us post office

[fenceman]

Ive had a po box in a nearby(30 miles ) large city for about 12 years. For business reasons. Those reasons no longer exist so i decided to move the mailbox to local small town po box. We have no mailbox at house so we recieved both personal and business mail at same box. Made a weekly trip to town to get mail. I started at local p.o. was told to fill out one card to forward business mail and one to forward personal mail. No problem. We start getting business mail no problem, personal mail getting sent back to big city po marked unable to forward. Went to big city p.o was told couldnt forward both to same address WHAT. Didnt argue went back to local p.o. opened second box in my name. Went back to big city p.o was told to fill out form and drop In any mailbox.IM AT THE. POST OFFICE. I do as im told now im getting now im getting no personal mail forwarded or sent to original box all returned to sender. Now i believe sending a letter across the country for 50 cents is a bargain. But for pete sakes i wish they would have charged me 20 buckes or what ever and got it right. Maybe they would be in better shape financially. And you cant talk to anybody who cares. Just fill out a form and put in a mailbox.IM AT THE ......POSTOFFICE.....If anybody out there. Gets any of my mail please let me know

 

[fenceman]

Ps if you need to mail me address it to resident, ill get it no problem.

 

[D2Cat]

I kinda know the feeling. Needed a special seal for a tractor I'm working on. No local dealers had one and would take 4 days to get one. I located the seal at dealership in Durant, Ok. I asked how long to get it to my zip code. He said mail already went out for the day (at 2"30 PM) so it would leave the next day, go to Dallas, go to Tulsa, go to Kansas City, then to me. OR I could pay $32 overnight for a $14 seal.

Pony Express was faster!!

 

[bbirder]

Good Luck Fenceman,
You're dealing with the Govt who's employees don't really give a dam. My wife and I have a small business located in the same place for 29 yrs. Mailman passes everyday and will wave at you if you wave to him, but get this. The Post Office says our address doesn't exist so they won't deliver mail to us. We have to get all our mail at the PO Box. UPS and Fedex has no problem delivering to us but not the Post Office. Have you ever tried arguing with a bureaucrat who tells you that you don't exist. I've gone thru three postmasters who all had the same IQ. I now find it easier on my blood pressure to just go to the PO and get my mail. After all, if we didn't let these people keep there job they would just be on welfare!

 

[highgrit]

The USPS is like the rest of the civil servants only worse. They have forgotten that we pay we pay their wages. The post office and their employees, retirees are a giant burden to our country.

 

[bbirder]

Don't get me started now!
We used to have two boxes, one labeled local and one labeled out of town. To be more "efficient" they now have only one box that says outgoing. The local (mail to next door) now gets trucked to the city 25 miles away to be sorted ( local box sorted for them) and sent back to our town for delivery. What a hoot! :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang:

 

[Rafter S]

Years ago here at the local post office there were two boxes for you drop your letter in that you wanted to mail, one marked "Local" and one marked "Out of Town". Of course the stuff placed in the Local box stayed right there and was sent to the correct box.

Now there's just one box. I'm told everything goes to Houston for sorting. Maybe that's more efficIent, but I don't see how.

 

[kenny thomas]

I recently got a USPS money order and sent it to a gun shop in Missouri for a pistol. Usually takes 2-3 days for it to be deliered. It took 24 days to get there. I had already given up on it and paid for the pistol with a credit card nd had received the pistol over a week before they got the money order. Oh I ask about tracing the order and they said it would take 2 weeks for them to see if it had been cashed.
Oh, by the way UPS delivered the pistol to my local shop from Missouri in 2 days.

 

[highgrit]

And USPS blames the computer for its financial woes.

 

[greybeard]

San Angelo had more than one zip code (not that it would have made any difference I suspect) but to send a letter from my house to an address IN San Angelo 4 miles away, the letter went to San Angelo Main PO, then on a truck up to Big Spring Sorting 87 miles away, sorted and some kind of barcode thing, then back on another truck 87 miles back to San Angelo Main PO, then to the PO annex that served the reciever's zip code, and next morning, delivered. 3-4 days. It was actually faster to send a letter from San Angelo to Baton Rouge Louisiana (where my insurance premium went) than to send one accross town or across the county.

