Sorry to say, but you sound like the guy who sits on his porch and
yells at the kids for being on his lawn.
I don't know this for sure, but I'm guessing the mail carriers aren't
allowed to actually put something in your home. So using the mail slot
probably isn't a legal option for them. I do know for sure that only
the USPS is allowed to use your mail box. This is why you get things
from pizza companies and others hanging on your door knob.
As for the signing for things. Would you be complaining if they left
something important that was then stolen by some sleaze bag? You
always have the option of not picking up the package or letter that
need a signature.
And when it comes to the postal employee pay, I don't think they get
paid enough. The employees at all the postal stations in my area are
some of the friendliest people I've met. I know I couldn't do their
job and remain that friendly.
Jeff Miles
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On Sep 6, 2009, at 11:29 PM, Fred Holmes wrote:
Regularly, I get other people's mail delivered to my home. On some
occasions, it has been outgoing mail that the mail carrier has
picked up at someone else's home. The mail may arrive at any time
from 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., which says that they don't have a
standard, routine manner in which the deliver the mail. I took down
the "mailbox" on the front of my house and installed a "mail slot"
in my front door, but the letter carriers often won't use it. The
just leave the mail inside the storm door, which then stays
partially propped open and thereby doesn't perform its intended
purpose. When I'm not home to sign for a receipted item of mail,
there is no clue on the "postcard" announcement that is left at my
home as to who the sender is or what sort of article it is, so there
is no way to prioritize my visit to the Post Office. And with post
office hours now reduced to 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., working folks
have to take additional time off from work to stop at the post o!
ffice to pick up receipted mail. But the letter carriers have an
extremely good pay and benefits package.
Fred Holmes
At 03:04 AM 9/6/2009, Jeff Miles wrote:
True, the post office certainly has on many occasions.
Does anyone really stop and think what the post office does
on a
daily basis? I have yet to find a privet company that has worked as
efficiently and consistently. And, being governmentally run, the post
office's goal isn't to make a profit. No government program is run to
make a profit. People bitch when the programs loose money, and they'd
bitch about prices and taxes if the programs were making money.
It's a
no win situation.
I have yet, in my 47 years, realized something getting lossed
by the
USPS. On occasion it's taken a day or more to get here or there. But
at the cost, I really can't complain. And with the millions of
letters
and packages they deal with each day, Fed-Ex and UPS seem to be doing
just fine. In fact new people are coming on board. What's the new
one?
Some Yellow truck, 3 letters, can't remember the name.
Socialized mail can't be that bad for business.
Maybe that was President Obama's hidden agenda in asking kids
to
write a letter. It was to themselves, but maybe he'd had hopes they'd
actually mail them and boost the profits of the USPS? Or maybe he'd
had the market flooded and hoped they'd all lick some tainted stamps?
The conspiracy theories flourish.
Jeff Miles
jmile...@charter.net
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