Postal employee weirdness.

[trustedbasset]

What is it about some postal employees?

i could just brush this comment off but for some reason it got under my skin.

I use a lot of carrier pick up. I do not have a mail box but I do have a PO Box at my local office. 

I live in a duplex so the neighbors have a mailbox and our addresses are the same. 

Any way I went in to compliment how the Cartier does their job, they have been so good. The postal clerk said she didn’t think I could receive carrier pick up because I have a box. 

She said she would have to ask her boss. 

I said I don’t see why not. I pay for the box and the labels and she said that’s different. What? 

I called the main Post Office number to preempt any trouble. The customer service agent said if they give me trouble about it just call back and we will open an investigation.

Okay,  why would someone say that to

their customer? 

At least ask your boss first before intimidating the customer. 

This isn’t the first postal employee that I’ve run into with no customer skills.

[vanman1029]

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Technically I think you have to take it to the post office with the zip code printed on the label. You can't print a label in Pennsylvania and ship it from Michigan.

Wrong! I have left for a weekend vacation in the middle of the night and have taken packages with me to dropped off later in the day at a post office several hundred miles away in a different state and never had a problem!

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[muttlymob]

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@vanman1029 wrote:

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Technically I think you have to take it to the post office with the zip code printed on the label. You can't print a label in Pennsylvania and ship it from Michigan.

Wrong! I have left for a weekend vacation in the middle of the night and have taken packages with me to dropped off later in the day at a post office several hundred miles away in a different state and never had a problem!

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Doing it right is not the same as not getting caught if you do it wrong. 

Most classes of mail need to be dropped off in the same zone as the zip code on the label.  At least one class (Parcel Select) must be dropped off in the same post office as the zip code.  This is detailed in the Domestic Mail Manual, the USPS official regulations for mailing.  The relevant section was posted in post #22 on this thread.

If you are depositing packages at post offices outside the zone of your zip code you likely are not paying the correct postage - either over or under. 

[nobody*s_perfect]

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@muttlymob wrote: ... If you are depositing packages at post offices outside the zone of your zip code you likely are not paying the correct postage - either over or under. 

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The APV system will probably catch up with that.

[pvcliff]

It is almost 3:30 here and no mail, which means a substitute mail person two days in a row. Yesterday s/he managed to leave me mail while ignoring the three parcels sitting in the green crate right next to my mail box, in spite of having requested a pick up. Requested a second one for today, and stuck the confirmation on the mail box with "missed Friday pick up" written in red. I expect I'll have to try again Monday when the regular guy hopefully is back. Only good thing is we were gone and I'd put "five day handling" and nothing actually needs to be in the mail before Tuesday.

[moondogblues]

"Technically I think you have to take it to the post office with the zip code printed on the label. You can't print a label in Pennsylvania and ship it from Michigan." Of course you can...this is the United States Post Office, not PA or Michigan PO...how the heck would they even know where the label was printed?

[nobody*s_perfect]

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@moondogblues wrote: ...how the heck would they even know where the label was printed?

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There's a "ship from" ZIP Code on every label.

[jeffofmaine]

In lots of small towns they have had trouble finding replacements for their aging employees who have retired or died.

[moondogblues]

I do see the Parcel Post issue though...didn't think of that.