What do we need to do to get rid of the SOTU address??Quote:
Originally Posted by Lady's Human
I just change the channel, but I want something more permanent....;):D:confused:
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What do we need to do to get rid of the SOTU address??Quote:
Originally Posted by Lady's Human
I just change the channel, but I want something more permanent....;):D:confused:
File a change of address card.Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
Those cost one dollar, I ain't falling for that....:(;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lady's Human
It wasn't the payments I sent. I've never received the bills so I can pay them. OOPS!!! Correction, the telephone bill just came!!! Took it 13 days to get here. If it takes that long for my payment to get back to them, I'll owe a late fee. Still no sign of the gas bill. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
MoFf, call your congressman and the utility companies and let them know.
They are paying for 1st class mail, which is supposed to be 2-3 day delivery. If that isn't happening, they need to hear about it.
The utility companies are going to understand, as they are going to be getting more and more late payments due to Postal Management's outright fraud.
Congress needs to hear about it as well, as they have oversight of the Postal Service.
It's going to be about the same price soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by phesina
USPS just upped their prices. Now to ship a 2 oz package to Canada... $6 :o not kidding. just regular first class mail that used to cost me about $2.50 is now SIX DOLLARS. that's insane
International shipping rates through UPS and FEDEX are much higher, just ran a quick shipping quote from here to toronto for a .1 Kg package and it's just shy of $20.Quote:
Originally Posted by sparks19
I called the gas co last week. They told me to go on line and see my bill. Big help, eh? I'm giving them until the end of this week, then calling the post office to see if they can find it. It drives me crazy that it was probably delivered to the wrong address. I don't want any one else getting my personal info more than they already do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lady's Human
I'm getting the idea that the gas co would like me to start paying on line. Don't know what I would do if the power or my computer were out in that case. :love:
I was reluctant at first to pay bills on line, but now I wish I had done it a whole lot sooner. And you should also go paperless with your bills and statements, just so that they don't wind up in the wrong hands when they get delivered to the wrong address!! :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by momoffuzzyfaces
As far as what you would do in the event of a power loss??? Simple - just pick up the phone and call who you want to pay, and pay with your checking account #. I don't know of any company that has ever refused that payment method. However, in the several years that I have been doing the on line bill pay, I've never had a situation arise where the power or my computer was down long enough to affect any payments. Of course, I always pay most of my bills for the month as soon as my S.S. check hits the bank, with the exception of 2 which I pay on the 15th. That way, they're all out of the way at once and I know I'm not forgetting any.
Obviously I trust myself 100% - but I sure don't have that same level of trust for the USPS. :eek:
I can't stress this enough:
If you are having delivery issues, late mail, missorted mail, etc....
DO NOT stop at the postmaster for your town.
Talk to the postmaster, but ask them for the POOM's number. (Post Office Operations Manager).
For an extra bonus, write to your Congressman's office and let them know about your issues.
The USPS is being very badly run at the moment, and Congress has the authority and the responsibility to fix the issue. Ask them to enforce the 2-3 day delivery standard, and ask them to exercise their powers of oversight and remove the incompetent fools who are ruining the USPS so they can get a nice pension from a major mailer after their career at the postal service is finished. The USPS is YOUR service, not Pitney Bowes' service.
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Originally Posted by pomtzu
I agree with you on paying bills online. Even better for me is to pay recurring fixed payments, like morgage or car payments, is to have
them auto deducted from checking acct & once set up, they're never late & I can count on it 100%. Not so with the USPS.
I do the recurring fixed payments with my car insurance and supplemental health insurance, so I don't have those to worry about. I don't have a mortgage or car payment!!!! :p:D:D:D:DQuote:
Originally Posted by lizbud
What makes me laugh is that I never have and real problems with the USPS and everytime I walk into a PO I make it a point to tell whoever is helping me that they do do a good job.
What EFFING IRRITATES ME is that I sometimes get the impolite AH in front of me that has to harrass some clerk that is there to help them.
I thank god my mom was in retail for a zillion years and would come home and tell us about the ONE PERSON who was a total schmuck - and that ruined her day. (She cried more than a few times).
The post office has no control over the fact that some people mail their payments out the day before they are due (guilty, more than once)
The PO has no control over the weather or a cancelled flight, I don't think they even have control over the semis that have to deliver trailers of mail, via the interstate system.
The PO clerk has no control over you putting three old stamps, in order to make up the new postal rates, because people are too busy to get to the PO or didn't think enough to buy forever stamps (Guilty)
The PO isn't responsible for a misaddressed envelope, putting the payment slip in backwards or having it slide into a postion where it cannot be read.
The PO isn't responsible for the folded envelopes that you put into the post, that are fed into the machine and cause the effer to jam. (Guilty, guilty, guilty....)
