The USPS Sucks
Yeah, they suck BAD. My mailman is a jerk, too.
I’ve filed yet another complaint. So, aside from the complaint I just filed, my complaints include theft of property (believe it or not, he stole my beatup and battered US flag that was rusted into the mount– I complained, and the next day it was back, rolled up neatly, on the side of my house), harrassing my pets (knocking on the glass to make my cat run from the door– we saw it from the kitchen), and improper delivery procedures (received first and last notice on Jan 16th to pickup Christmas gift containing food items sent on Dec 5). He makes us go to the post office for every single priority mail package we get– no matter how small.
I’m sick of these jerks. I’m about ready to remove my mailbox from my door and put in a forwarding to my post office box.
Check out what these pricks did to my 8×10 prints:
Greetings!
It is interesting but irritating how mail service now a days are way more inefficient, expensive and unreliable than they used to be. I live in a zoo also known as New York Zoo, I mean New York City. Our mailman keeps changing, sometimes it’s a mail woman. Most of them are lazy, slow and Extremely CARELESS. They scramble our mail not once in a while but OFTEN. I don’t want my credit card information on someone else’s mailbox with all my personal and financial info on their hands. We got some dishonest people where I live. I even had a person in the building ordering CD’s under my name(identity theft) when I was on vacation. I know it’s not the mailperson’s fault, however, if they didn’t scramble our mail so many times, were conscious and careful perhaps this would not have happened. It’s very Unfortunate for me to say so, however being the truth, the building I live is very insecure. It’s so easy to enter. We have 2 doors and the mailboxes stay where the first door opens. Our old mailboxes were to the 2nd door but even unsafer, I lost count of how many times I have complained that the mailperson left the whole set of mailboxes opened, besides all the scrambling they enjoy. It happened many, many times. I have pictures to prove it. They are joined together there is a key in the middle. When that key is turned by usps the boxes come foward. Also,Many times we’ve had mailman/woman leaving packages on top of the New mailboxes which is UNSAFE, anyone can enter the door and steal it but most of the times, the thieves living in the building enjoy stealing it themselves. I’ve had packages from UPS, USPS stolen and tampered with many times before because the delivery service from both companies leave packages downstairs. Our building does not have an elevator. I can overstand they might not want to go up 5 flights of stairs but they can leave a notice of attempt. I have formally complained so many times about these incidents it’s not even funny. Recently our usps service have gotten better…LOL…they don’t scramble as much and don’t even attempt to ring the buzzer to bother with deliveries….they leave a notice of attempt inside the mailbox. So we have to go to the post office and get the packages which in turn, we don’t have them stolen. I feel bad for the elderly pple in the building having to deal with that.
I have had many problems with UPS as well. They ENJOY the habit of delivering our packages to the wrong address when our main delivery person is on vacation. But even with our main guy I have had some mishaps. I’ve had some irreplaceable package stolen by someone in the building because he left it at the unsafe area downstairs…I had my money refunded however with no problem. But the items were limited edition, and could never get them again.
What I am saying, is that these companies alll of them, really are not very reliable, and some pple working for them even less. I even recently had problems with FedEx Express not even ground. Which by the way, It’s possible they are even worse than usps. I payed big bux to get some important documents to be delivered overseas in 3 days “guaranteed”. Needles to say much, it took FedEx Express service 5 days. But because after the 3rd day I made more than 10 calls to pressure them to deliver what I payed and what was promised under contract. Had I not called them, the package would still be sitting somewhere. The recipient lost 2 days of work because they could not even give me a definite delivery date. They gave me much talk and kept on giving me the run around. So I went from 3 days guaranteed with definite delivery date,to no guarantees what so ever, mius a delivery date. Now how about that….That was horrible service….I’m seeking for refund though.
It’s said that FedEx ground treats it’s workers the worse, because the drivers are contractors by other parties. Which means their are posing as fedex but not exactly working for them. They have no benefits such as health insurance, and such. These drivers are pressured to fill their quotas and are “forced” to work under inhuman conditions. In saying that, they are angry people in a hurry to fill their quotas. And your packages most likely will intentionally be thrown around and unto the ground. ( LOL…guess that’s what fedex ground is all about)
If you go online on youtube for instance, there is a lot of footage of all these companies where the person in charge of delivery doing absurd things with customer’s packages from throwing them to stealing them…Take a look, it’s not only USPS.