 

[Brute 23]

..... and on top of the incompetence our people are rude.

 

[TexasBred]

My wife is a rural mail carrier. Wish I had time and space to tell you just half of the "other side of the story". Probably would not solve your problem or change your opinion of USPS but at least you'd have a bit of an idea about what really goes on. She tries to be nice to everyone and never rude. Unfortunately there are a certain number of a$$ holes out there that make that impossible.

As for being a burden on the nation, the USPS is the only government entity that funds itself. Hundreds of millions they lost last year really only represented the amount the were short of funding themselves 100%....or it may have been the deficit after congress moved funds from the USPS budget and reallocated them to other agencies leaving the "so-called" budget deficit.

BTW the postal service delivers millions of pkgs. for UPS and FedX. YOu'll have to read the labels closely to see which one and the UPS/FedX truck delivers them to the PO in an unmarked truck. :lol: :lol:

 

[wv mud river]

you are right on texas bred. as a retired usps employee I earned every dime coming to me as with most usps employees. walked 14 miles a day in all kinds of weather. 90+ to below 0. carrying up to30 lbs in mail bag. my retirement is mostly what I saved thru a 401 called TSP and I have to pay for my health insurance that cuts into my retirement. it is not the easy govt job people think it is.

 

[Rafter S]

..... and on top of the incompetence our people are rude.

Not at mine. I've never had one of the people at the counter fail to be friendly and helpful.

 

[fitz]

The USPS is like the rest of the civil servants only worse. They have forgotten that we pay we pay their wages. The post office and their employees, retirees are a giant burden to our country.

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer. You'd have to explain that one to me.

 

[fitz]

My wife is a rural mail carrier. Wish I had time and space to tell you just half of the "other side of the story". Probably would not solve your problem or change your opinion of USPS but at least you'd have a bit of an idea about what really goes on. She tries to be nice to everyone and never rude. Unfortunately there are a certain number of a$$ holes out there that make that impossible.

As for being a burden on the nation, the USPS is the only government entity that funds itself. Hundreds of millions they lost last year really only represented the amount the were short of funding themselves 100%....or it may have been the deficit after congress moved funds from the USPS budget and reallocated them to other agencies leaving the "so-called" budget deficit.

BTW the postal service delivers millions of pkgs. for UPS and FedX. YOu'll have to read the labels closely to see which one and the UPS/FedX truck delivers them to the PO in an unmarked truck. :lol: :lol:

Congress took care of bankrupting the Postal Service by requiring it to fund it's employee pensions 75 years in advance. What other employer in the entire world is required to conform to such stupidity ?

 

[dun]

I'm glad to see some that are sticking up for the USPS and mail carriers. I get frustrated sometimes with the mail routing but appreciate the job they do.

 

[Brute 23]

In no way do I think all USPS people are bad or that they don't deserve their money. We have a family member who married a very nice lady that works for USPS.... and yes... she has some stories.

The USPS is like the rest of the civil servants only worse. They have forgotten that we pay we pay their wages. The post office and their employees, retirees are a giant burden to our country.

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer. You'd have to explain that one to me.

With tax dollars and being a customer.

 

[Workinonit Farm]

BTW the postal service delivers millions of pkgs. for UPS :lol: :lol:

I have noticed that, on a number of packages we have recieved. The first time I noticed it, I did a double-take, looked twice and was surprised by it.

My only complaint is that someone "out there" like a couple of the magazines I subscribe to, I know this becuase they often arrive waaaayyyyy late and sometimes with crumbs in them!

 

[fenceman]

The fact that good hard working people work for usps in no excuse for incompetence. The fact that it is a hard job is no excuse for incompetence.