US Postal Service, we deliver!

you ship it we break it...

My firend sent me a letter the in november and its january and its still not here yet.

snailmail, email: you name it, makes no difference to us.

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I received a bill for my mother in November, that said that she did not pay the October bill. I paid it. Last week, I received both the October and December bill.

Years ago, when I was engaged to my first husband, in June, I got a call from my aunt. She asked me if I had gotten her card with her check. I hadn't. She cancelled the check, and sent me a new one. In DECEMBER, the original card and check, with the June postmark, arrived!

Just this past Christmas, one of my daughters received a Christmas card form her uncle about a week before Christmas. Now I know my brother would not send a card to one of my daughters and not the other. Wouldn’t you know a week after Christmas my other daughter finally received her card (of course both cards were sent at the same time, from the same place).

Also this Christmas, we were expecting a package from my children’s grandparents. The grandparents verified with the post office when sending that there was plenty of time for us to receive the package for Christmas. We received nothing. Well, last week we had a notice in our mailbox stamped last notice – need to contact post office to get package by such and such date. We had never even received one notice that we had a package. Sounds like the post office was trying to cover their butts.

USPS
Unbelievably Slow Processing Sorry.

I think that sums it up.

What can anyone expect from a government agency? I think their motto should be we serve you at our leisure.

United States Postal Service: What did you expect?

Am I the only lucky one? I'm getting about one week with christmas cards and packages. That's to and from Canada, the Netherlands, and Australia, though the package to Australia was sent Global Priority. In a decade of doing payables, I've seen possibly two envelopes disappear, and about three have major problems. This is not bad at all.

One of the problems was kind of strange, though. Local mail dropped off after hours on Friday in Farmington is shipped to Albuquerque, post marked, and returned to Farmington for Monday delivery. Except mine, of couse. The stamps indicate it first went to Santa Fe, then Laguna Pueblo, and finally to the adressee in Farmington - a net distance of 50' from the drop box to his PO Box.

USPS --
When you absolutely, positively don't care when it gets there.