US Mail return delivery

[Kevin]

In yesterday's mail we got a return of a Christmas card. Apparently they moved and it's an old address. Not sure, some friends of my wife's I guess. Not close friends as we don't have their current address.

But yes a Christmas card was returned as being undelivered. It's June.

Oh yeah, also... The Christmas card was from 2014! I'm not kidding at all. So 18 months round trip, Dallas to Boise.

 

[graygun]

It happened on Obama's watch. :lol:

 

[Kevin]

I know, I've already called my state representative to complain, but he was on a sit-in instead of doing his job... (Smile)

 

[Jeepnik]

You got it back? That in itself is a miracle. You want it back in a reasonable time? Now you're asking the impossible.

 

[Kevin]

Oh I could really care less. It's more funny than anything. The Christmas card was a little mini time capsule. Blizzard was a cute little puppy in the family pictures.

 

[loaded round]

It's Bush's fault!

 

[coach]

You thing a year and a half is bad. Check out the link.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/26/california-man-flabbergasted-to-receive-father-world-war-ii-letters-6-years.html

 

[Scout943]

"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." :shock: :shock: :shock: :roll: :roll:

 

[redhawker]

Sent my sister in Oregon a large check from my late dad's estate. (Sent from So. Calif.) Due to what it was sent it registered with return receipt. Guess what...It is still somewhere near Portland at last report (of the tracking number). Just checked, that's the last reported location from 5/31/16, it was mailed 5/26/16. So, its still not there after nearly a month. I ended up having to put a stop on the check and send another overnight. That one got there as they promised my money back if it wasn't there by 3pm the next day.

Also, not too long ago I mailed my water bill payment to the city 7 days before it was due. I mailed it in town at the local post office. I literally had to drive past city hall to take it to the post office. I put it in the mail slot inside the post office. It arrived 8 days later and I got a late fee on the water bill.

...and they wonder why they're going broke.

 

[pisgah]

In 1959 my grandparents took a grand tour of the Southwest, and their 6-year-old grandson looked forward to every post card they sent to him (me). They sent one nearly every day from June 3 to August 2, 1959 and I clearly recall receiving the last one -- the day I graduated highschool in 1971!

 

[Jeepnik]

"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." :shock: :shock: :shock: :roll: :roll:

That was before it became a non government entity. You see the US government cast it off. Think of it as a wholly owned subsidiary of the US government.

 

[pete44ru]

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Shaddup & count yer blessings - it coulda come back "postage due"........ :mrgreen:


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[RSIno1]

"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." :shock: :shock: :shock: :roll: :roll:

That was before it became a non government entity. You see the US government cast it off. Think of it as a wholly owned subsidiary of the US government.

Just think that it's so bad the government wouldn't even claim it.

 

[exavid]

Those kind of things are why I do most ordering and mail communication via email or cell phone messaging. At least with electronic communication you don't have to wait very long to know if whatever it was got here or there. For packages I haven't used anything but UPS or FedEx for several years. Personally I have no use for USPS. At a minimum they could put a dumpster next to our neighborhood mail drop. Just another government (even if they claim it's not) operation working as well as most.

 

[Bull Barrel]

Non government entity...licence plates on vehicles read, "U S Government".

 

[Jeepnik]

Non government entity...licence plates on vehicles read, "U S Government".

Can't fault you there, but my dad was working for the PO when it occurred. The idea was that the post office would become a self supporting entity. Owned by and controlled by the feds but with no financial ties. In other words the congress and others wanted all the control and benefits without any of the liabilities.

 

[pisgah]

The government did not divest itself of USPS. It remains an agency of the US Government. It is just no longer a Cabinet-level department of the government.