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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
What the FUCK USPS?!
I've had an ongoing dispute (battle) with my mail carrier for almost a year now. It started when I got tired of getting mail for a house 2 streets down with the same house number. At first I had no problem walking it over there because, what if they got my mail too, it would be a good opportunity for me to pick it up at the same time. After a few weeks of this I called the USPS and complained. Although the frequency has gone down from once a week to once every couple of weeks, it's safe to say that not enough is being done. I've filed probably a dozen other complaints since. This has been going on for almost a year!
After that first complaint however, things seemed to get worse with my parcel deliveries. I'm one of those people that when I order something, I know where it is at every step of it's delivery. I track everything, even though the general consensus is that the USPS Track and Confirm is a useless piece of shit, I know when something is supposed to be delivered. Two times this past year I've had to complain because a package I was tracking went from "Out for delivery" to "Notice left for customer" when NO DELIVERY WAS ATTEMPTED AND NO NOTICE WAS LEFT. The only explanation is that the moron forgot (or refused) to deliver my package and LIED about making a delivery attempt. When I talk to the postmaster, it's always a new excuse: "Oh, it's a new driver on your route", or "Your normal driver is on vacation and it's a backup", or "I'm sure she left a notice, you may have overlooked it". I've only had 1 package go missing this year, but it was a $700 paintball gun. Luckily it was insured and I was reimbursed, but it was a 1 of a kind gem that I'll never get the chance to buy again.
Yesterday, things took a turn to the utterly stupid.
We have a shared mailbox in this development. In this shared mailbox, there is a big parcel box. When you get a box delivered to you and the carrier doesn't want to take her fat, lazy ass to your doorstep, she will lock it in the parcel box and lock the key in your regular mail box. This is what I found in my mailbox yesterday:
And this is what I see just below my mailbox:
That's right. The stupid bitch broke the key off in the parcel box and left me the stub. Never in my life have I ever witnessed something so utterly idiotic. Needless to say I was livid. I now have 3 open cases with the USPS: 1 to have someone explain to me why my carrier is a complete retard, 1 to have the mailbox repaired and my parcel (whatever it is locked in there) delivered to me, and 1 to investigate why my main post office stops taking phone calls at 4pm when their automated message clearly says they take phone calls until 5pm.
I did eventually get a call into the main post office this morning after someone picked up and immediately disconnected the call 3 times. They are investigating and will call me back. Sure they are. Meanwhile I'm sitting next to the window at home waiting to confront whomever shows up to deliver my mail myself.
After that first complaint however, things seemed to get worse with my parcel deliveries. I'm one of those people that when I order something, I know where it is at every step of it's delivery. I track everything, even though the general consensus is that the USPS Track and Confirm is a useless piece of shit, I know when something is supposed to be delivered. Two times this past year I've had to complain because a package I was tracking went from "Out for delivery" to "Notice left for customer" when NO DELIVERY WAS ATTEMPTED AND NO NOTICE WAS LEFT. The only explanation is that the moron forgot (or refused) to deliver my package and LIED about making a delivery attempt. When I talk to the postmaster, it's always a new excuse: "Oh, it's a new driver on your route", or "Your normal driver is on vacation and it's a backup", or "I'm sure she left a notice, you may have overlooked it". I've only had 1 package go missing this year, but it was a $700 paintball gun. Luckily it was insured and I was reimbursed, but it was a 1 of a kind gem that I'll never get the chance to buy again.
Yesterday, things took a turn to the utterly stupid.
We have a shared mailbox in this development. In this shared mailbox, there is a big parcel box. When you get a box delivered to you and the carrier doesn't want to take her fat, lazy ass to your doorstep, she will lock it in the parcel box and lock the key in your regular mail box. This is what I found in my mailbox yesterday:
That's right. The stupid bitch broke the key off in the parcel box and left me the stub. Never in my life have I ever witnessed something so utterly idiotic. Needless to say I was livid. I now have 3 open cases with the USPS: 1 to have someone explain to me why my carrier is a complete retard, 1 to have the mailbox repaired and my parcel (whatever it is locked in there) delivered to me, and 1 to investigate why my main post office stops taking phone calls at 4pm when their automated message clearly says they take phone calls until 5pm.
I did eventually get a call into the main post office this morning after someone picked up and immediately disconnected the call 3 times. They are investigating and will call me back. Sure they are. Meanwhile I'm sitting next to the window at home waiting to confront whomever shows up to deliver my mail myself.