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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 22, 2018 1:06:19 GMT -5
I had to warn the postmistress to have someone else in her office when she spoke with the aforementioned carrier. Anyone who would stuff a mailbox like that and think they were doing their job is dangerously nutsoid.
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Post by smellthehatfirst on Dec 22, 2018 2:24:59 GMT -5
 Last year drove thru front yard, at front steps, recent rain, ruts galore.  Lord in Heaven, I might have stabbed somebody |
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Post by smellthehatfirst on Dec 22, 2018 2:30:04 GMT -5
Living in a dense area of New York city, I never, ever have any trouble with my postman. It is very much the way it was when I grew up, where you know your postal service representative and he knows you. I had no idea that rural routes were so deprived. That said, I get mine from FedEx. Those god-forsaken wretches have cheated me out of quite a lot. It is essentially impossible to get a FedEx package in my vicinity. Worse, FedEx was the means of ~$2500 of credit card theft on my card. Some thousands of dollars of pool supplies were ordered from Sears.com with my correct name, credit card and address. Then the local (doubtlessly non-union) dip-shite intercepted the packages -- because they were all FedEx. It took a considerable amount of my time to straighten things out with my credit card firm -- they were immensely distressed by charges with my correct name, credit card, and address. They even sent me the receipts and bills of lading for the Sears.com charges. All fraudulent.
FedEx, of course, denies any culpability. Nevermind that this scam was impossible without the co-ordination of FedEx staffers. It's impossible! No FedEx staffer, working for eight bucks an hour on a contingent basis, would risk that cherry job to ... err... steal thousands of dollars in goods.
Say what you will about unionisation, here or anywhere else, but USPS and UPS staff members do not steal from me on a regular basis.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2018 5:27:06 GMT -5
Last year I supplied the same young lady with cold cokes and kind energy bars during the hot summer months, she usually passes around 12 to 1:30 so I knew she needed a snack. Something changed and now she's just a lazy 💩 I have always treated people like I would want to be treated. Some people just ain't no good. Postmaster alluded to me she's trouble., Put a little dog 💩 on that little curved handle she has to pull down to open your mailbox. She’ll get the message and pay more attention.....lol |
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Post by Legend Lover on Dec 22, 2018 8:40:25 GMT -5
Last year I supplied the same young lady with cold cokes and kind energy bars during the hot summer months, she usually passes around 12 to 1:30 so I knew she needed a snack. Something changed and now she's just a lazy 💩 I have always treated people like I would want to be treated. Some people just ain't no good. Postmaster alluded to me she's trouble., Put a little dog 💩 on that little curved handle she has to pull down to open your mailbox. She’ll get the message and pay more attention.....lol That could backfire. |
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Post by trailboss on Dec 22, 2018 14:54:11 GMT -5
True... carriers have pepper spray one snarl, and Fido gets a snout full of pepper spray, plus tethering the dog to the mailbox looks like a setup.
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Post by slowroll on Dec 22, 2018 19:19:02 GMT -5
I have fortuitously enough, just had a pleasant experience with the local postal staff. Just got a package with the wrong address on it (street and town wrong) but my name correct. The person that gathers the mail from the central office noticed it while there picking up for the local office and recognized my name and picked it up.
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Post by toshtego on Dec 22, 2018 20:40:31 GMT -5
Our parcels used to be placed in parcel lockers in the local PO near the mail boxes. Then folks started robbing the parcel lockers so that is out until the USPS can start locking the PO front door at night. Our PO is open four hours Monday through Friday, so one has to be quick to get their parcels.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Dec 22, 2018 20:47:37 GMT -5
Wife paid extra money to have a parcel delivered from Amazon on Saturday...checked the status and see that it says..."delivered" then in small letters below..."available for pickup" at the post office 15 miles away...Needless to say I'm a little pissed...package is a cell phone case (you know how small that is). Better let her pick it up, or I'll be needin bail money.
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Post by trailboss on Dec 22, 2018 21:20:07 GMT -5
Our parcels used to be placed in parcel lockers in the local PO near the mail boxes. Then folks started robbing the parcel lockers so that is out until the USPS can start locking the PO front door at night. Our PO is open four hours Monday through Friday, so one has to be quick to get their parcels. That is pretty bogus. I took a package to the PO near my work in S/W Phoenix and decided to drop off in the half revolving package dump...found chains and locks on the door pre-8 AM..what the hell? In my town of Gilbert, PO's are open 24/7 for self service options...the people in S/W Phoenix complain about the cops...the people in Gilbert pretty much abide by the law and benefit from doing so....funny how that works. |
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Post by toshtego on Dec 22, 2018 21:36:16 GMT -5
Our parcels used to be placed in parcel lockers in the local PO near the mail boxes. Then folks started robbing the parcel lockers so that is out until the USPS can start locking the PO front door at night. Our PO is open four hours Monday through Friday, so one has to be quick to get their parcels. That is pretty bogus. I took a package to the PO near my work in S/W Phoenix and decided to drop off in the half revolving package dump...found chains and locks on the door pre-8 AM..what the hell? In my town of Gilbert, PO's are open 24/7 for self service options...the people in S/W Phoenix complain about the cops...the people in Gilbert pretty much abide by the law and benefit from doing so....funny how that works. Too many thieves? We are a nation of criminal scum. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2018 22:33:58 GMT -5
Every day the news shows a porch bandit and here lately stealing Christmas ornaments from front yards. I have been lucky and make sure my mail carrier is rewarded. I have my own Fedup story about how they lost a 9ft one piece fishing rod. How in Sams hell can you lose a 9ft long package. I cringe every time something is shipped via Fedup.
