USPS Fail
Stop playing the idiot. SOMEBODY is paying for all the home carriers out there wandering around in shorts, driving the funny little trucks. Where do you think that money comes from? You don't think???? that if we just FIRED ALL THE CARRIERS that the PO costs would go down?? Get real here.
"When did I get a bill?" WHEN I PAID MONEY FOR THEM TO DELIVER THAT PACKAGE WITH MY ADDRESS ON THE FRONT. I did not give the shipper the POST OFFICE address. I gave them MY address. That constitutes a CONTRACT. "I am paying you from X to Y"
I ALSO did not specify that the stuff should be broken, missing, mangled beyond believe, wet, or anything else. This is IMPLIED in any business deal which is what this IS..............
I'm glad I wasn't one of YOUR customers...........I hate to think what your attitude must be/ have been towards your PAYING customers.
Look, I'm not trying to upset you. I'm trying to make you understand how the post office views things.
There is not law that states the post office must deliver to your home address .
Postage you pay is from p/o A to p/o B. When you ship a package, you go to the p/o, the clerk calculates the rate from that zip code to the zip code you ship to. Not address to address. That home address doesn't matter until the mail gets to the intended P/O. So, yes you did provide the P/O address.
When you handle millions of pieces of mail hourly, the law of averages says something is going to get broken. The more you ship, the higher those odds are. It's just an unfortunate fact.
As for your statement that you paid money for them to deliver to your address, the P/O position is that you didn't. The shipper paid that money. You may have paid the shipper, but didn't pay the P/O. That's why the shipper must file insurance claims and not the receiver.
You certainly didn't pay for all the junk and political mail you get.
A few years ago the P/O was actually considering doing away with a large number of carriers. Remember when the talk of going to a
5 or 3-day delevery was in the news.
The plan was to eliminate carriers and expand P/O boxes in the P/O. People would have to come to the P/O to pick up their mail. Just like it used to be once upon a time. If you had a package, you better come when the P/O was open.
I was one of the old school carriers, I had a regular route, I took care of my customers. When they started all of the reduction in service talk, I was offered a early retirement. I took it. Since I retired, there hasn't been a regular carrier on my route since. No one ever lasts more than a few months at the most. I ran into one of my old customers the other day. She told me how much she missed me. That there are a lot of days she doesn't get her mail until 6:30 when I would at her house by 1:15 at the latest.
But the things I'm telling you are true, feel free to research it. The reality of it is, the P/O is not a nice place to work, just ask Inkjunkie. I understand you have a perceived expectation of the P/O, but your starting to see that the P/O has a minimum standard that they must abide by, and it's headed that way.
I'm not defending them, in fact, I agree they should step up their game. But as it is, things already exceed the minimum that they are required to do by law. That is to have a P/O available within reasonable hours.
