Kudos to USPS

[M A V I C]

Someone shipped me something but put the wrong address on it. The address didn't exist. It arrived at the post office and one of the carriers thought he recognized the name but it just had my first initial and last name so he turned out not to be correct. He apparently hopped on Google and found the sender's website which listed the sender's phone number. Called them and asked about the address. Got the right one and came to it, but I wasn't here.

The carrier gave his cell phone number to the sender, who gave it to me, and I then called the carrier and he brought the package over in 5 minutes.

[ztirffritz]

Wow. That is probably against some union rules. Don't let news of this good service get out. He'll surely lose his job.

[Tommie Milwaukee]

I can't tell you how many times carriers have saved deliveries that had wrong addresses or streets or Zip Codes, etc. Happens all the time, but you rarely hear about these instances. But just let a carrier accidentally leave a letter that goes to your next door neighbor JUST ONCE, & he gets called on it every time. It's a thankless job.

[AlphaDog]

Tommie, normally I'd be inclined to agree with you, but you've never met my carrier. Before this carrier took over the route, we had unbelievably good service from USPS. My husband had an old grade school friend who was mentally ill, and there were times when she made such a mess out of the address on the envelopes that I truly don't know how anybody figured out who she was trying to send the mail to. But it got here! Not one piece of mail has come from her since this carrier took over the route, so I strongly suspect there are quite a few cards and letters with incomplete addresses sitting in a junk box somewhere.

(My carrier is also the one who never distributes the bags for the annual food drive and calls in sick on the day the bags are to be collected.)

[space-time]

since I moved back in October, I never found a misplaced envelope in my mail box. When I was living at the old place (across the street and one block over, a 3 minute walk from here), I found mail for my neighbors on my mailbox at least once a week. I usually knocked on their door to deliver it myself, or left it hanging in the door. I guess mail for me also landed in other mailboxes, but no one bothered to deliver it to me.

So yeah, they're human like all of us. Some are better, some not.

[WHiiP]

space-time wrote:

So yeah, they're human like all of us. Some are better, some not.

OK, but regardless of specific job, exactly HOW do you live with yourself when you don't put forth any effort to accomplish anything. Do you just accept that you are a fracking turd and that is OK?

I don't get it . . . :banghead:

[space-time]

WHiiP wrote:
[quote=space-time]

So yeah, they're human like all of us. Some are better, some not.

OK, but regardless of specific job, exactly HOW do you live with yourself when you don't put forth any effort to accomplish anything. Do you just accept that you are a fracking turd and that is OK?

I don't get it . . . :banghead:
I don't know... I would have to find one of these specimens and ask them.

[Speedy]

I frequently get mail for someone two blocks away. I also take it to them. They never bring our mail to us but return it marked 'Misaddressed." Sucky near neighbors.

space-time wrote:
since I moved back in October, I never found a misplaced envelope in my mail box. When I was living at the old place (across the street and one block over, a 3 minute walk from here), I found mail for my neighbors on my mailbox at least once a week. I usually knocked on their door to deliver it myself, or left it hanging in the door. I guess mail for me also landed in other mailboxes, but no one bothered to deliver it to me.

So yeah, they're human like all of us. Some are better, some not.