Today is a day where I say “Citizens Unite” don’t EVER use the post office.
They lose everything. I mean everything…. and when they do, they make it incredibly difficult for you to get a refund. Flower Girl Dresses, completely AWOL…packages miss-sorted, apathetic operators, delayed packages, a terrible website and need a refund? …. forget that. AND YOUR RATES ARE GOING UP MAY 31st?
When I was a kid, you got mail twice a day and on Saturdays, once. Post men were nice and the only joke was whether your friend was fathered by the post man. I once got a letter delivered, around 1970, addressed to “Marg Hyland, New Jersey”. Mind you my father was in state politics but did they throw it away? Nope, they cared then. Now, the post office is a joke. They just don’t give a damn…. its the same apathetic attitude you get from anyone who has a tenured job for life with benefits that you are paying for. We all complain about the post office and I am normally supportive of anyone doing their job albeit one they really don’t have to compete for. What I am against is the gross negligence they perform as a reliable delivery service.
USPS – you are doomed.
A little update June 18th, 2015
Just try to get your refund. The website says – go to your local office… then they treat you garbage there. So you call the 800 number – they tell you that you can, then you can’t, then you can, get your money back at the local office. They then make you call an 800 number again…. then more waiting, holds, misinformation. Mind you for a friggin $70. In total, I spent 4 hours and 22 minutes with the post office. I just cancelled my account. No more express mail. Sorry folks. They won’t deliver it on time anyhow, they will instead lose it, or better yet – steal it like they did last November when they CLAIMED they left it at the right address. i just got a call from a bozo named Jose who was supposed to take my complaint about the jerk at the Windermere Post Office who mistreated and abused my $14k a year account. Instead, he informed me you can’t get the refund at the local place after being told again I could. he actually conferenced a call to the same 800 number I waited on line for yesterday in my 4 1/2 hour conversation. SO, more to the point of the story – he can stick it where the sun doesn’t shine. I told him to take his wife out to dinner with my $70 bucks. No WONDER they lose money every day – I hope they go out of business because trust me – they are no competition for UPS or FedEx. BUT they get my money for their million dollar pensions. WHAT AN EXAMPLE OF THE LOUSY WAY THE GOVERNMENT RUNS BUSINESS. Oh wait – they can’t.