How is your mail delivery?

[rockfan4]

I saw this in the news yesterday, and although I don't live in Iowa, I'm seeing some of the same things.

https://www.kcrg.com/2024/03/26/weve-been-stonewalled-no-answers-usps-missing-mail/

Late last year, my wife sent her son a birthday card. It was returned as undeliverable. He lives in an apartment with roommates, maybe his name isn't registered with the post office. I don't know.

A while ago, a mailman stuck a card on the inside of our mailbox door, with my last name, and my wife's last name before she married me (going on 6 years now). The only things she gets with that last name on it are catalogs and junk mail. I drew a line though that name. Maybe that's when the trouble started.

She ordered something recently off eBay, tracking said 'delivered'. No package. 3 weeks later, the package mysteriously appeared on our doorstep.

I ordered something off eBay in mid February, about 2 weeks after I got it the seller messaged me, asking if I got it. I did, but tracking never updated to 'delivered', so eBay wasn't going to pay him. I confirmed I received it ( I had already left him positive feedback the day I received it ), and I guess he got paid, he hasn't contacted me again.

I get three tax forms from one entity. Two were delivered, one returned, and they called me asking if I moved. Nope. Had to go to their office to pick up the third form.

We get reminder post cards for the dog licenses. Only got one. No idea what happened to the other one.

Anyone else have similar stories?

[ramonesfreak]

yes

most interesting is i have a new mail man that runs from house to house with his arms flapping like a bird. he yells “he was just laying there dead” over and over and over and in between laughs like a crazy person. the other day i watched him do this at every house as he went down my street. maybe turrets or something? most peculiar mama.

[KRLocke]

USPS has been terrible since Trump installed a big donor, Louis DeJoy to fix the postal system back in 2020. $1.2 million gets you a cushy job dismantling the USPS I guess.

[Sooner or later]

No problems.

I rarely use USPS, UPS, or Fed Ex.

[HobieMarty]

Recently I have had 2 separate ebay orders go to a town near me and then the tracking would update to "missent" and I would receive the items a few days later. One item left the nearby town and went all the way up to Evansville, Indiana before returning back to my area. I have never had issues like this before. These items were sent through USPS by the way.

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[Evans, Marv]

The latest mail person out here in the country has a permanent scowl. I'm supposing doing the job interferes with online time, especially since there is no internet out here.

[craigster59]

We have one of those "community mailboxes" that serve around 12 homes. Each box is about 18" d x 8" w x 6" h. What mail doesn't fit is supposed to be dropped on the porch.

Our new guy seems to make a hobby out of crushing things down to where they fit in the mailbox. I had a soft cover book completely folded in half, shoved into the box the other day. It's like they don't care.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

This was over 10 years ago now but I shipped a 3.0L crank to the buyer in Canada and along the way, someone opened up the tube, pulled out the crank and then shipped the tube to its destination open on one end and of course empty. The tube was over 3/8 thick fiberboard and the ends were steel plates with teeth that you pressed into the tube and the bit into the fiberboard so the only way to get them out was to destroy them... they couldn't back out as the teeth just bit more into the tube. So I had to buy another one from a local shop and ship that via UPS.

To the OP, yes, mail is extremely slow these days.

[Tobra]

Had a number of two day express USPS boxes disappear into the ether

[rfuerst911sc]

We live in north Georgia and my brother in law lives in North Carolina . It's a 5 hour drive . Four weeks ago we mailed him a birthday card . We mailed it a week before his birthday . It took 3 weeks to get there . Just pathetic .

[Zeke]

2 times I have bought registration tags for 2 of my cars and got nothing back. I called AAA and they said yes you are paid up. They (AAA) will kindly print out new for 27 bucks. I just went a year w/o the current sticker on one car and now the same for another.

On the first one I called the DMV. They said they got the payment and even told me from what office my tag was mailed on what date. I guess the mailman sells them.

[stevej37]

Rural mail delivery here. Gal with a rhd 15 year old Honda Odyssey drops it off.

Never any problems.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by rockfan4

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A while ago, a mailman stuck a card on the inside of our mailbox door, with my last name, and my wife's last name before she married me (going on 6 years now). The only things she gets with that last name on it are catalogs and junk mail. I drew a line though that name. Maybe that's when the trouble started.-snip-

I would say if everything was fine until then...perhaps so.

My USPS here is fantastic!

I'm on a first name basis with my carrier.

We've chatted about car and motorcycle stuff.

He gets a $50 at Christmas time with a nice Thank You card.

Last week I left for him this pin from my late stepfather, who was an area Postmaster for 12 years........along with a copy of my late step-father's obituary, which highlighted his many civic, business, and military achievements.....so the pin would perhaps carry more meaning for him.

[oldE]

Canada Post up here of course. We are about 6 miles from the post office. The biggest problem we had over the 43 years since we built was Canada Post reorganizing all the rural routes. I believe we had three changes of address within 10 years.
Now however all is well. If we get something too big for our mailbox at the end of our 1/4 mile long driveway, our driver comes to the house and knocks on the door.
Of course not many people use the mail these days, so he doesn't have a lot to do.

Best
Les

[Tobra]

Paid a bunch of bills a few weeks ago. No problem with any of it, except the credit card bill got lost.

Mail gets stolen regularly around here

[stevej37]

My post earlier of 'never any problems' might be due to having over 90% of my mail as incoming.
The last book of 20 stamps I bought was over a year ago....so not much outgoing mail.

I use my credit unions bill-pay online for all bills.

[rockfan4]

Originally Posted by Baz

I would say if everything was fine until then...perhaps so.

My USPS here is fantastic!

I'm on a first name basis with my carrier.

We've chatted about car and motorcycle stuff.

He gets a $50 at Christmas time with a nice Thank You card.

Last week I left for him this pin from my late stepfather, who was an area Postmaster for 12 years........along with a copy of my late step-father's obituary, which highlighted his many civic, business, and military achievements.....so the pin would perhaps carry more meaning for him.

That's a neat pin. My father delivered mail for a time, before he got a job as a mechanic. My grandfather also delivered mail. My grandfather's brother had a rural route, started when he was 17, delivered mail for over 50 years. His son also was a rural letter carrier for many years. Somewhere in the basement I have letter carrier ID cards or something like that from my father and grandfather. It's been years since I looked at them. Maybe they were union cards.

My father's second cousin was postmaster in La Crosse for 12 or 13 years.

[KFC911]

I doubt I've used even 5 stamps in the past 5 years ... and haven't written a check in nearly 20. I don't even use my CU's bill pay very often ... mebbe 10 times ... ever.

Doesn't everyone use Bitcoins ?

Oh yeah ... my mail carrier is like clockwork .... she's a sweetie has been mine for years .... many years !

[stevej37]

^^^
How do you pay bills?

I save my Bitcoins for TB.

[Ayles]

We have a new mail lady, kind of a cute blonde. Seems like we get a new carrier every few months. So, you never get to know them like you did in years past.

Our UPS guy has been super steady for as long as I can remember.