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Went to the Post Office to mail myself a deer rifle to Montana (legal).

Spent half the day at the Tualatin Post Office, then to the library (for a copy of the law), then back to the Post Office where I engaged in a lengthy and heated education session with the Postmaster there.

The rifle shipped. :cool:
 
Went to the Post Office to mail myself a deer rifle to Montana (legal).

Spent half the day at the Tualatin Post Office, then to the library (for a copy of the law), then back to the Post Office where I engaged in a lengthy and heated education session with the Postmaster there.

The rifle shipped. :cool:
What a frustrating day... It's so much fun dealing with ignorant people.
I hope you insured it!
 
The best way to judge any mail service is if it arrives period, no matter how long it takes, also to the right address. Our carriers cant read, mail ends up at a neighbors house some where with in two blocks. Fedex is the worse service.
 
Spent half the day at the Tualatin Post Office, then to the library (for a copy of the law), then back to the Post Office where I engaged in a lengthy and heated education session with the Postmaster there.

The rifle shipped. :cool:
Isn't that FEAKING retarded?! Idiots in job positions and don't even know their job! :mad:
 
Our neighborhood has community mailboxes.

For about a year we had the most confused postman. Kept mixing up everyone's mail.

Problem I see is that the majority of my neighbors are late-50's/60's in age, and with prescriptions commonly being mailed nowadays, I gotta think there's been a few times someone didn't get their meds. I know for a fact more than half of my neighbors don't even bother walking over to their neighbor and give them their mail, they just keep it for when they get around to going to the post office. I've mistakenly opened someone else's mail twice.

Which makes me wonder, two things are in play here:

-prescriptions are only intended for the person on the label, don't know the legalities of it, I just know you're not supposed to have unauthorized access to prescriptions that aren't yours.

-isn't it a Federal offense to take someone else's mail? What's that mean for the guy giving you someone else's mail? Come on man!
 
Our local neighborhood watch FB page is rife with folks asking if anyone knows so and so because their package was delivered to the poster's house. There are also people asking if anyone happened to get their package because tracking shows it having been delivered. My favorites are when there is a picture of the house/porch where the package was delivered, that isn't the house/porch of the intended recipient.
 
Our local neighborhood watch FB page is rife with folks asking if anyone knows so and so because their package was delivered to the poster's house. There are also people asking if anyone happened to get their package because tracking shows it having been delivered. My favorites are when there is a picture of the house/porch where the package was delivered, that isn't the house/porch of the intended recipient.
That happened to me just before Christmas. I took that picture (that looked familiar) and drove up and down the streets looking for it. UPS guy helped me and said that sometimes they mark several deliveries at one time. I was pulling my hair out.
This is the embarrassing part------ I realized that it was my daughters house! She lives out near Rock Creek (OR)! I live in Texas now. I had forgotten that I had direct mailed it to her! ARRGH!
Only time it happened here the driver must have been dyslexic because he flipped 2 numbers and delivered it 2 doors down.
 
Which makes me wonder, two things are in play here:
Not really interested in getting in on the whole "why USPS is so bad these days" thing, but I felt like I needed to take a moment and thank you for using the correct phrase "Which makes me wonder" and not getting it wrong like everyone else that uses "It begs the question"

OK, totally a pedantic "me" issue, but still . . .

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The best delivery service by far, and I hate to admit it is Amazon.

They've never messed up any of my deliveries that they handle. Never beat up, lost or misdelivered.
 
Around here Amazon is delivered by the Post office.
Yup! When you see a USPS truck out on a Sunday, that's what they are doing.

Just the other day I had a magazine delivered to us, it was for the same number, but a different street. I just wrote "wrong address" on it and put it back in the box like outgoing mail. No big deal.
 
Yup! When you see a USPS truck out on a Sunday, that's what they are doing.

Just the other day I had a magazine delivered to us, it was for the same number, but a different street. I just wrote "wrong address" on it and put it back in the box like outgoing mail. No big deal.
The system is called "Last Mile". It could be USPS or Amazon or event a third party delivery.
 
How about Walmart home delivery? Mrs. Merkt ordered some special skin cream. To round out the minimum amount needed for an order, she said, "Do you need anything for a Walmart order?" I said, "Add two cartons of cat sand. That way I won't have to schlepp it out of the store to the car." Those are 40# each in weight. Next thing I know, I got a call from my neighbor the next road to the west. I've known him well for over 30 years, his property abuts mine. He told me there were some packages with my name on them at his house. Too far to walk (much less carry 80# of cat sand), I drove over there in the dark. Sure enough, there they sat on his porch. Different road, different address. I wound up having to drag it around anyway. It helps to have good relations with neighbors.
 
Like a great many things in life...results will vary.

For the longest time , when we lived in Everson...the mail service was excellent.
However , after the old postmaster retired...service was much less than excellent.

Here in La Conner....again....excellent service...and polite mail carries.
Andy
 
Thanks for the re-direction to topic, Andy.

I desperately needed to re-focus on the USPS's demise as a mechanism to divert from "revolting tramp stamps I have seen".

I'm all better now. :cool:
 
The best way to judge any mail service is if it arrives period, no matter how long it takes, also to the right address. Our carriers cant read, mail ends up at a neighbors house some where with in two blocks. Fedex is the worse service.
I'm lucky. The local delivery driver lives on the adjacent rural property, and we have been happy neighbors for over ten years!
 

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