USPS is the worst

[po18guy]

I've complained a number of times, especially when narcotics were delivered to the wrong address or were flagged as delivered but not in our locking mail box. They take the report then promise to "get back to you"... Yeah.

Couple of months back, ordered a set of motorcycle sprockets from Tennessee. Over the course of the next month, they were first dazed and confused in Loudon, TN, then woke up and ambled down to Atlanta, slowly coming to their senses before meandering haphazardly west to Salt Lake city and, finding no entertainment there, trundled up the San Andreas fault line in a burro's saddlebags to the Emerald Teeth City. There, the burro was delayed by ASPCA activists who finally determined that the cargo has nothing to do with the second amendment and released it to the local mail carrier.

 

[dangerranger60]

I have been in this home since 1999, I have had some really poor USPS service. My current driver is an exception. She is on time and accurate. but when a package gets delivered on a Sunday or a holiday I get a postal worker from a PO about 40 miles away. Those are supposed to be delivered to our door step.
The last mile weekend people turn into our drive and toss the package out the window along the road. Our drive is over 100 yds long so If we don't see them the package is left along the road until we drive out and see it. or until someone driving by sees it.

It has not mattered how many times I have complained I get "Not our fault"," It wasn't our guy, " and "We would need the name of the driver and truck number." So I put out trail cams on each side of the drive. Even with a clear pic of the driver they wont do anything without the truck number. and since the number is only on the back, with the truck not pulling all the way in I don't get pics of the back or license plate.

One other thing our cams caught was the postal delivery tossing a package out and an hour later a dog lifting its leg on a dress my wife ordered for a wedding! That video got us a different weekend delivery driver! DR

 

[Croat]

Yeah, not exactly the best and brightest get hired by USPS. They constantly mail my stuff to the wrong address. Why? Because I'm within a block of the dividing line between NE and SE, and the same house number is thus two blocks away on the other side of the divide. At least once per month, more often weekly, the other guy gets mine and I get his. You'd think any goofer with a third-grade education would have enough cognizance to recognize the difference between SE and NE, but no, not the dimbulbs hired by USPS. I finally got fed up and took this issue all the way to the Postmaster General's office in Washington D.C. They promised to cure the problem. Boy, was I ignorant to expect Washington D.C. could fix anything. Problem still continues today. The dimbulbs still get it wrong all the time. I've given up, their incompetence is literally incurable. The one good side of it is I've developed a kind of friendship with that guy two blocks away since we're constantly going to each other's house to deliver wrongly sent mail.

 

[Flopsweat]

I have been in this home since 1999, I have had some really poor USPS service. My current driver is an exception. She is on time and accurate. but when a package gets delivered on a Sunday or a holiday I get a postal worker from a PO about 40 miles away. Those are supposed to be delivered to our door step.
The last mile weekend people turn into our drive and toss the package out the window along the road. Our drive is over 100 yds long so If we don't see them the package is left along the road until we drive out and see it. or until someone driving by sees it.

It has not mattered how many times I have complained I get "Not our fault"," It wasn't our guy, " and "We would need the name of the driver and truck number." So I put out trail cams on each side of the drive. Even with a clear pic of the driver they wont do anything without the truck number. and since the number is only on the back, with the truck not pulling all the way in I don't get pics of the back or license plate.

One other thing our cams caught was the postal delivery tossing a package out and an hour later a dog lifting its leg on a dress my wife ordered for a wedding! That video got us a different weekend delivery driver! DR

They know exactly who delivered your package or they wouldn't know it was delivered.

 

[lucusloc]

Yeah, not exactly the best and brightest get hired by USPS. They constantly mail my stuff to the wrong address. Why? Because I'm within a block of the dividing line between NE and SE, and the same house number is thus two blocks away on the other side of the divide. At least once per month, more often weekly, the other guy gets mine and I get his. You'd think any goofer with a third-grade education would have enough cognizance to recognize the difference between SE and NE, but no, not the dimbulbs hired by USPS. I finally got fed up and took this issue all the way to the Postmaster General's office in Washington D.C. They promised to cure the problem. Boy, was I ignorant to expect Washington D.C. could fix anything. Problem still continues today. The dimbulbs still get it wrong all the time. I've given up, their incompetence is literally incurable. The one good side of it is I've developed a kind of friendship with that guy two blocks away since we're constantly going to each other's house to deliver wrongly sent mail.

