Mail delivery in Park Slope -- horrible
What in the heck is up with the mail service in Park Slope (South)? I've never seen so many errors with delivery during my time in Brooklyn (15 years plus). I live in a two-family and we constantly get mail for people with addresses not really close to ours (we're on a street, we repeatedly get mail for people who live on avenues). I've lived in Greenpoint (two locations), Williamsburg & Sunnyside, Queens and have never experienced anything even remotely like it. It's pretty disturbing how wrong they get it repeatedly. Anyone else notice this? Our mail gets routed through the P.O. on 9th street. I don't even want to think about how much of my mail has ended up 17 blocks away...
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Subject: Re: Mail delivery in Park Slope -- horrible
Shinybeast wrote: What in the heck is up with the mail service in Park Slope (South)? I've never seen so many errors with delivery during my time in Brooklyn (15 years plus). I live in a two-family and we constantly get mail for people with addresses not really close to ours (we're on a street, we repeatedly get mail for people who live on avenues). I've lived in Greenpoint (two locations), Williamsburg & Sunnyside, Queens and have never experienced anything even remotely like it. It's pretty disturbing how wrong they get it repeatedly. Anyone else notice this? Our mail gets routed through the P.O. on 9th street. I don't even want to think about how much of my mail has ended up 17 blocks away...
Agh! Don't get me started! I'm in WT and my service sucks ass too.
I often get mail for completely the wrong address, or for my neighbors, etc. I don't even get my mail until 4pm on most days!
I swear to you (I meant to post this yesterday, but forgot) that I was walking down the street yesterday and was on either 16th or 15th just east of 7th Ave. and there were two of those green mailboxes (the kind where the carriers drop off and pick up mail) and I saw a pair of feet sticking out.
Thinking "WTF is that?" I walked by and found the mail carrier SITTING COMPLETELY INSIDE the green mailbox eating a sandwich. I wish I had had my camera! Truly bizarre.
Not to mention that my Netflix (and now Blockbuster) movies often end up disappearing (and there was a recent "sting operation" that found postal carriers stealing movies for either their own viewing or for sale).
I personally know my carrier (been living here for 9 years), and my only complaint about him is the lateness. The sorting stuff I blame on the post office itself. -
Subject: Re: Mail delivery in Park Slope -- horrible
Flexichick wrote:
Same here (in the South Slope). I get mail for neighbors up and down my block, plus mail for people in completely different parts of Brooklyn. People have sent me mail that was returned to them marked "no such person at this address" even though I've lived at this address for 9 years.
I often get mail for completely the wrong address, or for my neighbors, etc. I don't even get my mail until 4pm on most days!
The main post office on 9th Street is horrible. The lines are terrible, always, and the people who work there would really rather kill you than sell you stamps, and they don't care if you know it. -
ooh, Paul the Postman whose route includes 7th between 2nd and 4th is excellent, I've known him for years. he even brings mail to me that is addressed to my long closed store. Paul rocks.
However, the temps are awful. -
Subject: Second that
steve wrote: ooh, Paul the Postman whose route includes 7th between 2nd and 4th is excellent, I've known him for years. he even brings mail to me that is addressed to my long closed store. Paul rocks.
Paul is probably the only decent postman in PS.
However, the temps are awful.
I get my magazines on time, unfortunately the bills on time as well.
FYI if you time it well the clerks at the 7th Avenue branch are not bad.
Just stay out of the PO from Hell, AKA Van Brunt on 9th Street. -
i love our little postman on 15th. he's so cute and tiny and friendly.
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Subject: The Post Office of DOOM on 9th St.
Well, the screwups with my mail delivery seem to have stopped after repeated complaints to actually use the mailbox instead of just dropping all mail by the front door after going through the wrong gate. However, picking up packages is akin to the Ninth Circle of Hell. Hint to P.O. management: if you can't have someone actually working in the package pickup window who can get there within less than 5 minutes of pressing the buzzer, close the pickup window and route people to the regular line. Which of course is always practically out the door and can take over 45 minutes to get to the window from the end of. Some of us really DON'T have that kind of time just to pick up something lying 5 feet behind the oh-so-friendly bulletproof airlocks.
