Dumb Asses at the USPS

Typhoon

Here’s a couple classics. These people are so stupid, they could have worked for me. The picture I have I’m gonna look online where to send it.

Today the USPS here in Billerica, MA delivered the shaft I ordered. They stood it up leaning against the garage door. So what if someone was LEAVING the house? They get in the Jeep, push the button, door goes up, shaft falls into the garage so she can back over it.
6:15 am Christmas Eve I’m feeding the dogs and I hear the mail truck. I look outside and see this lazy fuck jamming a package into the mailbox instead of getting out of the vehicle and leaving it on the front steps like they should.

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Typhoon

In one news blurb this week there was a delivery guy placing what he believed to be a child's Christmas gift in a sizable box between two garbage cans near the garage door of a home, to hide the package from potential porch bandits.. obviously a considerate albeit nonobligatory gesture.

And then the other extreme of your picture above. Also... the irony of "priority mail" stickers all over the bag cannot be overlooked. Didn't appear to be much of a priority whatsoever.

Typhoon

It’s too bad they don’t look at their flat rate box slogan, ..” if it fits, it ships”

instead, when the package won’t fit and they would have to get out of the truck and bring it to the door , they use “ when in doubt, don’t get out”

Typhoon

I just sent in 2 complaints to USPS. I probably will be blackballed and not get anymore mail deliveries.

im sort of picturing me getting my mail now like Chevy Chase did in the movie “ Funny Farm”.

For the last 18 years I was on the other end of having dunces like that working for me. I got all the well deserved nasty emails, not them of course, they did the most stupid things it was unbelievable.

Now it’s my turn to be the customer and make some dumb ass laszy bastards life miserable.

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Typhoon

I find Funny Farm to be one of Chevy Chase's most underrated movies. Funny you mention the mail carrier in the movie... it's more the norm today than the exception.

We had a very reliable, personable mail carrier for a number of years. Every day, 11 a.m., our mail was delivered like clockwork. On several occasions the lady would notice that my car was home and hand-deliver packages that didn't fit in my mailbox to prevent me from having to go to the post office to pick it up. I always thanked her and made it a point to say hello to her anytime I saw her out and about at the local grocery, etc.

The mail carrier we have now is unpredictable. At least once per week I'm knocking on my neighbor's door to give her her mail that was placed in my mailbox by mistake. I have no idea if I'm even getting my mail anymore, or if it's being put in someone else's box. A lot of evenings my mail isn't delivered until 5 pm, if by then even. One day I get nothing, the next day it's jam-packed. I'm almost certain there are days when I have mail but it isn't delivered.

Another great demise courtesy of the mismanagement of Federal Government.

Par4QC

PA-PLAYA One day I get nothing, the next day it's jam-packed. I'm almost certain there are days when I have mail but it isn't delivered.

We have got mail only 1 time the past 2 weeks; this is very unusual, esp. at this time of the year with flyers from every company under the sun being sent out.

Our carrier is never the same from 1 day to the next, and most are not even dressed in USPS uniforms. I'm having the wife call them to find out what is going on; they do not want me to make a 'personal' appearance, believe me! Something is not right at our local office.

Although I've never had a problem with any delivery service, coming(may have 1 now though) or going, I do detest having things shipped to me by UPS due to the horror stories I read here and other places. Plus, they are slower than FedEx or USPS, and will never do Sat. delivery, as FedEx does.

Rickochet

My two biggest bitches are with Amazon and Fuddex. For signature required packages Fuddex rings the bell, puts a note on the door and runs like hell to get to the truck. It's like the old Halloween trick of putting a paper bag of crap on someone's porch lighting it on fire and running. Amazon delivery likes to put the package right up against the storm door and often it will jam and you can't get the door open.

ptjn1201

UPS and FedEx time their drivers, and so they take as little time possible -- and if that means not delivering the signature required packages, so be it. USPS does the same thing, though I don't think their end logistics are as detailed. But my wife gets really agitated with the packages stuffed in the mailbox, though our regular guy usually doesn't stuff packages that big in our box. He can get the door closed most of the time, though if there are magazines or catalogs in the mail, sometimes they're hanging out.

