Is there any way to get ahold of the postmaster at my local post office?

[inhawaii]

Is there any way to get ahold of the postmaster at my local post office with a complaint?

I just spent over 1 hour on the phone with 1-800-ASK-USPS and kept going in circles.

[lja440]

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@inhawaii wrote:

I guess i may have to start doing the online pick up request thing.  Kinda dumb being that my placard system works fine ... unless the mail carrier is A) a stickler or B) lazy.   It's litteraly 10 feet from my mailbox to my front porch. 

I try so hard to have a good rapport with my mail carrier.   Oh well. 

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It depends on the route. Rural routes like mine are more flexible, city routes are rigidly timed. A new carrier still learning the ins and outs of a route will take longer. Also around Christmas we were SWAMPED, subs were running packages or parts of the routes and still we couldn't make our times. I have been with USPS for 19 years. This is our first in my area with Amazon packages to deliver in such a number. And then right before Christmas FedEx and UPS started turning away customers. AND IT HASN"T LET UP MUCH. Now we are getting hit with the flats that were warehoused to make room for packages.

My recommendation is go to the Post Office (your delivering PO not a branch) talk to your Postmaster face to face and work out something.

[atikovi]

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@inhawaii wrote:

Our tax money hard at work. 

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You might educate yourself on how the P.O. works, as the Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses.

[inhawaii]

Thank you. I did not know that. 

"The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products, and services to fund its operations."

But i always hear how the USPS is in the red every year. If they lose money every year, how do they continue to stay in business?

[lja440]

USPS is set up to run on a thin margin. It's not really set up as for profit. Postage is supposed to cover operating expenses and projected expenses for upcoming improvements. Thus the 5c first class stamp hike last year because the replacement of the LLV fleet is imamate.

What threw the budget for a loop was Congress mandating the pension be fully funded 75 years ahead. It's about like you and me living paycheck to paycheck and the furnace going out and the roof starting to leak all in the same month you come down with the flu.