Stupid Post Office

[krohnjw]

Here we go

We just moved into our new apartment August 9th. No problem with mail right? The number is on the mail box, the only legal requirement to receive mail, so no problem. Oh, that;'s right, I receive the "this is your new address" letter in the mail along with miscellaneous junk. EVERY day I pick up the mail that comes. Then suddenly the mail just stops coming. I figured, well maybe I just didnt get any mail today. Then it didnt come for 5 straight days. Now, I know that in 5 days I would receive SOME mail. Well, here I go dialing the post office. Where I am informed that Yes, legally you do only need a number, but their standard practice here is to not deliver unless you put your name on teh box. When asked why, when I was receiving and picking up the mail would it stop being delivered, he responded "It's our standard practice". Now, he fully acknowledged that you ONLY need a number legally. Now, since I hadn't received any of this mail, all of which the post office has no idea where it is, and it hasnt been sent back, i've called and checked, consequently I was late on all of the bills this month. I never received any of them. It gets better too. Not only did I never receive any bills, I still have yet to receive my tuition bill or loan checks, all of which were mailed out and supposedly delivered . I also never received the letter telling me when I had to go to traffic school for a stupid ticket. So, after a few calls, I found out that that WAS Sept 7th and I missed it. So now I get to pay a nice fee and reschedule. And apparantly all of this mail just went into the post office black hole since my name wasnt on the box. What a joke the postal system here is. Oh well, all the bills are back in the mail and paid late. The real problem will be getting them to cut me a new $1700 check for loans. That should be a fun one. Alright, that's it for now. I just feel a little pissed since I've done everything I legally need to do to receive my mail, but for some reason they can make me meet all of their extraneous standards before they stop losing my mail. Bleh.

[NeoStarO1]

that is horrible. Its strange cuz i have asked our mail lady only to deviler mail that is addressed to us. i have put my name on the box as well and she still keeps devilering the old tenants mail. :sigh: never can win.

I hope you can get new cut soon. Have you thought about using direct deposit for your school loans? That is what I do, makes things much easier for me and no late mail or none of that stuff.

Just recently PO didn't deviler my rent check and got call from LL asking where the rent was and I said I mailed it out on the 31st and he should have recieved it by now. Nope. so had to cancel that one and then cut him a new check.

This is one main reason why I keep all my main mail devilered to po box cuz this area is know for stolen mail.

[no1_vern]

I guess we have to remmeber that the snail mail in this country is run and administered by "big government". The employees have no reason to waste thier time doing what is right, they only have to do enough to get paid.

A recent change that the US post office was to set up a "customer service" department. So more people will recieve "help" for when the mail doesnt get to its destination on time.

I think if they actually provided a decent service for the price of the postage they wouldnt NEED a customer service department.

Anyway, NeoStar01 has a great idea that I use also. I keep any and all critical items(money) out of thier hands. Ask for direct deposit, and set up payments directly from your bank account(checking or savings). That does 3 things,

1. Ensures payments go out when needed and is recieved on time.
2. Ensures you have tracking of your money(critical).
3. Gives you fewer people with thier hands on your money. If you send a check via snail mail you will have no idea as to who has it in thier hands at any time. This means fewer things can go wrong with the payments.

I have used direct deposit for the last 10 years(the first time I heard about it I decided that that was what I wanted to do). It will put your mind at ease about recieving your money and making payments and remove a serious threat to the security of your money.

[angelcat]

Not only do we have most of the problems that have been mentioned so far, our post office has come up with an even worse thing to do.. First, they have what they call 'overtime'. Which means to us, no mail untill sometimes almost 9 pm! Then, since we have a box attached to our house, they say they don't have to come to the house unless there is mail delievered. Even if we have out going mail.
Now there is no room for a mailbox that sits on a post, near the road.
I also had a piece of mail sent to me, and on the front AND back it said not to bend, fragile stuff inside. Wanna guess how it was delivered?

You guessed it, floded in half inside of our box.............