So the mail just arrived at 8pm. It’s gotten worse and worse over the last six months. For a while I’d get home and think that someone was stealing my mail.
Are they seriously understaffed or something? The hilarious part is I live within a 1/4 mile of the Post Office.
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I have been here for 20 years and the Decatur PO has never gotten better than fair. It’s a known fact that it is a black hole for any non-profit mail (have you seen your August Focus yet?).
Ah, validation that I am not the only Decatur resident unhappy with the Post Office…
Man, yall complain a lot .
It was *unusually* late today. There has been a bit of discussion on the Clairemont/Great Lakes mailing list about people getting misdirected mail or no mail at all. I have lived within a mile of my current house for about 25 years and mail service has never been what I would call great – but the last year or so has been the worst. The one exception seems to be Clairemont Road – I think they have had the same mail carrier for the last 15 years (at least).
Parker – Squeaky wheel my friend….Plus it wouldn’t be a very interesting site if everything was always hunky-dory, would it?
Stacy – interesting. I wonder what the deal is….other than the fact that our mail carrier always seems to be on their cell phone. Distracted with one hand on the wheel’s gotta slow you down and result in more mistakes. I would think that would be against policy, no?
We are constantly getting neighbors mail, and on several occasions we have not received mail that we know was delivered to us. I would estimate that things like this happen to us about twice a month.
The icing on the cake happened last month. We went out of town for a week at the end of June and had the post office put a hold on our mail. We have yet to get the mail that they held despite several phone calls. All we got was a very nasty attitude from the woman who took my phone call. I finally filed a complaint with the USPS. I don’t know if it did anything (it didn’t get us our lost mail) – but if enough people file complaints maybe something will be done.
Whoever is running that operation needs to look into another career.
Good luck getting a fed gov employee disciplined.
Perhaps the question should or could be, “which neighborhood or city has received consistent (and good) postal service at least ten years running?”
I lived in Marietta the first twelve or so years of my existence (from Reagan through Bush senior’s administrations). The mailman always came between 3:15 and 3:30 on weekdays. In fact, he was usually at my house at 3:15pm on the dot. I don’t remember what Saturdays were like because I don’t think I paid attention when I was younger.*
I then moved to Dunwoody and have been living there since (from age thirteen to the present). There has been virtually no consistency in delivery time. On weekdays (during the school year and the summer), the mail could arrive as early as 2:30pm to as late as 7:30pm. Saturdays range from noon to three.
There are even days when there is no mail. Zero. Not even coupons or junk mail. There might be an actual or logical reason for those zero-mail days, but I haven’t come across one.
*I’ve considered that the mail was delivered so punctually (consistently) because there weren’t a lot of people living in my neck of Sandy Plains road back in the 80s. I’m not sure what it’s like now up there.
Be thankful you don’t have your USPS carrier yelling obscenities at you and your neighbors like we do. The first time I heard about one of these encounters I thought it must be a case of “it takes 2 to tango.” But after the 2nd, 3rd, and then 4th report from neighbors who had similar experiences I realized this was a dance by the carrier that required no dancing partner.
One of these little dances ended up with a road rage incident and in court. Result? Nada, zilch. My advice is just to wave nicely at the carrier whatever time they happen to make your neighborhood no matter the hour and no matter with whose mail
I have to say in Oakhurst our mail has been delivered by the same person since I moved in 12 years ago. Laura is our carrier and she knows my kids by name and has known them since birth. Our mail comes at the same time every morning and although we sometimes get a mix up in mail, its rare. We have no complaints. Just wanted to share something positive.
We love our maillady on Olympic…embarrassed that I don’t know her name…but she is dependable and I seldom have mail problems.
THe only ones I have are when I have to actually go to the post office. These times, the folks in the Decatur office have been polite and helpful…but I didn’t have big issues or lost mail or such.
I have an old friend who is a postal carrier and has been doing the job for 20 years up in a city in New Hampshire. He’s a good man..concientious worker and trys to take some time now and then to sit for a few mins with many of the older homebound people on his route that have very little human contact. He works hard and has a very large route so he keeps moving during the day. He was telling me that the Postal Service has been on a hiring freeze for years now…that they are expecting more and more from the workers with less and less. He is 41 and now the youngest person in the location office. He said that the service issues you are all speaking of are getting more an more prevalant around the US and he thinks that the govt is trying to put pressure on this system to drive it further into privitization due to the public becoming so frustrated with it. Govt funding is drying up primarily because of the war (the current plutocracy in power does have its priorities). He works 60 hours a week (lots of OT these days) and makes 60k per year, gets 5 weeks of vacation. Some people feel that privitatization will make it more efficient. Others believe that a by-product of this is that the wages that will come down significantly, further erroding a structure that supports a significant number of middle class people.
Good insight, but think the argument of war funding contributing to a system that has been in dire straits for a couple of decades is a little specious.
Death due to inefficiency..probably. Half of my mail DAILY is unwanted, THIRD CLASS MAIL. RUN UP THOSE FEES, and leave private mail postage where it is.
We should all prepare to have less of these type services provided by our government. Not even sure if that is even best methodology anymore anyway, as US Postal service was designed to offset moving mail when there was no other way to do so.
Does anyone know if there is a list you can subscribe to that will add you to a list so you don’t get the ridiculous mail? I mean, If i get one more Bed Bath and Beyond 20% off thing I’ll go postal!
Seriously, three days out of the week my mail goes right into the recylcling bin. Talk about waste….
I would love info on that as well….sometimes I just leave it in the mail box, psychotically thinking the mailperson will throw it away…but she doesn’t so I end up putting in recycling on trash day….somehow I feel better that it never gets into the house. I have been tempted to call some of those businesses that send out that crap and tell them that I am purposefully buying what they sell from SOMEONE ELSE, just in defiance of their waste.
Ditto with car dealer ads on TV…they would never get my dollar.
Try this. It’s not perfect, but it can help:
https://www.directmail.com/directory/mail_preference/?ref=G
I also use http://www.catalogchoice.com. It takes a long time for the catalog rejections to be processed but I’ve already stopped 13 catalogs.
Also, to stop receiving pre-screened credit card offers, you can visit http://www.optoutprescreen.com or call 1-888-5OPTOUT (1-888-567-8688).
I s’pose I’ll add my name to the list of those with issues, albeit now for a different reason. I just received a call from my auto insurance company, who’d attempted to send my new card to my regular home address. Yet it was returned to them as undeliverable. I confirmed that they sent it to my address and ZIP+4 *exactly* per USPS specs (and of course I’ve received mail from them in the past). Thankfully I still have a few weeks before my policy renews and I must have that new card, but still…it makes me wonder how often this happens. I’ve seen instances before where mail for an office in the 315 building (yes, THAT building) was delivered to a residence.
Anyway, I filled out an issue form online for this. In the past when we had continued mail issues at our office, I’d gone to meet with the assistant postmaster here and even that didn’t fix the situation. Something appears wrong at our P.O., but it may not just be limited to our area.