Rant about the mail

Yes it does stink this USPS around here. The Post Office they are so under staffed and slow in there. If the normal mail carrier is on vacation, we get others who sometimes just throw the mail in the hall instead of putting it in the people mailboxes. Also when its a big package they just leave it there and don't ring the bell letting you know there is something for you.

my rant is over too lol

I just want to say that Paul The Postman is the best there is. You cannot do a better job than he does.

Glad to know I'm not taking crazy pills.

Some days it's like the carrier doesn't even try. S/he just dumps all the mail for the building on the "overflow" table. (Doesn't help that we have the world's teeniest mailboxes, either.) I can understand leaving packages because most buildings are empty in the afternoon--my building doesn't have any mommies. Am I going to get my New Yorker on Tuesday? Wednesday? Thursday? A week and a half late? Place your bets!

I complained about the inconsistencey of mail delivery to the USPS, and my magazines put something called PubTracker on my magazines, to figure out where the delivery breakdown is. (Also extended my subscriptions. Squeaky wheels, people.)

I don't think it's a PS specific issue. What kind of service can I expect to get from people who have a very low chance of consequences for poor performance?

It's amazing to be getting crappy service when the holidays are right around the corner. One would think they'd be on their best behavior in the interest of getting a decent tip.

I never tip them, because they suck. Most days, I get some of my neighbors' mail and they get some of mine, magazines come late or not at all, Netflix DVDs arrive shattered, and the Van Brunt post office is an absolute disgrace.

more reasons to have everything delivered to your office or a mail delivery service.

Anybody else have a problem with misdelivered mail? Constantly getting mail for other people, sometimes with an address (or street number) a digit off from mine, sometimes with an entirely unrelated address. Makes me wonder how much of my stuff is being delivered elsewhere. (Fortunately, I rarely get anything important by USPS if I can help it, precisely because USPS sucks.)

Oh, and tipping the freaking mail carrier? I'm sorry, when we feel compelled to do that, the terrorists have won, or something.

I'd tip them if they were actually doing it right. Tipping someone for sending my mail to Bushwick is beyond my grasp. I tipped the paper guy last year because he managed to get the paper near my doorstep at least 3 out of 7 days. My standards are not that high.

Rose wrote: [quote=linusvanpelt]Anybody else have a problem with misdelivered mail? Constantly getting mail for other people, sometimes with an address (or street number) a digit off from mine, sometimes with an entirely unrelated address. Makes me wonder how much of my stuff is being delivered elsewhere. (Fortunately, I rarely get anything important by USPS if I can help it, precisely because USPS sucks.)

Yeah, all the time. I often get mail for a house that is the same house number as mine but two streets away. If I put it back in my own mailbox, the carrier ignores it. If I take it to the post office or drop it in a mailbox on the street, sometimes the exact same piece of mail will return to me, and then I'll walk it over to their house. :roll:

But what is even more annoying is when someone mails me something and it comes back to them marked "no such address" -- my house has been standing here, at this address, for 100+ years!

i done that with letters every day. drop it right back into the mail box. and funniest thing is i had one come back 4 times. than i just drove over the person house drop it off their mailbox.

The best letter carrier in my neck of the woods is named Paul.
His territory is near John Jay HS.
One of the best in the business.
The newsmagazines come on the right day.
Bills are on time.
Even the junk mail is timely.
But when he's off ... boy, the mail is off.
And anything bigger than a magazine is sent somewhere else, because the 9th Street post office is a den of horrors.

One day I was walking towards 7th Ave (from 8th Ave.) on a street I normally walk down (probably 16th, but could have been Windsor or 15th) and there was one of those green mailboxes. I noticed some feet sticking out. The mailman was INSIDE the box taking what looked to be a nap. WTF?! He had to totally contort himself just to get inside the thing. Didn't look too restful.

Now, the UPS guys know how to nap! They park the truck somewhere and stretch out in the back!

That is funny " It Slipped his mind" your a mail main, how could you forget to deliver mail lol.

you Ever notice that sometimes the mail man have mail in there car. I saw one time they park their cars over here take out the mail cart and all the mail from ther trunk.

erikka wrote: Wait...tip? I'm supposed to tip these people?

I had no idea.

Actually its illegal for them to accept a tip (cash). Cookies are ok though

http://www.usoge.gov/pages/advisory_opinions/advop_files/1997/97x1.html

I'd say that I live in the same building as you, except that I'm up by 5th and Carroll.

The concept of "mail delivery" is freakin RIDICULOUS. We have maybe 40 apartments in our building, each with a small mailbox. There's a table for overflow.

EVERYTHING practically goes into the overflow pile/box. I found two different atm/debit cards of mine in there. Not in the mailbox, where you'd want something like that to be.

Now, getting your mail is not as simple as unlocking your mailbox and taking said mail. Instead, you take five minutes to sort through the mail of 40 people or so, looking for your stuff -- and recognizing the few jackasses who you KNOW have moved but couldn't get their mail forwarded.

Oh, and there's the nights I come home to see people's mailboxes hanging open, with mail in them. This has included my mailbox on one occasion.

As a precaution, I never have packages sent to my home, always to work. I can't even imagine what that'd be like.

jennitrixie wrote: Glad to know I'm not taking crazy pills.

Some days it's like the carrier doesn't even try. S/he just dumps all the mail for the building on the "overflow" table. (Doesn't help that we have the world's teeniest mailboxes, either.) I can understand leaving packages because most buildings are empty in the afternoon--my building doesn't have any mommies. Am I going to get my New Yorker on Tuesday? Wednesday? Thursday? A week and a half late? Place your bets!

I complained about the inconsistencey of mail delivery to the USPS, and my magazines put something called PubTracker on my magazines, to figure out where the delivery breakdown is. (Also extended my subscriptions. Squeaky wheels, people.)

I don't think it's a PS specific issue. What kind of service can I expect to get from people who have a very low chance of consequences for poor performance?

Subject: same here

I'm on Carroll between Eighth and the park, and our postal service took a huge and very noticeable nosedive two or three weeks ago. The mail comes in one giant brick held by rubber bands, which then gets unloaded on the overflow table (at best) or on the floor; the New Yorker now reliably comes a week late and torn to shreds. The weird part is that, as I said, things used to be fine until two or three weeks ago. What happened? Are the real carriers on strike and being replaced by grudge-bearing scabs?