Post office confusion

[Shawn]

The local post office (which is definitely dark ages) returned a batch of discs I had mailed out...for no reason that they can figure out. So I am re-sending them today.

I apologize for the inconvenience,

Shawn

[Big Al]

Shawn ain't kidding: they really are in the dark ages. Shawn sent me a couple discs with a postmark of October 12 which didn't arrive to me until this past Monday (the 23rd)! I can walk from there faster; maybe that's what happened!

Edited October 27, 2006 by Big Al

[Shawn]

Shawn ain't kidding: they really are in the dark ages. Shawn sent me a couple discs with a postmark of October 12 which didn't arrive to me until this past Monday (the 23rd)! I can walk from there faster; maybe that's what happened!

Yep...needless to day I WON'T be using that particular location again. I'll drive the 5 miles into town...

[HolyStitt]

This has been the only problem I have ever had with the post office. I don't know how many times I have sent stuff out and I have come home a day or two later to find it sitting on my back steps.

[spinlps]

The Young and Byrd/Adams boxes arrived this morning. Thanks!

[Tom 1960]

This has been the only problem I have ever had with the post office. I don't know how many times I have sent stuff out and I have come home a day or two later to find it sitting on my back steps.

Since I work at the post office, but not behind the counter(City Carrier), why were the cd's returned in the first place? Insufficient postage? Just curious.

Edited November 7, 2006 by Tom 1960

[HolyStitt]

This has been the only problem I have ever had with the post office. I don't know how many times I have sent stuff out and I have come home a day or two later to find it sitting on my back steps.

Since I work at the post office, but not behind the counter(City Carrier), why were the cd's returned in the first place? Insufficient postage? Just curious.

I never was able to get a straight answer from the branch about why it was happening.

I would send the packages out, with all the postage weighed and placed on the packages by the clerk. I would leave the branch thinking everything was cool and then a couple of days later I would come home to find a few of the packages on my back steps. I would bring those packages back, talk to the branch manager, and then everything would be OK. Maybe I pissed off one of the clerks at that branch because I have NEVER had the problem at any other branch and it only seemed to happen around Christmas.

[Free For All]

[Chuck Nessa]

[HolyStitt]

Just a disclaimer:

Other then the SNAFU listed above, I have always been very happy with their service and wouldn't think of using any other service.

Also, I have the greatest mail carrier ever, who is nice enough to put my packages on my back steps for me.

[Chuck Nessa]

Also, I have the greatest mail carrier ever, who is nice enough to put my packages on my back steps for me.

Is this code?

[HolyStitt]

Nope, just the facts, jack.

Instead of having me take time off from work to go to the post office to pick up the packages he couldn't leave in the mailbox, he leaves them on the back steps.

The other USPS carrier I had would not do this.

[Tom 1960]

Also, I have the greatest mail carrier ever, who is nice enough to put my packages on my back steps for me.

Is this code?

Maybe he provides him with a generous holiday tip. Works for me everytime.

[HolyStitt]

Maybe he provides him with a generous holiday tip. Works for me everytime.

I keep thinking I should. The cat has saved me quite a bit of time.

[Free For All]

In my new "bachelor pad" ( ) I haved a shared front door and a mail slot that will only accept single-CD packages, so I put a note on the door requesting that packages be deposited at the back door (my private door) which happens to be up one flight of stairs. Well, UPS and FEDEX didn't flinch and left the packages by the back door as requested.

OTOH, USPS left a snotty note to the effect of "we don't do stairs or back doors". But they will leave a notice for you that they couldn't (or wouldn't) deliver the package, but you can go pick it up at the PO. Yippee.

[Tom 1960]

I hear what you're saying. Sometimes I think the P.O. is too rigid and needs to more accommodative of there customers. In your case, you now have more of a an incentive to use other carriers instead of the Post Office. We in turn lose out on your future business. Stupid stuff.

Edited November 8, 2006 by Tom 1960

[Randy Twizzle]

I lived in an apartment that had a mail slot on the front door. After years of having the mail pushed all the way in to my apartment the mailman started sticking the mail half in and half out of the slot. This greatly increased the risk of someone coming along and stealing my mail. When I called the post office to complain, after my note to the mailmanwas ignored, the local supervisor told me that many people in my area had dogs and that the mailman was probably leery of getting bitten if he pushed the mail all the way in. I told her that was the stupidest excuse I've ever heard and she hung up on me.

[Tom 1960]

It's true though. I have a dog on the route who will immediately grab the mail once I begin to place it through the slot. He's pretty harmless though and I usually have a good laugh.

Edited November 9, 2006 by Tom 1960

[Randy Twizzle]

Well even if it's true I don't understand why opening the slot and wedging the mail in it was any safer than opening the slot and quickly pushing the mail all the way through.