Also, we don't need surly "we can be as rude as we feel like and there's nothing you can do about it" attitudes, not to mention the "stuck in slow motion" syndrome. Perhaps I'll file a complaint with the postmaster and include your name, mmkay, Esther the preventer of package pickup? And don't even get me started about how they can't be bothered to ring the bell and wait more than 3 seconds for it to be answered before they leave a pickup note.
None of the staff I've dealt with at the 9th Street P.O. would last a day at UPS or FedEx. Next time I'll pay extra for their service just to avoid these morons. -
I'm so glad that I rarely need stamps and that when I do need anything I can make it during the day to the mini office on PPW. That 9th St. one sounds like hell.
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Subject: Re: Mail delivery in Park Slope -- horrible
Flexichick wrote: Thinking "WTF is that?" I walked by and found the mail carrier SITTING COMPLETELY INSIDE the green mailbox eating a sandwich. I wish I had had my camera! Truly bizarre.
lol. wow, i just have to laugh at that.
sorry about your mail, man. © tommy boy -
Subject: Re: Mail delivery in Park Slope -- horrible
Boygabriel wrote: [quote=Flexichick]Thinking "WTF is that?" I walked by and found the mail carrier SITTING COMPLETELY INSIDE the green mailbox eating a sandwich. I wish I had had my camera! Truly bizarre.
lol. wow, i just have to laugh at that.
sorry about your mail, man. © tommy boy
I could not believe that this person (I think it was a man, but not sure) managed to fold themselves up entirely ('cept for the feet) inside a mailbox and then would sit inside eating lunch. -
Flexichick wrote: I'm so glad that I rarely need stamps and that when I do need anything I can make it during the day to the mini office on PPW. That 9th St. one sounds like hell.
the people who work at the branch on PPW are really nice. and the head guy, calvin, he's fantastic. -
Subject: Re: The Post Office of DOOM on 9th St.
BezierBoy wrote: However, picking up packages is akin to the Ninth Circle of Hell. Hint to P.O. management: if you can't have someone actually working in the package pickup window who can get there within less than 5 minutes of pressing the buzzer, close the pickup window and route people to the regular line. Which of course is always practically out the door and can take over 45 minutes to get to the window from the end of. Some of us really DON'T have that kind of time just to pick up something lying 5 feet behind the oh-so-friendly bulletproof airlocks.
YES, package pickup is a DISASTER! My heart always sinks when I see that little pink card in my mailbox. It takes forever for someone to actually come to the window and then they take the card and disappear for a good long time. And then maybe they'll find your package, and maybe they won't. One time I had a package to pick up and also things to mail, so after waiting in the main line for half an hour to buy my stamps or whatever, I asked the clerk if she could also find my package for me -- she was enraged at the very idea. -
brooklynpotter wrote: [quote=Flexichick]I'm so glad that I rarely need stamps and that when I do need anything I can make it during the day to the mini office on PPW. That 9th St. one sounds like hell.
the people who work at the branch on PPW are really nice. and the head guy, calvin, he's fantastic.
Agreed. That branch is head and shoulders above the pit on 9th street. The guy running it should get a raise, but of course he probably won't. -
Subject: Re: The Post Office of DOOM on 9th St.
Rose wrote:
agreed. my brother gotone of those little pink slips the night before he left for vacation, but the slip clearly says that someone else can pickup the package for you if you bring along certain documents. don't remember what they were, but i did that and the woman practically wanted his fingerprints for me to get it. in fact, there was a point when she wasn't going togive it to me at all.
YES, package pickup is a DISASTER! My heart always sinks when I see that little pink card in my mailbox. It takes forever for someone to actually come to the window and then they take the card and disappear for a good long time. And then maybe they'll find your package, and maybe they won't. One time I had a package to pick up and also things to mail, so after waiting in the main line for half an hour to buy my stamps or whatever, I asked the clerk if she could also find my package for me -- she was enraged at the very idea. -
Subject: Re: The Post Office of DOOM on 9th St.
brooklynpotter wrote: [quote=Rose]
agreed. my brother gotone of those little pink slips the night before he left for vacation, but the slip clearly says that someone else can pickup the package for you if you bring along certain documents. don't remember what they were, but i did that and the woman practically wanted his fingerprints for me to get it. in fact, there was a point when she wasn't going togive it to me at all.
