Need to share and vent, so my rm2 and doors were supposed to be here today, the mailman never brought it and then tracking said undeliverable, what is up with that? So messed up, double checked the address and it's correct. I officially hate usps right now.
soo frustrated
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Oh I can relate! It is truly frustrating..
I had an issue where my mailman wouldn't deliver ANY packages to me. After the third time of going to the post office and waiting in line forever to get my packages, I asked to speak with a manager about it. She said my carrier marked the check box on all three packages 'undeliverable' but didn't include a note. I told her I had no idea why and that I was still getting my regular mail.. She said she would talk to him when he returned... Well the next package I was expecting, the tracking showed the same thing happened!!! I was sooo prepared to raise all kinds of problems at the PO... Then I get a knock on my door and it was the mailman with my package! He quickly apologized about it and said he kept driving back by to see if I had made it home yet... Said that both my neighbors had been having trouble with packages getting stolen and wanted to know if I had a better place he could leave packages. He seemed pretty sincere and turned out he was just lookin out.
Hopefully, its something honest as what happened to me.
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I had an issue where my mailman wouldn't deliver ANY packages to me. After the third time of going to the post office and waiting in line forever to get my packages, I asked to speak with a manager about it. She said my carrier marked the check box on all three packages 'undeliverable' but didn't include a note. I told her I had no idea why and that I was still getting my regular mail.. She said she would talk to him when he returned... Well the next package I was expecting, the tracking showed the same thing happened!!! I was sooo prepared to raise all kinds of problems at the PO... Then I get a knock on my door and it was the mailman with my package! He quickly apologized about it and said he kept driving back by to see if I had made it home yet... Said that both my neighbors had been having trouble with packages getting stolen and wanted to know if I had a better place he could leave packages. He seemed pretty sincere and turned out he was just lookin out.
Hopefully, its something honest as what happened to me.
- Bboy
I would love for that to be the case, but i live in a super safe neighborhood, the trade off is my wife is at work so our driveway was empty even though I'm home. I'd love to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I'm steamed Cuz I was ready to patina that brass door. O well, one more day won't kill me...
I get it for people like rob though, he's not a big company, it costs serious coin to have dedicated pickups, or a trip to ups, on top of being more expensive. I don't fault him at all.
Mine was a letter in the mail box saying the package couldn't be delivered and simply needed to be picked up at the office the next day. FYI: If you're planning to force patina the door, I assume it's a copper vein and should have a few coats of lacquer wherever you don't want it to change from copper to black. Please update on the status of the patina. I'd like to see how it turns out.
My regular mail is delivered to a community area about 200 yards from my place that can't be seen from my place. So I've had the phone number of my postal route's supervisor on speed dial for months... for good reason. Same with UPS, FedEx and DHL. The postal carriers are too lazy to deliver package to my door that require I sign for them. Instead, they just updated the tracking to notice left, and put the notice in my box in that community area. I'm not driving halfway across town to pick a package up that they were too lazy to deliver. So I call the super, she calls them and makes them come back and deliver it TO MY DOOR shortly after I call. The carriers got cute and stopped updating tracking on ANY of my packages until they got back to the post office at the end of their day. Didn't work though, I know what time they deliver here... and if a package is out for delivery that day I know I have to sign for I give them an hour to show up. They never do, so I call the supervisor and she makes them come back and deliver. It's seldom the same person, and they are always subs, not my regular route carrier. One time DHL pulled up in front of my place and stopped, then turned around and left. I called, he had marked it that he couldn't find the address. I told his super that if he had got his fat a_s out of the truck and looked he would have found it just fine. I'm picking on carriers, but much of the workforce in this country now days is just as bad.
ICYDK... the USPS is on its way out. When USPS carriers retire, quit or get fired they are not replaced anymore. US mail delivery has been being turned over to independent contractors for several years now, and eventually they will handle all of it nationwide. For the last three years at the last place I lived here in town until early 2009, the independent's delivered my mail there... and were far worse than the laziest or the lazy USPS carriers. The various carrier companies farming package delivery between them adds to the mess. IE, a package is mailed via the USPS, but is delivered by one of the other companies.
