'Seaters vs the USPS

[Left Seater]

The good ol USPS. Who really needs it or them.

As you may know the wife and I both travel often for work. There are plenty of times we are both gone for multiple days at a time. If we both are gone at the same time we have a college student who stays at our house with our dogs. We live in an older neighborhood where each house has a mail slot and the mail person walks to each home and the mail deposits inside.

On a trip earlier this year where both of us were gone we got a call from Ashley the house sitter that some of the mail stuck to the hard wood floor. I asked her to explain and she thought it was because the mail got wet since it was raining that day and then as it dried it stuck to the floor. When she went to pick up the mail upon her return home some of it ripped and stayed stuck to the floor. She ended up scraping it off and it turns out some ink ran and discolored part of the floor. When I returned I went to the PO and asked how we might prevent this. Samir, didn't give a rats ass and a supervisor wasn't much better.

I did however learn about vacation stop from said supervisor and filled out a form and took multiple others. Turns out though you can only have one of those in use at a time. So we had our mail held for as long as we could per the form and then went in to pick it up. After five weeks there was one thing that we didn't throw away. So we went back and started another vacation hold. When I returned to pick it up I was told I was abusing the vacation hold and needed to resume daily delivery. I chuckled and told due how much better life was without all the crap they brought me. He didn't find it funny.

I scheduled another appointment and tried to decline all mail delivery, but was told no one can do that. Instead I filled out another vacation hold.

At this point once every five weeks I go to the PO and "pick up" my held mail and literally take it from the mail person and toss it in the trash about three feet away. There isn't anything we are missing out on. Friends and family know what we are doing and have adapted.

This just shows what a waste the USPS is. At best mail should be delivered residentially once a week. Businesses can do with a three day a week delivery. Further, we should close more than 75% of the existing POs and consolidate.

[BSmack]

My pops has a residence in Rochester and one in the ATL. He feels your pain.

[Wolfman]

Let me think. Mail slot in door. Postal carrier slides mail (junk or even a real letter once in a while) through the slot. Solution to problem. A large box on the other side of the mail slot, or a thick plush rug/mat of some sort. You can pay me by Pay Pal. You're welcome my aviator friend.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

Let me think. Mail slot in door. Postal carrier slides mail (junk or even a real letter once in a while) through the slot. Solution to problem. A large box on the other side of the mail slot, or a thick plush rug/mat of some sort. You can pay me by Pay Pal. You're welcome my aviator friend.

No shit. Not all that complicated. The mailman's sole job is to stick the mail through the slot. What happens beyond that point is beyond his knowledge or responsibility.

The white suburban life be a mu'fucka.

[Left Seater]

Y'all missed the point. The floor issue was just the start of the process. What can be done when we don't want the mail at all? There isn't anything of importance in there for the better part of five months now.

Suburbia is within 5 miles of downtown? Thanks for the update.

[Mikey]

We put holds on our mail (and newspaper) online. The internet can be an amazing, time saving tool if used wisely.

[trev]

Do you not order anything online? That is sometimes shipped thru the USPS. I agree though. Most of the time, I stop by the trashcan on my way into the house and toss most of it in the trash.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

We put holds on our mail (and newspaper) online. The internet can be an amazing, time saving tool if used wisely.

Yeah, but he had to go to a physical location to complain about the mailman putting mail into his mail slot. So I guess maybe that WAS the whole point.

[Goober McTuber]

'Seaters vs the USPS

What's the spread? My money's probably on USPS.

[Left Seater]

Things ordered online get delivered to the office. This way if we are gone for a bit the USPS doesn't return them to sender.

I would bet on the USPS as well since they have Federal law and unions on their side.


Shouldn't joe citizen be able to request no mail be delivered and everything returned to sender?

[Goober McTuber]

The unions getting over on the Seaters. Sweet irony.

[Bucmonkey]

Fucking facepalm...

[smackaholic]

While I share your disdain for the USPS, you pretty much pulled a KYOA here. Don't want them to toss mail through the slot in the door? Remove the fukking slot! They got these things you can hang on the side of your house called mailboxes. I here tell the mailman will put it in there without you going to the PO to give him instructions.

As for the rest of your post, I agree completely. The USPS could get by on 1/4 of their current budget/staff.

Glad I don't rely on 19th century communication systems anymore for my paycheck. Of course, now I rely on being part of the TSA dog and pony show for it. Maybe some day I'll find honest work.

[Goober McTuber]

Here you go, Seater. A nifty little website where you can get ideas for future threads.