to us at our old address with no explanation. We put in a new one and went about a week with no mail. We went to the PO to check on it and they had no idea where it was. After yelling at the Post Mistress we filled out a new card and it was still several days before we started getting mail at our new address. Part of the problem was the employees at the PO for our old address could barely speak or understand english, how they got the job I'll never know. Needless to say we are not happy campers when it comes to the USPS.
I have observed that the counter service has becme exemplary. They are competing with FedEx and UPS and they know it. The Union goons at UPS have turned that company into what the Post Office used to be. Surly, unresponsive and lazy.
That's because FedEx provides their linehaul now.
Where I live, it the mail is that late, it's because someone missed their shift or called in sick and did so on short enough notice that they couldn't get anyone to fill in.
I've seen the Postmaster(mistress?) herself out tooling around in a mail truck to pick up the slack some days. I like most of our mail people, and the ones I don't like always seem to disappear after a couple of weeks anyway. Not that I had anything to do with that (that sounded sort of ominous).
They've all gone postal..........
I'm pretty sure you have to be 21 to get a Commercial Driver's License. Foot carriers may have a different set of rules.
No change here. Mail Service is the same, and in spite of 4X the population compared to a few years ago.
Sounds like a re-run. Was it the same mail both times?
My complaint is about management incompetence. It is not the guys/gals delivering the mail. It is the undue pressure being put on them. I just found this weird, and it has happened before.
I know many other postal carriers, who are full time and are under a huge amount of stress to carry and deliver larger volumes of mail. They are very afraid of being caught up in downsizing.
A family member works part-time {not a full employee} at a
small outlying office, and the {minor} problems around here
seem to be the result of understaffing at the regional hub
40 miles away, plus some bureaucratic inefficiencies.
A full time job with the PO is still looked at as a
cushy government-job-for-life (whether or not that's
really true), and to some extent tends to attract people
who want to HAVE a job rather than DO a job.
But the USPS is facing stiff competition, and cannot
slack too much.
If the Express Statutes were repealed, the entire
mailing landscape would entirely change. There's no need
for monopoly on first-class (non-express letter) mail.
Lol, NO, I refuse to go postal.
Well, did you try calling your local post office to see if there is, in fact, a problem?
I don't doubt it. There's a FedEx box at my post office. I don't care how they do it, I'm just glad they do. I can ship my smallest package to California for $3.85 and get it there in 3 days, (or Hawaii or Alaska). UPS used to charge me over $8.00 and take a week to make the delivery.
Just what we need, more people overcrowding our communities.
LoL's.
At work it is grounds for dismissal to use the term "postal" because it is not PC, so we now refer to going "stampy" when using the ol' cliche'!
Well, NOW you've got me curious. Which one was topless, and which had no pants on?
Probably. I called the 1800 number in the phone book, and they just said they had substitutes. It would be VERY late deliveries.
What do you expect, for thirty-seven cents?
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