I wanna go postal on the Mailman! * photos added *

Well, I flagged down the mailman about 20 minutes ago and his response was,,,"It was like that when I picked up the mail for this route".

The old p*** the buck,,,HRP

 

slip the maildude/dudette a few bucks at christmas or some other special time, maybe you just need to grease the situation..

 

That didn't happen. I get letters to the editor from readers all the time about how the Gazette arrives damaged and read. Then I get them from postal workers who are all pissed off and say that it doesn't happen.

 

You are right on both issues!!!! The post office has just hired a ton of part time employees and they have no respect for the job and they can't do any wrong. We get the same complaints from our coustomers every day that we are off our routes. We used to be Called the United States Postal Service..... But service is no longer a part of our jobs at all. I can appologise for what happened but that and 10 bucks will get you into a movie. If you do plan on throwing out those rodders journals I will gladly pay the shipping for them to Milwaukee!!!!!! My sugestion is to talk to the carrier, Hopefully the regular and tell him, or her what happened. There isn't much that they can do but they will hopefully be careful next time. Oh yeah I was meantioned on a Craigslist ad for missed encounter for ***y Mailman!!!! Put that one in your pipe and smoke it!!!!
CheaterJack

 

I am a retired mailman too and have to say that a lot of times the magazines are indeed torn up in the machinery before we even get them.But I also have to say that the last 10 years or so the Postal Service has hired a lot of "don't care" people that I will not defend.I blame management because that is who they hire and that is the way they want them to work.I thank God I got out of that rat hole as soon as I could.It will probably get worse as more older workers retire.

 

I have never had a magizine or a package damaged by my postman or UPS or FedX. I do at Christmas time always give them a small plastic plate of some of the goodies (cookies,fudge and candy)my wife fixes though.( by all means dont give them a fruit cake though)

 

These guys (the postal workers y'all describe above) must be retarded or ****-stirers, or both!
Where I live the mail arrives around the same time every day and usually by the same dude. If any of this **** happened to me, I'd wait for the Mailman/woman and discuss it directly with them. Make them an offer they could'nt refuse.

 

my rural mailman puts my Journal in a white garbage bag
and hangs it from my mailbox
havent had any damage yet
and im only missing issues 1 and 2
guess i owe him some cookies huh?

 

My dad sits out in the driveway the same time every month waiting for his magazines. I used to make fun of him because he said that he didn't want them bent. After reading this thread I realize he's not as unique as I thought.

 

You have all just listed the various reasons I gave up on my subscriptions and just pick 'em up at the newstand if they're available there. Heck, where we live you can even pickup Garage in the grocery store (Kroeger)...I may pay a couple of more bucks a year, but I never have to worry about my delivery person fff-ing it up...and the added bonus is that sometimes I run across new magazines that I would never have seen if I had never set foot in the store and relied solely on subscriptions.
Additionally, my wife and I have a U.P.S. mailbox for larger items and whenever I receive a package I get an email within a few hours and if I don't pick it up on my way home that day, the proprietor calls me each day to remind me... the service and peace of mind is well worth the <$1.00 per day rental fee.
You can complain and complain until you're blue in the face or you can work around the problem and have a lot less h***le in your life. I know the USPS is supposed to do their job better, but your route carrier won't and no amount of complaining is gonna change their ways...either get a bigger box, get a UPS store box or pick it up at your local magazine shop. Why go postal? It ain't worth the aggravation.

 

Automation.....we use ****ing high speed machines to sort all our magazines and letters....even have an automated conveyor system to dump parcels onto feed tables...which get fed onto a machine that sorts the packages into the correct bins to be delivered. All of this means that when something gets hung up a little bit...you get stuff crushed. The worst part of this is that the post office used to have 800,000 employees with good pay and benefits....now we have probably 200,000 less...but lots of nice machines to do their jobs. It's like outsourcing the sorting jobs that used to be good solid jobs......to machines. (it's almost as bad as NAFTA) Anyway...contact TRJ and I am sure they will send you another...or even the post office if you like red tape and waiting awhile.
Now if you are positive it was the mailman....talk to your local postmaster about it.

 

My mailman rubber banded mine to the mail box. It was funny as hell!

