Neighbors going "postal" over Postal Service

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The holidays have nothing to do with it. Our mail service went to "poop" ever since the USPS started delivering Amazon packages. Evidently they are so desperate for money that they took an already supposedly overburdened work force and threw that load on them. I don't know about all that but just like in the linky, we have days of no mail service then get two deliveries in one day. I have repeatedly filed complaints on line to no avail. We have a very nice lady postal carrier but she doesn't deliver our mail every day and I caught her up at the local stop and rob smoking "something" in her mail jeep. We had problems getting our mail after the last snow/ice last year. I talked to her about it one day and she said they have to have those jeeps in by dark (not true, our mail currently gets delivered in the dark all the time) and they have to start at the beginning of their route everyday even if they never finished the end of their route the previous day. That is just flat out STOOPID if true.

I have problems with getting bills by email and snail mail (thanks Roadrunner and Outlook). I have had to set up auto bill pay on some utilities to avoid them wrecking my credit and or cutting off my service. This country is going to hell in a hand basket...not that there was ever any doubt in my mind.
 
I do a some site design for them now and then. They call the mail trucks LLVs or Long Life Vehicles. I’ve had some issues as well here lately but remember that this is their busy season. Frankly I’m amazed everything runs as well as it does.
 
Was getting mail delivery as late as 8PM.
Lot if career carriers on vacation, too many casual workers skipping delivery.
 
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I got skipped yesterday. Truck came through at 0800 this morning.
 
Hmm, my carrier comes everyday in about a three hour window depending on which one it is. Sometimes there's two deliveries in close proximity to each other which just seems ineffecient. Unless it snows, they're all 4x4s here but they don't run if there's snow.

They like to run over my lawn though, so if ya'll wanna gather pitchforks and torches I guess I'm in.

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Filing a complaint on line is akin to spitting into the wind, you know what you get in return. And don't you DARE go to the post office and ask to see the Postmaster. Either at lunch (regardless of the hour) or out for the day or out on indefinite leave. I once went 2 days in a row and got 2 different answers from the front flunkies.

My local office has counter space for 4 employees but you will never find more than 1 working at any given time, regardless of how many people are in line. If another employee comes out to the counter the first one disappears into the abyss of "the back".

There are "contract" locations but they have adopted the same shitty attitude of the regular employees, and have studied the excuse book very carefully and can recite it word for word... Sorry assed people....
 
Maybe I'm lucky. I live out in the country, and my mail man comes between 11:30AM and 12:30pm every day. I've known him to be as late as 3pm right before christmas, but never later than that.

All in all, I've had good service from the USPS, with the exception of one old delivery man who had to have been in his 80's. He was bad about mixing up folks' mail, and loosing stuff.
 
I have complained so many times I have lost count. The post master finally toward me that there is nothing they can do since they are union.
 
Bailey Boat said:
Filing a complaint on line is akin to spitting into the wind, you know what you get in return. And don't you DARE go to the post office and ask to see the Postmaster. Either at lunch (regardless of the hour) or out for the day or out on indefinite leave. I once went 2 days in a row and got 2 different answers from the front flunkies.

My local office has counter space for 4 employees but you will never find more than 1 working at any given time, regardless of how many people are in line. If another employee comes out to the counter the first one disappears into the abyss of "the back".

There are "contract" locations but they have adopted the same shitty attitude of the regular employees, and have studied the excuse book very carefully and can recite it word for word... Sorry assed people....
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The only thing my local PO is good for is curing low blood pressure. I dont go there unless i absolutely have no other choice. I have and will pay twice as much to ship Fedex and i hate them almost as much.
 
I have issues with our carrier...we've gotten to know certain neighbors with similar addresses (213 Pine Berry (us) and 213 Pine Cove or 312 Pine Berry) very well because they can't seem to get that straight.

BUT....it is pretty amazing that you can send a stuffed envelope across the country in a couple days for $0.50. Or a 20# flat rate box of lead for $7.
 
NCLivingBrit said:
You expected good service from a government monopoly?

Well.......ok.
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The fact that they're a quasi-gov't entity (they aren't, in fact, .gov) does lend itself to huge amounts of inefficiency, bloat and unnecessarily increased costs.
 
jimmyjames8 said:
I have had to set up auto bill pay on some utilities
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Is there an argument AGAINST setting up auto-pay? To me, it just makes sense to have recurring bills done via auto-pay. Especially utilities where you're not likely to have disputed charges. I haven't written a personal check for a bill in so long I'd probably have a hard time even finding the book.
 
The pregnant lady in the pink top is my daughter. With two toddlers in the house and a third baby on the way, she orders a lot of basic supplies online. She's been growing more and more frustrated with the missed deliveries.
 
RedneckFur said:
Maybe I'm lucky. I live out in the country,
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Same here. Our carriers have always been super cool. The one lady, now retired, she'd run that Subaru Outback in 10 inches of snow like it was nothing, and the roads in my area can flat out roll you in bad weather. I went into our little country PO and asked the lady if shipping fired empty brass was ok. She didn't know, so she called her husband, a postmaster in Asheville and avid reloader, and he says good to go.

