Another Post Office rant...

[enyawd72]

You know...at some point in all this, I've come to believe the U.S. Postal Service doesn't employ humans, but instead uses monkeys that were rejected from the space program because they have some form of brain damage.
Case in point. As most of you know, I've recently moved into a new house, and after a couple weeks on hiatus, the Ebay packages are once again flowing.
I go to the store and purchase a brand spanking new large silver plastic tote with a lid. This thing is huge. Large enough to fit several packages at once and protect them from the elements until I get home from work.
I then lovingly write the word PACKAGES in HUGE. BLACK. LETTERS. on the lid. I even put a couple small weights in the bottom of it so it doesn't blow away, and place the tote LITERALLY ONE FOOT NEXT TO MY FRONT DOOR.
So...I get home yesterday. Where is my package? Is it in the tote? NOOOOOOOO. It's leaning next to it getting RAINED ON.
Now, at this point, I'm pretty sure my new neighbors all heard the slap as my hand hit my forehead, followed by ten minutes of profanity laced screaming about how Stevie Effing Wonder couldn't have missed that tote. But hold on...it gets BETTER.
I was expecting several packages this week, and after tracking them, saw the P.O. had left a notice for a second package. But where was it? Not in my mailbox...had it blown away in the rain? Then I decided to do the unthinkable...I looked in the tote, and there in the bottom was a single 3x5 inch orange card.

Brain damaged monkeys. I'm sure of it.

[Marvelmania]

well, Fed Ex isn't much better. out of 5 packages deliver by them I received 2 of them. The other 3 went to my neighbors on both sides of my house even though my address number on the front of my house right next to the front door are 6 1/2" tall. One that was delivered to my neighbor had glass in it that was not broken but crushed. It was packed completely with Styrofoam but upon opening one end of the box about a million tiny pieces of glass came falling out. I know they have it rough during the holiday season and all but heck at least get it to the right house.

[Nostalgiabuff]

that kind of stuff is shear laziness.
what kills me, is that I am noticing Christmas cards mailed to us from friends in the same town we live in, are gong to a sorting center 90 miles north of us, just to come back where they originated. we have a Post Office right here in town too. no wonder the PO is going bankrupt

[Red Hulk]

And then there's UPS.I applied for a job there back in August when they gave us the tour of the hub they said if your on a trailer working and stuff falls just let it that's what claims are for.

[thunderbolt]

Right now an ebay package I shipped has gone from Tampa to Memphis to Jacksonville all to get to Hollywood FLA.

[Mikey]

This remind me of the time I bought a Mego MOC 8" Star Trek Dr McCoy on Sears exclusive blank back card from ebay.

Hit the BIN for $30.00 and did a super victory dance.

It arrived in a yellow envelope and the postman rolled it up to fit it in my little PO box.

Cue Wa-Waaaah trumpet

[gummi]

I guess it really depends on whether you have the same mail carrier all the time. I live in a rural area and have had the same carrier for the past 10 years, so I made sure to introduce myself shortly after I moved in and asked if she would mind putting my packages inside the side door on my garage. The only time I've ever had a problem is when someone is filling in for her, but that very rarely happens. I also be sure to give her a nice Christmas gift every year. The schmoozing has worked so far.

[Hector]

You guys are nuts (me included) shipping packages during the Christmas season...the Postal Service handles 90% of its yearly package bulk in the month of December alone.

I've been inside Postal Air Mail Facilities during December...you see box-after-box, piled up mile-high to the roof...it amazes me how they handle all this madness, we are talking about millions and millions of packages throughout the country...just imagine Amazon, eBay, and others, piled into one giant shipping service, that's the Postal Service...not to mention the gazillions of Christmas cards and letters...it's unreal.

I sold an item just a couple of days ago...I know what to expect...delays and such...that's why I'm a bit more patient about delivery services during the Christmas season.

I think sometimes we take the Postal Service for granted.

Is the Postal Service perfect?

No, far from it.

But I give them an extra leeway during this crazy insane Christmas season....same applies to FedEx and UPS.

[johnmiic]

We were talking at work about the USPO, (I am temping at a NYC Bridge and Tunnel agency currently). We found out apparently all regular USPS employees are forbidden from working Sundays and regular overtime during the X-Mas season. Only temps are allowed to work the extra hours. Chances are very good if something crazy-stupid is happening it's because someone inexperienced is involved, (or someone extremely disgruntled).

I know these strange happenings seem to have no reasonable explanation except that the employees are idiots but I worked in retail for years. I've seen the goings-on the public never sees. While there are probably stupid and lazy people working there you and I still don't know what really goes on behind the scenes. I also worked at the NYC Board of Education from 1998-2000 and I can tell you there's plenty of internal politics and crazy nonsense that goes on. It hurts the public and creates the image that all the employees are inept but it's not necessarily the case.

As for going bankrupt, right now the Post Office is being run into the ground by an the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA). This obligates the USPS to fund the future health care benefit payments to retirees within a ten-year time span – which no other government organization is subject to. Theories run from union-busting tatics to congress-people on the take, etc. but it's unnecessary and is really killing the USPS.

[ODBJBG]

USPS rules. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool. If the post office ever goes bust we're going to be in real trouble. We'll pay five times the price for service that won't be anywhere close.

[Hector]

USPS rules. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool. If the post office ever goes bust we're going to be in real trouble. We'll pay five times the price for service that won't be anywhere close.

Compare our Postal Service to Third World country ones for example, we are damn lucky.

Heck, even many First World Post Offices, like in Italy, they suck arse, nothing but crooks and thieves there.

Say what you will about the USA Postal Service, but there's very minimal thievery going on there, just slow (and careless) service sometimes, but I can live with that, lol.

[enyawd72]

USPS rules. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool. If the post office ever goes bust we're going to be in real trouble. We'll pay five times the price for service that won't be anywhere close.

So I'm a fool, am I?
What excuse is there for an IDIOT who can't see a gigantic bin with the word PACKAGES written on it right in front of their face?

[Marvelmania]

USPS rules. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool. If the post office ever goes bust we're going to be in real trouble. We'll pay five times the price for service that won't be anywhere close.

It's just a rant. No one is saying they should go bust. Yes they have problems but for the most part they usually come through and a few times go above the call of normal service but reducing a rant about a few bad experiences to name calling IS just foolish.

[RickD]

So I'm a fool, am I?
What excuse is there for an IDIOT who can't see a gigantic bin with the word PACKAGES written on it right in front of their face?

Why don't your try writing the note another way and see what happens. "USPS, please put packages in here"

I'm not saying the Post office is perfect, but how about cutting the folks that deliver the packages a break especially during this time of year. I can't imagine the amount of work they have do during this time.

Since you require such special attention when the post office delivers your packages, they may not give a sh*t about your special gigantic bin? Ever thought of that?

Either way, you maybe want to have a little more respect then calling someone an Idiot. Some could say the same for you, since you take perfectly good vintage toys off the cards and display them.

[enyawd72]

^I don't think putting stuff in a tote I conveniently provide for them so it doesn't get rained on is "special attention". It's called common sense.
And BTW, I only open damaged or beat up cards, but whether I choose to open or not open toys I buy for my own collection is really none of your business.

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