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Post by Legend Lover on Dec 23, 2018 4:38:31 GMT -5
I have fortuitously enough, just had a pleasant experience with the local postal staff. Just got a package with the wrong address on it (street and town wrong) but my name correct. The person that gathers the mail from the central office noticed it while there picking up for the local office and recognized my name and picked it up. It would be awkward if the address was correct, but they accidentally put the wrong name on the package. You could have ended up with something 'interesting'. |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Dec 23, 2018 9:12:05 GMT -5
Wife paid extra money to have a parcel delivered from Amazon on Saturday...checked the status and see that it says..."delivered" then in small letters below..."available for pickup" at the post office 15 miles away...Needless to say I'm a little pissed...package is a cell phone case (you know how small that is). Better let her pick it up, or I'll be needin bail money. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Dec 23, 2018 11:03:52 GMT -5
Drinking coffee this morning, reading news, 2 men at FedEx accused and caught of paying Hub Manager and Security Guard to turn their faces away from theft of IPHONES and APple watches to the tune of almost 50,000$, they found 94 IPHONES in their backpacks. This was a FedEx hub in Texas. I am a loss for words,
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2018 11:12:45 GMT -5
I’m at no loss for words ^^^^^^^^^^ they are damn thieves and should be dealt with according to Federal Laws.
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Post by toshtego on Dec 23, 2018 11:46:05 GMT -5
Wife paid extra money to have a parcel delivered from Amazon on Saturday...checked the status and see that it says..."delivered" then in small letters below..."available for pickup" at the post office 15 miles away...Needless to say I'm a little pissed...package is a cell phone case (you know how small that is). Better let her pick it up, or I'll be needin bail money. I am not understanding what the shutdown has to do with the Postal Service? Glad you got your package on time. It is nice to see things work out the way they are supposed to. Amazon usually turns over deliveries here to the Postal Service. Not always as quick as represented but eventually.... |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Dec 23, 2018 17:07:41 GMT -5
UPDATEWhen Amazon says they will deliver it by a certain time...they ain't kiddin'. Wife was supposed to get package yesterday (see above)^^^...turns out that USPS was supposed to carry it to its' destination....well...Gov. is shut down....guess they had to run around to all the towns in the USA to get the packages that were supposed to be delivered and were not, pick them up and deliver them....on Sunday!!! Checked the website and it said it was delivered....went out to the gate (where mail box is) yup, sure enough...there is the package at 8AM on Sunday morning...OK Amazon...you did live up to your promise!!
Glad you got your package on time. It is nice to see things work out the way they are supposed to. Amazon usually turns over deliveries here to the Postal Service. Not always as quick as represented but eventually.... Postal Service comes under the Fed. Gov. so it is closed down, to my knowledge. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Dec 23, 2018 17:28:09 GMT -5
 Supposedly mail will not be affected by this shutdown, holiday observance will be observed.
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Post by toshtego on Dec 23, 2018 19:51:46 GMT -5
I am not understanding what the shutdown has to do with the Postal Service?
Glad you got your package on time. It is nice to see things work out the way they are supposed to. Amazon usually turns over deliveries here to the Postal Service. Not always as quick as represented but eventually.... Postal Service comes under the Fed. Gov. so it is closed down, to my knowledge. I see why you were concerned. The USPS has been independent of the Federal budget and Federal government since passage of the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970. They are a self-funding independent agency with a corporate structure. So, they are not impacted by this government shutdown problem. They have their own special problems, bless their hearts. |
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Post by Baboo on Dec 23, 2018 20:15:40 GMT -5
My mail carrier (same great gal 2 years now) looks after me and my mail like a mother hawk. The other day she rang my doorbell to see if I was ok because I hadn't taken my yesterday's mail out of the box.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Dec 23, 2018 20:21:17 GMT -5
My mail carrier (same great gal 2 years now) looks after me and my mail like a mother hawk. The other day she rang my doorbell to see if I was ok because I hadn't taken my yesterday's mail out of the box. That is the postal service of 40 years ago...glad to see some of it still exists. Service bold-ed because service should be bold and performed. |
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Post by Baboo on Dec 23, 2018 20:23:43 GMT -5
My mail carrier (same great gal 2 years now) looks after me and my mail like a mother hawk. The other day she rang my doorbell to see if I was ok because I hadn't taken my yesterday's mail out of the box. That is the postal service of 40 years ago...glad to see some of it still exists. Service bold-ed because service should be bold and performed.I can attest that competent honest caring service is rare indeed. |
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Post by Mac on Dec 23, 2018 20:59:40 GMT -5
Oh, damn, that doesn't sound like a good trend line. Hope it changes for the better.
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Last year drove thru front yard, at front steps, recent rain, ruts galore.
Supposedly mail will not be affected by this shutdown, holiday observance will be observed.