Yeah, I made a complaint to my local USPS about the mail person leaving packages on top of the mailboxes and requested they either knock on the door(someone is almost always home) or leave a pick up note. Two days later I walk out my door and find my package next to the door, I was pretty irritated as both me and my wife were home at teh time and the lady just left it there without even bothering to knock. I’ve had multiple packages stolen and it’s very frustrating. When I called the first time to make the complaint the representative for the USPS who received my call was quite abrasive. It’s no wonder they are operating at a loss, their business SUCKS!!!!
USPS does suck. They give delivery “estimates” but rarely live up to them- as opposed to UPS/Fedex that almost always deliver by their estimated dates. They have packages sitting is facilities for 3-4 days when they’re “priority”. We are constantly getting other people’s mail for neighboring streets or addresses. Sometimes nobody delievers the mail and I have to call and ask them to make sure they deliver to our address. I have no pity on USPS going bankrupt, I just pity us taxpayers for when we’ll eventually have to bail them out.
USPS is a piece of trash. My mailman throws packages on our porch. What a lazy A$$! I also sell on Ebay and I don’t always have packages insured. I am so tired of people contacting me and telling me how their package was smashed to pieces. I ordered a red ink stamp with FRAGILE on it and I stamp it all over the box thinking that maybe postal worker can read and not treat it like rubbish!!! GRRRRR! I can say that I have not any trouble with UPS.
On top of their useless tracking, if I mail a letter to someone in our town they sent it and all mail 100 miles away and back to deliver….no wonder these useless wads are losing money
USPS goes to every door every day to deliver something and they still cannot integrate a competitive parcel delivery service into that. This is just sad – another example of how anything that is run by the government cannot compete with a privately owned business.
Why does USPS think they should be able to take off on Columbus Day(not a real holiday) while they rest of us are working and trying to conduct business and mail / receive our packages.
I also have problems. In fact the whole neighborhood does. Mail is always sent to the wrong address. Neighbors have to go around the neighborhood and deliver mail they recieved for someone else. Our HOA had a meeting with the postmaster. And guess what. Nothing changed.When you see the delivery person they always have a cell phone stuck to thier ear. They can listen but not read.
A USPS blows ordered fish overnight from the twin city’s 240 miles away cost 50 bucks and they sent it to Texas! Wtf!!! Miss routed Ya you think. Been 3 days pretty sure the fish are dead
I moved to a new town in the Northeast and USPS has “lost” my mail several times a year since then — incoming and outgoing. Either somebody’s got sticky fingers or they’re hoarding it or tossing it away instead of delivering. Did you know that USPS will put a hold on your mail online for free, but CHARGE your credit card $1 to change your address online? They say the $1 is to “verify it’s you”. Oh really – you can “lose” my mail on a fairly regular basis but you think I’m going to give you my credit card info? Not happening.
I wish my carrier would get off their lazy butt and even drop the packages at the door! All I get is a pickup notice these days. My old carrier used to pull in the driveway and deliver to the door, but it is too much to ask from the new carrier. No Xmas bonus this year, USPS.
This laziness causes unexpected delays to my customers when I’m waiting on parts. Now UPS actually uses USPS for smaller local deliveries (in eastern PA, anyways). BOO!
I just want them to forward my mail
Everybody at usps can eat a hot bowl of dicks with grits on the side.
Ok, so I had an item delivered express mail, it didnt arrive to its destination until 4 days later; when I called to get a refund they told me it arrived at the post office, but for whatever reason on the way to route got sent back to the post office and was re-delivered the following monday. When I called and asked why they tried to say no one was there to sign for it. But when I told them I put for the signature to be waived on the package, they said, Oh. Well then you can go to the local post-office for a refund. When I got there they refused to give me a refund stating that the package arrived to its destination, and they dont know why it wasnt delivered, but they are not at fault. WTF?
