Fortunately I do not have that problem at all here in Louisiana.
I put my Dad’s Father’s Day card in the mail yesterday and they did not pick it up. I have wondered if they skip some days or if I just don’t get mail on some days; but that pretty much proves they don’t deliver/pick up mail on some days. My wife drove it over to the Post Office this morning.
I pay 99.9% of my bills online but I like getting the paper statements. I can also look them up. Some things have to go through the post office - my pharmacy, motor vehicle tags, some products I order for my pups, etc. I get a email notification daily of what mail is to be expected - do you have this?
Now just imagine this same organization in total control of your health care.....
I’m guessing their contract with Amazon prioritizes their deliveries over USPS.
I got Christmas cards in mid-January that had been postmarked weeks earlier. From one state away.
This has become more than a dubious attempt at mail delivery. The soi-disant postal service is now selling cards and other materials - thereby competing improperly with card shops and others which have to pay taxes and overhead. Now the USPS is even advertising on television (with our tax dollars).
Missing important mail like bills that used to be delivered on time up to the start of last year, are now often late, missing and costs people $$ penalties.
For that reason I am no longer using the USPS for anything important, thus reducing their revenue and increasing their debt further.
I hear of constant complaints around here. Our regular carrier is great, but there are always new carriers whom I expect are the source of the problem. The head guy at the P.O. here doesn’t give a damn and always has lame excuses. Fortunately, most of the mail I get goes straight to the garbage can. Unfortunately, I do expect something important in the mail sometimes.
This is their attempt to extort another $15 Billion from taxpayers for more overtime....
Few send personal letters anymore.
We used to see our rural mailman passed out drunk sometimes, parked. Another different area rural mail lady in the substation constantly attacked and yelled at customers. I complained but they said she was in the union so they could not do anything.
It took a month to get a first class birthday card 400 miles. My brother said he wanted to thank the carrier for walking all that way.
They are selling all their properties. I think it’s imminent that it goes private
Stopped for gas on a long trip. My credit card was declined. The CC company had not received my payment after a few weeks.
My mortgage lender dunned me for a late charge on a payment mailed three weeks
Prior to the due-date.
Erf!
I now send payments the same day I receive them. A month seems to work better.
I recently sent a 19 pound package to Jacksonville. It arrived resealed, no notice of opening it, and light 18 pounds! USPS went shopping in it. It was filled with childhood memories for my daughter. They did nothing. They laughed at her and said it happens all the time. They refused to reimburse for the missing weight I paid for. They called the issue resolved and closed the case. The cops were called and a report filed. They said they could do nothing without more complaints.
File criminal reports people.
I live in a small city in central NY State. We have two post offices, but I’ve only ever gone to the main office here. Earlier this year, priority packages were taking over a week to get to their destination (Indiana). One time it took 10 days for a package to get from Rome, New York to the sorting station in Rochester, New York. That’s only 2 1/2 hours away. I called my local office and talked to one of the supervisors about it. I told him there was no excuse for a package taking that long to get 2 1/2 hours down the thruway. I also told him that they seemed to have enough help to get the junk mail delivered. He slipped and said they were swamped with packages from Amazon. I took it to mean that they prioritize Amazon shipments, even over their own priority mail. When I confronted him with that fact, he didn’t deny it. Since then the mail here has improved greatly. Any priority package I send to my son in Indiana on a Tuesday, has actually been getting there on Thursday, instead of Friday. Priority delivery used to be two days tops. Then around the holidays it went to 3 days, but it’s been three days for quite a while now. As usual, you pay more for less quality service.
Phone: 1-800-222-1811 but jump hoops.