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laken1


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My Dh has a registered package at the Post office- we think it's ebay stuff & they sent it registered because it came international. ANYWAY. I work from home now- I was literally home ALL DAY yesterday. They didn't even knock on the door. they put a slip in the mailbox to come pick it up. I'll also say that my damn post man KNOWS i stay home because we get stuff all the time & when he has a box he puts it on my doorstep & knocks & I usually open the door before he's back in the truck. So I have to work again today so I can't leave my house to go get it. I work literally 2 miles from the post office, but I am tied to the phone so i can't get it. And their hours? 8:30 to 5. That's it. No other time. So tomorrow my husband has to BE LATE because they won't knock on my door. And I have been trying to call them all morning because i'm home today & will be home tomorrow, no answer. I mean really, what are you supposed to do?

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Ooh, I am kind of with you, even though most of the time they do a fine job as far as I can tell. But the last time I went to the post office, the woman ahead of me in line asked "When I get a package COD, do I pay the post office (who delivered the package) or the people who mailed it (without paying for the service...)" I thought the woman behind the counter would laugh. I mean, obviously, you pay the post office for doing post office things, and the package was sent COD so that the sender wouldn't have to pay the post office and the recipient would, right?

But instead, the woman behind the counter looks all confused and goes "I'll have to check..." so she walks off for more than FOUR MINUTES. Comes back and goes, "You pay the post office." So the woman paying gets out her checkbook, and the woman behind the counter gets agitated and says, "Wait, if you're going to write a check I'd better make sure that's right..." So counter woman disappears for another EIGHT MINUTES (clock on the wall, and nothing else to watch) comes back and goes "Yeah, that's right, you pay the post office."

So finally I get up to the counter, and ask "My mail was supposed to be forwarded, but the office at my last place said they have it there, so it's not being forwarded. What do I do?" And the woman behind the counter looks confused and says, "I'll have to check." I just walked off. I don't know what she was doing in the back room, but there was obviously no help to be had at that counter...

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Just yesterday I had a lovely experience with their ineptness. I get all worked up just thinking about it, but they supposedly tried to deliver a package to me 2 weeks ago and supposedly left me a note telling me I could pick it up at the P.O. No note was left for me, but I took it upon myself to do some research and see where the package might be. After going to see them and calling them and dealing with the rudest people telling me they didn't have the package and I should contact the sender, I FINALLY got a call yesterday saying they found it...it was stuck way in the back behind some other boxes. I despise them.

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I don't have major issues with the Post Office, knock on wood, but I do not understand why their hours are the way they are.  Seriously!  Everybody needs to go to the post office every now and then and why is it that if you work 8-5, like many, many Americans do, that you can't go to the post office?!?!?!  Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!  I just do not understand.

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Some of my local post offices just changed their hours to extend past 5pm.  Finally!


Did the slip give you the option of requesting that the package be re-delivered to your home?



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she_wears_pink wrote:
Some of my local post offices just changed their hours to extend past 5pm.  Finally!
Did the slip give you the option of requesting that the package be re-delivered to your home?


Yes, as a matter of fact they did, but if I do that , they will pick it up TOMORROW & will deliver on Friday, which is the only day this week i won't be here. bastards!


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laken1 wrote:

Yes, as a matter of fact they did, but if I do that , they will pick it up TOMORROW & will deliver on Friday, which is the only day this week i won't be here. bastards!
Well, poot.  That won't work. 

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The post office is seriously trifling. My mom's birthday was on the 31st. I sent her a card a couple of days before. She got it today. WTF?

And one time, my mom sent my sister a package with a dog sweater in it. The day after it should have arrived, she was throwing her trash in the dumpster and something caught her eye. It was the dog sweater. The postal worker didn't want to bother taking the package back to the post office, so he threw it in the dumpster. Someone rifling through the dumpster opened the package up and wasn't impressed. The reason we know this is that the person my sister talked to when she called to report the incident pretty much told her this is the likely scenario. And the apology was "Well, that particular branch is pretty notorious for things like this."

-- Edited by boobaby at 20:45, 2006-02-08

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