Current Events > What in the actual fuck is the US Postal Service?

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In the past month, the mailbox door has been left open 4 times in the rain and soaked whatever they left in it.

In the past 6 months, mail that has been sent from home has been lost 4 or 5 times and literally three of those were rent being sent to the landlord.

They know theyre gonna die very soon so theyre in fuck it mode.

And let's not forget the times where they'll force a package into the box instead of putting it on the porch. Like, you can't get it back out with some effort.

I thought about buying a bigger mailbox since mine has recently become so crappy recently that if you so much as touch it, the door falls open. So half the time when I get home, the mailbox is just wide open. The screws are all rusted too so I'm not sure I can fix it. But also another reason is because of the "Shoving packages into the tiny mailbox thing" too. They do that shit to me all the time.

Another complaint I have with them is at least once maybe twice a week, I get my neighbor's mail inside my fucking mailbox. They do it sooooo fucking often. I have to wonder how often MY mail gets into other people's mailboxes. Hell, just last week, I found a letter on the ground directly in front of my garage that was for a house 5 houses down the street. I was like HOW?! For one, wtf was it doing in front of my garage which is several steps past the mailbox? And it's not like it was for the house next to me. It was several fucking houses down.

Usps ftw

Jupiter posted...

I thought about buying a bigger mailbox since mine has recently become so crappy recently that if you so much as touch it, the door falls open. So half the time when I get home, the mailbox is just wide open. The screws are all rusted too so I'm not sure I can fix it. But also another reason is because of the "Shoving packages into the tiny mailbox thing" too. They do that shit to me all the time.

Another complaint I have with them is at least once maybe twice a week, I get my neighbor's mail inside my fucking mailbox. They do it sooooo fucking often. I have to wonder how often MY mail gets into other people's mailboxes. Hell, just last week, I found a letter on the ground directly in front of my garage that was for a house 5 houses down the street. I was like HOW?! For one, wtf was it doing in front of my garage which is several steps past the mailbox? And it's not like it was for the house next to me. It was several fucking houses down.

Sign up for USPS informed delivery. The postal service scans all your incoming mail anyway, at least this way youll know what you are missing.

I've actually been signed up for that for a few years now. But I've gotten to the point where I mindlessly check it at work, then completely forget about it by the time I get home. Unless it's something important I'm expecting. It's definitely very helpful though.

USPS rules

The thing Trump and the Postmaster General want to get shut down, because mail-in voting.

I'm in Colorado. I had someone in Illinois send me a Christmas card, (postmarked before the holiday), I just got it a few weeks ago.

bluezero posted...

The thing Trump and the Postmaster General want to get shut down, because mail-in voting.

And like, I get that the postal service is important and needs to exist. But at least do the bare minimum at work. Clearly a lot of postal workers around here don't give a shit.

USPS has been progressively getting worse and worse over the last few years. I noticed we don't have the same driver on my route on day-to-day basis (we used to) and they forgot to deliver packages etc. My fianc went and dropped off, in person our wedding invitations to a post office and they still managed to lose about 10-15 of them in the mail. Just the other day, I had to walk out and talk to the postal worker because they forgot to deliver a package to my address, they had literally sitting next to them in the truck. I will pay $5-$10 extra now when I order stuff for it to come via UPS to stay away from USPS. I also use informed delivery and was told, its not always accurate by at least 2-3 different postal workers.

Rosstin316 posted...

They know theyre gonna die very soon so theyre in fuck it mode.

No, the postal service is in the Constitution.

Samurai_Man posted...

USPS has been progressively getting worse and worse over the last few years. I noticed we don't have the same driver on my route on day-to-day basis (we used to) and they forgot to deliver packages etc. My fianc went and dropped off, in person our wedding invitations to a post office and they still managed to lose about 10-15 of them in the mail. Just the other day, I had to walk out and talk to the postal worker because they forgot to deliver a package to my address, they had literally sitting next to them in the truck. I will pay $5-$10 extra now when I order stuff for it to come via UPS to stay away from USPS. I also use informed delivery and was told, its not always accurate by at least 2-3 different postal workers.

I wouldn't be surprised if this decline in competency is directly linked to the Republican attempts to kill the Post Office, but it's ridiculous.

Several weeks ago I had mail from 3 different neighbors in my box. It's like the mail carrier got halfway around the neighborhood and when they got to mine said "eh this is close enough."

Postmaster General DeJoy has been doing his best to sabotage the USPS, on top of destroying million dollar mail sorting machines to help sabotage mail-in ballots in the 2020 election.

Sounds like you're dealing with bad workers, more than the company.
I've had bad carriers, but luckily they were the off day carriers for my usual. I was waiting on a package once that the off day carrier said couldn't be delivered. Luckily i was home and chased him down. It would have been sent back to Japan...all my packages were delivered after that point.
Some people suck. Usps is a great service.