StevenGuthmiller Posted January 22 Posted January 22 (edited) My wife had set up a mail hold for a couple of weeks while we’re on vacation starting on January 24th. Thinking that the USPS had made a mistake and started our hold too early, I went down to the post office today to find out if this was the reason why we hadn’t received any mail for the past week. Upon talking to the post master, I discovered that the reason that we have not been getting our mail had nothing to do with the hold. Our street is equipped with “cluster” mail boxes, and according to the post master, the carrier had not been delivering our mail for the past week because the approach to the mail box was not adequately cleared of snow! I told her that I drive a Honda Civic coupe and have had absolutely zero problems over the past week pulling within 2 feet of the box and checking my mail without exiting the vehicle. She explained that it is up to the discretion of the carrier, and that there is nothing that she can do about it! So, ineptitude or just plain laziness on the part of the carrier, and no recourse for the customer because there’s no accountability by the post master. This coupled with the fact that we routinely receive our neighbor’s mail, and they ours, please tell me why we haven’t yet privatized the USPS. Steve Edited January 22 by StevenGuthmiller 1 1
LennyB Posted January 22 Posted January 22 I have the same problem all the time where we don't get mail after it's snowed. But as my dogs sound the alarm whenever the mail truck goes by so I can always tell if the truck has been in the neighborhood. No alarm, no attempt at delivery, so our carrier skips over our whole neighborhood and uses the excuse they couldn't get to the box because of snow. And yes, I also get the wrong mail on a regular basis. I don't think they actually look at the mail, they sort the bundles at the post office and just stick them in the box in the same order. So if they are off by one house at the start of the street then everyone gets the wrong mail. 1
TonyK Posted January 22 Posted January 22 Lots of things come to mind when this happens like important mail that you may be waiting for and time sensitive mail, etc. And I wonder what they do with all this mail that isn't being delivered. Toss it in a pile in the corner of the post office?! You're gonna have to deliver it sometime and they're only compounding the problem. Just stupid. 2
StevenGuthmiller Posted January 22 Author Posted January 22 52 minutes ago, TonyK said: Lots of things come to mind when this happens like important mail that you may be waiting for and time sensitive mail, etc. And I wonder what they do with all this mail that isn't being delivered. Toss it in a pile in the corner of the post office?! You're gonna have to deliver it sometime and they're only compounding the problem. Just stupid. That’s exactly what they did. All of the mail for 8 homes has been being dumped into a box at the post office for the past week. The women at the desk at the post office had to spend about 10 minutes going through all of that mail to find ours, and all because our mail carrier is a prima donna, or more likely, just doesn’t want to roll down his window because it’s too cold outside. I remember the good old days of “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night” Yeah, right! 🙄 Steve 2
Ace-Garageguy Posted January 22 Posted January 22 9 minutes ago, StevenGuthmiller said: I remember the good old days of “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night” Yeah, right! Indeed. But hey...EVERYTHING now is WAY better than it used to be, or haven't you heard? 2
StevenGuthmiller Posted January 22 Author Posted January 22 34 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said: Indeed. But hey...EVERYTHING now is WAY better than it used to be, or haven't you heard? Everything EXCEPT a work ethic. Steve 6
LennyB Posted January 23 Posted January 23 A few months back when I put in a hold mail request I also signed up for a feature called USPS Informed Delivery. They send you an e-mail every morning with images of the mail that will be delivered that day. A couple of times I received an e-mail showing mail I was to get but no mail was delivered that day, showed up the following day. Last week one of the images was of a neighbors mail. That they did not deliver to me, so I guess they got something right. Once in a while they do something right just like that broken clock. 1
Ace-Garageguy Posted January 23 Posted January 23 Eleven days for a small envelope of documents to go from AZ to GA. Really glad I had the sender get a tracking #.
Bills72sj Posted January 23 Posted January 23 3 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said: Eleven days for a small envelope of documents to go from AZ to GA. Really glad I had the sender get a tracking #. Amazon did that to me once. A package that was going from Portland, OR to Salem, OR (about and hour drive) had to loop through Idaho 1st. 1
1930fordpickup Posted January 23 Posted January 23 95% of the current problems with the post office are all Management caused ideas and decisions. They already have the golden retirement plan and that is the problem. Going any deeper with that will get me banned for breaking the rules. LOL
Bugatti Fan Posted January 23 Posted January 23 Maybe time to get 'The Donald' on postal service case. !! Lol. Our UK post office is gradually going from already bad to a darned site worse. We have First Class letter post that one has to pay a premium rate stamp for, and a Second Claxs that should in theory take longer. The whole thing is a joke! No matter what you pay there is no guarantee what will get where first. Our post office delivers more advertising junk mail to us than proper mail. 1
Ace-Garageguy Posted January 23 Posted January 23 2 hours ago, Bugatti Fan said: Our post office delivers more advertising junk mail to us than proper mail. I average two pieces of actual mail weekly, and average five pieces of junk daily.
