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@chessylady 

I also have Informed Delivery, starting a few weeks ago, and I have no idea how I could have signed up for it.  

[geezerette]

Just because you have an email that says you have mail coming doesn't necessarily mean it will arrive that same day.  

If you read the fine print you will notice this statement:

"Mail may arrive several days after you receive the notification. Please allow up to a week for delivery before reporting missing mail."

As well, some USPS offices are more efficient than others.  I rarely have delayed mail, while I've read here that in other places it's common.

[CalminHeart]

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@chessylady wrote:

I have Informed Delivery through the Post Office. This is a service that allows you to see what is being delivered to you on a daily basis. I had no mail delivered on Monday and today which is unusual. Then I saw on social media that postal employees cannot collect overtime and they are being told to not deliver mail instead of overtime. As far as I know,the law requires the post office to deliver mail 6 days a week. This could become a critical problem if the post office did not deliver ballots at the midterms in the fall.

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My mail arrived at 7pm twice in the last week. I asked my carrier about it the next day and she said it was just a long 11 hour day.  I told her I'd rather she didn't deliver than work that long. She chuckled and said there would be dozens of complaints if that happened. 

[CalminHeart]

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@lynnie61 wrote:

@chessylady   I understand your concern, however, when we had 15" of snow in January, I did not receive mail for 11 business days (not counting Sundays).  Our local news said arrange to pick it up.  You get to the post office, and big notes, No P/U, we will deliver ASAP.  Did not get mail for four more days.  They can and will do whatever they want.  

I didn't HAVE to have any of it, but others I know needed some pieces. (Meds).  I understand the day or two of clearing the big amounts of snow,  but everyone else worked 2-3 days in. Not 11 days later.  Just sad.  

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We've had some nasty blizzards this winter, including 2 feet of snow a couple times. Our carrier made it through all but one. I told her to go home when I saw her but she said that wasn't allowed unless the head person gave the ok.

When carriers don't get to everyone the post office gets flooded with complaints. 

They can't please everyone. 

[Still Raining]

I am so far out of any town that they will not deliver to my house.  So I go down once a week to the Post Office.

So much better on my nerves.  Can not imagine fretting every day.

[jlkz]

@chessylady 

I have USPS Informed Delivery because we spend the Winter in FL.  The week's mail is mailed out from our home post office on Wednesday and we get it either on Saturday or Monday.

The only glitch we have had: they forget to start the first mail out.  So we call them !

As for the no mail to be delivered when we are home, the post office will only pick up our outgoing mail if we raise the flag on our mailbox.  That's their signal to stop.  

Until we complied, we had to go to their office or wait until the next time they had mail to be delivered to us.

[Neetgal2]

Just my opinion here.  For years and years, I have very rarely received mail on Tuesdays, at anyplace I have lived.  I mentioned this once to the letter carrier and they said it had something to do with Saturdays.  With all the PO financial issues, I never could see why they had to deliver mail on Saturdays.  A PO being open is different, for working people who can't get there during the week.

[Jo1313]

I also have informed delivery...It works pretty well for me sometimes..If the mailperson can read!!

Sometimes what's supposed to be in my box doesn't get to me for 3-5 days later..I got one of tax documents 5 days late in another envelope..with a note saying...it was opened at the home that it was mis-delivered to!..

In a good week there is some mail 3 days a week..then my box is stuffed because no one delivered on the other 2 days..Usually Wed days and Sat.

I sent a pkg. in Nov...the website still says pkg will be delivered late! Still stuck in the same place.. It's March 19..Still waiting! All I get from the postal inspectors is "sorry it might still show up".

[SloopJohnB]

I realize we have had bad weather all over the country lately, but gone are the days of "Neither rain nor snow......".  Even on sunny days we don't get our mail delivered sometimes.... And yet on some inclement weather days, we do get mail.  Only problem is, many times it is not OUR mail.  LOL

[cindyNC]

We had issues with our mail on Mondays during football season. It never got delivered until very very late in the day.....sometimes as late as 6:30pm.