Anonymous wrote:OP I am praying for you in your time of great need. Hugs to you.
May God provide peace in the world and dry mail.
Anonymous wrote:Who gets mail nowadays? Sorry your pizza menu got wet.
Anonymous wrote:Solution: Move to Phoenix. No rain, but your mail may catch fire from the heat. Wet mail you can read, ashes, not so much.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Thanks to an incompetent Congress who (poorly) micromanage the USPS the USPS cannot increase the postage rates to actually have enough staff. The postal carriers now have double or triple routes to handle. Many of them work 12-15 hour days at the same pay scale (no raises) that they used to get paid for 8-10 hour days. They are forced to deliver mail as quickly as possible and no longer really have the luxury of even those few seconds it takes to adjust your mail a second time because over the course of a day, that would add another hour or two to their day.
If you really want better mail service, try lobbying your Congress representative and Senator to get them to allow USPS management to set postage rates so that they can actually pay the carriers a reasonable rate, and hire enough carriers to adequately deliver the over 600 million pieces of mail to over 142 million locations it handles daily.
And, no, I am not a postal employees, I just happen to have a couple of friends who are postal employees. I know one that barely sees his kids anymore because he leaves for work before they get up and gets home after they get home. And he's a mailman for crying out loud making middle class wages, not an overpaid lawyer.
If I had actual representation in Congress, I might do that.
Signed,
DC resident
(But seriously, that really sucks for them. I didn't know their workloads had gotten so huge.).
Anonymous wrote:My mail was nice and dry. Door slot bitches!!!
Anonymous wrote:Thanks to an incompetent Congress who (poorly) micromanage the USPS the USPS cannot increase the postage rates to actually have enough staff. The postal carriers now have double or triple routes to handle. Many of them work 12-15 hour days at the same pay scale (no raises) that they used to get paid for 8-10 hour days. They are forced to deliver mail as quickly as possible and no longer really have the luxury of even those few seconds it takes to adjust your mail a second time because over the course of a day, that would add another hour or two to their day.
If you really want better mail service, try lobbying your Congress representative and Senator to get them to allow USPS management to set postage rates so that they can actually pay the carriers a reasonable rate, and hire enough carriers to adequately deliver the over 600 million pieces of mail to over 142 million locations it handles daily.
And, no, I am not a postal employees, I just happen to have a couple of friends who are postal employees. I know one that barely sees his kids anymore because he leaves for work before they get up and gets home after they get home. And he's a mailman for crying out loud making middle class wages, not an overpaid lawyer.

After awhile, mailbox lids warp from weather, opening and closing, etc. The mailperson should not have to fidget with your lid to get it to closeAnonymous wrote:It's not your mailperson's job to make sure your box closes properly. It sounds as if it's either not big enough or cumbersome. It's on you to get a new mailbox or fix it. I think your mailperson is probably more concerned with meeting his or her daily requirements of filling a gazillion mailboxes than s/he is with getting yours perfect. Special you and your special mail need to get over it.