WTF with USPS
View attachment 1715267710 Get home today and I find my new baskets strewn across the yard.
Why the **** do the dipshit mother fuckers from the post office think it’s a good idea to throw packages over my gated and fenced property where there are dogs? Can’t make a claim because they will say it was delivered and happened after they delivered it. The normal guy leaves packages in front of our gates. We are on a private drive. So the rationale of people coming to steal them is BS. People are ******* stupid. Nothing in this world pisses me off more. Swear I wanted to beat my dog but she still young and likes chewing **** that’s not hers. That why I keep my stuff out of reach from her.
Guess I’ll head to post office in am and ***** them out and find out who delivered the package and have them reprimanded and have an official complaint made against them.
Sorry for language. Please move to appropriate blue room if necessary.
As a retired mail carrier, let me tell you how this will play out.
If you go to the P/O to complain, they will listen to you, tell you how the carrier was wrong and say they'll have a chat with the carrier. They may even go so far as to start a claim for you.
But, after you leave 1 of a couple of things are going to happen.
1. You will leave and that will be the end of that. Nothing will come of it. The claim will be denied because the dogs damaged the package, not the USPS.
2. The supervisor is going to attempt to write up the carrier. The carrier will pull out the route book that has notated that there is a gate and a small box. He's also going to pull out the MOU stating that packages are not to be left unsecured at the edge of a property (ie outside a gate).
If the supervisor does go ahead and write up carrier, the carrier will grieve it to the union. The union will kick it back for the above mentioned issues. The carrier delivered the package to a secure location, the locked gated yard. If the gate would have been accessible, the carrier still couldn't deliver the package due to the fact the dogs were out and that violates the USPS dog bite policy. The carrier will get paid overtime to deal with this or they will put a sub on the route while the carrier gets paid to deal with this.
Either way, complain all you want. It might make you feel better but it won't do you any good.
What you might end up doing is get your home marked as 1. No package deliveries unless resident is home and 2. Dog hazard.
Contrary to what you might think or believe, in the end the postage paid to ship a package is from one post office to another. Home delivery is free and not a right or what the shipper paid for.
They should know by now he isnt some vicious dog.
I never knew what a dog would do. I walked thru everyone's yard, with their pets smell on me. I've had "good" dogs attack me. I've cut entire blocks over dogs.
"please put packages in my vehicle or on the grill"
Not allowed to. Just that simple. The USPS says mail is to only be delivered into approved receptacles.
Ups, fedex and all the other carriers have no issue complying with our request.
That's the difference, they don't work for the USPS who have to follow federal laws.They have more leverage to do things like this.
What I would have done would be to leave a notice that the package could be picked up at the P/O or Re-delivery could be attempted at a date you provide. Of course that would become a point to ***** about too.
Now, let the haters that think they know everything hate, but that's how it it is.