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Post Office Problem -- Suggestions?

drsckdrsck Member Posts: 992 ✭
edited May 2006 in General Discussion
I got a couple of subscriptions to gun rags for Christmas presents last year. The problem is that I've only received two issues of each since December. Now, we've had trouble with the local branch of the post office for years, but it's getting to the point that I really getting concerned about what I'm NOT getting. I've complained so much to the local post office folks that I've come to the conclusion it's useless. They were so great; the appointed me to the local citizens complaint review board, but the post card notifying me of my appointment and the meeting arrived three weeks late!!!!!!!!!! Last week I received a card that a friend sent to me in August 2002. It was almost FOUR YEARS LATE!!!!! I've called the regional branch, and I've written countless letters. As it stands now, I get no mail at all--not even junk mail--3 to 5 days a week. When I do get mail, it is often marked, "sent to wrong address" or something similar. One day the fellow who owns the local donut shop five blocks away brought my mail. About half of the time that I get mail, it belongs to somebody else. The street where I live is only two blocks long and it takes all of 25 minutes to walk from one end to the other, stopping at each mail box along the way. The jerk mail carrier is seldom the same person from week to week, and even when it is the same person for a while, I get cards saying things like he/she can't deliver the mail because of the "vicious dog." I don't have a dog, no one in the neighborhood has a dog. They don't even bother with an excuse anymore. I really don't want to have to rent a mail box because I don't want to have to pay for something that should be free. Any other suggestions? Thanks
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  • LaidbackDanLaidbackDan Member Posts: 13,142 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Contact the publisher of the magazines your are having problems with and request a "Publication watch" The Post office then receives a form which must be notated when the issue arrives. The Post office is also notified as to when the magazine should be delivered.
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  • wanted manwanted man Member Posts: 3,276
    edited November -1
    Maybe you and your State Representative should have a 3-way call with the Post Master General (or some such)?
    Sounds like some truly hokey shiite going on there, to me!
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  • third_shot_flyerthird_shot_flyer Member Posts: 69 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I moved into my house, I didn't get any mail for about two weeks. Finally, I got a note stuck in my door that said I was required to install a mailbox out on the street. Evidently, that 32-foot walk from the street to my front door was taxing the neither-rain-nor-sleet-nor-gloom-of-night postal heroes more than they could bear. When I installed the streetside box, I got about 54 pounds of mail the next day.


    Like another thread on this forum has pointed out, you can't fix stupid.

    Good luck.
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  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Suggest you forget the local post office- make an appointment to speak to a Postal Inspector. USPS has had problems with carriers hoarding mail rather than deliver, etc. Talk to the Law Enforcement side of the postal service.
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  • brier-49brier-49 Member Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Welcome to the new automated, faster usps. find out from your postmaster where the main PO is for your area,then complain to that postmaster. Laidback has good advice on the publication watch, that will usually get a postmasters attention,it has for the postmaster where i work.11b6r also has good advice, but remember the inspector also works for usps and will probably come up with very good excuses for the local PO.
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  • Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,072 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I get a lot of my mail at work....because I can pay any bill and get it mailed back out faster...if things come to my house I forget and loose things in the hussle of the mess around here....three kids, school work, junk mail, graduation notices, birthday cards, political ads, wholesale catalogs, notes to everyone....important mail all gets delivered at work so I don't have it end up in some giant pile of papers.
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  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by 11b6r
    Suggest you forget the local post office- make an appointment to speak to a Postal Inspector. USPS has had problems with carriers hoarding mail rather than deliver, etc. Talk to the Law Enforcement side of the postal service.


    This is the thing to do!
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  • bgjohnbgjohn Member Posts: 2,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How about getting mail at 18:00-19:00 at night? That's what is happening here. Zip=85304
    JM[:(!]
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  • tsavo303tsavo303 Member Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I thought I had bad service when they were just stealing my netflixes!
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  • rediceredice Member Posts: 1,550 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bgjohn
    How about getting mail at 18:00-19:00 at night? That's what is happening here. Zip=85304
    JM[:(!]


