Dadgum lying post office
0I've been eagerly awaiting my Oster ice cream maker because it was due today. I just checked the tracking number again and it suddenly says that I refused the delivery at 850 am. Rat bastards.
I seem to recall someone else having a package not get delivered and it had to go all the way back to meh. Oh well, this is the first bump in my meh road. I had a good run up until now!
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call the PO first thing in the morning, not the 800 number the local number
@Foxborn our local number goes to voicemail. And the voicemail never results in replies.
@Foxborn Good luck with that. I have tried numerous times to call the local post office here in kansas City, Mo. and no one ever answers the phone.
Had something similar happen. USPS refused to leave the package because "the porch did not appear secure". We thought this odd since 1) the neighborhood is plenty secure - this never happened before - and 2) they'd been leaving packages for weeks before without concerns - and 3) both UPS & Fedex left packages that same afternoon.
We later guessed the weather had been truly nasty that day and the delivery person was a wimp about getting out of their truck.
Our local USPS sucks. We get mail intended for others every week. A letter intended for a Pastor in Ghana, West Africa (we live in the US Midwest) was delivered to us. I kid you not - we took a pic of it!
@RedOak Now that's bad.
Well, that was an effort in futility. Took an hour on the phone to track down the correct office (we are on a boundary between towns) only to be told that they didn't have it and that they assume it was returned. I was told that they attempted to deliver and I refused it. That's a big no. But the supervisor also said it looked very odd because there are no notes in the record and usually there are tons. I hope he enjoys his new ice cream maker.
@jaremelz you might try the national USPS help line. They seem to care. And they'll try to transfer you either to the local post office or to the regional help line over your local post office. We pushed back and were blown away to actually get a call back from someone who seemed to know something. The thing that sucks about this is you can't really complain about your carrier (we have avoided it) or things might get even more interesting.
@RedOak I tried them after having zero luck finding the appropriate office. They could only tell me which one to call, but beyond that were completely dismissive. He suggested I call the secretary general. Yes, that should help.
@jaremelz at this point perhaps our congress folks should be the next call. As in, finally put that money losing, very poor 'service provider' out of its misery and farm out the rest to UPS/FedEx. Heck, if it required a subsidy to cover rural areas, I'd rather see that money go to a private, customer-satisfier anyway.
Well, the post office might suck, but meh sure is great. Thanks, meh, for replying so quickly and with humor and total helpfulness!
Well, where I live, given a choice of USPS or Fed-ex, USPS wins 10000000% of the time. Have had Fed-ex loose an entire office's paychecks back when we all got paid that way. seriously lost them. more than once. And it's never gotten better.
Overall, go brown.
USPS is certainly lax in keeping up with tracking info.. In every case it will state when they got word of it and where it first landed (usually ICS San Francisco) from there it no longer reports except saying it left and is now on it's way but no other stop-over until you receive it (or not) in your mailbox or doorstep. Just a bunch of lazies not giving a shit because they believe they'll soon be on the unemployment line so why even care. I've never had a problem with fedex which meh usually ships thru.. (knock on wood).
Last month (May 1) my husband got a package that had to be signed for. The time stamp delivered was 2:02 (according to the USPS website). I asked if there wasn't another package, for me. I was told there wasn't. When I checked later that day, my package from China (blades for my Silhouette cutter) was time stamped delivered at 2:38.
I was pretty sure I knew where my blades were. At a house on another street with the same numbers as our house. (Once, fresh out of the shower, I heard a ruckus from in front of our house; the driver of a tow truck was in the process of hooking up my truck - he had the wrong street. I mean, don't they even check license plate numbers? Mine is personalized.)
Talked to our postman the next day. He just shrugged his shoulders. I waited a week and filed a claim. All the seller from China did was send me to the tracking page that showed it as delivered. And during this time I spoke with the mailman.
He told me that the sub told him that he'd spoken to the people in the house where it was delivered, but they were being evicted and now they were gone. Along with my package. So, I sent this information to the supervisor at the local post office, along with the copy of the invoice. No response.
On Memorial Day we went to lunch with some friends who live in Santa Rosa who follow the Stones (they travel all over to see their concerts). When we got home and opened the screen door, there was my package with a note from the homeowner who'd gotten it by mistake. His kids took it in the house and it had just been found.
Gee, he wasn't evicted after all...I doubt anyone spoke to anyone at that house. In the meantime, I'd ordered another set of blades. I probably won't need blades for at least a year.
@lisaviolet we get that as well - same address number for a different street mis-delivered. It happens so frequently we are confident our mail goes missing as well. And not everyone is conscious about getting you your mail.
On the plus side? We've gotten to know neighbors we had not previously met!
@lisaviolet We live in the land of street, court, street AND court together, loop, and all that jazz. But in 7 years, we've never had it happen. And the people with a similar address as ourselves weren't even home. I think someone is either stealing packages or just not even attempting and lying either way.
Hopefully it shows back up to meh!
@jaremelz I'm glad meh stepped up. I hate that our mailmen are lying. The regular guy that delivered the first one, then also the second (which he tried to blame on the other guy). He was the only one doing the route that day. The street where it was delived has a completely different name than ours. Just the same numbers. It's about a half mile from our house.
The sub driver here DOES lie. There's someone here almost always and I've gotten the mail with a delivery slip saying "no one answered the door". (Mailbox at the street.) Yeah, because no one knocked on it or rang the doorbell. I'd wait on the other side of the street for him to come down and he said "well, it's heavy...." like that was a good excuse.
@lisaviolet That's just ridiculous! That's on par with the checkout clerk at my grocery store bitching me out for daring to put a gallon of milk on the conveyor belt because she can't lift that heavy an item.
I've had the post office mark things as delivered......when there are no things in my mailbox. Its a locking mailbox, so mail theft is not a possibility, at least by anyone other than the carrier.
And guess what? USPS says "tracking says delivered, sorry, go fuck yourself"