Alpo Posted January 23 Posted January 23 (edited) Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor dark of night shall stay this courier from his appointed rounds. I am signed up with the post office. Every day that I will get mail I get an email telling me what is coming. Letters, packages. Most stuff includes the photograph of what is coming. Tuesday I was supposed to receive my electric bill and a couple of pieces of junk mail. Tuesday when it was time to collect the mail it was snowing, and I decided it could wait until tomorrow. Yesterday, Wednesday, I was supposed to get one piece of junk mail. I went down to the street because I figured I really ought to get the electric bill. But the gutter in the street was running 3 foot wide, and the street was covered with a sheet of ice. I decided I could not step out into the street to go get the front of the mailbox, so I would let it all wait till tomorrow - which is today, Thursday. The dog said she needed drained, so we went out to go for a walk. Once I got away from the house proper, end of(INTO. end of - geezus otto) the sunlight, the driveway was dry. Walking was easy. I get to the street and the gutter is about one and a half feet wide, and completely frozen over. But on the other side the street is clean and dry. So I step over the gutter. And we go for a walk. And she makes yellow snow two or three times. When returning to the house I figured I would finally collect yesterday's and the day before's mail. The mailbox is empty. Apparently the snow "stayed the courier". For the past 2 days. When it snows up there in Yankee land, do you still get mail? Or do you only get mail 6 months out of the year? Edited January 23 by Alpo 1 Quote
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted January 23 Posted January 23 Always. be wary of mail pirates. 1 1 Quote
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 23 Posted January 23 25 minutes ago, Alpo said: Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor dark of night shall stay this courier from his appointed rounds. I am signed up with the post office. Every day that I will get mail I get an email telling me what is coming. Letters, packages. Most stuff includes the photograph of what is coming. Tuesday I was supposed to receive my electric bill and a couple of pieces of junk mail. Tuesday when it was time to collect the mail it was snowing, and I decided it could wait until tomorrow. Yesterday, Wednesday, I was supposed to get one piece of junk mail. I went down to the street because I figured I really ought to get the electric bill. But the gutter in the street was running 3 foot wide, and the street was covered with a sheet of ice. I decided I could not step out into the street to go get the front of the mailbox, so I would let it all wait till tomorrow - which is today, Thursday. The dog said she needed drained, so we went out to go for a walk. Once I got away from the house proper, end of(INTO. end of - geezus otto) the sunlight, the driveway was dry. Walking was easy. I get to the street and the gutter is about one and a half feet wide, and completely frozen over. But on the other side the street is clean and dry. So I step over the gutter. And we go for a walk. And she makes yellow snow two or three times. When returning to the house I figured I would finally collect yesterday's and the day before's mail. The mailbox is empty. Apparently the snow "stayed the courier". For the past 2 days. When it snows up there in Yankee land, do you still get mail? Or do you only get mail 6 months out of the year? Pretty much mail is everyday up here. The carriers get all bundled up, I gotta hand it to them! 🇺🇸 1 Quote
Pat Riot Posted January 23 Posted January 23 You mean “Northern states”, right? Occasionally our mail carrier will skip a day if the streets are really bad, but that’s rare and definitely not the norm. 3 Quote
Colorado Coffinmaker Posted January 23 Posted January 23 Winter here brings snow. In some cases, lotz of snow. Our brave Mail Carriers bundle up and bring the mail. Seldom if ever "skip." In your part of the swamp, I doubt seriously they know what a snow shovel nor snow tires look like. Welcome to real WINTER (snicker snicker) 2 Quote
Eyesa Horg Posted January 23 Posted January 23 I always get my mail, however packages that show "out for delivery" don't show up and around 4:30 the tracking will show "held at post office per customer request" ! Talked to the post master and was told they can't code it as not enough help to deliver. They are swamped with Amazon stuff and only get paid a set amount per route and the carriers are tired of putting 3-6 hours of overtime with no pay, so they just leave the packages for a slower day. No answer to why they don't show that in the first place so if I really need the package, I could just go pick it up. It's basically a PO coverup for lack of help and pay. My carrier is forced to take 5 days off and use all personal time before the end of their service year to avoid being termed "full time" thus avoiding benefits. 1 1 Quote
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted January 23 Posted January 23 the carrier here skips my place at least 3 to 5 times a month , How do I know , those days I have outgoing mail in the box as to how many other days , I got no clue CB 1 Quote
Alpo Posted January 23 Author Posted January 23 28 minutes ago, Pat Riot said: You mean “Northern states”, right? The reason for the existence of West By Gawd Virginia is that that section of the country broke off from Virginia when it seceded, and stayed with the Union. Therefore, West By Gawd Virginia is Yankee land. 1 Quote
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted January 23 Posted January 23 7 minutes ago, Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 said: the carrier here skips my place at least 3 to 5 times a month , How do I know , those days I have outgoing mail in the box as to how many other days , I got no clue CB I stopped leaving outgoing mail after I read about the related crimes on the FBI website (more than 20 years ago) 1 Quote
