Don't even get me started. I complained to the Post Office about the fact that I got my mail between 5PM and 7PM each day and that was unacceptable, so they pulled the women from the route and had a guy do it for a couple of months.

Got my mail between noon and 1PM each and every day.

Well, they've gotten rid of the guy, guess he was "making the others look bad" and we're back to women and delivery between 5PM and 7PM. Just had a situation last week where I got a notice that they were unable to deliver a package because no one was home (Mrs. Flash and I were home all day, as was the dog who barks if anyone gets near the front door). Decided to go to the Post office the following morning and unload on them again and guess what? The package mysteriously appeared around 7PM.

I hate the USPS and wish they'd fire them all and let Amazon or someone else do it.

Flash, you will enjoy this: Usually, if the dude (subcontractor) shows up, the mail arrives in the box around 1 PM or so. Which is fine. Got the USPS email notice for incoming packages for Saturday. Checked the box around 4 PM. Empty. Well, par for the course. At around 7:30 PM, a car parks in front of my townhouse and shuts down. I figure its my neighbors having guests over. Then I notice a small red light bobbing around inside the car for a couple of minutes. Then the red light leaves the car and begins to move up and down the sidewalk. I begin to think its some kind of robot / cyborg invasion! Then a knock on the door. Its a red headlamp wearing 20 something chick. She announces she has a package for me and hands me a priority mail box. I ask if this isnt kinda late for her to be delivering mail and says, well, its the holidays! Off she goes. 15 minutes later, the red light is back! She knocks again and when I open up, she asks if the package she delivered was addressed to me. I confirm the address for her. She then hands me another package and says I forgot this one when I was here before. Great work! Thanks!
Zero confidence in USPS now.

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For anything important or expensive I ship via fedex or ups

Sure...that works well..


FedEx says driver who dumped packages in ravine no longer working there; sheriff still investigating

https://www.al.com/news/2021/1...ed-sheriff-says.html

Use UPS. Usually the USPS is okay for me, but if my local office was bad, I'd use UPS. I would not use FedEx, at least not FedEx ground. Maybe FedEx overnight is better.

Or, if a shipment is really valuable, look into other options.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Flash, you will enjoy this: Usually, if the dude (subcontractor) shows up, the mail arrives in the box around 1 PM or so. Which is fine. Got the USPS email notice for incoming packages for Saturday. Checked the box around 4 PM. Empty. Well, par for the course. At around 7:30 PM, a car parks in front of my townhouse and shuts down. I figure its my neighbors having guests over. Then I notice a small red light bobbing around inside the car for a couple of minutes. Then the red light leaves the car and begins to move up and down the sidewalk. I begin to think its some kind of robot / cyborg invasion! Then a knock on the door. Its a red headlamp wearing 20 something chick. She announces she has a package for me and hands me a priority mail box. I ask if this isnt kinda late for her to be delivering mail and says, well, its the holidays! Off she goes. 15 minutes later, the red light is back! She knocks again and when I open up, she asks if the package she delivered was addressed to me. I confirm the address for her. She then hands me another package and says I forgot this one when I was here before. Great work! Thanks!
Zero confidence in USPS now.

I did someone elses route about 6 or 7 years ago, I think it was New Years eve, so day before a holiday. I had 89 packages, I could barely get to the mail under the packages for most of the day. Route was simple enough, mostly straight up and down (easy to set up packages for each split). I finally got to the last two streets, it's cold, it's getting dark, I'd been truckn' all day, I was about to piss my pants... Still had like 15 packages. To get to the gas station I had to drive up one of the streets I had yet to walk, my OCD kicked in: Might as well run at least a few parcels out on my way up the street, I know, I'll take these two big motherfuckers, and grabbed a few others. Run them out, go do my business. Come back, park, get out walk the two streets... Son of a... I have to go back up that street for a few parcels, my vehicle was facing away from and perpendicular to that street now. Several more packages were for the same person that I had already dropped several large (one was a car seat) packages, because they had fallen behind some other gigantic package for someone on the last street. They came out and thanked me for coming back.

Another route I did, probably last year, on my day off. Each street is like 45 minutes, set up the parcels so that after each split you drive the parcels out... I get done with the split and people are driving up to me at my vehicle all concerned with their stupid phone, "Hey, we were expecting a package, and we didn't get it..." "You mean this?" holding it up, obviously too big for me to hump out. Had another guy (same street) ask me as I walked by if he got a package, "Maybe, I don't remember who I have packages for" he acted like I was a jerk, I don't know your name until I'm walking up to your house looking at your mail, I'm not going to remember a specific package by a name I don't know.

Lady on my route last Christmas get 36 packages in one day, they filled up the entire front part of my vehicle, I ran them out first thing because otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get to anything else in my truck. If you were just running packages out, it's pretty easy to miss someone getting multiple things if you don't know the route/names etc. and if things are falling back behind other things. In fact I'd say it's even more likely if you're only running parcels out. If they're in a POV, they're probably new.

Added detail:
Over the past 5 delivery days, there have been 2 of the days in which I have received other peoples mail, other people have received my mail and one package (containing an expensive Eddie Bauer jacket) was delivered to the right apartment number but the wrong building. If I get a package delivery notice, and it has not showed up, start checking the surrounding buildings for my package.
I fear I may be mistaken for a porch pirate and shot.

I was on a 4 lane hwy here in Louisiana today and they had paper all over one side. About two hours later I passed back by and there was two females out by the ditch picking up stuff
. And a US Mail delivery truck and a white US Postal car there.

Someone must have messed up