USPS is the worst

[packs]

Last year I had to mail a Carl Horner photo I sold to a fellow board member. It was a Saturday and in NYC a lot of USPS places are technically "open" but that just means the door is open and the label machine is on. I was on my way to brunch and brought the package with me to mail. Then I was THIS CLOSE to just printing the label and dropping it in the box. But I decided that was a terrible idea and I made my girlfriend walk back home with me so I could put it back. She was pissed until I reminded her of the money I'd made and stood to lose if it got lost.

[buymycards]

If the carrier or clerk who picks up the mail from the blue box does their job correctly, the packages should be scanned as "pre paid acceptance" at that particular Post Office.

Talk to the Postmaster (not the clerk or the supervisor ) and tell the PM that you want to know which person collected the mail from the blue box on that particular day and you would like some disciplinary action taken against that person. It will take the PM about 3 minutes to get this info.

There is no excuse for this to happen.

[ibuysportsephemera]

What everyone said before about using the boxes..don't do it. I always give a Christmas tip to the guys who work for the PO. Not only are they nice guys, they go out of the way to take care of me if I need anything. I have shipped thousands of packages with USPS and only had a problem with 1 or 2. That is a great track record as far as I am concerned.

Jeff

[rainier2004]

Originally Posted by ibuysportsephemera

What everyone said before about using the boxes..don't do it. I always give a Christmas tip to the guys who work for the PO. Not only are they nice guys, they go out of the way to take care of me if I need anything. I have shipped thousands of packages with USPS and only had a problem with 1 or 2. That is a great track record as far as I am concerned.

Jeff

My track record is the same plus my mail lady is super cute...

[RedsFan1941]

Totally agree about taking care of the quality usps workers. Always leave a dollar in the tip jar.

[savedfrommyspokes]

Two things....

First, I have had a few packages dropped in the blue box that do not receive a scan entering or leaving my local sort center...they do not receive their first scan until they reach a sort center near their destination. Possibly, your packages fall into this scenario.

Second, I routinely drop into a blue box and the only time multiple packages did not receive a scan I contacted the local post master. He explained to me that there is some sort of bin in the bottom of the blue box and that these four or so missing packages may have fallen to the outside of this bin and were missed by the USPS worker completing the pickup at that box. He said he would speak to this worker.....a few days later, they showed up in the system....likely these were missed in the blue box itself.

I would call the toll free USPS number and open a case...if you do not get anywhere, expedite your case.

[ooo-ribay]

I have nothing bad to say about the USPS.

I often use the self service kiosk with no problems.

As a buyer, I've had one item "lost" and considering the seller had "feedback hidden", I don't think it was ever sent.

[Jeffrompa]

If they won't do it talk to the Postmaster .

[lrspaulp]

NEVER drop in a mail box.........bring them into the Post Office and they are scanned then and there.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by RedsFan1941

Totally agree about taking care of the quality usps workers. Always leave a dollar in the tip jar.

Tip jar, WOW the begging is getting way out of control. Plus the USPS workers are one of the most overpaid groups there is.

Some great advise on here but the sad truth is unless someone goes out of their way to help you out you are SOL.

[PhillipAbbott79]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Tip jar, WOW the begging is getting way out of control. Plus the USPS workers are one of the most overpaid groups there is.

Some great advise on here but the sad truth is unless someone goes out of their way to help you out you are SOL.

Charity is out of control also.

I am with you on this one. I don't tip people to be good at their job. They should just be good, because they are getting paid and they want to keep their job. The entitlement in this country is out of control.

It is not like the service industry where they are getting a fraction of the minimum wage.

I forget where I was, but I saw a tip jar out. The only thing I re-call was having to pay, like triple what I would have in another scenario, and I thought to myself, "the audacity of that thing", and what it would be like if I swatted it off of the counter without breaking eye contact with the person at the counter.

With that said, I have never had a problem with the mail, or even a single package and this is now my 5th address over 30 years.

[Jewish-collector]

Originally Posted by rainier2004

My track record is the same plus my mail lady is super cute...

Steven - Sometimes you gotta say WTF and ask her out

[rainier2004]

Originally Posted by Jewish-collector

Steven - Sometimes you gotta say WTF and ask her out

My wife probably wouldn't be too cool with that...I bet Id get a WTF then!

[ALR-bishop]

I have had the good fortune to travel extensively internationally since retirement back in 2007 and have come to appreciate our postal system, whatever it's shortcomings.

[Stampsfan]

Originally Posted by rainier2004

My track record is the same plus my mail lady is super cute...

Is a "mail lady" the opposite of a "femail man"?

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Stampsfan

Is a "mail lady" the opposite of a "femail man"?

Maybe this is what is meant by the term gender fluid.

[Bocabirdman]

Two different issues bother me concerning my mail delivery.

First, on enough instances to consider it a trend, the tracking # says that it is delivered and it wasn't. It is delivered the next day. I have grown to expect it periodically. I can deal with it.

The situation that pisses me off just happened again this week. We happened to have our A/C go out over the holiday weekend. They made a temporary fix and came out on Tuesday to fix it right. At 1:30PM I was in my driveway shooting the breeze with the A/C tech as he was closing up his truck. I paid him and took a few minutes to confirm the Air was blowing cold. About 2 PM I walked to the center of the complex to the bank of mailboxes. In my box was an Orange Slip saying that a package was undeliverable because there was nobody home to sign for it. I went back to the house and checked the tracking #. It was marked "Undeliverable" at 1:27 PM. I do not get too many packages that require a signature. Perhaps it has been 6 in the last two years. My wife is home every day. She no longer drives and I take our only car to work. I/we have signed for exactly one package. Orange slips were left in the box for the rest.

[pawpawdiv9]

Originally Posted by Bocabirdman

Two different issues bother me concerning my mail delivery.

First, on enough instances to consider it a trend, the tracking # says that it is delivered and it wasn't. It is delivered the next day. I have grown to expect it periodically. I can deal with it.

The situation that pisses me off just happened again this week. We happened to have our A/C go out over the holiday weekend. They made a temporary fix and came out on Tuesday to fix it right. At 1:30PM I was in my driveway shooting the breeze with the A/C tech as he was closing up his truck. I paid him and took a few minutes to confirm the Air was blowing cold. About 2 PM I walked to the center of the complex to the bank of mailboxes. In my box was an Orange Slip saying that a package was undeliverable because there was nobody home to sign for it. I went back to the house and checked the tracking #. It was marked "Undeliverable" at 1:27 PM. I do not get too many packages that require a signature. Perhaps it has been 6 in the last two years. My wife is home every day. She no longer drives and I take our only car to work. I/we have signed for exactly one package. Orange slips were left in the box for the rest.

I use to get those slips, UNITL I went and asked the postmaster himself -WHY??
We been home all day, like you said as well.
Ends up, they thought our drive-way was too long/far off the main road.
Which is nonsense!!! Its a good 1/4 mile gravel road. He even came up and said there was no reason for them not to do so.
So now, we don't get those slips anymore
Sometimes you just have to be a ass!!!
In return, we get large packages/ and Auction catalogs crammed in the mailbox now.