My daughter bought me a very nice saddle off of ebay. 
She very carefully asked and checked and paid extra for it to be shipped UPS. Instead the seller shipped it USPS. The postal driver refuses to drive the .5 mile down the public road to deliver the package. So now the saddle is sitting at a post office that is a 28 mile round trip and I am disabled and have no vehicle. The only âgoodâ news is the person working inside the post office will hold it for 3 weeks until my daughter can drive the 250 miles here and then to the post office (if it is opened on Saturday).
We are not happy with the seller but very unhappy with the lazy postal delivery person. I am honestly at a loss for what to do. I would like to ride before riding becomes impossible anymore. :mad: 
I guess I just wanted to vent to someone who could understand.
I would be very tempted to mail it fed ex from the post office to you. Betcha fed ex would do that, too.
I know you probably couldnât get anyone to pakage up the parcel into a fed ex box. But if you COULD get someone to do that for you wouldnât that be just dandy?
Idiots. Wait. Where does the USPS driver leave your mail? AT your house? So why canât they bring the box to your house?
Can you have someone sit at the end of the road waiting for your box? I mean, Iâd do that for a neighbor.
Didnât they leave you a note with âattempted to deliverâ peach colored slip? I thought you could even set it up to be re-delivered on line? Set it up and have someone there to grab it from them.
[QUOTE=kdreger;8156383]
My daughter bought me a very nice saddle off of ebay. 
She very carefully asked and checked and paid extra for it to be shipped UPS. Instead the seller shipped it USPS. The postal driver refuses to drive the .5 mile down the public road to deliver the package. So now the saddle is sitting at a post office that is a 28 mile round trip and I am disabled and have no vehicle. The only âgoodâ news is the person working inside the post office will hold it for 3 weeks until my daughter can drive the 250 miles here and then to the post office (if it is opened on Saturday).
We are not happy with the seller but very unhappy with the lazy postal delivery person. I am honestly at a loss for what to do. I would like to ride before riding becomes impossible anymore. :mad: 
I guess I just wanted to vent to someone who could understand.[/QUOTE]
I was under the impression that usps will only deliver packages up to a certain size? Why canât they just meet you and drop it off then?
Iâm thinking you should check to see if the Post Office is open on Saturday before your daughter makes the 250mi RT.
Not to pry, but if you are unable to make it to the post office due to your disability/lack of car, how do you get to the grocery store/barn?
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Iâm thinking you should check to see if the Post Office is open on Saturday before your daughter makes the 250mi RT.
Not to pry, but if you are unable to make it to the post office due to your disability/lack of car, how do you get to the grocery store/barn?[/QUOTE]
Horses are here. I slowly plug away at feeding them and do fine. I get groceries when my daughter shows up (500 mile round trip) every 3-4 weeks. Feed is delivered.
The mailbox is a mile from the house. When my daughter called meeting the driver was not even an option they gave us. If I had a time I sure could be by the box but it sounds like the carrier simply refuses anything that might take extra time. She is refusing to do anything with the package. 
The carrier might not have room in her delivery vehicle for a package that large. Especially on long rural routes, the daily mail takes up a LOT of room.
Do you have any friends that could go get it for you?
Iâm sorry the seller shipped it the wrong way and you canât enjoy your saddle
So thereâs a 1/2 mile public road plus a 1 mile long driveway to contend with.
Is your mailbox at the end of your driveway, or at the end of the 1/2 mile public road?
I donât believe mail carriers are allowed to leave packages outside of the mailbox, so that plus a 3mi RT, which may/may not be authorized, would make it difficult. Hopefully the post office will hold it for you.
Do you have a friend close by who you could ask to drive you? Or ask a neighbor to pick it up the next time theyâre in town?
Gosh that is so sad on so many levels that they canât make the effort to do a special delivery for a disabled person.
Gosh one winter the postal lady would drive up my long driveway and honk the horn. My dogs are my alarm system. I go out immediately and she had my saddle for me shipped from Virginia.
These days that service has stopped. She just leaves the parcel at the office and leaves a tag. They really donât attempt to deliver anything that will not fit in your mailbox.
Reminds me I have something to go pick up today.
Iâm also thinking, the seller may have shipped it UPS âSurePostâ which means it goes by UPS for the major routes, but it dropped off at USPS for local delivery.
OP, can you post the general area of Kentucky in which you live?
You never know, there may be a COTHer near you who can help out!
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OP, can you post the general area of Kentucky in which you live?
You never know, there may be a COTHer near you who can help out![/QUOTE]
The post office is Lewisburg 42256 but we are a lot closer to Morgantown.
The road ends at the property, the landlord has a house and I am living in a camper.
I canât wait to get away from this landlord. Anyone have room for a slow moving person and one horse?
If your disability affects ability you cannot get to your mailbox, you carrier may deliver to your door. You must petition your post office ro a change of existing delivery point due to extreme hardship. Your post office has the final approval but it helps your case if you have the following: *A written request from you for hardship delivery stating why you need the delivery (illness, injury, in ability to reach/open mailbox, location of the box at the end of a long, steep driveway, etc. and your suggested a more convenient delivery location (a secondary mailbox or your front door). *A written statement from your doctor which lists your medical condition(s) and the reason(s) why you require hardship delivery. *Submit both letters together to your local post office who will decide on a case-by-case basis whether they are in a position to honor your request. For more information, contact your local post office, visit www.usps.com, or call 800-275-8777.
