Consider the source when you see political digs - they’re almost always petty and baseless. That’s why intelligent comedians don’t use politics.
Anyway, my girlfriend tracked her package and it said delivered. It was nowhere to be found. She called a local post office (ours didn’t answer any of her multiple calls despite being open) and they said it was delivered to a house on the wrong road not even close! So she emailed the company for a replacement. About a week later I’m home alone and the doorbell rings. It turns out there’s a strange woman on my porch with a package. It was her house to which the package was delivered. She realized it wasn’t hers so she circled the address, wrote a “wrong house” note on it and set it on top of her mailbox. USPS delivered another package on top of it. They refused for a week to take it so she delivered it herself. Great woman. We spoke for about 10 minutes. She said USPS has 6 of her packages lost in the past few months. Like me, she used to recommend the service. Now, like me, she refuses to use it. USPS has turned to garbage.
First, welcome back to "life", Jato. For better, worse, and indifference, you've definitely been missed.
As for the rest, I understand, and am in agreement with. The Postal Service is SOOOOOO far from what it once was, I can't even think of a joke to show how bad they've become. Just today (Tues, it's Sunday, but the Postal Service does still deliver Amazon packages on Sundays), a package was being delivered to my next door neighbor...except, or wasn't his. For the first time in who-knows-how-many months, the carrier actually rang the doorbell. When my neighbors opened the door, and picked up the package, he did a "double-take", realizing it wasn't for his address. Thankfully, the carrier was still at the end of the walkway.
He yelled out to the carrier that it wasn't for him...that it was for four doors down. He told the carrier, "My address ends in '7'. The address on the package ends in '1'.". The carrier came back, got the package, apologized, and said, "Well, the '7' on the wall looks like a '1'." Having seen the addresses countless times, I can confirm that the '7' does NOT look anything like a '1'...it is NOT some "stylized" numeral, is is a very well-defined numeral.
Starting back in April, our newly-assigned carrier (not the same person from today), instead of delivering them to the proper door, was leaving packages left all over the ground where the mailboxes are. Even worse, one of those days, a neighbor's daughter was walking her dog, and this carrier told the girl, "If your dog gets too close to me, I'm going to kick it.". Not only is that NOT ok, and NOT moral, it is a violation of federal law. Even after several neighbors reported this carrier...for the packages on the ground problem, as well as having threatened harm to an animal...the Postal Service did absolutely NOTHING. As of about 1-2 months ago, packages are no longer being left on ground in the mailbox area...but, this carrier is still assigned to our route.
THIS is our Postal (dis-)Service.
~ More peace, love, and kindness would make the world a much better place
