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mayor wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:33 pm
Rafe wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 3:11 am
Ruark wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:56 pm For us, it's not just the USPS in general, but the doofuses they hire to handle mail. Our local mail carrier looks like some hillbilly from the backwoods, and is constantly messing up people's mail (we have one of those community mailboxes): putting mail in the wrong box, putting parcels in the wrong locker or leaving the wrong key in your box, forgetting to leave the key entirely, or leaving your locker key in somebody else's box.

Several times he's left packages with our house number, but to a different street - like, he just looks at the number, eh? Cripes.

We've complained about him, but to no avail. Packages sometimes vanish en route, coming from a city a couple hundred miles away, but zigzagging all over the United States before getting here.
We have those neighborhood "cluster" mailboxes, too. Seemed like a good idea at the time: a locking box like a PO box; the number on the box has no relationship to the house street number; no mailbox to have to maintain yourself and no mail slot in the door.

But they've proved to be the absolute worst. Like you, it's a weekly event that our mail gets scrambled among neighbors (I suppose, on the positive side, that's done more to get neighbors meeting and talking to neighbors than any national night out ever did), and on top of that in our subdivision we've had at least three instances of break-ins of those cluster boxes. Easy pickings: you use a forged master key or just pry open the back panel at zero dark thirty and you can steal mail to dozens of homes in a couple of minutes.
They don't call them "cluster" for nuthin'

Amen to that, brother. Just this week I rented a UPS Store mailbox and sent a forwarding request/notification to the USPS.

These years of incorrect and inept USPS deliveries have caused me massive amounts of difficulties, including missing 1099 forms, a never-delivered COVID stimulus check, and vanished client payment checks.

I respect the people who try to deliver the mail, but the entire system is vastly broken. It isn't 1980 any longer.

Running operations solely by bureaucracy—and by bureaucrats—is a recipe for failure. Get a clue, USPS. And get a clue, Congress.

Rafe

Ruark wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:56 pm For us, it's not just the USPS in general, but the doofuses they hire to handle mail. Our local mail carrier looks like some hillbilly from the backwoods, and is constantly messing up people's mail (we have one of those community mailboxes): putting mail in the wrong box, putting parcels in the wrong locker or leaving the wrong key in your box, forgetting to leave the key entirely, or leaving your locker key in somebody else's box.

Several times he's left packages with our house number, but to a different street - like, he just looks at the number, eh? Cripes.

We've complained about him, but to no avail. Packages sometimes vanish en route, coming from a city a couple hundred miles away, but zigzagging all over the United States before getting here.

We have those neighborhood "cluster" mailboxes, too. Seemed like a good idea at the time: a locking box like a PO box; the number on the box has no relationship to the house street number; no mailbox to have to maintain yourself and no mail slot in the door.

But they've proved to be the absolute worst. Like you, it's a weekly event that our mail gets scrambled among neighbors (I suppose, on the positive side, that's done more to get neighbors meeting and talking to neighbors than any national night out ever did), and on top of that in our subdivision we've had at least three instances of break-ins of those cluster boxes. Easy pickings: you use a forged master key or just pry open the back panel at zero dark thirty and you can steal mail to dozens of homes in a couple of minutes.

Rafe

My most recent credit card reissuance--new expiration date--was an American Express. I never received it, and didn't know exactly when it was mailed. Then I got a potential fraud alert from AMEX that someone had used the card to make a purchase of a few hundred dollars over 70 miles from me. The charge was reversed, but the card number had to be canceled and a new one issued. I had to pay for it, but AMEX sent the new card via FedEx.

I would say the USPS couldn't get any worse, but we all know that isn't true. It's a government function run purely by bureaucrats. Isn't it strange how I can have one problematic FedEx delivery in almost 10 years, yet almost every week there's some foul-up with USPS mail?

Rafe

Sidro wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:43 am
Sidro wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 6:14 am Have a small envelope style package coming to Vernon, Tx maybe. Left Oklahoma City 3 hrs away and showed up in Mira Loma, CA. Left there and next stop was Phoenix, AZ. Left there and where it shows up next is anyones guess.
From Phoenix it traveled to Dallas and as of this morning it is now in OKC again. Our mail comes out of the Fort Worth hub so it still has some traveling before it gets to me. If it ever gets here that is.

Logistics planning and efficiency at it's very finest.

Rafe

C-dub wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 11:58 am We get stuff delivered to us all the time that isn’t ours.
1. Same street number, but different street.
2. Same street, but different number.
3. Different street and different number.
4. Not even similar names.

Yep. In greater Houston, there are four streets named the same as mine, except I'm a "drive" and the others are "avenue," "lane," and "court." The same number as my house on the "court" version is the gas station at a Sam's Club in west Houston. Even though it's a different zip code, they get some of my mail at least every two months.

Last week I got two letters addressed to someone of evidently Indian or Pakistani descent: same zip code, but entirely different numbers and street names.

The whole mess has seemed to get worse year over year.

Rafe

And lest we forget, the sole and only standard for sending written, legal communications is the good ol' USPS...just like it's still 1980. I've been waiting on something I expected to have been sent by a district court (HOA dispute matter) right at the first of January. Can't look it up online; after calling a half-dozen times, a court clerk finally it was mailed; and yet...nada. At least 20 days later. No recourse. They won't send communications any other way.

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