Is this a record?

[redhawker]

Since there has been some discussion re: the US Post Office lately I thought this would be appropriate to mention. Got the mail out of our mailbox today and got another piece of misdelivered mail today with a San Antonio, TX address on it...I live in Orange County, California. I put the address (mine and the other one) in google maps and it's exactly 1,351 miles. Most of the time I just walk the misdelivered mail over to the correct address. I don't think I'll be doing that this time.

Anybody get something from USPS that was supposed to be delivered further away than that?

Oh, BTW - This happened to be someone else's medical information so it's a potential HIPAA violation also. And no, I didn't open it to find that out, I can tell by medical group's name on the return address on the envelope.

 

[graygun]

It might be. I'm NE of San Antonio but only for a short time longer. I haven't received mail from that far afield.

 

[blume357]

Probably has to do with the bar code that the post office puts on the bottom of the envelope.... I think often if not always some worker has to look at the written address and then print that bar code on... from then on its sorted and directed by that not what is written in the window.

 

[eveled]

Thats funny. I'd say it's a record.

 

[mcb66]

I live in Fair Play SC. Right in the upper corner of the state. I got a letter in the mailbox the other day which was addressed to New Jersey!

 

[GRAMPS 51]

Hi I sent a check from here in Ct for payment on a purchase from Oregon and after two weeks the seller had not received the check he was a little POed at me I was ready to cancel the check and send another when the original comes back from a insurance co in Illinois that had been opened and sent back in one of their envelopes Stuff Happens :roll:

Gramps

 

[gunzo]

I found a way to get a letter delivered to the correct location in just a couple days. Pay $6.70 to have it put in a tracking envelope. :shock:
I bought a scope from a private seller last week & used a money order, figured I should monitor it somehow. I wasn't real pleased with the cost, but it got results. A fifty cent stamp doesn't seem to keep them on their toes.

 

[Fox Mike]

I have received mis-directed mail but you may have a record.

 

[coach]

I occasionally get my neighbors mail and very seldom mail for someone farther down the street. Never for someone in another zip code.

 

[ronto]

I have never received misdirected mail in many, many decades...that must be a record.

 

[JackpineWillie]

There was a time when my name and the zip code would get mail to my mail box.

 

[rugerguy211]

We've never received anything that belonged further away than our neighborhood.
Never something from a different zip code.

 

[blume357]

We still on occasion get mail to the lady who lived here before my wife bought the house 39 years ago.... few years back I bought a Marlin Camp Carbine from a fellow member and decided to send him a cashiers check even though he said a personal check would be fine.. when I go to the post office there was a line out the door and so I bought a Priority Mail stamp, this was back when they still had a vending machine in the lobby.... put the check in a priority mail envelope with stamp and just dropped it in the mail box..... took over 30 days to get to him, I think he lived in Alabama. In the mean time I had cancelled the check which took a notorized form from him and then had to send that to Tallahassee Florida.... he got the cashiers check the same day he got my personal check I sent as a replacement.

 

[Mobuck]

Normally, I would make some sort of comment about procedures but I'm grumpy this week with the high temps and such so I'll add some trash to the flames.
A month back, I had a 3 day delivery package of meds delivered at the 10 day mark and took the copy of the scans to our delivery Post Office(where the carrier is based from). Honest to God, the clerk asked me if I'd filed a change of address lately. I looked her right in the eye and said " Well I did move in October 1980". She launched into the "it may take a while for your mail to catch up" speech and was well into it when she realized that was 37.5 years back.
Fast forward to this week. I have a small package that was slated for delivery July 5 but has been bouncing around the state for a week past that date and still not here. Fortunately it's only a pair of jeans and the ones I'm wearing are still holding together.
I tried to tell my superiors 10-12 years ago that "scanning" w/o the attendant delivery performance will end up causing more problems than they can wiggle out of sooner or later. I think "later" has arrived.

 

[Rick Courtright]

Anybody get something from USPS that was supposed to be delivered further away than that?

Hi,

Sure did! Lots further...

When I was with the PO, First Class mail was delivered to the branch stations unsorted for the most part. Some of that came in big mail sacks, and they cautioned us time after time to check the bottom of the sack before returning it to the processing plant. Seams in the bottom (they're essentially big duffel bags) can catch a letter.

One morning, I caught one that was supposed to have been delivered in Hawaii: inter-island addresses, and it looked like the kind of envelope that would contain a check. Especially since it was from one contractor to another one. And according to the original postmark, it was about a month late, so I imagined someone was NOT happy. I gave it to my supervisor with the requisite "You goofed" back stamp, and he sent it back. Stuff happens.

Next morning, what's in our incoming mail? The same envelope! I gave it to the supervisor, who had something colorful to say about folks who didn't know Hawaii from SoCal. I back stamped it again, and he sent it back again, attention Postmaster at the plant. If he'd had much tolerance for sloppy work before he went to Viet Nam, he lost it over there, so you can make up your own string of words as you try to guess what he said.

About three days later, what comes back to us? Yep, same envelope. Maybe it was afraid of flying or something? After a third back stamp, it was looking a bit tired. Supervisor put it in separate cover to the Postmaster at the receiving station in Hawaii that time. I hope it made it--we didn't see it again after that!

Rick C