posted on December 16, 2000 02:26:55 PM
For the third time found my mail in the neighbors yard and down the street dripping wet from the rain and when I call my local Post Office I get told I'm lying they don't believe this actually happened to me. What would you do...I'd love to know as I'm getting tired of this treatment out of an outfit I spend over $100 a week with!Why should I have to pay them money for a Post office Box because they don't want to put mail IN the mail box attached to my house!Their complaint is the box is too small,I could get at least 50 envelopes in it.I am getting a larger box but I don't think that will be the end of it,as days when we only have one or two payments they still don't get put in the box,yet my bills always get delivered go figure!Not A happy camper with my mail carrier!
posted on December 16, 2000 02:34:00 PM
I feel your pain. Every year at this time we get mail that doesn't belong to us. Our address is 4141, and this other person's address is 1441 - but not even in our neighborhood. They live about three miles away! Last year we got an entire mailbox full of this other person's mail! But, since I want to remain friends with my mail carrier, I hated to complain. Finally, I called her supervisor, and he said I should put the mail back into the box so the carrier can SEE that she is screwing up. Then he says "Well, you know it's a busy time of the year and there is a LOT of mail, yadda yadda yadda". He acts like it's no big deal. Meanwhile, OUR mail is getting lost like gangbusters. I order a lot of mail order and QVC stuff, not to mention eBay stuff, and last year two of the orders went somewhere else. So - if you find the answer to this problem, let me know! Because I sure don't know what it is!
posted on December 16, 2000 03:13:07 PM
Sorry to hear your postal emplyee is acting "postal".
Weighing in from a contiguous state to you Buckeyes with a different postal agravation. My mail is being snipped open ever so discretely in the lower right corner. It looks as if someone is using those tiny nail scissors of a similar implement to created a littl opening. Of course, this would enable them to see if there is cash inside. I discourage anyone from sending cash, but some do anyway and I dread the day the cash gets stolen.
I know this sounds far-fetched, but I've gotten eight envelopes like this in the last three months, all delivered to my PO box. (I save all of the payment envelopes.) Since I live in a small town, all of the postal employees know that I eBay for a living and that the box is for my business mail. (It was either let them know or keep them wondering if this city slicker transplant had an elaborate mail-order drug operation going.)
Oddly enough, this happened to a friend in New England who also sells, except the money was absent in her envelope. Has anyone here experienced this?
posted on December 16, 2000 03:34:10 PM
I may have mentioned a couple weeks ago, that a payment sent to me very promptly by a customer, ended up somewhere in my town...but certainly not at my house. When I finally received it (a Money Order) , it had been opened, then re-sealed with clear scotch tape and apparently dropped in the street mail box. My customer was waiting for her item all during that long time...
I was fortunate that whoever opened the envelope (by accident) was honest, and did not try to forge my name, and even sent it to me! It could have ended up in the garbage.
This is very discouraging, when you consider the raise in fees soon to be implemented!
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Every year at this time we get mail that doesn't belong to us. Our address is 4141, and this other person's address is 1441 - but not even in our neighborhood. They live about three miles away! Last year we got an entire mailbox full of this other person's mail! But, since I want to remain friends with my mail carrier, I hated to complain. Finally, I called her supervisor, and he said I should put the mail back into the box so the carrier can SEE that she is screwing up. Then he says "Well, you know it's a busy time of the year and there is a LOT of mail, yadda yadda yadda". He acts like it's no big deal. Meanwhile, OUR mail is getting lost like gangbusters. I order a lot of mail order and QVC stuff, not to mention eBay stuff, and last year two of the orders went somewhere else. So - if you find the answer to this problem, let me know! Because I sure don't know what it is! 
