@postingid2017 wrote:
@kitschy*loot wrote:
I get tons of packages from FedEx and I have only had a few problems. I have more problems with USPS. Perhaps before buying you can work the shipping method out with the seller.
I thought I was the only one - yesterday the carrier misdelivered our mail again 😞 I think I will stop online purchasing until my regular carrier is back from maternity leave 😞
I'm a mail carrier.
If you are getting a lot of miss delivered mail, take a look at it.
Is it a very similar name or house number? And what are you doing with this mail? Do not deliver it yourself, instead return it to your mailbox with the flag up so the carrier can see they made a mistake.
If it continues take a good look at your mailbox and house. Is the number on the mailbox and house? Believe it or not I have recently had a customer complain wanting packages brought to the house instead of to the gang of mailboxes (heavy Prime Pantry boxes). Here is the situation. This is a very rural road the group of houses are on top of a hill. If you travel over 5 mph you will jar loose fillings and or several suspension parts. There are 8 houses and 7 addresses (one house is vacant missing doors and windows). There is no rhyme or reason to placement, no straight line or curving cul-de-sac. NONE have a house number indicated. I have been on the rout for 5 years, the previous carrier took the route over around 2000. We have never been able to get the residents to clear up which house is which. Since the Postmaster took their phone number down when they complained he called them back. They replied "it's the log cabin with the red metal roof". He was so pleased with himself for clearing it up,....well until I told him that there are 2 log cabins up there with red metal roofs.
So the point I'm trying to make is miss delivery's happen. Sometimes it is a DPS issue, sometimes it is human error. When you are handling and sorting thousands of pieces of mail similar names and numbers can cause an issue (I have a Mathews and a Matthews on my route that actually have the same house number on different roads).
On average a carrier deals with 500+ addresses these have a secession of names that can be stable or have quite a few surnames popping in and out. A sub these days while assigned to one route has to work several. We at my PO have 2 subs (we have been unable to get or should I say hold any more. Misty and Rachel work all 5 rural routes and when Scott who has the larger city route takes the day off Jeff takes his and his route is split up between a pilfered city relief from another office (sometimes after or before they work their own route) and one or both of our subs, needless to say good visible house and mailbox numbers are very appreciated.
