WTF is going on with the US Postal Service? Besides the holiday rush?

[Breeze54]

My sister called me yesterday and informed me that she was sending me a Certified
letter and to be sure to listen for the mail person so that I could sign for it.

So, I just heard the truck pull into the driveway and he didn't come to the door.

So, I asked my son to go check the mailbox (it's locked boxes for all who live here)
And there was the letter BUT the mailman never asked for my signature, which is what
my sister paid for!!

With Certified Mail™

http://www.usps.com/send/waystosendmail/extraservices/certifiedmailservice.htm

you can be sure your article arrived at its destination with access to online delivery information. When you use Certified Mail, you receive a receipt stamped with the date of mailing. A unique article number allows you to verify delivery online. As an additional security feature, the recipient’s signature is obtained at the time of delivery and a record is maintained by the Post Office™. For an additional fee, you can request a copy of the signature record before or after delivery with Return Receipt.

For an additional fee, request a copy of the signature record before or after delivery with Return Receipt.

So, I will be going down the the post office to report him!
To bad but why pay for something you aren't getting?
This letter was to replace another letter sent a week ago but never delivered!!
Maybe he's up to no good?

[ThomCat]

1. The post office gets a lot of grief for their bad reputation.

But I have to say, they go out of their way to earn that bad reputation. It's rare to go anyplace else and get service that bad, that slow, that rude, and that generally incompetent. I swear that the USPS must be an employer of last resort for some people who can't get jobs anywhere else.

I really feel bad for the good, competent people who work there.

[Breeze54]

3. I actually like the people at my local PO but

I'm wondering if this guy is a temp or something.

The thing is, the other letter that was "lost" had checks in it and she had to do a Stop Payment
and that also costs $$ and now she pays for this to replace those checks and make sure I get them
and the guy doesn't bother to honor the agreement to get a signature with the paying for the letter
to be certified!! What a total rip off! Not to mention it was 9 degree's yesterday and she had to
walk to the bank and the PO to send them... again!! :grr:

[huskerlaw]

13. The amazing thing is

it's actually REALLY hard to get a post office job.

My uncle and some of my cousins are postal workers, and it took them months and testing and...the hoops are amazing.

But you're right, they do go out of their way to earn their reputation. Oy.

[Breeze54]

14. Yup! The application is like 22 pages !!

It's very detailed and they want to know everything you've done and where
you've lived for the last ten years and a whole lot of other stuff too!

Everytime we have a temp. my mail is either mis-delivered or not at all.

It's soooo aggravating!

[KitchenWitch]

2. I have had several similar instances.

For example, I am home all day most days, and several times the carrier did not get out of the truck to have me sign for packages that required signatures. I had to go to the post office to retrieve the packages, and I was home to sign, so they have no excuse.

[Breeze54]

4. That happened last year to me too.

They just left the package on my doorstep and it required a signature. :grr:

Anybody could have walked by and just taken it! My doorstep is like 5 feet from the driveway.

It can't be that hard to stop before the mailboxes and get one of us to sign! Our cars are right here!

[KitchenWitch]

5. I had to actually drive to the post office to get my packages

because they left the slip in my mailbox.

x(

[Breeze54]

6. I hear you! I had Fed Ex just leave

a package on my doorstep too, that I had ordered and that required a signature!

Maybe these drivers are just lazy? :shrug: It's a scam to pay for that extra service and not get it!

[Gormy Cuss]

7. Weird. It was the case Certified requires that the P.O. record delivery attempts

but not that the actual person at the receiving end sign for it. That distinction was the difference between Certified and Registered mail services. The web page description certainly sounds like the carrier is supposed to get someone's signature for certified mail but I have never had a postal worker say that when I asked about it. You can track delivery online or pay extra for Return Receipt.

[Breeze54]

8. Yes, it was supposed to be signed for to get delivery.

There is an attached green postcard, on the letter, looking for a signature and they're supposed
to mail that back to the sender, in this case, my sister. She addressed the postcard to herself,
as you're supposed to do when you want a return receipt.

It is also stamped in RED... Return Receipt Requested on the front of the envelope!

[Gormy Cuss]

9. Ah, Return Receipt.

No question then. Someone had to sign for it, but not necessarily you.

[Breeze54]

10. I went to the post office and they brought me the manager

and he was trying to say that the pink strip must have gotten scanned
and they have a temp. on my route for the holidays and yada yada yada...

But I pointed out to him that I only got ONE letter today, so how could
the temp. have missed it that it needed a signature?

I also told him of my missing mail, how much that cost to stop payment
and send the certified letter again and about the damaged/opened mail
I got yesterday. He rolled his eyes and looked pissed off and said he
was definitely going to talk to the temp. We'll see what happens.

I signed the green card and another receipt he gave me and left.

[grace0418]

11. At least you got your letter. I STILL haven't gotten the stamps I ordered weeks ago

and no one from the USPS will respond to my queries. My xmas cards are going to be so late.

[Breeze54]

12. Yeah but I'm still missing a letter!

This was a replacement of the first one that's still missing!

I hope you get your stamps soon! Did you call the post office yet?

Can't you just buy books of them at your local PO or at local stores?

[grace0418]

15. I can buy them at a local store but this years holiday offerings are HIDEOUS.

I almost bought them anyway while I was at Costco but then I thought "I'm spending all this time designing and silkscreening my holiday card. I'm not going to slap on some ass-ugly country kitchen sweater animals." I can't help it, the picky graphic designer in me just couldn't do it. So I ordered some regular stamps that weren't too heinous and this is what I get. The online postal store doesn't have a phone number to call. Only email, and I've sent three already to NO reponse.

I know the minute I give in and buy the ugly ones, they'll finally send my original order. I almost never use stamps the rest of the year because I pay all my bills online, so it would be a waste to have that many.

ARGH!
:mad: