Drats

[tbroye]

The Pen I won in the auction is supposed to arrive today. USPS Tracking it is out for Delivery at 8am this morning. Trouble is the Monday delivery person won't get it here until 5pm if he runs true to form or he will leave a not to pick it up a the post office. I watch him deliver the street that T's into my street and that my street should be the next street delivered not he does the streets behind me and then disappears for 3 hours or so. Then shows up 4pm and drive down the sidewalk stopping at each mailbox, Most delivery people walk this street not him. So I will leave the various trash cans out and park my truck in front of the mail box. Does no good to complain they don't listen. Happened last week he did not deliver package but found out in the tracking website that it had to signed for no note no attempt to deliver as wife was sitting so she could look out front door. The mail should be here by noon or 1pm but it won't be I will be waiting for him and will confront him. He is one reason the USPS is loosing money and has a bad reputation.

 

[stonepecker]

Be as nice as you can be. Find out his name. Get all kinds of info before you confront him. That way, if you go to his boss......you will have facts that he has given you.
It also wouldn't hurt to have someone watching from near by.

My UPS driver doesn't even slow down anymore......he just throws things out address to me. I won't use them unless I must. I will even pay extra to avoid UPS.

 

[CHARLES STOPCZYNSKI]

Don't you just love it !

Tom,

I'm on the other side of the country. Have similar problems here. Have seen same and similar things frequently here.

We get neighbors mail from different streets, what's in common, the street number. They shouldn't be allowed to build these subdivisions with duplicate street numbers. Mail delivery persons get confused. I have some wonderful neighbors. When something of obvious value is received they will personally deliver it. Once or twice a phone call. If it's a bill or some junk they just stick it in the mailbox.

The ones I cannot understand is why we get mail for someone up the street, or a neighbor on either side of us. They cannot either.

There has been some sort of a loosely organized campaign to stop this nonsense. Won't ever happen. Call the PO and you get well, we're aware of it and we're working on it. Very reassuring.

I couldn't do any better I'm sure. Just venting.

Charlie 30043 Lawrenceville, GA

 

[tbroye]

2:34 PDT just saw the little jerk headed out of the area, no mail neighbor on corner across street go hers. I know the area he is headed I am going on a hunt and see where he goes , I think home or to his honey's Thank goodness for iphones with cameras. where ever he goes it is way off his route. See what happen when you are retired and board.

 

[joefyffe]

Wayne: I know it would not be an easy task, but I believe a few seconds video, either with a vidicam or the video camera on smartphone, of him "throwing stuff out" would be some damning evidence to the administrators of your local UPS office!

Be as nice as you can be. Find out his name. Get all kinds of info before you confront him. That way, if you go to his boss......you will have facts that he has given you.
It also wouldn't hurt to have someone watching from near by.

My UPS driver doesn't even slow down anymore......he just throws things out address to me. I won't use them unless I must. I will even pay extra to avoid UPS.

 

[TellicoTurning]

I guess I'm lucky with my USPS drivers... it's a really nice lady that stops and puts stuff in the box... if it's a package, she pulls up the driveway and hand delivers.... when we first moved her I had a little problem with them delivering my packages to the other Charles Ellis that lives here.... the mail sorter knew him by name, I was new and she automatically sorted by name rather than street address.... I had 3 or 4 packages delivered to him, he would open them thinking they were for him and then wonder what all the pen kits were for... I visited the post office and spoke to the lady postmaster and it was straightened out...
The UPS drive handles the hold area and is always in a hurry, but is a really nice guy...he always has a cookie or treat for the dog when he stops.

 

[tbroye]

The pen was delivered at 2:44 pm. His supervisor caught him and brought him back and made him walk the street like he was supposed to do. I guess I wasn't only one to complain. I know who turned him in. The boy friend of my neighbor. He was the former postmen on this route and had been for 20 years until he retired in May. he walked the whole route that had the individual mail boxes at each house we have a combination of single boxes and the new group boxes on some streets. The only time I ever saw him drive was in bad weather and never on the sidewalk like the current one. Hope he enjoys his new route we he get to walk the whole thing.