Rant about the mail

Subject: Re: Mail delivery has been terrible as long as we've been he

Anonymous wrote: We frequently and repeatedly receive mail for other addresses. I've dropped misdelivered mail back in the street mailbox, only to have the same piece redelivered here!

What I've learned (I think from this thread) is that you have to cross out the bar codes on the envelope. Sometimes there is more than one bar code -- look on the back of the envelope too. If you don't cover those up, the piece of mail will keep coming back to you in an infinite loop.

I was in the 9th Street post office last week and the guy ahead of me was complaining that he had received his W-2 form in an envelope that had been ripped open -- and his address and social security number had been torn off the form! And he lived in a private house where no one else had access to the mail. :shock:

I'm really pissed at UPS right now. My sister bought me something from Amazon for a Christmas present and I never got it. She checked on it through Amazon and found out that it had been returned as undeliverable. I never got a note or anything saying they'd even tried to deliver it. She had Amazon resend it.

So I'm off work today and went out on an errand around 9:30 a.m. There was a note from UPS saying they'd tried to deliver the package yesterday. Except the note wasn't there when I got home from work yesterday. I called the number on the note, and an automated message said they'd tried to deliver at 2:12 p.m. yesterday, it was their final attempt, and I had to come to their warehouse out in the ass-end of Brownsville within 5 business days.

Around noon, trying to see if I had other options for redelivery, I looked up the tracking number on ups.com. There, it said they had tried to redeliver at 11:16 a.m. today. I was sitting on my living room sofa at 11:16 a.m. today and would have seen a UPS guy come to the door, or at least would have heard the knock or the doorbell. (Something else arrived by FedEx today, and I spotted the guy before he even got to the door.)

I called UPS back and got the same automated system, now listing the same 11:16 a.m. today delivery as the final attempt but this time giving me the option of rescheduling. WTF is up with these people?

I'm resigned to the mail service these days. My New Yorkers arrive on Thursday when my friends in Manhattan get theirs on Monday. And I've had to extend my subscription three times since September when issues simply haven't arrived.

I'm afraid that if I complain at the Post Office, they'll just stop delivering the mail altogether.

The last few times I've been to the 7th ave post office there's been a 30-45 min wait. I felt bad for the post woman who was manning the lone window. She said that she wasn't suppose to be at 7th ave, but was covering for someone and the postmaster has been cutting service for the branch, resulting in the slow service. She said to call the postmaster directly because he/she wasn't listening to the employees. 718.348.3000.

veets wrote: I love how they have a tv set up so when u wait on the endless line you are supposed to be distracted by the soap operas on the screen.

Nowadays they play a cheesy spot about their services, so you are forced to listen to Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle" (the USPS theme song).

Meanwhile, time keeps on slippin, slippin, slippin into the future and I still haven't gotten my bf's Valentine's Day card. Granted, the Royal Mail could be at fault since he posted it from the U.K., but I'd rather blame the post office here. :twisted:

Flexi... you changed you avatar. Now what am I going to masturbate to?

See... now that's what I'm talking about people.... A woman who can take a joke. You made my day Flexi. Are we going to hook up or what?

I was in there an Hour waiting in line. yeah its a mess inside too. The automated stamp machine right never does work. When i was there the machine that you can do it your self for packages, nobody to get the thing to open to drop in the packages, so they had to go to the teller and give it to them. They had 2 tellers helping people, 1 teller doing passports and another for pickups. Of course the line that was the longest one of the tellers had to go on break. I asked for postcard stamps, nope they didnt have any, then asked for customs forms and they only had a couple. What can we do to make that place faster and better?

I would say I get at least three letters a week addressed to someone else at a completely different part of Park Slope.

Netflix sent me a movie early last week. It never got here. Today, Netflix emailed to let me know that they'd received the movie back (as if I'd returned it). So, at least the postal worker who stole my movie was courteous enough to drop it back in the mail after watching it. I think things are looking up!