A FUNNY THING HAPPENED to a piece of Priority Mail.
It never arrived.
The tracking notice showed
- You item is being held at the (Branch Name) post office at 6:19 p.m. on February 11, 2021. This is at the request of the customer.
I WENT TO THE Post Office and spoke to a person who claimed to be a supervisor.
I showed the “supervisor” the tracking message (ibid.) and complained that the letter carrier who SHOULD have delivered my priority mail
- Never delivered any mail to ANYONE on my block on 2/12/2021
- That the customer (this scrivener) never requested that the letter carrier return the mail to the post office (since I never SAW it).
- That this is not the first time this letter carrier has failed to deliver — one previous time she took a Certified letter back rather than put it in my street-side mailbox.
- That this letter carrier is notorious in the neighborhood for failing to deliver mail on a daily basis; sometimes she simply fails to deliver ANY mail.
The “supervisor” told me
- My mail was not at the post office.
- That my mail was with the letter carrier who failed to deliver my mail on 2/11/2021
- That the letter carrier’s vehicle “broke down” and she was unable to finish her appointed rounds
- That the letter carrier was completing her rounds from Thursday on Friday (2-12) and that I could expect my mail to arrive earlier (than the carriers normal 6:30-7:00 p.m. delivery time)
Does not compute
I admit that having had many problems with this letter carrier in the past I am suspicious.
The Post Office tracking claimed the package was at the post office branch.
- It was not.
The Post Office tracker claimed the customer requested the letter carrier to return the mail to the branch.
- We did not.
The Post Office “supervisor” said the letter carrier would pick up where she left off when her vehicle allegedly became disabled.
- Does that mean the people who were SUPPOSED to get mail on Friday (2/12) MIGHT get Friday’s mail on Saturday, 2/13?
Fortunately for the people in my neighborhood, once a week — and only once a week — we get our mail delivered in a timely manner and on the day it is expected. That day is the day the incompetent letter carrier is replaced by her alternate.
Protection
Although at least two supervisors have fielded complaints about this letter carrier for years, nothing can be done to remove or even reassign her. Union and seniority.
I have complained to my useless senators — Rubio and Scott — and I don’t even get a “We got your message” response. I don’t bother with my local rep to Pelosi’s House; she is even more useless than Rubio and Scott.
Telephone out of service — for a week!
Both my Spouse and I called the post office branch to confirm that the missing mail piece was there.
On both occasions, the phone rang and rang and rang until it finally disconnected.
When I mentioned this to the “supervisor,” she told me the phones had been out for a week.
If a real business’ phones were out of service, someone would be calling the telephone company to get things working again — YESTERDAY.
The USPS’ inaction proves to me that the organization’s name is a misnomer; there is NO “service” in U.S. Postal Service.
I have lived all over the lower 48 (states) and NEVER had such poor mail service; even on rural routes in the winter where it snows.
I also lived overseas in a socialist country known for bungled bureaucracy and even there, mail service was more dependable.
This is not a GOP-Dumbocrat issue. The problem preceded both Trump and Harris-Emhoff administrations.
To paraphrase America’s first Post Master (https://tinyurl.com/5gn6fj3e), “for want of the mail” an opportunity was lost.
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