 

i tow for the usps and they have small boxes that the mail gets sorted in at the morning start time, mine get bent all to hell, then the dumb *** has the gonads to read it, especially my railroad magazines, when hes on break or delivering, the reason i know it is him is because he spills coffee on the damb thing, and ive caught him taking it from a pile on the tray next to his seat and put it in my box,

it dontmattter how much i complain to the post master, that i know on a personal level, they still do what they want in those llv and ffe trucks

i keep telling my carrier GET YOUR OWN SUBSCRIPTION IF YOU WANT TO READ IT

 

Good luck with this ****. I sent a NOS ring and pinion to a cat half way across the US and they said the automated machine shredded my box. So they lost the gear but sent the part of my box with the shipping label on it back to me. How in the hell can you looze the gear but save part of the box???>>>>.

 

My mailman is cool. He walks around and puts mine in the back screen door.

 

The general public still to this day think that humans sort the mail. Your magazines and mail are sorted on high speed sorting machines, when something jams every piece of mail behind the jam is torn to shreds until the operator can shut the machine down and clear the jam. The post office I work at has a full time employee whos job it is to try and repair and tape the damaged mail back together and she has a hard time keeping up with it

I am a full time career letter carrier so **** all of you calling me an idiot. You are the same people that have a mailbox at the door made in 1945 that can hold 2 letters max and can not hold a magazine unless it is folded or, but when the carrier places the piece that will not fit on the doorstep you complain because it gets rained on.

That being said there are some low life *******s at the Post Office that don't care how they **** up your mail, but i'm sure you have a few of those type guys working at your job too right.?

That TRJ in the picture looks to be folded by the mailman, was it your regular mail carrier or a temporary or casual employee? If I have a first cl*** or second cl*** piece of mail that says "do not bend" I will ALWAYS dismount and place it on the doorstep or porch. But these high school dropout temps they have working now could care less.

 

Yep. I dont want my magazines looking like a pack of wild dogs fought over them.

 

I want to subcribe to TRJ, but don't for that very reason. Here in the trailer park, our mailboxes are the big unit type, with small little square boxes for the mail. Everything we get that is larger than a envelope gets torn to hell, from the ***hole ramming it into the box. I've gotten two cds bought on ebay, the cases were busted because the mail person rammed them into the box, instead of bringing them by.

Compared to the mailman at my parent's house, who they know on a first name bases, and often puts mail into plastic bags when it's raining.

I have a cousin who worked for USPS as a temp a couple of times. He's told me several stories about the employees they can't fire, of a couple different ones that throw mail away, of the insane pickup schedule they had him on... It's all **** that comes from the top down, just like everywhere else. Symtoms of inept management.

 

Not to go off on a rant here but **** it. When I go to the post office I give my package to them and they ask if I want insurance? I say why would I need that?? They say to make sure the package reaches its destination!!! That's like me taking your order for an engine and asking you if you want insurance just to make sure it will run. **** that there job is to deliver my package for a fair price and not to charge me more for no reason>>>>.

 

Pretty simple really....the gear got seperated from the box and is laying under the machine that sorted it...the box ended up at the other end and at the end of the shift when the person did a mail search they didn't get together anymore.......maybe put a tag on the heavy **** in the box with an address on it, then if it gets seperated we will know where it was supposed to be sent. Also try to package it so that the stuff inside the box can't get out of the box easily. (try lots of tape)

 

maybe going from one city to another, but the dumb *** that brings your mail to your address still has a 5'x5' 3 sided cubical that has to sort the address mail, so get your bull **** straight and pay attention to the city delivery and not the city to city sorting or get your *** off your desk and get out of the main hub -- like royal oak in the detroit area -- and go check out your local post office hubs

 

You mean the million or so pieces of mail that we send out each day(just in Oakland) in delivery sequence order...ready to go, gets sorted again in the little offices.....dammmmmnnn sounds like somethings a little ****ed up somewhere.

 

My Postal guy can be a "Bull in a China shop" sometimes too. I have a magazine cradle under my mailbox, and that guy just had to have me point it out before he knew what it was for.

 

Yeah, those people are CRAZY for having OLD things!

Mailboxes from 1945!?

They should buy NEW cars ... er, I mean, mailboxes.

 

So when I jumped through all the hoops and waited out their plan i didn't get ****. I even sent pictures of the gears to the center where my parts got seperated and they claimed that nothing was in the bins that matched the description of my gears even with pictures. Explain that **** to me as a loyal postal worker and get me to believe that some ***** didn't lift my gear set from the bin. After I sent all the forms including pictures of the gear set that **** is just flat out wrong>>>>.

 

I just about pissed myself I laughed so hard at that one!!!

Was I the only one who got the joke?