The USPS world is entirely different in town. None of them would have ever made an empty brass phone call. And God forbid you have to go to the main distribution center. Complete jerks.
My advice, frag those PO's in town and find a country PO that the folks are helpful. It's worth the drive.
No advice with bad service to your house, other than to move to the country.
 
Tim said:
Is there an argument AGAINST setting up auto-pay? To me, it just makes sense to have recurring bills done via auto-pay. Especially utilities where you're not likely to have disputed charges. I haven't written a personal check for a bill in so long I'd probably have a hard time even finding the book.
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A few years ago, I got a water bill (neighborhood well, Aqua NC) for $10,000. My normal bill is $30 - 35. My neighborhood is 75 homes so they don't get that much money from the whole neighborhood. When I called, they insisted I had a water leak in my yard - no wet spot and the meter was Not running. I don't think their wells could even pump that much water. If I had auto-pay, my account would have been drained and I would have had to take them to court to get my money back.

So yes, they is a big reason not to have auto-pay.
 
My carrier is a gun guy, so he recognizes a lot of packages I get. He will pull through beep the horn, and then we'll talk deer hunting for a while. He'll tell me about these big bucks he sees on his mail route all the time.
 
Yep... $600 erroneous phone bill. Reason enuff for no auto pay. If i was cynical i would say that utilities and others occassionally overbill just to see if you will pay. I know a very successful businessman who used to change qty of 10 to qty of 100 on invoices and if he got caught he just said it was a clerical error. Sound familiar?
 
jimmyjames8 said:
http://www.wral.com/-no-mail-monday...s-worsen-during-busy-holiday-season/17169253/

The holidays have nothing to do with it. Our mail service went to "poop" ever since the USPS started delivering Amazon packages. Evidently they are so desperate for money that they took an already supposedly overburdened work force and threw that load on them. I don't know about all that but just like in the linky, we have days of no mail service then get two deliveries in one day. ....
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I noticed ours get significantly worse when that happened too.

However, I have had no end of problems with the USPS for a long while and I even had a MIL that used to work for them. Even she couldn't help out when the main sorting facility in CLT destroyed a package of mine and stole the contents. I got the run around for months and repeatedly had to call and get them to keep the case file open. They would automatically close it after a short time, regardless of a whether or not anything was actually done.

Never sign up for auto pay. Too many outright thefts. I'll keep mailing checks until they ban them.
 
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I have certain monthly bills that I pay with bill pay but the amounts sometimes vary. I have other bills that are paid quarterly or annually and the amount varies. Auto pay wouldn't work for me, and I don't even like the concept. Just say NO to auto pay......
 
This past week, USPS was both horrible and great with one package.

On 12/1, I mailed a package First Class to California, with an estimated arrival date of 12/4.
On 12/4, I checked tracking and the package was in a distribution center in Maryland!
Amazingly, the package was rerouted and delivered in California on 12/6.
 
I got a big box of lead this week, they left it on the curb.
 
You guys have pissed off the mail carrier! :D

My mailbox is 3 miles from my house and if there's a package that won't fit, my mail carrier puts it on my front porch.

It must be a Burke county thing.
 
RedneckFur said:
Maybe I'm lucky. I live out in the country, and my mail man comes between 11:30AM and 12:30pm every day. I've known him to be as late as 3pm right before christmas, but never later than that.

All in all, I've had good service from the USPS, with the exception of one old delivery man who had to have been in his 80's. He was bad about mixing up folks' mail, and loosing stuff.
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I'm with you. Our mail lady is awesome and you can almost set your watch by her. Now when she is on vacation, there's no telling when or if it will arrive.
 
Generally good mail service at my house. My only complaint is the lady makes $88k a year to stuff bills in my mailbox.

Concerning auto pay, I already don't appreciate the gubmint taking a cut before I get mine, I certainly ain't giving anyone else the ability to reach into my account to grab some dough.
 
We have a PO box even though we're in the sticks- Not because of the carrier, but the numbnuts who knocking our box down. Relatively good service since it's small town.

No autopay- but I do pay every bill I can online through the credit union.

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I'm headed to the post office tomorrow morning.

I ordered a hard drive at Best Buy (they were out of stock in the store) for home delivery. It was supposed to arrive by 8 pm on the 6th. The tracking information shows it arrived at the local USPS facility on December 6th at &57 am and is currently in transit to the destination. It's said the same thing since the morning of the 6th, and it's now almost 9 pm on the 8th.
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
I'm headed to the post office tomorrow morning.

I ordered a hard drive at Best Buy (they were out of stock in the store) for home delivery. It was supposed to arrive by 8 pm on the 6th. The tracking information shows it arrived at the local USPS facility on December 6th at &57 am and is currently in transit to the destination. It's said the same thing since the morning of the 6th, and it's now almost 9 pm on the 8th.
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There should be an option online for filing it as lost. Had it happen to me a few times, and simply hitting the button seems to wake up the numbnuts behind the wheel.

We finally got a good rural carrier out my way. The previous one threw a very expensive ribbon microphone in the driveway in the rain before I could respond to her beeping the horn at me, like I was some high school whore without a daddy.

I went up to see the postmaster for that one, and he told me she was afraid of dogs. I asked him if it would be okay if his doctor refused to treat him because he was afraid of sick people; he did not see the levity in my comment.

That said, the ladies at the Maiden PO counter are amazing. I go there whenever I can.
 
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