UPS will not drive up our driveway. If the gate is OPEN he will, sometimes, but usually not. The Postal Service does not. Packages need to be picked up at the PO…they’ve never, ever delivered packages that don’t fit in your box. Ever. In 44 years of living in my town.
I find the USPS competitively priced and easy to deal with. I’m sorry you have to be angry about this, but honestly, I think you’ve gotten "special service’ for a while. I hope you get a resolution you can deal with.
Your complaint will probably do very little, unfortunately. I used to work for the USPS, and let me tell you, there is a reason they go postal. I’m sorry you’re having issues 
Gosh, I can’t imagine. I have three mailboxes at the end of a drive which is circular. For regular mail, the postpeople come down the drive, put the mail in the boxes, go around and on out to the main road. For packages lately, they have been coming all the way around to the back and honking for me to come and get my boxes.
Have you thought about getting a new mailbox with a section for packages? Do you think they would use it, or are they leaving the packages at the PO and not even putting them in the delivery vehicle?
Argh! My mother’s day gift I sent to my mom in PA was almost lost forever thanks to USPS refusing to deliver to her door.
I shipped her gift priority with tracking and insurance, got a delivery confirmation, and called her on Sunday to see how she liked her present. She replied that she never got it. I was all :o, - “But they confirmed delivery!”
She walked to the mailbox (my parent’s house is about 1/8 mile up a dirt driveway) and discovered her package in a drainage ditch. She had to climb over a guardrail and scramble down into the ditch to retrieve it. Way to go, USPS. I should have learned my lesson after her birthday gift was mangled because they jammed the envelope in the box rather than have to drive up to the house. I’ll ship UPS from now on.
OTOH, our mail carrier here in Houston is fantastic. She’s on a walking route (we all have mail slots in the door or a box on the porch) and carries dog treats with her. My GSD wants to accompany her wherever she goes.
Get a UPS box
I haven’t had mail delivered to my domicile for years. I don’t have to give out my home address to anyone, I just use the UPS address. Businesses that won’t deliver to a PO Box WILL deliver to a UPS box because it is considered a regular mailing address. The store employees have always been friendly and know me by name. They sign for my packages (and can accept all size packages) and keep them safe behind the counter until I can pick them up. I get an email as soon as the package arrives. Mail is never messed up, because the PO just delivers a giant stack and the UPS employees sort. No random scumbags can steal my mail or identity from my mail. I get a key to the building so I can pick up my mail after hours. And, it is cheap. With the AAA discount, less then $10/month.
I live in a rural area and have had a PO Box (at the post office) for over 30 years. Even with that, I get other people’s mail. With the theft of roadside post boxes rampant in my area, at least I feel that my mail is somewhat safe. The post office is 15 miles away, but we check mail almost every day.
My big problem is with FEDEX! They claim they have delivered a package and never did (more than once!).
My husband is home all day (retired FF) and sees the delivery trucks up and down our private road, so he knows to go out and pick up a package that is left at our gate.
UPS out here is just as bad…:mad:
Do not get me started on the post office. OMFG. I swear we have the most backwards post office in the world.
The most recent change just is the icing on the cake. To save money (or so the say) our mail is no longer being delivered out of our local post office. It is coming from a different post office, more than 10 miles further away. There are two other posts offices closer to us (other than the one our mail used to come out of), so if you are going to pick a new post office to save money why not pick one closer to the house. Heck, one of the post offices closer to the house is actually in the town I technically live in (versus my postal zip code, which is not the town is actually live in). Oh, and to add to this story. The post office my mail is no longer being delivered out of is still open for business normal business hours. Two people at the counter or doing whatever. But when I get a pink notice now I have to drive to that other post office. Sigh. While the two people in my post office discuss the weather…there was never a line at this post office so I highly doubt they are more busy now.
I happen to be home the other day when they delivered my fly predators. I heard a noise outside so I looked out the window just as the postal worker was tossing the box from the little delivery jeep towards my house.
My post office can not deliver a sale flier on time to save their life. I would say it is the stores fault but it happens with lots of places, not just one or two retailers. Last year I got a black Friday flier for Tractor Supply a full two weeks after Black Friday.
We will go days with no mail deliver at all and then get a huge bundle of mail rubber banded together.
When we moved, four miles down the road, still within the same post office delivery area, we had to fill out a change of address several times. They just kept sending our mail to the old address. Two of those change of address forms were filled out while standing at the counter at the post office and handed directly to the employee.
