[TomGuy]

Not that the Postal Service has ever been a paragon of efficiency.

That is an understatement.

I live in a town of 14,000. I have converted nearly all my mail to email. I now get most bills and statements only via email oronline download.

Reason: The local PO typically loses 2-4 pieces of my mail every year. Some, I don't worry much about, but pieces that have account numbers, etc., do concern me.

My August city utility bill apparently is lost. Usually it is delivered on the 16th or 17th. It still hasn't arrived, but I got the email notification several days ago.

This is only the 5th time the PO has lost my local city utility billing in the last 2 years. The city says they mail them, but somehow, the bills get lost, either between the city office and the PO, or with the PO carrier to my house.

[MayflowerMadam]

We had the same problem. We pay the bills online when we receive them, but in the last year the PO didn’t deliver an Exxon bill and an AT&T bill. They didn’t get paid. Got an extremely thuggish nastygram from Exxon.

I figure someone else got our bills ‘cause we get other people’s mail all the time. One day, I was sticking an incorrect envelope in the slot with “please re-deliver; sent to wrong address” written on it. The mail lady was there and SHE yelled at ME because what I had writtn would get her into trouble.