The U.S. Postal Service - a Complete and Total Disgrace

[candycorn]

TWICE they delivered it to the wrong address. That is disgraceful. I guess I have higher standards than you.

Did you survive?

 

[Zincwarrior]

then empty the dam thing....

You can't if you aren't there. Vacations, remember?

 

[Harry Dresden]

You can't if you aren't there. Vacations, remember?

then have them hold it....your carrier will hold it at the PO....when you get back you go pick it up or your carrier will bring it out to you on the day you put on hold......

 

[Zincwarrior]

then have them hold it....your carrier will hold it at the PO....when you get back you go pick it up or your carrier will bring it out to you on the day you put on hold......

Sometimes they screw up and deliver it anyway. I'd rather a no thank you option.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Sometimes they screw up and deliver it anyway. I'd rather a no thank you option.

your regular wont do that....its not up to the carrier to keep your box clean...thats on you...

 

[Zincwarrior]

your regular wont do that....its not up to the carrier to keep your box clean...thats on you...

I'd rather not have a postal box at all.

 

[Dekster]

Last week I received what appeared to be a Christmas card incorrectly placed in my mailbox. It was addressed in handwriting to a retired Brigadier General, and the return address was to a man identify as a retired colonel. I live in a military town, btw. I received this, not the least bit surprised that our post office had fucked up yet again. The street address on the envelope was the same number as my street address, though the name of the streets are very different. Also, the first names of the addressee and myself are a little bit (LITTLE bit) similar, though I am not military and, therefore, have no such titles.

I went to the post office the day after I received this lost mailing and re-mailed it. Imagine my surprise when I received the same envelope in the mail AGAIN yesterday! Now the USPS had fucked up twice on the same item. LOSERS!!!!

So, I was just going to look up the address and deliver it to the correct mailbox. While looking (my assistant was actually looking at my direction while I posted shit on here and keep checking my stocks) it appears that the addressee passed away in February of 2025. So, they were obviously not close. But clearly there was affection to the level of sending an annual Christmas card. He was survived by a wife, but it appears that nobody lives in the house anymore to where the envelope was addressed.

So, I have 2 choices. First, I can take it back to the post office so they can re-deliver it to me a third time; or I return it to the sender. I figure I would enclose a little note saying, "Sorry, this was sent to me; I tried to deliver to the intended recipient but was unable to do so because it appears he may have passed away."

I normally would not be so concerned about seeing this through. But I have respect for the military, and especially someone of such a rank. I will not lie; if the addressee was "Tyrone Muhammad Black", or the address was to a penitentiary, then I would have tossed it already. But here I feel some sort of responsibility to get this piece of mail to where it should go. Unfortunately, the USPS lacks such feeling of responsibility.

Unless you mark through the bar code thingy on it when you redeposit mail, it will keep sending it back to you. The sorters BTW do partial matches which can be a PITA. When my mom was still alive, she and a lady across town with the same house number and same first name were forever getting each others mail. Completely different last names and street names. The postmaster said there was nothing they could do about it because that is just how the program in the sorters work.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Unless you mark through the bar code thingy on it when you redeposit mail, it will keep sending it back to you. The sorters BTW do partial matches which can be a PITA. When my mom was still alive, she and a lady across town with the same house number and same first name were forever getting each others mail. Completely different last names and street names. The postmaster said there was nothing they could do about it because that is just how the program in the sorters work.

the post master was full of shit....if you have the correct address and zip it will go to that address....they could have corrected that....

 

[Unkotare]

then have them hold it....your carrier will hold it at the PO....when you get back you go pick it up or your carrier will bring it out to you on the day you put on hold......

You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, ...

 

[Zebra]

When i get a letter that is not for me, i deliver it to the right person