LennyB Posted January 23 Posted January 23 Have a package I bought off fleabay, shipped on the 7th from Kansas, left Kansas on the 12th, still in transit to next destination. 1
Big John Posted January 23 Posted January 23 (edited) Donny did a great job of fixing the USPS last time he was in office so it really doesn't need more help. Though maybe Elon has a few suggestions. Edited January 23 by Big John 1
ranma Posted January 24 Posted January 24 (edited) According to informed delivery a package was left on the steps to the trailer we live in at 6:45 P.M. No Knock or anything. So I didn't find this info till this morning Went out and found nothing!! Guess someone else seen it and off it went with them! It's not just USPS that no longer knocks UPS and Fed Ex don't either Anymore! I long for the day's when they at least knocked! Now it's drop off and go which makes it easier for the PORCH PIRATES.. Edited January 24 by ranma 1
stavanzer Posted January 24 Posted January 24 (edited) 5 hours ago, ranma said: According to informed delivery a package was left on the steps to the trailer we live in at 6:45 P.M. No Knock or anything. So I didn't find this info till this morning Went out and found nothing!! Guess someone else seen it and off it went with them! It's not just USPS that no longer knocks UPS and Fed Ex don't either Anymore! I long for the day's when they at least knocked! Now it's drop off and go which makes it easier for the PORCH PIRATES.. Our Rottweiler normally barks at the Drivers who drop stuff off at our doorstep. But, not always. And you are correct, Nobody knocks anymore! As you said, it's just "drop off and go". What a way to run a Railroad.... Edited January 24 by stavanzer 1
LennyB Posted January 24 Posted January 24 I’ve sent packages FedEx and paid extra for signature confirmation and they don’t get a live signature. They put down a name and call it a day. Apparently it’s extra for a live signature. 1
Old Buckaroo Posted January 25 Posted January 25 On 1/23/2025 at 6:13 AM, Ace-Garageguy said: I average two pieces of actual mail weekly, and average five pieces of junk daily. The previous area I lived here in Montana only delivered mail twice a week. Monday and Friday, didn't matter which day - the bills would still show up. 1
slusher Posted January 25 Posted January 25 We have days our mail doesn’t get delivered because Memphis doesn’t get a truck to Lexington. We had a credit card payment late due and it was late going back and they lost it. The lose mag amines an some at the post office steals decals from best model parts. 1
StevenGuthmiller Posted January 26 Author Posted January 26 The nice thing about having a doorbell cam is that it doesn’t matter if they knock or not. I’m alerted every time someone comes to the door. Probably part of the reason why they don’t knock half the time. They figure that you know that they’re there regardless. Steve
slusher Posted January 26 Posted January 26 19 minutes ago, StevenGuthmiller said: The nice thing about having a doorbell cam is that it doesn’t matter if they knock or not. I’m alerted every time someone comes to the door. Probably part of the reason why they don’t knock half the time. They figure that you know that they’re there regardless. Steve Something I have been thinking about getting…
Dave Van Posted January 26 Posted January 26 I have 3 packages sitting at the regional sorting center since LAST Sunday. With my inside connections I now have I had them checked on. Because we have had snow the sort center does the very least and slaps a 'Weather Delay' on what they do not process. If I did that in my job I'd been gone...... 1
John M. Posted January 26 Posted January 26 The last model car that I got from E Bay was shipped by USPS and it took almost two weeks to get from Florida where the seller lives to Massachusetts. I bought cars from him before and it normally took 3 days tops to ship them. The tracking number wasn't even updated for several days. I kept the seller in the loop about it. He told me via messaging that a couple of other buyers had the same problem. 1
Mark Posted January 26 Posted January 26 I'm one of the lucky ones. When I place an order with Spotlight Hobbies, the package gets from there to here in two days, without fail. With most of my eBay buys, the longest delay is up front, with the seller sticking a label on the package (starting the clock) two to three days before the package leaves their possession. 1
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