O.T. Mail delivery----(ya' right)........rant

I do not get delivery to my home so have been renting a box. Can somebody tell me, if no home delivery is available isn't the P.O. box supposed to be provided at no charge? I would ask our Postmistress personally but since I work full-time and this P.O. isn't even open close to business hours this isn't really an option.

Last Saturday I made the mistake of trying to mail a package at 10:45. Heck No! place is only open 9:30 to 10:30 on Saturday! With hours like this why don't they just close it completely--or would that make too much sense....Grrr

Can somebody tell me how or where to talk to some one ('Cause I definitely got something to tell'em)..... ..... Frank

Mail service varies tremendously based on the local carrier, and the postmaster.

A friend has to pay for a box rent in the post office because she lives on a route,and could get curb side delivery, therefore if she wants a PO box in the post office she must pay for it. But she can Not have a curb mail box on curb because she lives on main HWY, so she has to have a PO box at the post ofice. She has argued every year, but gets no where other than the privalage of filling out a form.

We have to almost set up appointments to get our mail if you have a job. The employees make big dollars, big benifits, and all are my good friends. The rules come from up the ladder by the smarter than average.

If you want a additional PO box in the post office for over run, you must pay extra-----BUT THEY HAVE TO PUT JUNK MAIL IN BOTH BOXES. Even though I have been close friends for fourty plus years with one, and fifty years the other, go out for supper with them once in a while. So both boxes get full if you can't make the loby hrs---I have a job an all.

I use credit card over the phone for all bills, cost a little more, but a lot less hastle than using the US mail. As far as I'm concerened they are shooting themselves in the foot by the managment. Fed EX, UPS are very busy in our small town.

I have a cousin that was a investagator for the postal service, he investagated the postal workers. The lazest guy on this earth, but owns more properties than you can shake a fist at. He retired at a very early age, and vacations 24/7. He will even tell you what a joke his high paying job was.

If you get a package too large for your po box, she puts it in one the large lockers in the lobby and puts the key in your po box. If the package is too large, she'll put a pick up note in your po box. If it's still there after a couple days she phones or sends it out with the regular mail delivery to drop off at you home if you're there or if you have a delivery note on file, the mailman leaves it on your porch or a place you have designed.

I live 5+ miles from town, really in the sticks even for this area, have both a po box and a residential mail box. Not unusual to get mail with just my name & town name in either.

She's been here 5 years, took over from 2 worthless sweathogs that didn't do 1/10 what she does alone. She is 40ish, has tatoos on both upper arms and jokes that she has to keep a long shirt in back in case a postal inspector shows up.

I was buying a book of stamps a couple of years ago. She showed me a stamp chart on the wall with about six different stamp designs and said which one do you want. I said none of them, give me the ones with the neckkid wimmims onnit. She said those ones are all sold out, I'll reorder and have the mailman drop them off at your house in a plain brown envelope.

Super person, always ready to joke and sharp as a tack.

Joe

I'm thinking, just to actually comply with their rules and still meet the usps specification, I'd have to drive an H pile on my property and then cantilever a beam out to the edge of the road to support a mail box, it's still an encroachment, but the post is not on their right of way so I think it would be legal unless they have language in their regulations about air space / air rights, like in NYC.

Donovan from Wisconsin