When you get another such notice, how about leaving a lockable trunk under the mailbox, with a note on the box inviting the mailperson to drop the package into the trunk, then lock it.

(Spell check doesn't like "mailperson" - too modern, ya figger?)!

o j

They are getting worse and worse. Don't get me started on my mail carrier. She routinely delivers the wrong mail to us. Not sure who is getting OUR mail!

I am starting to use UPS more when I want to mail something.

I recently received a notice that they tried to deliver a certified letter. I brought the notice to the Main Post Office in town, and was told that after trying to deliver it, they determined that there wasn't enough postage attached in the first place, so they sent the letter back to the sender.

Same problem here - other people's mail - always wonder what I never get!

Yes, we have lots of problems with our local USPS. We have a PO Box and always provide it to people. Many time though, especially when ordering online, the merchant will only accept a street address for shipping. Okay, I figure that means they'll ship FedEx or UPS and the street address is appropriate. Next thing you know, they use SurePost or SmartPost where the package is moved by UPS/FedEx the 1st part of the way and then the Post Office takes over. Well don't ya know, some of the people in our post office send the package back, because the PO Box is missing. Mind you, this is a small, small town of about 400 people and many of the postal workers know my PO Box # without me telling them when I pickup items at the counter.

They delivered DD's passport to the wrong address. Nothing like having that floating around out there. I did a little sleuthing and was able to track it down after a couple of weeks.

A week ago I was expecting a package. I was at home and saw the mail car go by, putting the paper mail in the box. No package though. Checked the tracking and it said “delivered at front door”. I thought I might have missed it if he delivered it on the way down the road and the paper mail on the way up. Checked all the doors. Called the post office. They said they didn’t have enough scanners for everybody, so they scanned everything at the office before leaving and I should still get it that day. Sure enough 2 hours later a lady in a sedan came, said she was with USPS.

I had three packages coming one day. The letter carrier came. I go out to find only two packages.

I go back in the house and check tracking. All three are marked as delivered but one is marked as being delivered about 20 minutes before the other two.

So I know the one was misdelivered.

I call the post office, read the person the tracking number and the person verified it was indeed misdelivered.

I was even told where it was delivered to. (not sure that was appropriate but... )

I learned that (at least here, Vero Beach, Florida) when a package is scanned "delivered", the physical address (or at least the GPS coordinates) is also recorded.

It seems to me like the letter carrier's scanner should have a built-in function that gives a warning whenever that happens. But it must not?

A tally of misdelivered packages are (I don't know about untracked letters):

• USPS: 1
• FedEx: 1
• UPS : 1

Considering USPS has delivered far more packages to me, percentage-wise, I can't complain.

My birthday is in August and it was 90 degrees. I was standing at my sink and saw the mail carrier put mail in my box (a large rural type across the road from my house). I went out and got the mail. 9 hrs later in the evening my son called and wanted to know how I liked my birthday gift; it was supposed to have been delivered. I went out to the mailbox and there was a pkg containing expensive, very melted chocolate candy. Apparently the carrier forgot to leave it the first tiime, came back later ad put it in the box.

Oh, Rose, I remember you telling me about that... still makes me sad!

Moni

Well, let me tell you mine. My husband is taking some medicine that is sent to him from a pharmacy in New Jersey. First month, it arrived fine. He got a call saying the second month would be here April 20. They had a tracking number but he was driving and didn't write it down, but no problem...we don't have any problems getting mail delivered.

The post office here closes at 3 and he has had a hard time getting home before then. He kept going by the post office and no notice in the box, and no medicine. He called the pharmacy. They said it had been delivered and was at the post office. So, he wasn't in any hurry, but the med ran out on the 30th, so he went to the post office....and they didn't have it. He called the pharmacy, and they said it was delivered and gave him the tracking number. He called from the post office, so they checked and said it was in Houston somewhere. They finally figured it was in Fresno, about 40 miles from here. He thought he could just call the post office there....that was an exercise in futility, so we drove over there.

We are trying to figure out why it got sent to Fresno....maybe they got the address wrong. Maybe the zip code is close to Liverpool's and that is what caused them to misdirect it. Got to Fresno....went in, and got the package and came out. They said they were getting ready to send it back to New Jersey....they were surprised they still had it. The address was perfect. The zip code for the two towns were not remotely close. Why did they send it to Fresno? And why in heck didn't Fresno send it on to Liverpool, when they obviously could tell it was supposed to go there?

The medicine costs $9,000 a month. The insurance paid for most of that, but had it been lost, I can't imagine that they would pay for it again.

I mailed about 100 packages of waterlilies every summer for several years. Sent them to almost every state in the union. Never had one single problem with the post office. Not one. I guess those days are long gone.

I signed up for "Informed Delivery", which is a free service from the USPS. It's kind of cool - they email you images of all of your letter-sized mail each day. So you can see what you might be missing! If your mail gets misdelivered (I know mine does on occasion), you'll at least know you're missing something.

You don't get images of big oversized mail or packages, but all of the regular envelopes will have images. Apparently the USPS has been scanning and saving images of everyone's mail for a few years, which does creep me out a bit, but now they've turned it into this service so at least we can benefit from it.

Silvercomet, I hope your mail is more interesting than mine. I've been getting "Informed Delivery" emails for many months (although I don't remember signing up for it). I quickly tired of the daily emails featuring pictures of junk mail and bills.

Thank you, Bob, for explaining what's been happening with the USPS. And now these same people are trying to do the same thing with the Veterans Administration, to the detriment of our veterans. The almighty dollar.

Out in the boonies where I live, the mail carriers use their personal vehicles to deliver the mail. Most are women, and their husbands retrofit their cars with right hand drive so it is easy to access the mail boxes. Anyway, the mail carriers know EVERYBODY, so unless something requires a signature, packages and such are left in cars, on porches, etc., and they leave a note in the mailbox. I've got no complaints with USPS LOL.

Well, I am not happy with their service. This is the last shipment of plants that got stuffed in the mailbox (just make it fit somehow). One day I came out just as the mailman got back into his car, package in front of my garage. He shouted that it required a signature. I walked toward the car to sign and he was like, no I already signed for you. What?! He didn’t ring the doorbell or anything.

As shipping gets faster and carriers strive to be more efficient and do more with less as they tighten up in order to compete and make a profit, there are bound to be errors. The other carriers make errors as well. But it does seem sometimes that USPS has more than its share of difficulties. I wonder why that is?

About 20 years ago, when my daughter was maing her First Communion, I asked my Mom (500 miles away) to mail me my old Communion dress, which I know she had saved. It didn't show up, then one day a neighbor drove by with the package he had opened and realized it was very sentimental. He had the same house number as mine but a different street.