There are a few other things that I want to rant about but people will say that I am an apologist for the PO.
I have no vested interest in the PO, nor do I have any connections to the PO other than watching to poor guy running down the street in some screwed up weather, trying to get me my packages in the middle of a snow storm.
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One thing about living in CA is that the west coast had many 'payment processing centers' in NorCal, so sending a payment from El Lay to San Fran was an overnight -at best - trip and the checks were cashed so fast that I had to rely on change or Top Ramen to finish out a week....
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Sometimes is way too easy to point the finger at the "Big Generator".....
How's about having the people that fund the PO take a little time to look at the problems associated with the system and reform it?
Naw, that would be too easy and what would we then complain about?
Hmmmm - let's see..............:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
I can complain about one of the rude and lazy clerks at my local branch - the one who is too lazy to look for the package because you don't have the notification slip handy - or if she does decide to do you a big favor and look for it, then makes you produce an i.d., even tho she knows right well who you are. Yes - I had to walk back out to my car in the pouring rain to get my driver's license - sure didn't know I would need it to pick up a package!!!! And I can complain about a rural driver who had a package (prescriptions) for my ex, that was too big to fit in the box, so instead of leaving a tag for him to go pick it up, she opened the door to the mailbox and set it on there. Smart move - huh??? Not only did it fall off and land in the ditch by the road, but any smart ass could have come by and swiped it with no problem at all. I just happened to look down when I got the mail and see it laying there. Did I go ballistic and report it - you bet your sweet bippie I did!!!!
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Originally Posted by pomtzu
LOL me either. They were just examples.:D
And if she doesn't ask for ID, and the stupidvisor happens to be looking when she's talking to you, she gets disciplinary action for not following procedure. Not lazy, they have checklists and procedures to follow, and whether she knows you or not, she has no idea if you're the "mystery shopper" of the day.Quote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
The same goes for mailing a package. They have a list of questions they have to ask.....even if the clerk is your spouse and knows what you're mailing. If the questions in their training aren't asked, they can get written up, which is why it can take time for a line to move.
Well this stupidvisor needs to write herself up, because she'll give me the package with no problem or attitude. And she has been standing within earshot when Miss Rude and Nasty gives me the 3rd degree, and has gone and gotten the package for me herself, after shooting her subordinate a dirty look. Yes - that one is LAZY!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lady's Human
I'm talking about a small rural p.o. - not a branch in a big city, too!!!
Postal stupidvision 101:Quote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
The rules are for thee, not me.
In addition, you have no idea what their working relationship is.
Sheesh! Definite drop a note to her higher-ups!
The standard list of questions for a package got to be a standing joke at the Post Office in Newtonville, where we used to live. I usually ended up with the same clerk, "Tee", and after she recited the "Anything fragile, perishable, liquid or hazardous," and I dutifully answered, "No," with an eye roll, she'd say "Kitty toys or puppy toys?" She was a cat person herself....
Quite true, but I'll take stupidvisor over the red-headed biach any day ~ ~~ as would everyone else I know of that's had to deal with "Her Sweetness". :rolleyes::DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lady's Human
When I went to a new campus to work at I had to deal with a HUGE PITA.
I talked about her before.
She..
Refused to turn in numbers on time.
Hid the ledger after hours
Hid the ledger when she went on vacation.
Refused to learn how to use a computer, let alone learn how to turn it on
go to the spreadsheet and mail me a set of numbers.
When I went to HER STUPIDvisor, she shrugged her shoulders and told me to 'try and work with her' or 'find a system that would get me the info on time'.
So, it was a failure of the system - no boss to go to and when I complained about it, I was the trouble maker.
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Because no one complained about this AH back when it would have made a difference, they were stuck with a
clerk who didn't GAS about how her laziness affected the system.
She ruled by fear and was one of those lazy employees that was biding her time until she retired with a nice pension.
We, as patrons of a service that we pay for, shouldn't be afraid to drop a dime or note when we feel like we are being abused, unsatisfied, unserved.
As a matter of fact?
I'd send a 'Nice Complaint' in and follow it up with a bunch of anonymous Eff You complaints, just to spice things up.
If I am getting screwed, why not return the favor?
Don't take my comments the wrong way. If the clerk is a PITA, then someone needs to be aware of it.
If management isn't doing anything about it, then it's management's fault, NOT THE Union's! Yes, it is eminently possible to fire or discipline a postal employee, but there is a procedure to do so, and management continually screws it up.
That having been said, I can count on one hand the number of supervisors in the postal service who I would count as competent.
