U.s.p.s. Failure

[DeeVeeEight]

The United States Postal Service is FAILING. So what else is new?
Years ago I went to my local post office to complain about "gray areas" in our local zip codes. I live in a town that shares it's zip code with neighboring towns. I do not know where the zip code boundaries are as they do not comply with the actual neighborhood boundaries. Well, a lot of my business estimates that I was sending out to my customers via the U.S. Mail were not being delivered due to the gray areas of the zip codes. I was putting the correct zip for the town but not for the street. I was losing business and credibility, people were thinking that I was not following through with their requests. When I asked my local post office for a map indicating our local delivery areas they told me there was none, but that they could tell me which streets the invisible boundaries are on (can you imagine?). I told them not to waste my time, that I either need a map or for them to deliver the fucking mail as addressed. If I put on the correct zip code for a particular town then the mail should go through, I should not have to be a zip code boundary expert. What if someone from Texas sends a letter to one of our gray areas? How is a Texan supposed to know wtf is going on in NJ?:bonkers: I suppose that their mail gets bounced back to them and they are s.o.l. too.
When I informed my local post office of this problem they were APATHETIC and uninterested. All they could do was chuckle about it and go "oh well".... So I informed them that I would start using e-mail more often as it was more reliable and much faster and that if they kept up their apathetic attitudes that they would eventually have no business. Again I got the "oh well" mentality and a bunch of retarded looks.:bonkers:
Well here we are a few years later and the post office is wondering why they are in the toilet - FUCKING ASSHOLES! Let them keep their heads buried in the sand and their asses up in the air - they are getting what they deserve!:hi:

 

[mrvette]

They are .gov workers, and typically retired from .mil or some other .gov job....they really don't HAVE to give a shit...they can't be fired....

BTW, inside dope on all that zip code shit, they are ALL assigned as POLITICAL PLUMS by the local political appointed POSTMASTERS, those jobs are awarded for patronage, mainly local, state, but sometimes even federal.....

IF some 'farm road' back when had no houses, there was no route established....some subdivision goes in, but unless there is a WANT by the postmaster (s) to actually deliver mail there, it's NOT.....

an old buddy years ago got out of the Navy and went to work for the USPS on automated mail sorting machinery....fellow ET.....but quickly went on to be a Postal Inspector.....some time ago, he told me this over some beers...

I had specifically asked how those jobs were gotten and how postmaster jobs were done....

:beer:

 

[DeeVeeEight]

Gene, I am sure that you and a lot of others remember the days when the postal carrier knew the route and the people on it and if a letter had a mistake in the address it still had a good chance of being delivered. Nowadays in the name of efficiency everything is scanned by a pooter and if the pooter don't like it out it goes, back to you the sender. What happened to the SERVICE? The warm fuzzy Norman Rockwell-America is a great country-We are the best and proud of it SERVICE? :clobbered:

 

[mrvette]

Gene, I am sure that you and a lot of others remember the days when the postal carrier knew the route and the people on it and if a letter had a mistake in the address it still had a good chance of being delivered. Nowadays in the name of efficiency everything is scanned by a pooter and if the pooter don't like it out it goes, back to you the sender. What happened to the SERVICE? The warm fuzzy Norman Rockwell-America is a great country-We are the best and proud of it SERVICE? :clobbered:

Dunno man, went of style with the hippy generation...I"m about 5 years too old for that shit, most of my friends were too....

most of my friends were in the TV business, and PT national guard....surrounding the likes of DC stadium when the hippy protesters were stored there....type shit....lots of them were also in/out of VN also....
many were federal cops of some description....or other....

lived in a typical burb, mail was hand carried and dumped in the mail slot in the door the guy even had to open the storm door....

today, same type hood here, it's a drive by RFD type box....

 

[TimAT]

The Post Office/U.S. Mail is a joke. FedEx can find stuff that the Mail won't have a clue for.

I get mail all the time for houses all over the neighborhood. The clowns that deliver just flat plain old can't read.

 

[68/70Vette]

This is all a common story dealing with federal bureaucracy. It's extremely difficult to force government workers to do a good job, and I understand it's almost impossible if they are a veteran. Post office, I've had similar experiences. The immigration service can be outragiously incompetent. Passports -bad experiences with "expedited" passport services. But (as they say on television infomercials) folks, WAIT, there's MORE. In the future, federal bureaucrats will handle your all your health care!