The US Postal Service should go belly up. The service is horrible, it took 5 days for a letter to reach me from Virgina to Florida.
HORRIBLE SERVICE!!!
You are so right, USPS is the most useless entity ever. I have moved everything I have to online payment, use UPS and Fedex ground if there is any choice at all if I have to mail something.
USPS is a necessary evil it seems…they seem to lose about one in three package orders regularly.
I kind of feel sorry for our carrier.
Poor guy has to carry and deliver so much horseshit mail like catalogs, useless flyers etc.
Like the DirecTV and Dish Nutwork stuff, those two companies might be single handedly keeping the paper and ink companies solvent.
I’ll bet we get 23 or 24 offers from them thru mail and newspapers every week…thank god they don’t have my e-mail!
Once I had the flag up on my mailbox for an outgoing letter but the letter carrier did not pick up the mail. My next door neighbor was moving and a moving truck was blocking my mailbox. The letter carrier did not deliver mail until the next day. My letter carrier has failed to close the door to my mailbox on a number of occasions. The door is operational and closes fine but sometimes my letter carrier is just too lazy to close the door.
Poor service!!!
I have a P O Box that gets over stuffed ever chance the clerk’s can punish me for not getting in to the Local office here in Alpine CA.
Today I was under my car”SUV” working on it when this jerk from the USPS pulls up and starts honking his horn.
I yell I can’t get up now as its a bit job at age 74 getting up and down.
I finely got up and asked why he could not just drop the package in behind the car I was working on.
I’m afraid of your dog!!!
Our dog is a small Lhasa Apse 18 pounds.
Its no wonder the USPS is going under.
What get to me was his honking his horn over and over.
No one could be that rude.
He was thought.
Oh when he puled away he told me this was a HOSTEL Environment.
I called the Alpine Post Office and spoke to some by the name of Ron who told me he was in charge and I was wrong about his postal carrier.
From now on I will not ship via the USPS
Plus I’ll also ask company’s not to ship via the USPS to our home.
This is the crap I get after living and using the Alpine CA Post Office for over 30 years.
I agree. This year alone I’ve had three issues with USPS and I harldy use teh service. My items are either destroyed, lost or takes forever to arrive. I wish the whole thing woudl just shut down! Right this second, my item is in the same location for teh last six days…an hour away…in the same state…and I paid for expedited shipping! Ripoff! They really need to shut down.
USPS is as a whole a parasite which is consisting of parasites in it. Since it is a government company I do not think no matter they seem to lose money, it is us the taxpayers lose money. They get their salaries NO MATTER WHAT. They steal-destroy-screw your parcels-mails etc. but nothing happens to them. And since they are government the company will still have the money to pay the workers. So we pay taxes-we pay for the service and what do we get? Well let me tell what I get, parcels torn- lost mails- or misdelivered (well my personal info is in that envelope or checks that are written to me which I am waiting for- ohh who gives a sht?), one time the mail creature left a we missed you paper in the mailbox WHILE I WAS STANDING AT MY DOOR. But people should wake and start doing something. There are some pages on facebook which says USPS SUCKS, I liked them but not enough. We have to be together and show them we will do something if it keeps the way it is. Starting from facebook or wherever on web then maybe carry it to court…
Yeah, My parents were approved on the 15th of December of 2011 and the credit card was to be shipped out immediately. Here it is December 23, 2011, and my parents have not received it in the mail. Thanks USPS for ruining my Christmas as I was wishing they would be here with me for the holidays. :’-(
I agree 100% The USPS has caused my business thousands of dollars. Why I am getting 3rd class mail during the holidays is beyond me. Ive got a package in WI sitting for 5 days a check in the mail now 15 days, and overnighter that is now 11 days late. Ive come to realize that the USPS service can get away with murder. They lose your stuff or steal it whatever the case and they dont get in trouble no matter how much you complain. Their tracking service is quite unreliable at times also. Years ago it was run very differently than it is today. People have simply gotten lazy. There really is no other excuse for this nonsense.
I still don’t get why they shipped my item to Chile instead of Switzerland… I mean, Chile isn’t even on the way to Europe!
And they have no international customer assistance!
Swiss Post is way better, faster and reliable