I know why people go postal.

[fancytalk]

Because the United States Postal Service SUCKS.

We moved in November. We signed up for the nifty Premium Forwarding Service. We never got mail. Our realtor found our mail shoved through the mail slot or tossed on the back porch. She was very kind and sent it to us twice until I put a hold on all the mail. In the meantime, we have called the Berkeley post 27 billion times and gone to the Redmond post for them to help us out and calling the USPS 800 number gets you no where except on hold with the Berkeley post office.

In January when we were in San Francisco, we went to the post office and basically ended up pitching a fit because they couldn't find and had no idea where to find two months worth of our mail. Thank goodness for the internet, at least I could go online and check to make sure no one was owed anything.

Yesterday, I got not one, not two but SEVEN!!!! packages from the Berkeley post office. And part of the mail isn't even ours. It belongs to the people who bought the house! Really sad was the box of Harry & David pears that had been sitting so long at the post office they had rotted in the box AND they were for the new owners. And somehow we also ended up with a good portion of an outgoing mail bag. Yep, hope there weren't any checks to pay bills in that stack. So I'm going to go drop all that stuff back in the mail slot so it can go on it's way to where it was suppose to go.

So great going USPS. Glad that you deliver in rain, sleet, snow and ice but you can't seem to get things where they're meant to go any other time.

Comments

[ajayne.livejournal.com]

I have had my own USPS issues lately as well. I sent a package priority to my friend in San Francisco - 12 miles from my door to hers. And she never got it. :/ It's been a month today. I knew I should have driven it there myself.

Speaking of which - did you ever get the bunny CD I made for you!? I tend to think not.

[yesimthegirl.livejournal.com]

It's funny because whenever I send mail to Ireland, my friends there tell me to only put a $20 value on anything or it won't show up at their house. And this is the first issue that I've really had with USPS. Alas, the bunny CD has not shown up at this doorstep, but I've also done another change of address to the new place and will check the mail over there tonight. There is a good possibility that the Berkeley post office has somehow detained it and it will show up in a month with a bunch of mail for other people.

[ajayne.livejournal.com]

If it's not there, I'll burn you a new one because it's actually a fun CD. :D

Interesting about the vaule to put on a package overseas. The mail woes are annoying.