I know you think I work at Happy Funtimes Adventureland but I don't find it amusing when you hide your package and expect me to find it. Three days in a row, I've been entering your fenced-in front yard through your gate and leaving my "Sorry We've Missed You" tags at your front door. That should be your clue to put your package at your front door.

I've been getting scheduled to pick up a package at a certain home. Each time I've gone, there's been nothing to pick up and nobody home to explain themselves. Yesterday was the third and last time.

Today, I get a package to deliver to their house and I arrive to find a handwritten note on the gate: "Please go through the carport, down the stairs, and through the back gate. The package is on the back porch. Thank you!"

Nope. Fuck that and fuck you. I left without taking the package.

They were probably watching the Equalizer and didn’t want to get interrupted.

I am the guy that will scoot out to the truck if I am expecting something and save the guy or gal one more trip to and from my porch. It's not hard to show a little consideration.

Merry Christmas! Mr.Packagedeliverytohellandbacktoobliviouspeopleguy.

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Originally posted by Orguss:

Today, I get a package to deliver to their house and I arrive to find a handwritten note on the gate: "Please go through the carport, down the stairs, and through the back gate. The package is on the back porch. Thank you!"

It's all fun and games until you end up in a bathtub full of ice with your kidneys missing. Good on ya for not falling for their trap.

I did a different route on my NSD recently. There was a business, lady wanted me watch me scan the package into the scanner in front of her. She said she's had a lot of packages go missing...if they got lost between the front door and the truck, those should be pretty easy to track down.
I didn't have my scanner on me. "I'll wait" she said. I said "You can give them to me now, or I leave" "Ok, and what's YOUR name" "My name is mailman, packages?.... 3, 2, 1, have a nice day".
She followed me out to the LLV and wrote the vehicle number down (it wasn't that routes vehicle). What I should have said was "You should have brought your packages, I could have scanned them in", but I restrained myself.

One of the routes has the opposite of that. Packages would go missing after delivery and blamed on the carrier because he/she was scanning them at the truck and then bringing them inside. So now the carriers scan everything at the counter while the clerk stands there.

Several delivery guys in my area now take pics of tha package on the porch and add them to the proof of delivery. And if you don't think your front porch is secure enough to leave a package, carry your ass to the USPO or a Fedex store.

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Originally posted by Fredward:
Several delivery guys in my area now take pics of tha package on the porch and add them to the proof of delivery.

I found a "missing" package that way. I recognized my neighbor's porch in the picture of the delivered package. Saved me a lot of time and trouble.

I’m keeping an eye out for the sister thread to this one where another member posts about their lazy ass mailman.



You’re not ZSMICHAEL’s carrier, are you?

Well, the same shitbag customer requested a pick-up again. Wouldn't you know it, there's no package at the front door. I went ahead and left instructions for them to place the package at the front door if they expected it to be picked up.

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Originally posted by flesheatingvirus:
I’m keeping an eye out for the sister thread to this one where another member posts about their lazy ass mailman.

I post stuff like this to show the incompetence goes both ways.

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Originally posted by Orguss:
I post stuff like this to show the incompetence goes both ways.

Yeah but incompetence at a job is a bit different - everyone in service knows the customers are morons, but they deal with it since they want the business, aka the $$$...

But when your company (USPS) doesn't have to make money or turn a profit, its easy not to care. Just like the VA or any other semi-government entity. People just showing up and doing the minimum required.

I understand the customer's concern with theft. That's why I would trot my ass to the post office to send the package if I was them.

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doesn't have to make money or turn a profit,

Bending to the whim of every snow flake on every route doesn't turn a profit.
"Hey, can you do this extra thing for me, every day, for 30 years?" multiply this by about 1,000 people for each route.