THIS. I guess it all depends on where you live. We have a driveway at the farm that’s half a mile long and Wendy, our mail carrier always comes up the driveway with packages. But, then, because it’s a small town it might be because my parent’s nephew dated her neice and therefore, we all have hung around the same social circles. I’ve been to countless tupperware, candlelight, and tastefully simple with our mail carrier. And she would bring carrots for the ponies. :winkgrin:
The USPS almost lost my SO’s graduation present (a handmade, very nice black belt from a really awesome company in Japan that was also a celebration of his promotion to black belt) because they refused to deliver it to our mailbox (the package would have easily fit) and NEVER left a “missed you” notice. They “tried” to deliver the package twice, when everyone was at work, and didn’t check with our neighbors (very nice older couple, always there), and then put it in “lost mail.”
A month or two after ordering it, I finally call the post office with a tracking number, after translating the Japanese carrier service’s e-mails with the help of a friend who speaks Japanese. They won’t believe I have a tracking number because “it’s not one of ours!” NO DOY! I told you, the package was from Japan! It wouldn’t have a USPS tracking number, would it?
After two searches of their “lost mail” inventory (while I’m at work, with my boss watching me argue with them) they finally find it. But they won’t re-deliver it, even with my consent to JUST LEAVE IT IN THE MAILBOX IT FITS IN, or bring it to my neighbor. Thus, my mom was privileged enough to use her lunch hour to get the package, and apparently they took another hour searching for it with her because “that’s not one of our numbers.” They couldn’t even set it aside for her, after I told them she’d be coming to get it, because . . . they like searching for the same package over and over again, and arguing about whether Japan should use the same tracking numbers they do? Dunno.
That was 2 years ago, and it still makes me angry, because my SO didn’t get to wear the black belt I bought him until a few months after his promotion. I told everyone, “No, no, no, I’m buying him a really nice one from Japan, he doesn’t need one, save your money.” Like I said, still angry. That’s why I’m not a black belt yet, I guess 
Then there’s the time they refused to deliver my paychecks because I didn’t have the same last name as my (male) roommate . . .
I order my DE (diatomaceous earth) online b/c I get it in 50-lb. bags and since I can’t get it at the feed store I’d rather just have it delivered straight to the house. Our post office called me to say that they couldn’t deliver it b/c the mail carrier couldn’t pick up the box.
I asked why they allowed a company to send something via USPS if they couldn’t lift the package - the company PAID for shipping, after all - and told them if they couldn’t deliver it to my house to just send it back to the company, refund the postage, and I would re-order and choose FedEx next time.
It was delivered after hours to my door that evening.
I like our carrier but if USPS can’t manage big packages (or even small ones) they need to stop accepting them for delivery. We did get an oversized mail box so the carrier doesn’t have to come down our driveway - only once in a blue moon does she have to do that now.
At our old house the carrier once wedged a package so tightly into the mailbox I could not get it out - literally had to dismantle the package with tools to break it down some in size to pull it out. He was extremely overweight and thus would NOT get out of his vehicle to deliver packages no matter what. Usually he honked and I would run out to the driveway to get them but at some point he didn’t even like driving down the driveway to do THAT. I complained about him to the post office and eventually he was replaced.
That said, I have also had carriers who were the “old school” kind - one retired after bringing my mail for many years and on his last day he knocked so I could say goodbye to him - I literally cried as I did so - he had gone the extra mile so many times and always had a few kind words to say when I was home when the mail came. He helped me look for my cat once when he disappeared, helped out when the neighborhood had a peeping tom, etc., etc.
I just wish my carrier would leave packages where I can find them. Earlier in the year, about a month prior to going on vacation to the Bahamas, I ordered some disposable underwater cameras and a snorkeling set, via Amazon, with free shipping. That usually takes about two weeks, which put delivery two weeks before departure. Plenty of time!
A week and a half prior to departure, I got home from work one morning to find a delivery notice stuck to my apartment door, with no information at all on it. Odd, I think, but take slip and stop at the PO the next afternoon on my way to work. After waiting 15 minutes, they’re just as perplexed as I am by the lack of information, and tell they have no package in the back for me, check with my mailman. So the following day, I let my boss know I may be in a little late, and put off leaving for work in order to catch the postman. Who is not the normal postman, and has no idea about the tag left on my door two days ago :mad: Then it was the weekend…so Monday I had to wake up early and go into the PO and pitch enough of a fit that I got to talk to a manager, who had to call my regular mail guy, who of course had to drive in to the post office to tell me what he couldn’t tell the manager on the phone–that he’d gone around to my patio and put the box in my HVAC closet! :mad:
:mad: Why on earth would I look in there? I told him in the future, just leave the item inside the locked building, at my front door.