ICYDK... the USPS is on its way out. When USPS carriers retire, quit or get fired they are not replaced anymore. US mail delivery has been being turned over to independent contractors for several years now, and eventually they will handle all of it nationwide. For the last three years at the last place I lived here in town until early 2009, the independent's delivered my mail there... and were far worse than the laziest or the lazy USPS carriers. The various carrier companies farming package delivery between them adds to the mess. IE, a package is mailed via the USPS, but is delivered by one of the other companies.
Undeliverable is USPS code word for lazy carrier who's feet hurt.
We had a sub carrier once and I chased her lazy .... right down the street and called her out on it. She was all like "Oh there was only 1 car in the driveway so I didn't think anyone was home" What ?? Are they getting paid to think or are they getting the paycheck to march up to the door and knock ??
We had a sub carrier once and I chased her lazy .... right down the street and called her out on it. She was all like "Oh there was only 1 car in the driveway so I didn't think anyone was home" What ?? Are they getting paid to think or are they getting the paycheck to march up to the door and knock ??
Whenever something is going to be delivered. I sit in the driveway cleaning my shot gun. They always stop with a big smile for me.
If it's not deliverable they usually take it to the post office and you can pick it there. I've had a couple of packages that turned up there and the address was correct. Were you at home? If noones at home to sign for it, it will show up as not deliverable. I've had that happen too.
I'm on a rural road with 6 other folks. I ordered a long bow last year and knew the day it was being delivered. I came home on lunch from work to get it and saw a looong box laying by my neighbors mail box in the ditch 1/2 mile from mine. I stopped and looked and it was my bow! At least when I ordered my Reo and stuff this year I knew it was going to have to be signed for. Good thing my wife was home that day. Give me UPS or FedEx anyday. The good news is that our mailman, Harold, is retiring this year.
I was home, I called and asked about it, was told basically they'd see what they could do, just got an email that it was delivered no signature so hmm. We'll see when I get home.
Feet that hurt is not an excuse in the majority of the residential areas this town... the routes are mounted routes and they deliver to community mail boxes they can drive right up to.
As for being home, I am always home, and especially for hours that includes the time of day they come. And I am sitting at the computer desk 20' from the front door, that is always open wide the days tracking shows a package is out for delivery. They did not come to me door because they are lazy and apparently can get away with being lazy and not doing their jobs per postal regs. I went after a couple of them via a formal written complaint to their postmaster who had signed for packages themselves and just put them in my community mail box. They didn't get fired. There was a time when the very strict postal regs regarding first class mail was enforced by the post office... but not anymore. Now days I met or deal with very few people who do their jobs as they are suppose to. They don't care because their boss doesn't make them care.
Case in point, my nurse was suppose to be here at 11AM... an appointment time she set yesterday. It's 3:30 PM now, she's still not here, and never even returned my voicemail left hours ago until a few minutes ago. She forgot me again for the umpteenth time and was already home for the day. I gave her 1 hour to get here or she's fired. She's not worth the $176 for a 20 minute house call.
I had a signature package out for delivery one day. I was sitting on the front steps with my laptop. I watched the tracking change to notice left. I got on the phone to the local postmaster. The carrier (a sub) showed up shortly and claimed she knocked but got no answer. I told her I had been sitting out there for an hour before she entered the scan, I made the call within 2 minutes of her scan, so try another excuse because that one didn't work.
Fired the nurse, fired the nursing service she works for. So I'll be out of commission until I find another, if I even bother to try to find either. I hate what so many people in this world have become... not professional, not reliable, and they don't care that they are neither of them. Done with the rant.
I hate it so much. Especially coming from the military, the fact that our country is even still standing being so inundated with lazy burnouts amazes me. How does anything get done when no one is doing their job?
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