I'm supposed to get a shaft today through USPS -- he'll probably bring it to the door, he's never left golf stuff in the mailbox.

colej

ptjn1201

maybe he will stick the shaft in the mailbox?? Extra 40” or so hanging out into the street?? Lol

Typhoon

colej maybe he will stick the shaft in the mailbox?? Extra 40” or so hanging out into the street?? Lol

Hahaha... that is what I told my wife in the morning after the pillow delivery. I said, “ that shaft is coming today, keep an eye on the mailbox to see if a 48” box is hanging out of it”.

ptjn1201

colej
Shaft was delivered to the door. Huzzah!

Weirfan

Having built clubs for so many years, I know my UPS guy well ( even built his clubs) and have a wonderful postal service guy....have zero complaints . Ordered a ton off Amazon and they were great as well, loved the 2 day delivery timeline, excellent packing. Packages placed nicely just outside the door in the corner of my entrance.

Things might be a bit more strict up here but with more and more complaints of packages being stolen, signing for a package is becoming the standard....it costs $1.50 more but better than a stolen package.

I live on a small street where almost everyone is either retired or works from home. The doc beside me works but she has a nanny around when her kids are with her. We all will accept/sign for packages for each other if somebody isn't home, some of us have keys to each others house as well which makes it even easie

JoeHatesSnow

Last 2 communities I've lived in here in south central WI over a span of 24 years have presented none of these delivery problems you guys are speaking of. Maybe I've just been lucky? Only issues I've had over the years have been a couple clubs delivered broken, both by UPS. My brother in law is an upper level distribution manager for them so I like to call them United Parcel Smashers when he's around. 😃

Weirfan

Many areas up here have gotten away from home delivery of mail as it significantly cuts down labour costs for the Postal Service. There is a communal box ( much like you have in an apartment complex) for each house close by. Fortunately, I still receive home delivery.

Packages of a certain size ( that don't fit the communal box) are all still delivered to the house.

Amazon has introduced hub lockers as a tool to help prevent package theft which is so common these days. Wonder if other services will start a similar ? Although I guess that is what having signature is for.

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It’s seems a very easy decoy type thing to put an empty cardboard box on the porch and reseal it as if it has never been opened. Setup the WiFi camera, and nab these fokkers stealing shite.

Weirfan

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its easier to catch the dumb ones who don't wear sunglasses and cover up but hard to identify them as Seems thieves don't rob their own hoods. Some are incredibly brazen and do it in broad daylight.... car break ins mid day at malls at Christmas are so numerous they have patrols at ours

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Weirfan

I never leave anything in the back cargo compartment in my SUV. I even took out the cargo curtain that's designed to conceal items and valuables, since using it for whatever reason could also indicate to a lowlife pos that there may be valuables stowed underneath. If my car gets broken into, the thief ain't getting anything other than possibly a shitty factory stereo.

Luckily I've only experienced a car break-in one time in my lifetime, back in 1990 in a nice gated upscale apartment community in Columbus, Georgia while I was in the army. My wallet happened to be in there, along with obviously my license, my military ID, my credit cards, about $60 of cash, radar detector (which probably ended up being the reason for the break-in to begin with) etc. The inconveniences of having to go through the process of reporting the theft, getting a new license and military ID card, informing the banks and waiting to get new credit cards issued etc. was enough for me to learn my lesson. It was a nightmare, not to mention the $500 deductible to have my windshield replaced. And of course - the thief was never caught.

Hard lesson learned!

johnnydoom

I was driving home through my neighborhood a few months ago and watched the UPS truck leaving a house and then the car between us stopped in front of the house and a guy that doesn’t live there got out heading for the porch. I parked behind him to watch and typed his license plate no. and description into my phone. He looked back and saw me watching, turned around and went back to his car empty handed and left. Don’t know if he was actively following the van or if he just saw a quick opportunity. Low life scum. I’d love to see a bunch of professionally packaged boxes with permanent marking exploding dye packs left all over the place for those scum bags.

Weirfan

johnnydoom

being done

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50821472

johnnydoom

Weirfan I’ve seen those and love it. But I’d like to see law enforcement run a program that could do something that would actually deter the behavior. Bright orange dye all over their skin, vehicles, and living spaces might at least put them out of action for a little while.

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johnnydoom

Skunk scent, or better yet mace or pepper spray.

Typhoon

PA-PLAYA I would like to see pepper spray mixed with a gallon on red pepper laced diarrhea.