YES, package pickup is a DISASTER! My heart always sinks when I see that little pink card in my mailbox. It takes forever for someone to actually come to the window and then they take the card and disappear for a good long time. And then maybe they'll find your package, and maybe they won't. One time I had a package to pick up and also things to mail, so after waiting in the main line for half an hour to buy my stamps or whatever, I asked the clerk if she could also find my package for me -- she was enraged at the very idea.
oh yeah? well at the adelphi branch (which is where i have to schelp to, although it's not in my neighborhood by any description), they just won't give the package to you. even if you you do bring all the stupid things they tell you to. if it's not your name, forget it. and then, you'll spend a week at home, not even leaving to get a coke for fear of missing the package, and while you'll get lots more little pink notes, no package will come.
i hate that place so much.
and yes, i have made complaints. -
Subject: post office on 7th ave.
the post office on 7th avenue is frustrating. there is never enough window help and practically always a line. I met a man on line who said it's been that way for 30 years. he's complained and it's done nothing.
I read an interview with the new head of the Brooklyn postal system and he said the issue isn't having more help, it's making sure the machines in the lobby work. Which I agree helps - they are often out of stamps! - but I think more workers would help.
that being said, when I lived in park slope - 5 years up til 3 months ago - I thought the mail delivery was fine. The main problem I had was if they tried to deliver a package and you weren't there, you wouldn't get a 2nd "attempt" and would have to go to the 9th street station (agreed... another nightmare!). Although sometimes I called and they would bring it back -but only if I called.
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Subject: Re: post office on 7th ave.
cat wrote: the post office on 7th avenue is frustrating. there is never enough window help and practically always a line. I met a man on line who said it's been that way for 30 years. he's complained and it's done nothing.
sadly, we have no machines at the one on PPW, or a drop-off box for packages you've already put postage on. but, still, nicer than 9th st.
I read an interview with the new head of the Brooklyn postal system and he said the issue isn't having more help, it's making sure the machines in the lobby work. Which I agree helps - they are often out of stamps! - but I think more workers would help. -
Problems I've had with Park Slope mail:
-Post office on 7th Avenue never has stamps in its "Express Stamps" machine and I have to wait in line behind 20 people for 20 minutes to get stamps.
-The mail person refuses to walk up my brownstone's stairs and sort the mail and put it in tenents' individual mail boxes. Instead he dumps all the mail through a hole in the basement door. WTF?
-Why, if my name is John Kim and I live on 3rd Street and 6th Avenue, do I get mail for Gloria Hsu who lives in Williamsburgh? The names and addresses of mail coming to my building are so different to the names of the people who live in my building and my building's address. I wonder who's getting my mail -- a couple of kids in Canarsie?
I reported these problems in person to the 7th Avenue Post office. They told me I would have to report problems to the post office on 9th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues. So I did -- I went there in person, spoke to the person in charge and guess what...nothing has changed. -
When it comes to mailing packages, I like the place on 7th avenue with the Siamese cats. The guys in there are nice.
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Subject: Re: Mail delivery in Park Slope -- horrible
Shinybeast wrote: What in the heck is up with the mail service in Park Slope (South)? I've never seen so many errors with delivery during my time in Brooklyn (15 years plus). I live in a two-family and we constantly get mail for people with addresses not really close to ours (we're on a street, we repeatedly get mail for people who live on avenues). I've lived in Greenpoint (two locations), Williamsburg & Sunnyside, Queens and have never experienced anything even remotely like it. It's pretty disturbing how wrong they get it repeatedly. Anyone else notice this? Our mail gets routed through the P.O. on 9th street. I don't even want to think about how much of my mail has ended up 17 blocks away...
Are you me? I've been having the same thoughts. I'm shocked by the mail I receive for people I've never met who have names not even close to my name who currently live five zip codes away. What's up? -
Is it true that postal workers have the highest suicide rate and are likely to go crazy on the job or am I thinking of dentists?
