Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night.......... (snow day)

[Owly055]

I was rather disgusted with the postal service yesterday.......... After two days of steady snow (fluff) at temps of around -5 to -10, our rural route carrier couldn't make it up the remote back roads that make up part of his route. He brings the mail to our rural post office from the main local office 20 miles away. The highway was clear and plowed between the main office and our rural office, but rather than simply sending the local box mail out the highway to the local office, they simply gave the postal worker who acts as post master here the day off and never opened the office. What happened to the "can do" mentality?

H.W.

 

[MaxStout]

Don't get me started on USPS. OK, I WILL get started on it.

I don't even live in the country. I live in the suburbs, where we have curbside mailboxes. All the guy has to do is drive his little Jeep up to the mailboxes and put the mail in. Shouldn't be too hard, right? Half their work is done for them. Yet, there are days when the delivery guy just never shows up. I'm thinking he hadn't completed his route for the day, looked at his watch and said, "OMG, it's Miller time, gotta go!"

In my legal practice I routinely send documents via certified mail w/return receipt. Sometimes I don't get my return receipt (which I need for the client's file, and I paid extra for). So I have to have someone in the office call USPS (and wait on hold for a while) to get them to email a .jpg scan of the receipt signature.

You had one job...ONE JOB!

 

[Owly055]

Don't get me started on USPS. OK, I WILL get started on it.

I don't even live in the country. I live in the suburbs, where we have curbside mailboxes. All the guy has to do is drive his little Jeep up to the mailboxes and put the mail in. Shouldn't be too hard, right? Half their work is done for them. Yet, there are days when the delivery guy just never shows up. I'm thinking he hadn't completed his route for the day, looked at his watch and said, "OMG, it's Miller time, gotta go!"

In my legal practice I routinely send documents via certified mail w/return receipt. Sometimes I don't get my return receipt (which I need for the client's file, and I paid extra for). So I have to have someone in the office call USPS (and wait on hold for a while) to get them to email a .jpg scan of the receipt signature.

You had one job...ONE JOB!

To add insult to injury.......... I went down to the post office this morning as there should have been a priority mail package Saturday (based on tracking). They refused to give me the package because their scanner was broken down!!!

The worst was a few years ago when a friend asked me to go to her house and box up 4 paintings of hers to send to an art show in California that was over two weeks off. I did this, and got them shipped with just over 2 weeks to get from Montana to California. I shipped parcel post, as the cost to ship priority was so hig, and the delivery range was 7 business days maximum. The paintings didn't arrive until AFTER the show was over, and the gallery simply refused delivery, and they were returned to me POSTAGE DUE!!! A bit of research turned up the fact that they had sat in a semi van trailer for nearly 2 weeks in Denver before being delivered. There is no tracking on parcel post, but I was able to ferret this information out. I raised holy hell, refusing to pay the return shipping , and went up the administrative ladder threatening to raise Cain on social media, as well as contacting my senator (who I knew personally). They finally gave in, and didn't charge return shipping........ but they should have refunded the original shipping. Their policy is to treat parcel post as garbage to force you to ship priority for more money........... This is entirely unacceptable, and the result is that I ship UPS whenever possible. Unfortunately the nearest UPS shipping point is 40 miles away. UPS is better...... at least they get it to you when they should, but they delay packages to prevent you from getting them faster than what you paid for........ I've watched that from tracking.

H.W.