Mail delivery - Page 3

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

Yes. We don't even have our own route person anymore. What they do with those scenarios is to break up the route and split it up between others who have to do their route, then what they're given of another route. Consequently, on most days, our mail arrives anywhere from 6 to 7:30PM or so.

We got mail yesterday but it was the first time since mid-week, last week. Almost every day I get mail for one of the neighbors, so I have to go out and deliver mail.

I've seen this before but, perhaps, not to this degree. There is always some mail that just doesn't get delivered. I think they will either pile up or dispose of some of the things like grocery ads and other such non personally addressed mail. Also, my weekly magazines now come in lumps every 2-3 weeks.

Since I routinely get mail for neighbors I cannot help wondering how much of our mail ends up elsewhere and never arrives here. I'm just glad I pay all the bills online and get the bills by email, so I don't have to worry about the most important stuff.

wilma · ‎03-13-2010

We’re not getting bills in time to mail them back by the due date. Very frustrating. Had to pay a few by phone or online.

beach-mom · ‎03-09-2010

We mailed a bill by regular mail due the first of December the last week of November (couldn't pay this one online or over the phone). At the end of the first week of December it still hadn't arrived. After talking to the person it was going to, we reluctantly paid for a stop payment and made other arrangements to Venmo his wife. He called earlier, and said the check just got there today.

DH has really been impacted by this. He sent a report in December priority mail with signature required. We were thinking with the mail problems it would at least get there within a week. Going to a major city in our state. We could have DRIVEN it there in three hours. It somehow ended up in the Washington, D.C. post office, where it sat for two weeks. It has been sent out, but the right recipients still have not received it.

I don't blame "most" of the postal workers, although I've heard stories. But this is getting ridiculous. The mail in voting is over. Let's get back to business as it was.

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

@NicksmomESQ the mail service has not been messed with. It is losing money and something will have to be done to salvage it.

The a postal service does not receive tax payers money for operations. They are supposed to fund themselves through the sale of stamps, products and services. They have been unable to do this lately, so they had to cut costs.

The cost cutting has led to the mail being late PO being closed, etc.

The Post Office has received emergency funding to the tune of 25 billion dollars last year.

Our postal system has always been able to stay afloat until a new law was passed in 2006 that mandated that the PO create a 72 billion dollar fund to provide for post retirement health care for retirees for the next 75 years. This is the only federal agency that must do this.

Stay tuned to see what will be done to remedy this situation.. I could add more info, but I better not. You can find more info on line.

mspatmac · ‎06-10-2015

I have gone paperless for all my bills and pay everthing on line. Fast, easy and secure, no delays and it doesn't cost a stamp. Magazines and newspapers on line also. PO is so unreliable I would never put a check, or gift card in the mail. All I get via PO is junk that I don't even want. If you're even thinking about it, give it a try.

kaydee50 · ‎02-07-2011

@mspatmac wrote:
I have gone paperless for all my bills and pay everthing on line. Fast, easy and secure, no delays and it doesn't cost a stamp. Magazines and newspapers on line also. PO is so unreliable I would never put a check, or gift card in the mail. All I get via PO is junk that I don't even want. If you're even thinking about it, give it a try.

Completely agree. I'm surprised at how many people still receive and pay bills via the post office. We've done all bill paying online for decades and have never had a problem. In fact, just about all our bills are paid automatically. No fuss, no muss!

QVCkitty1 · ‎05-23-2015

I guess I'm lucky, my mail service is excellent.

" You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

NicksmomESQ · ‎08-19-2014

@Carmie I know what your saying & the post office has had financial issues for years. But something happened this fall, it was all over the news. A new Postmaster General was appointed. Mail sorters were removed from post offices & schedules altered to intentionally slow down mail delivery.

From that point on I know a lot of people who started having issues with the post office. Those issues remain.

haddon9 · ‎03-09-2010

It took over two weeks for three cards to go from my mother's house in Broward County, FL to my house in Bucks County, PA...but they finally arrived!

As for bills, I do almost all online now and check everything online too.

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

@NicksmomESQ wrote:
@Carmie I know what your saying & the post office has had financial issues for years. But something happened this fall, it was all over the news. A new Postmaster General was appointed. Mail sorters were removed from post offices & schedules altered to intentionally slow down mail delivery.
From that point on I know a lot of people who started having issues with the post office. Those issues remain.

Yup. That's when it all really went sideways. Hoping that, maybe, it will get better soon.

I can't even imagine the pressure these folks are under to try and provide the same service with so much less in the way of the things that have been taken away from them.

Of course, CV19 hasn't helped and I would bet there are a lot of employees out, at any given time, due to it.