'Seaters vs the USPS
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 1:33 pm
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.
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.