My US Post Office Rant- Page 3
My US Post Office Rant
#52My US Post Office Rant
Posted: 6/25/15 at 5:41pm
"LMFPRAO = LAUGHING MY FAT PUERTO RICAN ASS OFF 
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Aren't you Brazilian?
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#53My US Post Office Rant
Posted: 6/25/15 at 5:41pm
What does he need to be for the thread he's posting in?
#55My US Post Office Rant
Posted: 6/25/15 at 7:10pm
"This was my last issue with USPS. It couldn't decide if it liked NJ or MA more. Mind you it then went MIA and never made it to CT. Was supposed to be 2 day delivery.
June 17, 2015 11:39 SPRINGFIELD, MA 01152 ARRIVED AT USPS FACILITY
June 16, 2015 15:45 JERSEY CITY, NJ 07097 ARRIVED AT USPS ORIGIN FACILITY
June 13, 2015 12:15 SPRINGFIELD, MA 01152 ARRIVED AT USPS FACILITY
June 13, 2015 08:58 KEARNY, NJ 07032 DEPARTED USPS FACILITY
June 12, 2015 21:27 KEARNY, NJ 07032 ARRIVED AT USPS ORIGIN FACILITY
June 12, 2015 20:12 LAKEWOOD, NJ 08701 ACCEPTED AT USPS ORIGIN SORT FACILITY"
Totally not surprised by this, Huss417. A lot of mail gets routed through the Kearny facility for me. My dad has had a bunch of issues with stuff sitting there for days. Apparently they have cut back on staff at some of these places. That is according to my dad's friend who works for USPS.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#56My US Post Office Rant
Posted: 6/25/15 at 8:53pm
Goth,
Were you this pissy and upset when they broke up the phone company?
#57My US Post Office Rant
Posted: 6/26/15 at 1:08am
"We don't get package delivery through postal service here. We get a notice in the mail and then we go pick it up at a grocery or convenience store in a central location."
Great! Just what we want. To pick up our mail from 7-11.
What would be the problem with picking up your mail from a 7-11 if they have trained employees working there? There is a designated counter and stock area, no lines, convenient locations and extended hours. I dealt with the US postal service for 30 something years and the system here is relatively flawless in comparison. Keeping customer pick ups away from the sorting center and places where other desk services are handled lessens the foot traffic and the headaches, plus you can grab your parcels (heh) when you get your groceries. I get that anything other than what you are used to makes your head hurt, but there are many places that do things better than the good old USofA.
JbaraFan1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/04
#58My US Post Office Rant
Posted: 6/26/15 at 1:38am
Wasn't that how it was often done back in the good (really old) USA? I mean I'm not personally that aged (quite), but didn't the town General Store serve as Post Office also back in the day?
#59My US Post Office Rant
Posted: 6/26/15 at 8:05am
There are still some around where I live, JabaraFan1. And before the Internet became a household thing, you could do JcPenney mail order through one of the pharmacies. I mean order from the catalog and pick it up there. This was in the 90s.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#60My US Post Office Rant
Posted: 6/26/15 at 8:31am
Not many general stores today located in big cities.
#62My US Post Office Rant
Posted: 6/26/15 at 8:44am
Like Somms, I've had no problems with them. I get the occasional envelope meant for the neighbor, but that's no big deal. Anything I send, including packages, gets where it's supposed to on time. Haven't had any issues with packages I've received. A few years back they changed their hours. Open 9:30 to 7 during the week and 8:30 to 4:30 on Saturdays. That was a godsend. The one post office in town went back to the previous hours, and the other stayed with the later ones. I'm assuming they did that based on which got the most traffic.
I've had more issues with FedEx packages I've received, than anything else.
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#63My US Post Office Rant
Posted: 6/26/15 at 8:47am
My one beef with them, is when I'm waiting on a semi-long line and the post office workers are kibitzing with their current customer. It's nice to exchange pleasantries, but save the long convo about whatever for another time.
Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch.
Puppies are babies in fur coats.
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#64My US Post Office Rant
Posted: 6/26/15 at 8:52amI live in a small town. We have one postal clerk. He works: Monday-Friday 8:30am - 1:00pm, 2:15pm - 4:30pm and Saturday 9:00am - 12:00pm. The building itself is open 24/7 for the boxes.
#65My US Post Office Rant
Posted: 6/26/15 at 12:13pm
They've usually been okay for me, but I've had a package (non-urgent, luckily) to be picked up for the past week. I've made three pickup requests, all gone through, all gotten confirmation numbers... and it's never been picked up. It is literally right under our mailbox, so it's not like the mail carrier could've missed it.
I even took it in one day so it wouldn't look like we were on vacation. And guess what? The day it wasn't outside, I got a confirmation that it was picked up.
JbaraFan1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/04
#66My US Post Office Rant
Posted: 6/26/15 at 1:17pm
Knock on wood, but for the past several years, we have had, for the most part, good experiences with our mail delivery and with package deliveries across the board (PO, FedEx, UPS). I just about have them all trained as to our preference, which is normally to have packages left at our front door. (And there's a note on the door just in case the delivery person is different than the regular ones.)
Yeah, I guess we are lucky that stuff doesn't get stolen sometimes. I think there was one time years ago that we didn't get a particular package, but I can't remember if that finally ended up being a case of it being lost, or if it was actually stolen.
Once in a blue we might accidentally get a neighbor's mail in our mailbox, or mail addressed to the same apartment # for a complex up the street, but those times are rare.
Oh, and on the "General Store" kind of thing, I do recall as recently as the late 90s, early 00s maybe, there was a locally owned drug store that had a PO counter inside. I don't mean just selling stamps like a bunch of stores do now; this was an actual PO inside the place.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#67My US Post Office Rant
Posted: 6/26/15 at 1:51pm
Goth,
Were you this pissy and upset when they broke up the phone company?
Do you think before you post? That's the whole point. The USPS is largely a government sanctioned monopoly and can deliver whatever service they feel like with no consequences.
The phone company break up was the best thing that could ever happen because it gave people more choice, it lowered prices and opened the door for different styles of phones and different phone plans. If Ma Bell were still in charge, you wouldn't have cellphones today.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#68My US Post Office Rant
Posted: 6/26/15 at 2:01pm
Unfortunately the breakup gave us Verizon. These guys are like pirates of old. They steel & loot.
#69My US Post Office Rant
Posted: 6/26/15 at 2:05pmSorry Roxy, I have no problems with Verizon either. Maybe it's just you.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#70My US Post Office Rant
Posted: 6/27/15 at 4:07pm
There are three streets with the same name in our zip code. At one of them a man with a name very similar to mine resides.
I'll leave it to you to imagine what problems we have.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#71My US Post Office Rant
Posted: 6/27/15 at 4:11pm
Please tell me the other guy's name is Popdolly.
#72My US Post Office Rant
Posted: 6/27/15 at 4:12pm
I live in a 400 plus unit condo and seriously believe my mailman is dyslexic.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#73My US Post Office Rant
Posted: 6/27/15 at 8:05pm
"Do you think before you post?"
Again with the pissy attitude.
Breathe.
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