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philip964 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 1:15 pm Hmm, got a bill today. It was already a day overdue. Looked when it was mailed, January 1, so 24 days to deliver a first class letter.

I kinda noticed I'm only getting mail every other day. Interesting development.

Congressman now involved.

https://www.kbtx.com/2024/01/22/texas-c ... ng-delays/

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local ... 6fd3b4e5a4

Won't be long before She Jack realizes she can get some air time.

Worried may affect primary in March.

RPBrown wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 3:11 pm Yet they want to keep raising the price of stamps. For what? To pay lazy postmen?

RPBrown wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:39 am Well, now a new wrinkle. My office has not received ANY mail in 2 weeks today. Some of my customers and vendors are now telling me they have received my mail back "undeliverable. No such address". I have been in the same space for over 10 years and have usually received my mail on a daily basis, except Saturdays. I have never gone more than 2 days without mail.
I did file a complaint last Friday with the post office and was told that they would investigate and get back to me in 2-3 business days. Yea, right. And I have swamp land in Florida that's perfect for a resort I will sell ya.

RPBrown wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:59 am Last year we had mailed a check to a vendor for $700.00. It was mailed inside the post office because of reported theft at the outside boxes. Following month my wife (also my bookkeeper) came in with the bank statements with a strange look on her face (you know, like you had done something wrong ). The bank statement showed the check at $7,7700.00. We (she) immediately called the bank to discuss thinking it was their error. Nope, copy of the check had been posed for 7700.00. We got the Postal Inspector (no help at all) and Irving PD involved. Now, for the strange part, they had changed the entire check, like they had used someone elses blank check and copied our info including account, routing and check numbers. Also had it made out to the same vendor but didn't look at all like our check. The check was cashed (not deposited) in a BoA branch in Houston.
Now, this check along with some others, was made out and sent to vendors in the DFW area from Irving. The check, along with others, was taken inside, handed to a postal clerk to be mailed and she stamped it. I was buying some stamps along with mailing the stuff.
Our bank did refund our funds, stopped payment on the other checks, )which we found out later had been presented to be cashed but was denied), and turned it over to the FBI, or so they said.
This is a failure on so many ways. (1) some one in the post office, I assume, stole the checks (2) a bank in Houston cashed the check for an individual that was made out to a company with the companies name and address on it, and (3) our bank accepted the check (I later found out checks go through some sort of a clearing house so to speak)
BTW, never hear back from postal inspector after the initial report was taken. Hats off to the detective with IPD that followed up on it for us. Last I heard, he was still working on it.

Ruark wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:56 pm For us, it's not just the USPS in general, but the doofuses they hire to handle mail. Our local mail carrier looks like some hillbilly from the backwoods, and is constantly messing up people's mail (we have one of those community mailboxes): putting mail in the wrong box, putting parcels in the wrong locker or leaving the wrong key in your box, forgetting to leave the key entirely, or leaving your locker key in somebody else's box.

Several times he's left packages with our house number, but to a different street - like, he just looks at the number, eh? Cripes.

We've complained about him, but to no avail. Packages sometimes vanish en route, coming from a city a couple hundred miles away, but zigzagging all over the United States before getting here.

Rafe wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 3:11 am

Ruark wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:56 pm For us, it's not just the USPS in general, but the doofuses they hire to handle mail. Our local mail carrier looks like some hillbilly from the backwoods, and is constantly messing up people's mail (we have one of those community mailboxes): putting mail in the wrong box, putting parcels in the wrong locker or leaving the wrong key in your box, forgetting to leave the key entirely, or leaving your locker key in somebody else's box.

Several times he's left packages with our house number, but to a different street - like, he just looks at the number, eh? Cripes.

We've complained about him, but to no avail. Packages sometimes vanish en route, coming from a city a couple hundred miles away, but zigzagging all over the United States before getting here.

We have those neighborhood "cluster" mailboxes, too. Seemed like a good idea at the time: a locking box like a PO box; the number on the box has no relationship to the house street number; no mailbox to have to maintain yourself and no mail slot in the door.

But they've proved to be the absolute worst. Like you, it's a weekly event that our mail gets scrambled among neighbors (I suppose, on the positive side, that's done more to get neighbors meeting and talking to neighbors than any national night out ever did), and on top of that in our subdivision we've had at least three instances of break-ins of those cluster boxes. Easy pickings: you use a forged master key or just pry open the back panel at zero dark thirty and you can steal mail to dozens of homes in a couple of minutes.

mayor wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:33 pm

Rafe wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 3:11 am

Ruark wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:56 pm For us, it's not just the USPS in general, but the doofuses they hire to handle mail. Our local mail carrier looks like some hillbilly from the backwoods, and is constantly messing up people's mail (we have one of those community mailboxes): putting mail in the wrong box, putting parcels in the wrong locker or leaving the wrong key in your box, forgetting to leave the key entirely, or leaving your locker key in somebody else's box.

Several times he's left packages with our house number, but to a different street - like, he just looks at the number, eh? Cripes.

We've complained about him, but to no avail. Packages sometimes vanish en route, coming from a city a couple hundred miles away, but zigzagging all over the United States before getting here.

We have those neighborhood "cluster" mailboxes, too. Seemed like a good idea at the time: a locking box like a PO box; the number on the box has no relationship to the house street number; no mailbox to have to maintain yourself and no mail slot in the door.

But they've proved to be the absolute worst. Like you, it's a weekly event that our mail gets scrambled among neighbors (I suppose, on the positive side, that's done more to get neighbors meeting and talking to neighbors than any national night out ever did), and on top of that in our subdivision we've had at least three instances of break-ins of those cluster boxes. Easy pickings: you use a forged master key or just pry open the back panel at zero dark thirty and you can steal mail to dozens of homes in a couple of minutes.

They don't call them "cluster" for nuthin'