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10-29-2009, 04:12 AM
Pepsi Jedi
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: MI. (UP)
Posts: 3,987
Gotta say
"13. If you have a problem, the Postmaster is your friend...sort of. A lot of times you can ask to see or on the phone speak to the Postmaster of your city directly. Though the larger the city, the less likely you can see him. But in my experience PMs don't like complaints and are usually pretty good about trying to deal with them. The main reason is they are judged on complaints to the postal line so they generally want them dealt with before it gets to that point. Supervisors on the other hand, at least in my office, just want you to go away and leave them alone as quickly as possible."
Is.... situational. SOME of them care.
Mine.. .does not.
I live in the UP of MI...and our postal carrier sucks. And that's being nice.
1) He keeps my magazines and reads them. How do I know you ask? I routinely get them ruffled and fluffed and clearly paged though multiple times with fingerprints and smuggy prints in them. Food crumbs and the like. My wife's magazines? No. My Maxim and stuff? yes. He likes looking though my Wired too. I'll also be out and about and see stuff hit news stands and my mags won't show up for a week or two. Subscription mags hit your mailbox about a week before the same ones hit news stands. Not mine. Mine are always late and paged though.
2) The postal creed? They've never heard of it here. If it rains, the guy drives around in his car and only stops if there's a flag up at the box. I've seen him do it. I live on a street with 20 condos. The mailboxes are in 4 "groups" and I can see all from my window. I've seen him drive down the street and stop at the one box with the flag up. You can NOT tell me 19 houses full of family's didn't get ONE bit of mail in a day. Not one bill, one card, one bit of junkmail, one magazine, one package, nothing. There's got to be 60 -80 people living on my block.Sure some are kids but still. That just doesn't happen. If it snows? HA. We see him twice a week, MAYBE Three times. We also get notes in our boxes to the tune of 'Shovel out the STREET, 50 YARDS before your mailbox.
50 YARDS? That's half a foot ball field before the mailboxes. The street itself is probably only 200 yards long on this block.
3) The guy here doesn't care about your stuff. I've had expensive books (( $100 type stuff)) Delivered all the way across base, with addresses not even remotely close to mine. Only reason I got the items was I happened to know the people they were delivered to. Another time I saw the guy pull down the street. Stop at our group of boxes. Put letters and magazines in the box. have a package. Look at it, and toss it in the back seat. I was standing at the kitchen sink when I saw it. Bright green package. I was expecting one and thought that it must just be a different one.
Three days later the mail carrier gets out of his car and walks up to my door and tosses the exact same bright green package on my porch. He'd had it in his car, didn't feel like getting out so it was tossed in the back seat. 3 days later he finally delivered it.
Could someone else on the block perhaps have gotten a bright green package from Australia? One the same size and shape as mine. Same bright green packaging. Sure ... it COULD have happened. But I don't think so.
4) All these things have happened. I've called up and asked to speak to the post master. Got someone on the phone claiming to be him. Placed my complaints. told him about the shoddy delivery. The guy actually told me one time "Naa I don't belive you. Our guys wouldn't do that" When I'd seen the guy drive down the street and only stop at the one box with a flag. I insisted I saw it and the guy on the phone had the nerve to tell mme "Well some times you'll go 3 or 4 streets and noone gets a stick of mail" Gimmme a break. I've even been down to the post office to put in complaints in person. When I did the guy acted like he was giving me his liver, instead of taking the complaint, and I"m sure as soon as I walked out he tossed it in the trash. ((No proof of that. Just his attitude))
So.. while I'm sure there's 100s and 1000s of people working for USPS that are fine upstanding and wonderful people that have pride in their work and do good jobs....
Not all are... Our Post office Sucks bad.... I've complained, nothing's done. So we just live with it and if anything 'important' is coming, we try and get it sent UPS. I know USPS is cheaper, but with the absolute horrid service we get here, it's taking a chance with our items.
When I win things off ebay.. and they send stuff USPS... I just wince. I've got a Bench Press and Snow Serpent coming USPS now... and I'm sweating it.
if you've got a GOOD post office and GOOD postal carrier. Good deal. If you DON"T (( and I don't)) It's mail at your own risk at the very best. Vindictive punks paid by our tax dollars at worst.
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