USPS

I had a po box there for a year when I was between houses, it was cheap. I live a couple of blocks away so it was very convenient. Our mail service is pretty good, we live on Putnam so i guess we have a different delivery guy than you.

on washington ave we don't have a regular delivery person, and every single one of them totally blows. it's really infuriating and it's systemic, at least in that post office. if you're having trouble with a local post office, call the toll free number on the usps website and complain. I've done that before and had packages redelivered (even though the pink slip kept being ignored). also, I've called a few times and complained about how trashed my mail is or how I've had to set up automatic bill payments on EVERYTHING because I rarely get my bills on time.

also, if you notice that you've got mail for a different address, don't bother giving it to the postal worker -- dump it in the mailbox for redelivery. they never pick up shit, and regularly deliver great big piles of mail to our building that really belongs two or three buildings away.

wow, now I'm pissed off. :evil: :evil: :evil:

There was a thread about this a couple of months ago. On which I ranted about how much I loathe the postal service in this hood. For packages, we always get everything delivered to work now; it's just a million times easier, even with having to carry it home on the subway.

We do get our regular mail every day, but it's often crumpled angrily into the box, and the one and only time I ever actually encountered the carrier in person, she YELLED at me. :evil:

apollonia666 wrote: I've had postal service problems at every apartment I've had in Brooklyn. I finally gave up and now just have packages delivered to my workplace.

Yeah it's pretty much always been bad as far as I remember. I grew up in the black hole of post offices 11208. I've had letters go from NYC to South Carolina quicker than stuff making it across the city to me there.

BrookFetish wrote: What worries me is that every single day we get mail that is obviously not ours...not even the same damn building. Now, I'm wondering, where is all of my mail?

It's true...recently we even got some important legal stuff for someone else! And we still get mail for someone who moved out at least two years ago. If not longer.

Wangechi Mutu, if you're out there, please send in a change of address form!

bluedove wrote: It's true...recently we even got some important legal stuff for someone else! And we still get mail for someone who moved out at least two years ago. If not longer.

Wangechi Mutu, if you're out there, please send in a change of address form!

When we moved into our place, we were getting (and still do almost a year later) the mail of the couple who lived there before us. I actually ended up Googling them to discover one of them had a blog and they were living in Japan. I emailed them and sent the important looking stuff to their parents' house or whatever. They've just had a baby and we're internet friends. 8)

There's a Mailboxes Plus place across the street from me on Vanderbilt between Dean and Bergen. THey have mailboxe rentals {obviously}, you can get packages delivered there and they also ship.

alafairnadia wrote: it's weird, though, because when I lived in Manhattan, I never had this problem.

Same here! My first year in NYC I lived in midtown (with two roomies and a TINY bedroom) and never had a single problem, but it was too expensive and not a neighborhood where I felt at home, and I've been in Brooklyn ever since. I love just about everything about living in Brooklyn but the mail service has been awful. And the post offices I've had to use here have always been overcrowded, understaffed, and dirty. Bleh.

how bout with all the different mailpeople around, any mail that doesn't have an apartment number on it is left in the lobby, expecting it to find its own home. i'll admit to scoring some mags this way, and i assume that's why i don't see my NY mag every week, and god only knows what else.

in my 7 years of owning an apt in PH, i've never received a package slip for things that need to be picked up at the PO... i've always had to intuit that packages were sitting on the dusty shelves waiting for me.

maybe if we could advertise shitty mail service, fewer moneyed hipsters would be moving in and driving the prices to the level where i can't afford a freakin house now that i have a kid who needs a place to run around without disturbing the (very kind, so far) neighbors.

I get mail everyday but the mail gets delivered at like 6 - 7 PM.

nybt wrote: What's with the stretchedness?!

James' link broke it. Tsk, tsk.

Candicissima wrote: [quote=nybt]What's with the stretchedness?!

James' link broke it. Tsk, tsk.

People of Daily Heights! Use TinyURL for those big-ass links, I beseech you!

http://tinyurl.com/

the adelphi branch should be cleaned out from the top down and started over. i've lived in foreign countries twice before and have sent mail back and forth to the states faster than it takes to send mail back and forth from brooklyn. when i have something urgent, i bring it to work with me in manhattan and drop it in a mailbox there--that seems to cut 3-5 days off the delivery time.

and talk about misdirected deliveries! i am constantly getting other people's mail. and every so often i hear from a friend that they sent me something that never arrived.

one thing i urge everyone to do about that: if you get mail that's not for you, don't just throw it away, put it back out for the letter carrier to redeliver. this means there's a chance it may get to the person it was meant for and it holds the carrier responsible for the problem. if everyone did this. . . ok, i don't know that it would do a thing. but i still think it's a good idea.

also, it's really only worth doing with first-class mail (anything with a real stamp or that says "first-class postage paid.") if it says anything else (such as "presorted std" or "standard,") it is certifiably junk and should go directly into recycling. not much point making the usps redeliver spam.

speaking of spam--and i know i'm getting off the thread here--one good solution for junk mail is to take everything out, fold it carefully, and stuff it into the postage paid envelope, and mail it back to the spammer. the more stuff you put in the envelope, the more it costs the spammer in return postage.

ok, back on track: why does a national postal service, which presumably has standardized policies and practices across the country, suck in brooklyn?

Smokin' Joe wrote: speaking of spam--and i know i'm getting off the thread here--one good solution for junk mail is to take everything out, fold it carefully, and stuff it into the postage paid envelope, and mail it back to the spammer. the more stuff you put in the envelope, the more it costs the spammer in return postage.

That is a great idea!! I am so sick of getting Capitol One solicitations (at least 5 a week) and these "you have been approved for home equity . . ."