Somehow that “does not compute.”
USPS HAS A FREE service called Informed Delivery. Everyone with an address, even a post office box, a computer, and an email address can sign up for the program.
Informed Delivery sends an email to the subscriber every day the subscriber has mail.
Basically, USPS scans envelopes for the address and includes the scans in the email.
Checking up on letter carrier
I find the nicest thing about Informed Delivery is I know when my carrier fails to deliver the mail.
This happens all too frequently. In the last 10 days the letter carrier has given my mail to someone else twice.
Twice in 10 days.
Once she left my mail with a neighbor who kindly brought it over to me. It was a bill that needed immediate attention.
Yesterday she failed to deliver what might be a tax document. Since I never received the item, I have to guess what the envelope contained.
I ordered a small package from a California company.
The package included tracking.
I tracked the package and discovered it had been delivered to the addressee.
Since I was the address and I knew I still was waiting for the product, I complained, via Informed Delivery, that while the letter carrier CLAIMED she delivered the small package, she did not deliver it to the person to whom it was addressed: me.
It took two weeks before USPS tracked down my package and delivered it to me.
Meanwhile, the vendor sent a second unit, this time via a different (more reliable) carrier.
I returned the original small package — at my expense — to the vendor.
Letter carriers and letter carriers
When I lived in Clearwater FL we had excellent, gold star, service. The regular letter carrier — Vic, by name — knew the people on his route. He also knew how to read addresses, unlike the letter carrier from the Fort Lauderdale FL substation.
Unlike the current letter carrier, Vic was personable. One of my neighbors frequently tells me how “nasty” the letter carrier is. I usually don’t see her, but on the rare occcasions we do encounter each other I know she is “surly. “
My neighbors and I have to tolerate this woman five days-a-week. One day — and it rotates — each week we get an alternate carrier.
Protected worker
When the package that was delivered someplace finally made it to my address, the letter carrier delivered it into my hand.
Did she apologize for my inconvenience?
Certainly not.
All she offered was the the party to whom she DID deliver my package tore it open before realizing the package was addressed to “someone else.”
Did USPS seal up the package? No.
Did USPS put my package inside another wrapper to prevent any parts from getting lost?
No again.
YET THE USPS RAISED THE PRICE OF POSTAGE.
That is similar to a restaurant including an 18% (or higher) “gratuity” for lousy service — AND THEN SUGGESTING THE DINER ADD ANOTHER TIP.
It’s no wonder that USPS is losing business to electronic mail and even to the “twice the price” parcel services.
USPS HAS the technology.
What USPS lacks are personnel who CARE about their jobs, who believe their jobs are important and perform them accordingly.
What USPS has are people sans work ethic; people who have no pride in what they are paid to do. People who, at least it seems to me, had someone take the Civil Service exam for them (since at least my regular letter carrier can’t seem to comprehend a four-digit number).
USPS personnel have health care and, I suppose, it includes some vision benefits. If my carrier is so blind she cannot READ A PRINTED (not written by hand) address, she shouldn’t be driving the truck.
I realize even letter carriers delivering mail from a truck must deal with the elements here is south Florida (the USPS could easily and with minimal costs mitigate that), but as someone once said: “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen..” In other words, if you won’t do the job, quit and goes elsewhere.
I really wish my regular letter carrier WOULD “quit and goes elsewhere.”
Unfortunately for me, she is protected by Civil Service and a union.
All I have is a useless congresswoman who won’t represent the majority of her gerrymandered district.
Since Ms. Congresswoman’s mail if franked (free to her), the increase in postage has no impact on her mailings. Interestingly, while many U.S. government workers either worked sans pay or were furloughed, Ms. Congresswoman and her fellows made sure THEY were paid.
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