My Love/Hate (No Wait, My HATE/HATE) Relationship with the USPS

I kind of hate my mail carrier. But then I feel badly about that because it’s colder than cold out there and it’s got to be a horrible experience to drive around and deliver the mail.

Then again, our mail carrier(s) (because I’m sure we’ve had several since moving) suck a whole lot even when the weather isn’t bad, so I stop feeling badly for hating them.

They leave “We missed you so you have to pick up your package at the post office” notices all of the time, though they didn’t actually get out of their little mail truck to see if we were home. Because we absolutely were home and the dogs would have told us if someone knocked at the damn door.

They bring us more mail for other people than mail actually addressed to us. Which makes me wonder how much of our mail is ending up at other people’s houses… no, I’m not going to wonder about that. I’m going to pretend that’s not happening.

When I’ve caught the mail carrier to say “THIS IS NOT OURS” he’s said, well it must be miss-addressed and then I point out, no it’s not. It’s for the people on Melise Dr (across the street from us), he grumbles under his breath like it is MY FAULT that I’m not the person who the mail was addressed to.

They’ve folded up large photo envelopes and stuff them into the mail box.
They’ve wadded up mail to try and get MORE mail to fit into the mailbox.

Today, TW went to the street and found Michelle’s college diploma not IN the mailbox but stuck between the box and the mail flag. Just out there. In the open. In the GOD BLESSED WIND and freezing yukkiness. What would have led the mail carrier to think this was an appropriate delivery of mail? In this particular case, if he didn’t want to get out of the car in -20F, then fine — LEAVE ME A NOTICE and let me go pick it up, for godsakes. You’ve done it a million other times, for no good weather reason…

This kind of thing is why the USPS is in trouble. Why would I want to send ANYTHING via US mail and risk it being treated that way? I think my goal for 2014 should be to see if I can NEVER mail anything via US MAIL again. Ever.

3 thoughts on “My Love/Hate (No Wait, My HATE/HATE) Relationship with the USPS”

  1. was your mailbox frozen shut by any chance? because our carrier will do the same if she can’t get the box open. also, i have experienced the sticker too, more times than I wish to remember. I even gave our mail carrier permission to drive UP the driveway to deliver. but noooooo let’s stuff everything we can in the box (or not if it’s frozen) and leave a “you weren’t home” sticker when I clearly WAS. grrr. with you on this. AND the mail addressed to other people with other addresses on that aren’t even CLOSE? omg. lol.

  2. No, the mail box wasn’t frozen shut. There was mail inside it too. And our mailbox tends to blow OPEN instead of closed. Fortunately the envelope with the diploma didn’t get too wet or blow to the Burger King or somewhere.

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