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Parkslopedope wrote: Is it true that postal workers have the highest suicide rate and are likely to go crazy on the job or am I thinking of dentists?
i heard it was dentists. but that was in college right after someone told me that if your roommate commits suicide you get straight A's!! -
Parkslopedope wrote: Is it true that postal workers have the highest suicide rate and are likely to go crazy on the job or am I thinking of dentists?
I don't know, but I've never heard of anybody "going dental" -
it's dentists.
and the place with the cats is great.
but again, i must reiterate that i adore our little mail-man and his little folding mail cart. and theonly time mail got screwy was the week he was on vacation and i, too, was getting mail for gloria hsu in williamsburg -
Subject: meanderthal
My 9th Street story is a happy one. I must've caught them on a good day, but here's what happened:
I was house sitting for 6 weeks on 6th Street. After 2 weeks, no forwarded mail had arrived. I worried that I'd mistakenly written 6th Avenue as the forwarding address. I went to 9th Street where two friendly people conducted a lengthy backroom search and, finding nothing, told me the mail would've been returned (by the book) to the home post office as undeliverable (there was no such 6th Avenue address).
I contacted my home post office and verified that I had indeed made the Street/Avenue mistake. They said they'd correct the forwarding labels to read Street, but they never followed through. Even so, the 9th Street office, now alerted to the problem, began delivering my incorrectly-addressed mail to me on 6th Street. I was amazed that they even remembered the situation, and even more surprised that they gave my mail special handling. I wouldn't have expected that even of my small upstate post office, let alone one of Brooklyn's. (I do hope the back-room confusion I caused didn't precipitate the Gloria Hsu problem.) -
It's postal workers.
Even though I hate waiting in line forever, I have to feel bad for the people behind the registers. Anybody notice that they seem to have like eight different stacks of receipts to organize between customers? Apparently they don't even get AC. I know, I know, I'm taking the side of the hated Van Brunt postal workers, but you work in an environment where everyone's bitter and upset to be there and eventually you too, become bitter and upset to be there. There are some really nice people at Van Brunt, though; the supervisor is a sweet woman, and there's a girl who works in the back who always helps me when I stop by with 45 packages.
I am a little pissed when I think about all the checks I may never have received, though. -
It's not that the mail comes late or that I get all kinds of mail for the wrong people, both in my building and out of it, But I can't seem to get my mail unless the apt no is clearly on the envelope, even though it is clearly on the mail box, inside and out. I NEVER had that problem when i was living in Manhattan.
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Man, oh man, that Van Brunt Station.
Not only have I mysteriously not received masses of magazines (who is reading my Details right now!?) but the most important piece of mail that went missing was a job offer. Good thing I called to check on it and they told me they'd mailed it to me. Thanks, post office.
But, I should thank them for bringing me and my neighbors closer together. These's nothing like commiserating while we sort the mail that the carrier dumped on the floor to make me get to know my neighbors.
By the way, those "complaint forms" that the post office used to have? They phased 'em out. You can still fill one out, if you can find one, but it's not even going to get registered, let alone responded to. What's the sound of one hand clapping? -
i'm telling you, go to the one on PPW, they couldn't be friendlier.
(and if you're looking to buy stamps, esp. the cool/nice ones, it's so much easier to do online. same with priority mail supplies.) -
brooklynpotter wrote: i'm telling you, go to the one on PPW, they couldn't be friendlier.
They are very nice, maybe a little too nice. You can wait in line a long time while the clerks and customers chat about so-and-so's sister who married someone else's cousin and what doctor she saw for her bunions. It's still got that old-time Windsor Terrace vibe. Which is much nicer than dealing with the hostility and incompetence at 9th Street, but it would be even nicer if they had room for a stamp machine or two in the lobby. -
Rose wrote: it would be even nicer if they had room for a stamp machine or two in the lobby.
yes, that would be fantastic. because there have been times when i've been super-rushed and needed to mail something and have resorted to "illegally" buying stamps from the market across the street, for 50 cents.
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