There are many supervisors in the system who are sweetness and light when dealing with customers, and unholy terrors when dealing with employees. There are window clerks who WERE pleasant employees at one point, then found their attitude when dealing with management and customers. (I've seen customers berate people for little to no reason too many times in the limited amount of time I spend at the window)
I did call the post office today about my missing gas bill. They said there is nothing they can do to find it. He will talk to my carrier and see if he remembers it. Like he can remember one out of the hundreds he delivers. The poor guy is doing two routes now since my original carrier retired. It might not even have gotten to our town. sheesh :love:
We find mail in machines in odd places that sits there for a long time without being found. There are all sorts of nooks for mail to hide in, and if it slips into one of those spots, you're not going to find it until something odd breaks and the techs have to tear into that portion of the machine.Quote:
Originally Posted by momoffuzzyfaces
Ask the utility company for a duplicate.
However, if you're having problems with continuously delayed mail (like my Verizon bill that I received AFTER the payment was already late, or my bank statements) then ask for the POOM.
I know it's still higher for NOW but when the USPS price jumps from $2.50 to $6 it's not going to be long before they are on par with UPS and FedEx lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Lady's Human
I am going to miss the Saturday mail delivery & it will most likely affect our mail mans pay check. It is to bad they can't cut back on more worthless supervisors & higher ups.
I trust the mail service more then I would ever trust doing any kind of paper work on the internet & I don't care how secure they may say it is.
I trust the USPS more than I trust any Cruise Line Company,.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonny
Look how much mail went down with the Titanic.
And they cannot even get people home on time.
go figure.
I'll just come in here late and say that as far as our local postal service where I am, that I couldn't be happier. The postman is pleasant and efficient, virtually error free, and the window service couldn't be more pleasant. Yeah, I do live in a small town (5,000 population) in the Midwest, so maybe things are just different here.
I have not had any bad experiences with things not being delivered in a timely manner at either end. I know things happen. With a system that large, mistakes are bound to be made. At least from my perspective, the system seems to be working very well.
I don't have a problem with dropping Saturday mail. At least two or three days a week the mailman drives right past my house without stopping. With the volume of mail going down, of course their revenues will drop and they have to find ways to cut costs. Cutting one day of service makes sense, given the reduced volume.
And I wouldn't be afraid to take a cruise, either, I've had one previously and enjoyed it thoroughly, my only problem would be getting there since I really don't care to fly again, considering the mess that's become!
http://www.postal-reporter.com/blog/...epting-bribes/
Yep, it's all the Union's fault...
I could be wrong but I thought it was said that packages are the exception, that they would be delivered on Saturday.
packages will still be delivered on Saturday, box mail will still be sorted, collection mail will still be run......in other words, the only activity that isn't going to happen is SOME carriers won't be delivering.
Which begs the question, where's the true savings?
The answer is that there isn't any.
People complain about the postage rates - yes, I do too - but think nothing of putting a first class stamp (46 cents?) on an envelope for a bill (for example), that is being paid to the utility company or doctor or dentist, etc, and is a very short distance from home. I just recently paid $8.55 to send a 4.2 oz package to Canada. I'm sure the people that think nothing of sending that local letter or card or bill for 46 cents, are the same ones to complain about international rates.
Which one of these scenarios is getting the better deal???? Not too difficult to figure out - IMO anyway! Sure beats the cost of delivering in person! :rolleyes: :eek::D
People still mail bill payments?Quote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
Other than mailing out orders that people purchase from me and mailing birthday cards that Hannah makes to grandparents I haven't mailed anything in a looooong time. It was just my inlaws anniversary and my FIL's birthday and Hanah made them cards and I was scrambling around to see if we even had any stamps in the house. Just so happened we did have some that were probably purchased well over a year ago. I just don't mail envelopes much. I would call the bill company to arrange payment (if they didn't already have online bill payment options) before I would stick it in an envelope and put a stamp on it. At least that way I have a confirmation number and if anything goes awry with the payment I can name the person who took my payment and quote said confirmation number.
I pay all my bills except one threw the mail. I don't like the idea of my debit card info bouncing around the Internet. Oh, my gas bill that I never got last month.... I apparently got it, opened it, and completely forgot I ever saw it. I found it the other day. Now That is frightening!!! :eek:
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Originally Posted by sparks19
Many do - but not me. Oh - I occasionally have a random oddball bill that's a one time deal, so I will write a check and mail it. This might happen a couple of times a year - at most!
And in a moment of brilliance, the USPS paid priority mail shipping rates to buy congoleum floor tile from a vendor in MA to ship to NY. 4 boxes at $40/box, and shipping at priority mail rates (64 lbs/box), to acquire something they could have picked up at the local hardware store.
I'm just shaking my head in disbelief on that one......:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lady's Human
http://www.stampsofdistinction.com/2...st-office.html
The Parcel Post building could have used congoleum floors?;):eek::o