Pat Riot Posted January 23 Posted January 23 7 minutes ago, Alpo said: The reason for the existence of West By Gawd Virginia is that that section of the country broke off from Virginia when it seceded, and stayed with the Union. Therefore, West By Gawd Virginia is Yankee land. I no longer think in those terms. It’s the United States of America. 3 1 Quote
Eyesa Horg Posted January 23 Posted January 23 It's regional! When I moved up here from Connecticut,the whole 200 miles, I was warned about being a "Flatlander" and the costs associated! Cost me 60K to get about 3 acres cleared and a foundation hole. The same contractor,whom is a good friend these days, admits he would've charged a local about 15 to 20 for the same work and it's too bad he didn't know me before I hired him! Won't give me the extra 40 back though! Getting flat landered is expensive!!! Doesn't happen anymore, thank goodness. Quote
Alpo Posted January 23 Author Posted January 23 1 hour ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: I stopped leaving outgoing mail after I read about the related crimes on the FBI website (more than 20 years ago) The only time I leave outgoing mail is when it is wrongly delivered. I will mark it NOT KNOWN AT THIS ADDRESS, and put it back in the box. Put the flag up. But if it is my outgoing mail - I drive to the post office. 1 Quote
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 23 Posted January 23 5 hours ago, Alpo said: The reason for the existence of West By Gawd Virginia is that that section of the country broke off from Virginia when it seceded, and stayed with the Union. Therefore, West By Gawd Virginia is Yankee land. The war has been over for 160 years, you lost get over it already 2 1 Quote
Texas Maverick Posted January 23 Posted January 23 I raised enough caine with the post office manager about my packages being put into someone elses slot and not getting them (2 to 3 times a month) that he now makes our driver deliver every one of my packages to the house no matter how large or how small. I just got my bullet order yesterday of 3500 125gr lead bullets and I couldn't even lift it to carry into the house. LOL Just had to roll the package in and then open and take out single bags of 1000 bullets to take to my bullet stash in the garage. I know that my letter carrier was hating me with a passion after having to carry it from her vehicle up to my front porch. I felt sorry for her but that is her job and not mine. TM 2 Quote
Three Foot Johnson Posted January 23 Posted January 23 Diomede, AK gets mail delivered once a week, weather depending. It's an expensive delivery route to maintain - the mailman drives a helicopter - but it's still only four cents to send a letter, or whatever it's up to now. AFAIK, I get mail Monday - Saturday, but in the winter it can be several days until I can get the mile and a half down the mountain to get it. Quote
watab kid Posted January 24 Posted January 24 ours doesnt deliver on sunday and monday was a fed holiday so got skipped by two , Quote
Michigan Slim Posted January 24 Posted January 24 Our mail trucks here are now all wheel drive. They seldom miss us Quote
Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L Posted January 24 Posted January 24 glad(?) to hear Violet and I aren't the only ones with this problem. We're the last street on our letter carrier's route and will be missed 1-2 times a week seems to be a systems-wide problem. guess it still beats the Pony Express Quote
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 25 Posted January 25 I get my neighbors mail about once every couple weeks but they hardly ever get mine.🙄 Quote
Cypress Sun Posted January 25 Posted January 25 If there is a vehicle, or other obstacle blocking the mailbox in any way, shape or form and they can't reach it by truck (meaning so they don't have to get out of the truck)...they won't deliver the mail...however, if the mailbox is multiple days, they'll get out of the truck to put an official USPS notice in the mailbox informing you that they won't deliver the mail if the mailbox is blocked. We don't ever block the mailbox, but we live on a cul-de-sac (pie shaped properties) so occasionally someone visiting a neighbor will block it not knowing, or not caring, about mail delivery. They won't get out of the truck to deliver a package IF they can somehow cram it in the mailbox. They will crush boxes and whatever is in a plastic envelope smash it into the box. Complain to USPS? You can't get a live person on the phone to talk to. We'll have the same person on the route for about a month before they get switched out with someone new. We had a mail lady that did an outstanding job for about a year but she moved to another state. They replaced her with a complete class A lazy a*****e who doesn't want or care to do the job he was hired for. My gal sells crafts on Ebay and other sites. She prints out shipping labels and mails the stuff from home. The mail person is supposed to check in the package when they take it out of the mailbox. Do they do that? No, they don't 95% of the time. Sometimes it doesn't show up on tracking for days. When they don't check it in and she has informed the buyer of the tracking number and that the package is on the way, it makes her look like a liar even though the package has been in USPS possession for days. About once every three months, we'll get someone else's mail in our box, I'll take it to the intended recipient. The neighbors on either side of us do the same. They won't deliver mail during a hurricane or tropical storms...I don't blame them in the least 1 Quote
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