Mail delivery in Park Slope -- horrible

ive had great mail service since i moved to no-boca'bush. my carrier will also bring packages up to my 5th floor walk-up, even when its heavy packages from over seas (usually wine from spain)

Whenever I get other people's mail, I always wonder who is sometimes getting my mail.
I get other people's bank statements, credit card offers and other materials akin to recieving a ready made identity theft kit. So someone somewhere can easily rip off my identity thanks to post office mistakes.

brooklynpotter wrote:
when did it become "identity theft"? ? seriously, didn't it used to be that someone just stole your credit cards, or got cards in your name, yadda yadda. and now--and i'm not saying it's not a giant problem--it has this buzzword description.

Someone got my sister-in-law's social security number and has used that (and her name, I guess) to get jobs. Now the IRS is garnishing my SIL's paychecks to collect taxes owed by this other person. It's a really bad situation. Once someone gets your social security number, you are screwed, apparently.

Subject: what ever happened to?

what ever happened to dry cleaners/copy shops that would sign for small packages? I just need to order something from a clothing site and there's like nobody that will do this for me? I've heard (via this site) that mailboxes etc. is bullshit - is there any other place i can look into? Please PM me (still haven't quite figured out how to search this thing…

Thanks!

Z

Subject: Re: what ever happened to?

zbruno wrote: what ever happened to dry cleaners/copy shops that would sign for small packages? I just need to order something from a clothing site and there's like nobody that will do this for me? I've heard (via this site) that mailboxes etc. is bullshit - is there any other place i can look into? Please PM me (still haven't quite figured out how to search this thing…

Thanks!

Z

The shipping store on Fifth Ave between Sackett and DeGraw is fine - and they have mailboxes. I don't know what it's called.
There are fewer small businesses around, but if you have a relationship with them (or your neighbors) you can ask them to sign for your package. It's not like that's changed....

What is this magical place "no-boca'bush" where mail men climb stairs to deliver packages?

the USPS recently sent out a brochure to increase publi awareness of identity theft.

The local carrier, of course, left them in a pile on the floor of our building.

:? Thus driving home the point :?

PUT MY MAIL IN THE DANG BOX !!!!!!!!!!

raw wrote: ...Besides, who can keep up with buying and using stamps before the cost of postage increases?

The US mail service is still much cheaper than UPS. And the new stamps are good even if they raise the rates.

ARG. Yet another package was delivered to the wrong address! Luckily wherever the mailman decided to leave my package, the people mailed it back to the company.

But this is just ridiculous. I've had 3 packages either lost, stolen, or submitted to the wrong address in 6 months.

Please, for all those whom have had experiences with this, click on the link and submit a complaint. I did this on the last package and they forwarded my complaint to the local office.

If enough of us do it, maybe it can have an effect.

https://hdusps.esecurecare.net/cgi-bin/hdusps.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php?p_sid=L

i have a deep, cold feeling of dread, as I just got a package redeliver slip for a very valuable international package that's pretty much irreplaceable. Gulp.

only problem is ive been complaining to the van brunt station for 17 years.
once a year or so i call and biach that the mail is being left in the lobby.
i think ive filled out a farm a couple times as well. so have others in my building. inevitably one has to move on to other portions of ones life

bureaucracy in action :roll:

This happened to me in Manhattan, but there may be a moral...

I got a package slip once, and went to my local post office the next day to retrieve my package. The window clerk looked for it but didn't find it after a few minutes, and returned to the window saying "it must still be out on the truck."

"But...why would they have put a slip in my box yesterday if they were going to take it out on the truck again today?" I asked. The clerk shrugged and suggested I call the Post Office's 800 number to complain about my carrier and try again the next day. Dubious, I left.

But about a half a block down the street, I saw a mail truck, with the driver inside, taking a quick sandwich break. I walked up and asked him if he knew who delivered to my building. "I do," he said. So I asked him why he put a slip in my box if he was going to try to re-deliver the following day. He blinked. "I didn't do that," he said. "Can I see the slip?" I gave it to him. "Huh. You know, I actually remember this very package, it's definitely in the post office." I asked if he could come find it for me, but he declined, saying he was on his break. I thanked him, said I'd try going back myself, and as I was walking away, I happened to mention that the desk clerk had suggeted I file a complaint about him.

He froze. "He told you to complain about ME?" he said. He asked to see the slip again, then put his sandwich down, started up his truck and said "gimme a couple minutes to park; go back in and wait for me in the lobby. We're gonna take care of this RIGHT NOW."

I returned to the lobby (the desk clerk even waved at me and asked if I was making a complaint, and I just cheerfully said "I'm doing something even better"), and a few minutes later, the carrier appeared at the same window with my package, called me over, and gave it to me. I walked out just as he was turning to the desk clerk and asking, "Now, WHY did you tell her to file a complaint about me when the package was right over on the shelf right there?...."

The moral of the story: sometimes getting results on a post office complaint depends on who you complain TO.

queencallipygos wrote: This happened to me in Manhattan, but there may be a moral...

I got a package slip once, and went to my local post office the next day to retrieve my package. The window clerk looked for it but didn't find it after a few minutes, and returned to the window saying "it must still be out on the truck."

"But...why would they have put a slip in my box yesterday if they were going to take it out on the truck again today?" I asked. The clerk shrugged and suggested I call the Post Office's 800 number to complain about my carrier and try again the next day. Dubious, I left.

But about a half a block down the street, I saw a mail truck, with the driver inside, taking a quick sandwich break. I walked up and asked him if he knew who delivered to my building. "I do," he said. So I asked him why he put a slip in my box if he was going to try to re-deliver the following day. He blinked. "I didn't do that," he said. "Can I see the slip?" I gave it to him. "Huh. You know, I actually remember this very package, it's definitely in the post office." I asked if he could come find it for me, but he declined, saying he was on his break. I thanked him, said I'd try going back myself, and as I was walking away, I happened to mention that the desk clerk had suggeted I file a complaint about him.

He froze. "He told you to complain about ME?" he said. He asked to see the slip again, then put his sandwich down, started up his truck and said "gimme a couple minutes to park; go back in and wait for me in the lobby. We're gonna take care of this RIGHT NOW."

I returned to the lobby (the desk clerk even waved at me and asked if I was making a complaint, and I just cheerfully said "I'm doing something even better"), and a few minutes later, the carrier appeared at the same window with my package, called me over, and gave it to me. I walked out just as he was turning to the desk clerk and asking, "Now, WHY did you tell her to file a complaint about me when the package was right over on the shelf right there?...."

The moral of the story: sometimes getting results on a post office complaint depends on who you complain TO.

This story is great!

J0518 wrote: I live in the North Slope. We get mail for our neighbors, the same house number, but on any other parallel street, etc., all the time. for a while we were assuming the landlord's children, who live on the upper three floors, were taking care of it. Then we saw them throw incorrect unopened mail in the garbage. Since then, my wife and I began taking nice neighborhood walks, putting people's mail where it was supposed to go.

If you see us approaching your mailbox, please don't shoot us. We might have your tax return on us.

Isn't that against some kind of (federal) law?