Years back, it was a very good job to have. Security and great pay.
Now, there is a large turn-over of their jobs....around here anyway.

The delivery vehicles are their own, and the routes are long.

Automatic drafting from my checking acct. or via my debit card (most are autopay) ... it's my only card, and I use it to get cash back (real cash in my pocket ... folding money)....

For using at TB :)

My mail carrier is good. However, an envelope that would take a day or two to be delivered, can now take up to 5 days. And this is Honolulu delivery!

So he's getting pretty good at his hobby, huh?

I recently got a bill in the mail from a doctor's office. Stamped in red ink was something about being 90 days overdue/third billing/last warning/etc. Weird. I never got the first two. Things like this make me wonder: was it the doctor's office/billing company? USPS? Certainly not my mailbox, as it's one of those lockable ones about the size of a banker's box.

We get excellent service from our postal folks. I've got no complaints.

Same here. Only about 3000 people in this town and I think that helps. Same lady has brought my mail forever.

I don’t have much problem with our mail, as I don’t send anything, in my incoming is usually small car parts from eBay or Amazon.

Speaking of the USPS, their tracking sucks. Every time I look at the updates, it says received at carrier facility. It says that for every update, but it gives no location. Then one day, it shows up

USPS tracking is spot on for me. I see it enter the sysyem, leave, then reach the distribution center here, then on to my local PO, then out for delivery .... my sweetie puts it in my box around 11 am :).

The dude running the USPS now is from around here ... just a very rich, political appointee, totally out of his element .... and typical :(.

Yeah .... that's the guy :(

The mail system makes no sense to me.
We do have mail carriers that live in the area and know the customers, but for some reason they rotate people from out of town every couple of months to work in the PO.
There used to be two slots for sending main, "local" and "out of town." The local mail never left town. Now, I get my water bill from the Village water department 1 1/2 miles away and it is postmarked Columbus, Ohio - 70 miles from here. It goes from here, 70 miles to Columbus, gets postmarked, then 70 miles back here, then it's sorted and delivered. It system seems incredibly inefficient to me.

It is always entertaining to go to the Post Office; the employees are a study in slow motion and incompetence - and I am being nice. We regularly get mail for neighbors stuffed into our box. We deliver it of course as do they when they get our mail. The "mail lady" is definitely one brick short of a load.

For me choosing a carrier is a bit like Russian roulette. USPS is like having two rounds in the cylinder.

I got to know one of the mail carriers in our town and she said the motor carriers get their mail sorted and put in order during the early am by other people.
She said if you get your next door neighbors mail...chances are it happened to the next few houses also.

So now I just put it back into the mailbox and put the flag up....so that they are aware of the mistake.

Everyone beatching about complaint this and complaint that.

shrug

Mailing a letter a full 3000 miles across the states for 60 cents or whatever it is now is a bargain.

It's a service, don't like it don't use it.


and get off my lawn!

Most of the time I have no issues but let me explain:

I almost never use stamps or go to the post office to mail anything.
If I send something by mail, it is usually UPS. (I like the tracking numbers)
All my bills are paid electronically, received. They are paid thru my bank. ( I like the record keeping).


What I get in the mail isn't allot. So I have no issue. However, my youngest is getting married this June and I never received my invitation. So, stuff can happen.

Yet when I ordered parts for my telescope with a "signature only" delivery USPS (I had no choice in shipper) left $3 grand of optics sitting on the ground next to my mailbox.

^^^ I had a similar thing happen with a $2K package left in my mailbox that I was supposed to sign for.... U started a thread here too ... imagine that ;)!

The tracking was spot on, it was safe to leave it in my 'hood, and as she drove away, I checked the tracking update... "customer signed for package" (or something to that effect)... ummm, no I did not :(. But she's cute, friendly, and been my carrier for prolly a dozen years now ....

She can walk on my lawn any time :D

Weird followup to this story.
Monday I received an email from eBay saying "new estimated delivery - May 6"
Tuesday I received an email "order delivered"

Now again, I received this back at the end of February.

Looking at the tracking, it's like they created a dummy tracking label. The seller shipped it Feb 21. On May 4th, it was in New York City, May 5th in St Paul, May 6th out for delivery, but "no access to mailbox", and then delivered on May 7. I didn't receive a second one.

I tried bringing up the tracking info today to reference for this post, and the page won't load. Works fine for other numbers.

I mostly have good luck, the local post office has awesome employees.

I did send a package to a customer a few months ago and the box was trashed, all the packing and lots of parts were missing- cost me several hundred dollars. God only knows what happened to that poor box. That is not normal, I send quite a few packages with no problems except maybe delays.

I will second the notion that less than a dollar gets a letter to anywhere in the country. I have mildly wondered how far a dude could move a letter for that much money; minimum wage gives you only so many minutes of travel, how much gas can you buy. I figure maybe you could take it a few miles? I know, I know that they lose money, but fun to think about it.