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You've Got Mail, But the Mailman Hid It (overpaid, whiny union USPS thieves)
NBC Connecticut ^ | Dec 14, 2009 | Yvonne Nava

Posted on 12/14/2009 11:28:44 AM PST by max americana

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In summary: mail at your own risk, be nice to your neighborhood mailman or the union thieves at USPS wont deliver your mail for Christmas.
1 posted on 12/14/2009 11:28:45 AM PST by max americana
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To: max americana

bump for later


2 posted on 12/14/2009 11:31:50 AM PST by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or off.)
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To: max americana

Hiding the salami? eh!


3 posted on 12/14/2009 11:33:14 AM PST by kennyboy509 (Ha! I kill me!)
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To: max americana

Our mailman lumbers by around 5 every day. This guy moves as slow as dirt. He is a really nice guy but has a problem with delivering boxes and if he can get away with dropping a card to have me pick them up.

He knows I’m a homeschooling mom and always home. Sometimes I have the front door open and I’m sitting within sight distance and I still get the “Sorry we missed you” card.


4 posted on 12/14/2009 11:34:02 AM PST by netmilsmom (I am Ilk)
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To: kennyboy509

I’d hid it


5 posted on 12/14/2009 11:34:24 AM PST by NoDRodee (U>S>M>C)
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To: max americana
I’m amazed they aren’t sitting on their hands. I’m seeing the Post Office pulling down mailboxes all over town because they don’t meet the minimum mail volume standards. These guys are whistling past the graveyard already.
6 posted on 12/14/2009 11:34:54 AM PST by 1776 Reborn
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To: max americana
A year or so ago the Postal service suddenly stopped delivering our mail and told us we had to pick up mail at the Post Office. The mail lady had reported us for having an aggressive and threatening dog.

Our dog was a 17 year old blind Yorkie.

7 posted on 12/14/2009 11:38:35 AM PST by Ben Mugged (Unions are the storm troopers of socialism.)
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To: max americana

About 15 years ago, I suddenly began getting past due notices from my creditors when I knew that I had mailed the checks on time. Turned out my outgoing mail, and lots of other people’s had been destroyed by a lazy letter carrier. She got a vacation at Club Fed.


8 posted on 12/14/2009 11:39:38 AM PST by CholeraJoe (I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter.)
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To: max americana
"Workers have been stuffing mail into closets and unused rooms"

Isn't mail theft, or obstruction of mail some sort of Federal offense? I don't see much difference in stealing it en route, or from my mailbox...it's still stolen.

No wonder more and more people are resorting to FED EX and UPS.
9 posted on 12/14/2009 11:39:46 AM PST by FrankR (SENATE: You cram it down our throats in '09, We'll shove it up your ass in '10...count on it.)
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Newman!


10 posted on 12/14/2009 11:39:58 AM PST by Gamecock
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No wonder more and more people are resorting to FED EX and UPS.

And paying their bills online.

11 posted on 12/14/2009 11:41:02 AM PST by CholeraJoe (I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter.)
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To: max americana

The postal service, IRS and motor vehicles are government’s way of rewarding friends and achieving “affirmative action.” They are not for rendering a service. Don’t expect any service.


12 posted on 12/14/2009 11:41:11 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: max americana

Please let these people take care of my health care!


13 posted on 12/14/2009 11:44:42 AM PST by rbbeachkid (The ONLY ones able to fix the economy - Small Business Owners!)
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To: netmilsmom

I got tired of the mail carrier having the ‘sorry we could not deliver’ card filled out before they came to the house and called the local post master as well as filed a written complaint.

Caught the mail carrier coming up the other side of the street and told her I filed a complaint and gave her the complaint number.

Got a few calls during the next week from the post master and post office and have not had this problem again since April.


14 posted on 12/14/2009 11:45:02 AM PST by Eagle Eye (3%)
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To: CholeraJoe

When we lived in Ky our mail carriers were just outstanding, so good we took Christmas Goodies to the local office every year. Here in Ohio, they leave boxes in the rain when the front porch is maybe an extra 10 steps, or they leave a smaller box sitting on the opened door of the mailbox. When I complained I was told they could do that per the Union. I should have known.


15 posted on 12/14/2009 11:45:22 AM PST by mom4melody
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To: max americana

Fire them all, just like Ronald Reagan did with the Air Traffic Controllers in 1983, I believe.


16 posted on 12/14/2009 11:45:53 AM PST by kevinm13 (Tim Geithner is a tax cheat. Manmade "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
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To: NoDRodee

i don’t want it anymore. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww


17 posted on 12/14/2009 11:47:17 AM PST by kennyboy509 (Ha! I kill me!)
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To: mom4melody

I do most of my shopping on line, so I get 1-2 packages per week via UPS, Fed-Ex or USPS. The ONLY ones that are left exposed to the weather are delivered by the USPS. UPS and Fed-Ex leave them on my covered front porch.


18 posted on 12/14/2009 11:49:56 AM PST by CholeraJoe (I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter.)
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To: max americana

This issue coming up in Virginia also. Many local non-profits routinely send out end-of-the-tax-year mailings asking for donations. This year many of them complain that the mailings have taken weeks to make from one side of town to the other, or have not been delivered at all. The USPS is unable to offer an explanation.

Coming next with USPS-style health care: “Sorry, we lost the paperwork for your heart transplant, but guess it won’t matter now, will it?”


19 posted on 12/14/2009 11:49:59 AM PST by EagleClaw
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To: FrankR; All

Here in Hollywood, there are 5 PO’s within a 5 minute driving distance, I kid you not. There’s this one station which is closest to me who are staffed by what the neighborhood calls the 3 stooges..

One of them is an old coot who is known to slam the window door at customers, the other is an Asian lady who “pretends’ to NOT know any English and the 3rd is a Hispanic lady who tells the customers...to drop off the mail OUTSIDE the post office (when they can easily reach behind them and place the mail in a box).


20 posted on 12/14/2009 11:50:05 AM PST by max americana (i)
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