USPS Packages dropped off in receptacle issues??

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by savedfrommyspokes

I apparently upset the driver who picks up the blue boxes in my area. This driver drove 8 miles out of their way to come to my house and tell me I was "over filling" the blue bins and if I kept doing it, it would be escalated????

Tell this guy to escalate all he wants (whatever that means) and ask him to point to any rule or law that prevents you from sending as much mail as you pay to send. Offer to escalate it yourself! Record video of any future in-person exchanges you have with this worker. Report him as high up the chain of command as you can and take your future mailings to a nearby town if you're worried about anything in that regard. It might not do any good, but it's better than doing nothing.

I'd love to meet this &#*@$. I hate this type of USPS employee so much. Finding a decent one is a treasure.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

schedule a free pick up and your carrier will scan when he picks up.

[jimq16415]

Originally Posted by BillyCox3

Tell this guy to escalate all he wants (whatever that means) and ask him to point to any rule or law that prevents you from sending as much mail as you pay to send. Offer to escalate it yourself! Record video of any future in-person exchanges you have with this worker. Report him as high up the chain of command as you can and take your future mailings to a nearby town if you're worried about anything in that regard. It might not do any good, but it's better than doing nothing.

I'd love to meet this &#*@$. I hate this type of USPS employee so much. Finding a decent one is a treasure.

The Postmaster's boss is usually the POOM. Most POOMs are worthless but they are usually not too happy with anyone turning away revenue. Not a lot of things you can do to get fired at USPS but that driver is looking to work at Walmart. There is no such rule. Most offices would have the driver make a 2nd trip if they had to (with pay).

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by BillyCox3

Tell this guy to escalate all he wants (whatever that means) and ask him to point to any rule or law that prevents you from sending as much mail as you pay to send. Offer to escalate it yourself! Record video of any future in-person exchanges you have with this worker. Report him as high up the chain of command as you can and take your future mailings to a nearby town if you're worried about anything in that regard. It might not do any good, but it's better than doing nothing.

I'd love to meet this &#*@$. I hate this type of USPS employee so much. Finding a decent one is a treasure.

IMO, just a lazy employee who was being overworked due to having to bring two bins instead of one to empty out the blue box I dropped my mail in. Here is the first video from the visit I received regarding dropping too much mail....

https://youtu.be/GFWtp_Jftzs

I don't think I will post the rest of the videos, as the conversation quickly goes downhill as I asked a few too many questions about the concern. I struggled to understand how filling a blue box a third full was "stuffing it".
After 10+ years of dropping in the same blue box, this visit admittedly caught me off guard.

Long story short, my regular carrier agreed to scan my packages after seeing the videos to help me out. I help him out by spreading the thinner packages around to the cluster boxes in my neighborhood and drop not more than 1/8th of a bin into the closest blue box. In other words, to keep the peace and not tick off anyone else (someone who could purposely lose my packages) I spread the 40-50 packages a day out amongst 4-5 drop locations/carriers. Wouldn't want to overwork any one specific employee.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by savedfrommyspokes

...I spread the 40-50 packages a day out amongst 4-5 drop locations/carriers...

Wouldn't it be simpler to drop everything off at one Post Office?

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by Eric72

Wouldn't it be simpler to drop everything off at one Post Office?

Not simpler at all. The closest PO is about a 25-30 min drive one way due to traffic. The closest blue box is a 15 minute bike ride one way, which is my preference anyway. The cluster boxes I also drop packages in are all along the same bike path I take to get to the closest blue box. To break it down time wise, going to the closet blue box versus the closest PO saves about 125 hours a year (based on saving 30 minutes a day). Since I already ride 30 min a day to keep in shape, no point not to use my daily ride to drop off some mail.

In regard to having the USPS PU from the mailbox, due to having a cluster box, that doesn't work at all.

For me, dropping it all (minus high $ stuff) in a blue box was really the simplest thing.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by savedfrommyspokes

Not simpler at all. The closest PO is about a 25-30 min drive one way due to traffic. The closest blue box is a 15 minute bike ride one way, which is my preference anyway. The cluster boxes I also drop packages in are all along the same bike path I take to get to the closest blue box. To break it down time wise, going to the closet blue box versus the closest PO saves about 125 hours a year (based on saving 30 minutes a day). Since I already ride 30 min a day to keep in shape, no point not to use my daily ride to drop off some mail.

In regard to having the USPS PU from the mailbox, due to having a cluster box, that doesn't work at all.

For me, dropping it all (minus high $ stuff) in a blue box was really the simplest thing.

When you put things that way, they make perfect sense.

[bobbyw8469]

Thanks for all the advice everyone. The items FINALLY got a scan, last night, around midnight from MY local zip code. It is like someone turned the switch on.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

Thanks for all the advice everyone. The items FINALLY got a scan, last night, around midnight from MY local zip code. It is like someone turned the switch on.

Glad it showed up quickly for you.