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Rant about the mail

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  • brooklynjack
    brooklynjack
    It's not just 22125, 11218 sucks too, mail crammed into our BIG boxes, even if it is just 2 envelope you can depend on them being crammed and folded in.


    it wasn't always like this. When we lived in the city, 10028, Danny our mailman was great.

    As to tipping, it is a federal offense to bride a postal worker. Danny would never accept anything because of this.
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    Subject: mail

    We sort our mail into 2 piles.. our mail and mail that was delivered to us by mistake. The mistake pile is usually pretty big at the end of the week.
  • jennitrixie
    jennitrixie
    I was reading the articles linked from the Gawker piece and they mentioned something I don't understand. They said the USPS was phasing out "stoop service" because it takes too much time and because of the liability potential of having to climb steps. In my building, you go up the stoop, enter the little foyer and that's where the mailboxes (and table) are. So does the phasing out of "stoop service" mean that in the future carriers won't (in a perfect world) go into the foyer and put the mail into the individual boxes? Or is there a different setup in some buildings that require the carrier to go deeper into the building or to individual apartments? Does that mean landlords are going to have to put mail receptacles on their gates/in their courtyards? I had never heard the term before so I'm having trouble picturing the change and whether it'll affect my building.

    Who would have thought that matching mail to addresses and putting them into their respective boxes was sooooo difficult, huh? (Kind of like "America's Next Top Model" has taught us that modeling is totally creative and like hard work.)
  • daahookup21
    daahookup21
    Went to the post office on 9th street today at Noon and the line was loooooong. Walked in and then walked back out. I needed to get a customs form to send something out, and thought they would just have them in the open on the table there. they have nothing anywhere in there, and didn't want to wait on that long line. Going to try again now, hopefully its not a long line.
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    Subject: terrible on 6th avenue too!

    hi-

    just to jump in on this thread- i've had a problem with my mail carrier for about 2 years now.

    i live on 6th ave & 3rd street- my regular guy, paul, has been awesome.

    but when i have any other carrier (which is more & more often), the delivery sucks!

    there are only 3 apartments in the building, and the guy can't be bothered to sort the magazines or junk mail. he leaves it in a pile on the floor, elastic still intact from the post office.

    i've found some of my regular mail (bills, checks!, etc.) & my neighbors' mail on the floor as well. it's scary- luckily, my neighbors are awesome, so i don't really have to worry about one of them taking something. but i an't imagine if i had to deal with this in a larger bldg. with people i didn't know.

    and when my mail actually makes it into the box, it's usually crushed or ripped. last year most of my xmas cards were torn.

    i've complained to the post office a few times, even sending them photos of my crushed & ripped mail, but nothing has improved.

    is there a way to even stop this? get some new carriers in the neighborhood?

    i'm going nuts. i can't believe these people get paid for doing a job that they don't do.

    wtf?

    thanks!
  • daahookup21
    daahookup21
    went back to the post office about 2pm and the line was still long. On 7th Ave is there a post office?
  • cabaki
    cabaki
    yeah, theres one on 7th avenue and 3nd street, but the line is always out the door when i go there (no automated postal machines like Van Brunt either....:P)
  • mrdennis
    mrdennis
    Hey! Yesterday, after 3 weeks with no mail I got my cable bill and three letters from my mom, the first and last letters postmarked 8 days apart!
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    Subject: 11217 postal service

    I lived in Manhattan for about 15 years and I can remember ONCE receiving a letter for a different address. Do most of you live in 11215? I live in 11217 and have exactly the same problem - constantly receiving mail for neighbors and people living in other Brooklyn neighborhoods. Aside from the poor replacement/temp carriers, I think the main problem is at the post office with the coding and sorting. Although the misdelivered letters do not have my address, the bar code placed at the bottom of them IS coded for my address - which is why you have to black this out when you return the letter to the P.O. for redelivery or it will just come back to you.
  • erikka
    erikka
    Has anyone ever gone to the 11215 post office on a Saturday afternoon? I once saw a woman go batshit crazy while standing in line. We had all been waiting over an hour to pick up packages and they decided to close the window an hour early. No reason given, just "closed". This woman ran over to the entrance to the back and started banging on it, screaming at the top of her lungs. Not even screaming words, just this horrible gutteral AIEEEEEG! sort of sound. Everyone else started screaming too---it was a like a room full of angry monkeys getting ready to fling some poo. Sometimes I suspect the people who work there are fucking with our heads. Yeah, it says outside that the window is open until six, but hey....now it's not. And yeah, we said we had your package. We don't. Oh, and that's not your mail. Where is your mail? Shit....look at that. Closing time!