At least you have a friendly counterpart. Imagine if the guy was a grade A d*ck. That would be a nightmare, as you could never be sure if he was keeping your mail or the dumbs were just to incompetent to get it that far in the first place. I used to live in an apartment complex. We were all pretty good about making sure mis-delivered mail got to the right person, except for one dude who was the biggest entitled jerk around. He would complain loudly if his stuff got mis-delivered, but anything delivered to his box or door was kept and he would not back down even when directly confronted. One of my neighbors even called the police on him, but they said it was a USPO issue and would not do anything. It was basically a lottery on if you would get your package, as 1 out of 10 times it would go into the hole.

 

[raftman]

Subjectively speaking, USPS's on-time rates must have really suffered lately. I see way more instances of stupid stuff happening like packages spending 3-4 days going back and forth between two relatively nearby cities. Way more instances of packages arriving several days later than the original stated arrival date.

 

[P7M13]

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[arakboss]

https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article292795544.html

 

[Croat]

https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article292795544.html

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"
Too bad their motto doesn't also include resistance to a SH!T ATTITUDE

 

[arakboss]

USPS employee sentenced to prison after stealing $24 million worth of checks: officials | FOX 5 DC

Nakedra Shannon worked for the USPS from March 2021 to July 2023.

www.fox5dc.com

 

[Provincial]

A recent package sent First Class Mail from back east came through Portland to Salem. Then it went to Lincoln City, back to Portland, to Salem again, before it was delivered in Dallas.

 

[Ducati_Meister]

Package delay, of all things, a Train derailment lol.

 

[boattail]

Our mailman cannot read upside down print. My address is 2982 and he gives me 5862 mail all the time.

 

[arakboss]

Brazen high-volume mail theft attacks becoming more common, data shows | abc7.com

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abc7.com

 

[salmon creek gary]

Package delay, of all things, a Train derailment lol.

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I'll see yours and raise you one. SoCal mail from Palmdale went north to a hub in Mojave before going south again (right past Palmdale) to a hub in Los Angeles. A check we mailed to our son in Spokane did that little dispsy do, but didn't complete the journey to LA because the USPS truck leaped the median guardrail and burned just south of Palmdale. Well over a month later, our son received that letter in a plastic bag. The envelope and check were charred and damp, and the smell, he said, was indescribable.

 

[TTSX]

I'll see yours and raise you one. SoCal mail from Palmdale went north to a hub in Mojave before going south again (right past Palmdale) to a hub in Los Angeles. A check we mailed to our son in Spokane did that little dispsy do, but didn't complete the journey to LA because the USPS truck leaped the median guardrail and burned just south of Palmdale. Well over a month later, our son received that letter in a plastic bag. The envelope and check were charred and damp, and the smelll, he said, was indescribable.

But at least he got the check

 

[Mikej]

Brazen high-volume mail theft attacks becoming more common, data shows | abc7.com

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abc7.com

Well? "Los Angeles" DUH! What else would be expected?

 

[Oxygen Mask]

Couple years back I sent a check to my mom in Louisiana that she reallyneeded. It didn't arrive, one week, two weeks...
She doesn't do electronic stuff. Finally used Western Union.
About 2 months later I got an envelope from USPS, containing my absolutely mangled and torn envelope and a "sorry for the inconvenience" form letter...

 

[Member 55555]

I have always had competent mail-carriers. A previous one was a former marine to whom I gifted a spam-can of Lake City ammo. Our current carrier I gift a box of chocolate at Christmas and July 4th; he makes sure my mail is accurate and on time.

The Christmas card I just mailed to my son in Germany was $1.70 in postage; I did not feel "ripped off".

 

[MymuttBear]

I have always had competent mail-carriers. A previous one was a former marine to whom I gifted a spam-can of Lake City ammo. Our current carrier I gift a box of chocolate at Christmas and July 4th; he makes sure my mail is accurate and on time.

The Christmas card I just mailed to my son in Germany was $1.70 in postage; I did not feel "ripped off".

Reminds me of when I was a young kid and we had "rubbish bin men" picking up the metal rubbish bin very early in the morning.
My dad always left a 6 pack of beer on the lid of the bin at Christmas, and we never got our metal bin kicked down the street at 6 in the morning