    Nothing at all should be delivered after daylight hours believe its against the law, I am just basing that off when I had a delivery route for the us dex but it would seem logical.
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  • rediceredice Member Posts: 1,550 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by tsavo303
    I thought I had bad service when they were just stealing my netflixes!


    Oh man if they stole my netflixes I would die. You need retribution.
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  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by redice
    quote:Originally posted by bgjohn
    How about getting mail at 18:00-19:00 at night? That's what is happening here. Zip=85304
    JM[:(!]

    Nothing at all should be delivered after daylight hours believe its against the law, I am just basing that off when I had a delivery route for the us dex but it would seem logical.

    There is no law against it. I assure you the carrier is far less happy about it than you are. I have delivered mail when it was dark & I had to use street lights, porch lights & even the light in the vehicle to finger the mail. The Post Office has always tried to get by shorthanded & sometimes it bites them in the a@@. Blame mismanagement not the workers. The person comming that late is usually a part-time flex or a regular working on someone elses route after they have finished their own route.
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  • drsckdrsck Member Posts: 992 ✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks for all the thoughts and suggestions folks. I made an appointment to go in to talk with a postal inspector next week. As for the issue of delivering mail after dark, yeah, it's happended once or twice. I have a corner lot, and the mail carrier would sit in his/her truck on the opposite corner for 2-3 hours, sleeping, reading, eating, talking on the phone and then drive off. I wasn't getting any mail, so I went and complained. Naturally, the local post master said, "no way." We went round and round, so I came back in a week with video--2 hours of video of this guy sitting in his truck, eating, sleeping and talking on the phone. The jerk-in-charge had the nerve to tell me that my pictures were phony and that it wasn't really a mail truck but one that I had made up to look like a mail truck with an actor I'd hired playing the mail carrier. Well, I finally started getting mail after that, but it I was always the last one to receive mail on my street and it was often after dark. Then the mail stopped again, and again I complained. This time I was told that it was illegal for carriers to work after dark and if I didn't get my mail, that was just my tuff luck. Well, once again, that lasted for a couple of months and then I started to get mail more regularly (i.e. every other day or so) but always at different times. That went on for a couple of months and now I'm getting mail so irregularly that I really can't tell what's happening. Oh, and yes, I write on all the other peoples' mail that I get "delivered to wrong address," sometimes I get the same wrong mail 2 or 3 times and write on it "delivered to wrong address again." A couple of times I even got peoples social security checks, tax bills, and once a registered letter for which the person was supposed to have signed. Sure would have liked to have seen the look on that person's face when they finally received it with the note that I wrote across the front. Finally, there is the mail that I've found blowing around my front yard. There have even been jury duty notices that I've raked up with the leaves. However, they have managed to get me my real estate tax bill three days before anyone else on the street along with a post card about a gun show that took place two months ago. I'll let you know what happens next week. Thanks again.
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  • rediceredice Member Posts: 1,550 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That is incredable I cant even fathom that there are places that can get away with this crap. Let us know how it goes those people should be sued for wasting taxpayer money if not something much worse.
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  • chollagardenschollagardens Member Posts: 4,614 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    drsck said".....and once a registered letter for which the person was supposed to have signed....."

    If that happens again call three parties. 1.The sender 2.The addressee and 3. The postal inspectors
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  • goldslammergoldslammer Member Posts: 1,060 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:".....and once a registered letter for which the person was supposed to have signed....."


    If you had called the Post Office and had the letter tracked, the carrier would have been fired. Losing a Registered letter is about the only thing they will fire you over. The recipient could have claimed there was $5000 in the envelope, and the Post Office would have been forced to cover it.

    A carrier I know delivered a Registered package to the wrong jewelery store on his route, when he went back to get it, so he could take it to the right store, they gave him back the empty box and said there was nothing in it when they opened it. He was forced to pay $1800 to the correct jewelry store for the watch that was in the package. He was suspended 2 weeks, and was lucky he wasn't fired.

    I feel bad for you, I know what it's like to have a lousy letter carrier, mine lost a football jersey I had ordered. It was scanned that it arrived in the local Post Office, but never delivered. I still wonder who is wearing my jersey [}:)]
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