I much prefer the post office (Canada Post). If no-one is home for the package, they leave a notice saying which post office it has been left at. There are four post office branches within a ten minute walk from my apartment and the closest one (where my packages are always stored) is less than two blocks away.
UPS on the other hand seems to get very muddled with its tracking. For my last delivery they did delivery attempt 1 fine. Then (the next day, on which I arranged to be home) they claimed a second delivery attempt, which they called the third. Then they (I believe) actually tried a second time. They called this the first attempt. Then (and only then) would they agree to leave it put, so I could get a drive way way out to the industrial park so I could pick up the @%*$# DVDs. I was unimpressed.
There was a huge scandal in Washington DC about 10 years ago with mail carriers throwing away third class mail
There was a huge scandal in Washington DC about 10 years ago with mail carriers throwing away third class mail
Had they been forgetting to spit on it first?
it has all been delivered to my house. The first class mail however....
they literally found a tractor trailer full of undelivered first class mail
Quite the contrary, it is the Postal Service that has failed to fulfill its functions. Several incidents demonstrate the Postal Service’s pattern of failure to deliver mail in a consistently timely and secure fashion. Large caches of undelivered mail have repeatedly been found abandoned, burning, stashed in the homes or cars of postmen, hidden in tractor trailer trucks, or simply piled in warehouses. In July 1994, a surprise audit of three D.C.-area postal facilities uncovered more than three million pieces of undelivered mail, most of it stashed in parked Postal Service trailers, some pieces dating to February 1994. A Price Waterhouse study that same month revealed that only 61 percent of Washington, D.C.’s first class mail was being delivered on time.
In October of 1994 postal inspectors arrested a Washington, D.C., postman for stockpiling four truckloads of undelivered mail in his apartment. Workers had to don surgical masks and robes to remove the mail because the efficiency apartment was overrun by a dog, 15 birds, and 43 turtles, and the mail had become saturated by excrement and the putrescent carcasses of more birds and turtles. Less than 1 percent of the 22,800 pieces of stolen mail was deliverable or salvageable.
although I think the second guy had other issues.
43 turtles
To say the least, Vortex!
Ewww.
And I always wondered about when a container got swept off a barge or a truck ran off the road. I guess that they had much bigger things to worry about!
Okay -- UPS says that they need correct Street # location.
Sheesh.
This is the message:
A CORRECT STREET NUMBER IS NEEDED FOR DELIVERY. UPS IS ATTEMPTING TO OBTAIN THIS INFORMATION
Ummm, I've lived here for 8 YEARS. Nothing has changed.