Ug. USPS.
About 2 months ago I sent out checks to two of our vendors on the same day. One was an address about 5 miles away. The other was to FL from Texas.
The FL check never showed up. SECOND time sending to that address a payment had disappeared.
As for the local one, my vendor was in Europe so I didn’t think anything when 2 weeks went by without the check clearing. Then I get an email wanting to know where the check was. I’m like “WTF?” I ended up wiring them the cash (no drama) and 2 days later she emails to say the check showed up, mangled, wet, disgusting and torn in places- she was as astonished as I was! She told me how it looked like it had been around the world 5 times in some toddler’s backpocket.
Now it’s worth the $15 wire fee to just wire my vendors their money.
Not acceptable
i think the posts that say you are lucky to receive mail at all are very unhelpful. Submitting to poor service supplies no solution.We need answers on how to solve this and stop making excuses for incompetence. A work-around such as a watertight bin at the base of her driveway may help. My driveway is two car lengths long, but my postal worker won’t leave packages because I do not have a covered porch and the postal service wonders why they are dying, downsizing and losing jobs when large packages are the one thing that may save them since the birth of email and death of letters?
freelng–did you notice that this thread is over 3 years old? 
We live in a rural area and our mail delivery is just to a post box up the road. So thats ok. We stop by during the afternoon and pick up the mail. Not a big deal. However the thing that makes me laugh is the UPS delivery. Since we live in a somewhat remote area, we order a lot of things on line. There isnt a lot of shopping up here. We order wine a few cases at a time and UPS delivers it. A few months ago the UPS driver said to me, I know you are over 21, (yes Im 62) so if you arent here, Ill just leave the wine on the front porch and sign the receipt for you if thats ok with you.
YUP works for me !
Ahh Ghazzu - but unfortunately it appears the problem is still the same…
I am in Queensland Australia. Our letterboxes are on the other side of our driveways, so they don’t have to leave the road.
They won’t deliver packages to my house either. I try to get everything delievered by UPS and FeDEx but now even they have some sort of shipping that ends up being (non) delivered by the post office.
I wish the post office would just deliver 2 or 3 times a week. They seem to get less and less willing to do the job all of the time. Plus with all of the mail theft in the area it’s just a nuisance.
They lose my mail. They deliver my mail to my neighbors. At one point they were delivering packages to my house and they were often broken into.
For a while I was getting fly predators from the company with the name ---- labs. Every month the box was broken open and delivered damaged. It was pretty obvious that someone in the post office thought is was going to be prescription drugs and opened it looking for something worth stealing. As we all know fly predators look like rat poo in shavings so they never bothered to steal them. After about 4 months of this I complained and the Postmaster just knew no one in the post office would do such a thing. The company that sold the fly predators said no one ever complained about the box. I switched to a fly predator company without the name labs and they successfully sent an identical box to me in the mail that was never torn open.
You can count me as not a fan of the post office too. Too many of their employee resent doing their job but they sure whine when they cut jobs. I am sure there are good employee of the post office. In my area I have not seen one with much interest in their job in many a year. I figure it’s best to not use that service as much as I can
Around here, they just leave the packages beside the mailbox, right in plain sight, and right in reach of everyone who drives by. Honestly, I don’t understand how ANY packages make it to the right hands! Frequently I see a big Amazon box right on the side of the road (by a mailbox), right where everyone can see it!
ETA: Ug. I see this is a 3YO thread. Oh well.
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Around here, they just leave the packages beside the mailbox, right in plain sight, and right in reach of everyone who drives by. Honestly, I don’t understand how ANY packages make it to the right hands! Frequently I see a big Amazon box right on the side of the road (by a mailbox), right where everyone can see it!
ETA: Ug. I see this is a 3YO thread. Oh well.[/QUOTE]
yeah three years old but… our mail service is very good. Always professional.
Yesterday I met “Steve” our regular mail carrier at the door to see if he wanted a cup of coffee or something hot (37F and raining…oh its was 4:45PM also) … he said “he was fine but hey I saw the twins out on their horses the other day how are they doing? They growing aren’t they”
Admittedly we live in an odd place, what was once a rural route that got surrounded by the city… the carriers have a bidding war to get this route as since it is still a front door delivery route they get extra time and fewer people.
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