It is probably worth calling the number given and explaining your problem. I understand that going through this whole process is too lengthy for this immediate issue, but they might be able to prod your local post office into action.
We sometimes have trouble with the mail carrier where I work. A phone call to the Postmaster usually gets our issue resolved.
TY!! for that information. I have been here for 6 months and the nearest neighbors are 1.5 and 3+ miles away and the landlord doesnât âwant me bothering them.â One of the many reasons I want to be somewhere else. I moved here to be able to feed my daughterâs horses wile she is in college but the landlord keeps changing the amount of pasture we can use and it is now cheaper to board then rent here.
How strange⊠Iâd call and ask to speak to the post master. I had an issue where they werenât able to deliver a box with pet meds to my mailbox and couldnât get to the door to leave it due to the snowstorm. I called and the post master said he went by my place on his way home and delivered it after hours for me. If you talk to the man in charge, you might get somewhere. Iâd bypass the worker bees on this one.
I hope you can move this summer, you sound very resourceful and the landlord sounds kind of mean.
Iâm not sure you should be blaming the letter carrier here. It may be USPS policy that they do not deliver half a mile up a driveway past the mailbox. Call the postmaster, see if you canât get it worked out.
Last few items I have received that shipped UPS were dropped in my mailbox by the USPS. UPS Tracking number trace indicated the transfer to USPS for delivery, not sure seller here knew that either. I didnât until it turned up in the mailbox and I traced the UPS tracking number.
Take a deep breath here.
I didnât realize that USPS (whatever contractor they use here) was trying to deliver to my house, and somehow failing to even leave the delivery notices⊠I would get âfinal noticesâ from the depot as a first notice!
When I went on mat leave, I was home all day and saw the problem. Their driver was a tiny, timid woman who was terrified of our dogs (friendly pyrs who sleep all day on the porch) and she couldnât even get out of her truck. Canât say I blame her, the dogs look scary, and plenty of people have mean dogs. She couldnât even stick the delivery notice to something!
Anyway, I hope you can negotiate something to get your saddle, but I have also âcursed the driverâ then felt badly when it turned out they had a perfectly understandable reason to âmess upâ deliveries to my rural address.
You can request that they redeliver. And my rural carrier leaves stuff that wonât fit in the box all the time, but no, they wonât go more than 0.5 miles past the mailbox one way to drop off at your home or on your property. If you have dogs or they canât turn around or your driveway is a rutted mess then cross it off too.
Totally depends on the carrier and the office on the level of intrepidness you are going to get - around here they stash stuff in the front of your pickup truck all the time but until you get used to it youâll be scratching your head wondering where did it go?
Complaining about the carrier and calling him or her lazy is not really the way to get that little bit extra in the way of service however.
[QUOTE=kdreger;8156383]
My daughter bought me a very nice saddle off of ebay. She very carefully asked and checked and paid extra for it to be shipped UPS. Instead the seller shipped it USPS. The postal driver refuses to drive the .5 mile down the public road to deliver the package. So now the saddle is sitting at a post office that is a 28 mile round trip and I am disabled and have no vehicle. The only âgoodâ news is the person working inside the post office will hold it for 3 weeks until my daughter can drive the 250 miles here and then to the post office (if it is opened on Saturday).
We are not happy with the seller but very unhappy with the lazy postal delivery person. I am honestly at a loss for what to do. I would like to ride before riding becomes impossible anymore. :mad:
I guess I just wanted to vent to someone who could understand.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=kdreger;8156482]Horses are here. I slowly plug away at feeding them and do fine. I get groceries when my daughter shows up (500 mile round trip) every 3-4 weeks. Feed is delivered.
The mailbox is a mile from the house. When my daughter called meeting the driver was not even an option they gave us. If I had a time I sure could be by the box but it sounds like the carrier simply refuses anything that might take extra time. She is refusing to do anything with the package. :([/QUOTE]
It is frustrating to have things like this happen, and I am sorry that you are disabled and have no car. However, it sounds to me like your anger is displaced. Your daughter paid extra for the seller to ship it UPS, but the seller then pocketed the difference and sent it USPS? The seller messed up! Or was dishonest, or bothâŠ
The postal driver is not to blame for staying on her route and doing her job. I think it is unreasonable of you to call the delivery driver lazy because she did not want to drive another half mile, find a driveway, wander down there and know to bypass the house, meander around on a strange property, and look for you in a camper. In fact, I hear the music from Psycho (EEE EEE EEE EEE!) just thinking about that. UPS figures in the cost of gas, insurance, and time for personal deliveries and that is why they charge more for that service.
If someone in the Post Office does go out of her way to be kind and deliver your package to you personally, I hope you do not receive it with an attitude that they owe you that service â they donât.
Someone suggested asking a neighbor for help. Even if the landlord has a problem with that, how is it his business? For that matter, if he lives on the property, could you ask him to pick up the saddle next time heâs in town?