    I think that office must be spectacularly mismanaged. Most of my trips to the post office aren't pleasant, but I get things done. And I've never had words with the mailcarrier anywhere else I live, but that's mostly because they never gave me reason to complain. Anytime I need to get stamps or a money order at the 11215 office, I feel like I need to put on riot gear before waiting in line because someone will surely bug out.
  • daahookup21
    daahookup21
    is there any good time to go to the post office on 9th street where the line doesn't go all the way to the back of the place? I never see more than 2 tellers . Sometimes they have a person outside there looks like they are helping , instead of her there put her back inside as a teller.
  • rose
    rose
    There is really no good time, but the less-bad times are mid-morning and mid-afternoon, avoiding the lunchtime rush. But even then, you aren't guaranteed to avoid a long line, because there are never more than two clerks actually working at the windows (as opposed to socializing with each other behind the windows or sitting at the window doing something other than helping customers) and all it takes is one customer with a really complicated postal transaction to slow things way down.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    They clearly ignore complaints. Maybe a class-action lawsuit would make them pay attention? Of course, you'd have to show there were damages...
  • armchair_warrior
    armchair_warrior
    too bad they cant all be sacked!!!
  • piglet
    piglet
    I'm so thankful I live near the one on PPW. The line can be a bit long at lunch, but no horror stories and the workers are fairly pleasant and responsive.
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    the downside of getting your packages at work: the entire floor now knows my father is a lunatic and sent me a big cooler of stupid omaha steaks for christmas. how the heck am I going to get this thing home?
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    Mmmm...... Steaks.............
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    Carnivore wrote: Mmmm...... Steaks.............
    the dumbest part is that the shipment is actually mostly potatoes. why do I need potatoes, dad? cripes.
  • bklyntransplant
    bklyntransplant
    I too received Holiday Meat at work.....a gift from my mother.
  • cabaki
    cabaki
    OK, I am SUPER pissed right now.....I just got a call from one of my clients who had recently sent a check out to my address, and the check was sent back to them because apparently, my address DOES NOT EXIST!!!

    What to do??? Should I get a PO box because I cant expect the postal service to realized that my apartment exists on a map, when I have been living in the same apartment for 3.5 years!!!!!!

    Its one thing when you miss little pieces of mail, but when your paycheck gets sent back to the company, that's just f*cking wrong....

    :evil: :evil: :evil:
  • cabaki
    cabaki
    steve wrote: I just want to say that Paul The Postman is the best there is. You cannot do a better job than he does.
    How do i get a hold of this guy? Can I pay him to be my own private postman? :lol:

    I am in 11215, btw.
  • steve
    steve
    Paul rules. Seeing as you are all so interested in postmen. I gave Paul a bottle of wine last year, can I give him another better bottle of wine this year, or do I have to go in an entirely different direction?
  • cabaki
    cabaki
    steve wrote: Paul rules. Seeing as you are all so interested in postmen. I gave Paul a bottle of wine last year, can I give him another better bottle of wine this year, or do I have to go in an entirely different direction?
    I only like postmen that deliver my mail to ME, in a timely fashion!
    :P
  • steve
    steve
    My postman is better than your postman...nah nannah nah nah
  • jennitrixie
    jennitrixie
    God. I had something sent to me that I hadn't ordered, and so per the sendee's instructions put it back in the mail marker "REFUSED, RETURN TO SENDER: only to get it back a day later. I've just put it back in the drop box with everything blacked out but the return address and I also drew arrows pointing out the return address. Not to be un-PC, but -- what a bunch of fucking idiots.
  • cabaki
    cabaki
    Can we start boycotting the USPS post office in bklyn so someone notices something is wrong here??
  • anonymous
    anonymous
    I'm in 11215, and my mail tends to show up sometime between 5:30 and 6 p.m. Um - the HELL?!?! I know that someone's got to be near the end of the line, but isn't that stretching it just a tad?
  • daahookup21
    daahookup21
    maybe, i know i get my mail around noon - 1pm. that's if its the regular mail person. If its a fill in mail person then dont know when th email arrives.
  • rose
    rose
    I get mine in the 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. range too, but I can't say that it really bothers me.
  • anonymous
    anonymous
    Seriously, what's the best way to get some action on the situation in 11215? The post office is a sick joke. Ordinarily mild-mannered people are driven to rage and desperate acts. I've seen folks start crying in there. It's a freaking horror show! Why do we put up with this?
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