My wife's recent CPAP supplies shipment left Bedford NH, and spent 5 days in Jamaica NY for some reason (to please DeJoy) before coming along to Greene ME.
A Funny Thing Happened With The Post Office!
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As a curious fact, one of the best ways to count the number of nations is simply to collect postage stamps.
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There are 192 member countries in the Universal Postal Union (UPU), which includes all United Nations member states, except for four: Andorra, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau.
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The four that don’t have a post office use another nation that does.
I was taught since I was a child the way to gauge the health of a town is to look at their post office and public school.
If either is run down it won’t be long before the town is gone.
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There are 192 member countries in the Universal Postal Union (UPU), which includes all United Nations member states, except for four: Andorra, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau.
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The four that don’t have a post office use another nation that does.
I was taught since I was a child the way to gauge the health of a town is to look at their post office and public school.
If either is run down it won’t be long before the town is gone.
I've had two different packages that I shipped that arrived at their destination opened and contents gone. I contacted the postal service about it both times to file claims and they wanted proof of value of the contents. I gave them proof of value. They paid me for the items, but wouldn't pay me back the shipping fees. When I asked both times why I didn't get my shipping charges back, they replied, that we delivered the packages, so no refunds on the shipping fees. What a bunch of BS...
Never, never, never send cash, gift cards, or important documents through the USPS. Or anything time sensitive.
If you do you're rolling the dice.
If you do you're rolling the dice.
The USPS, often maligned and justly so, is the only arm of government capable of reaching most every home in the nation. Packages and mail do get lost. Overnight deliveries often arrive a day late - I’ve learned to use this to my advantage and get the shipping fully refunded when the package arrives a day late. UPS and FedEx have always had similar issues for me as well - so what are you going to do? Track and insure and generally things work out. Not always, but mostly.
Incredulous!
Why sabotage the box like this and still deliver it? Just take the whole thing and mark it lost...
Something's afoot.
My guess is that the box tore in the sorting machinery and the tobacco got lost.
You guys all think very highly of pipe tobaccos and pipes. But, absolutely no one who doesn't smoke a pipe would give a f@ck about a pipe nor pipe tobacco.
The idea that someone stole it, yet delivered or left the empty box just doesn't jibe with human nature. The idea that a postal worker would steal a cheap plug of tobacco, risking his job and livelihood for what most people would think of as a $2 hunk of chaw, doesn't jibe with human behavior also.
Now, some postal worker having a break with reality and throwing a truckload of boxes of a bridge makes more sense to me.
You guys all think very highly of pipe tobaccos and pipes. But, absolutely no one who doesn't smoke a pipe would give a f@ck about a pipe nor pipe tobacco.
The idea that someone stole it, yet delivered or left the empty box just doesn't jibe with human nature. The idea that a postal worker would steal a cheap plug of tobacco, risking his job and livelihood for what most people would think of as a $2 hunk of chaw, doesn't jibe with human behavior also.
Now, some postal worker having a break with reality and throwing a truckload of boxes of a bridge makes more sense to me.
DeJoy’s cost cutting decision to cut postal police from three thousand down to three hundred and remove their off site jurisdiction has resulted in a spike in off site postal crimes.
Go figure.
Postal Police Sue USPS, DeJoy Over Restrictions They Claim Put Postal Workers In ‘Danger’
The directive is one of a number of controversial changes implemented at the Postal Service by the postmaster general.
www.forbes.com
Yes, DeJoy has cut the postal police by 90%.
But why would the crooks not realize that eventually the ten per cent remaining will catch up with them?
The Postal Police were expensive, they didn’t deliver any mail, and in theory state and local police could serve their function.
But their existence off site deterred postal crime.
@Briar Lee : I suspect that the box was torn open by some miscreant once it was delivered to the mailbox. Apparently in this area there are a lot of 'Meth Heads' who will steal anything that is not nailed down. I am in total agreement with you about the Postal Police, another example of short sighted penny pinching. No doubt the next step will be to privatize the post office or something worse. I swear I must be our local USPS best customer since living in an analog world I still write letters to people!
If a claim is filed, USPS will likely state that was the case and deny any claim. That has been my experience.
Did you hear the one about the Amazon delivery driver who got frustrated in December and dumped several containers of packages along the side of a road? I can't remember where but a police officer on patrol found the containers and took them back to the Amazon delivery hub. A couple of days later the driver turned himself in.
I hope they don’t sell it, which would mean no Postal Police at all.
People cuss the police, until they get something stolen, then they cuss the police for not catching the thief.
My father’s mother had a drunken brother and she’d cuss the police for catching her poor brother and sending him to the penitentiary just because of an accident (that killed an innocent family). That’s why we changed our address from Dunnegan to Humansville, so the gossips at Dunnegan wouldn’t know she was writing him and he was writing back.
If they sell the post offices to private enterprise you can kiss the Dunnegan post office goodbye, and probably Humansville too.
People cuss DeJoy but DeJoy has to supervise a postal service where the volume of letters mailed and stamps bought keeps declining every year due to email.
And DeJoy’s sharp looking, well paid, young letter carriers compete with the delivery drivers from Amazon and UPS and Fed Ex, and who knows who else.
Any hillbilly singer knows a dozen or two ballads about the postman and zero about the Amazon drivers.
My experience (only one) was a meth head who grew up deer hunting on our place with his father and grandfather, when he became homeless our place was the only place he knew that he might find refuge.
(Our people, will not call the law on you. Judas did that, and we won’t)
The boy knew my renters mailed me a check each month for rent, and one month he stole it from the mailbox and altered it, and cashed it at Bolivar.
I called his grandmother and told her she had to get him or else somebody would shoot him in his tent and leave him lay, and I couldn’t stop it.
The last time I was home, his grandmother ran over and hugged me and started telling me how the boy had cleaned up, got a job, and was going to get married.
She said she was sorry about my $450, and I said that was paid in 1971 when I was helpless and her husband harvested all those fields for no pay.
People cuss DeJoy for maintaining only his employees stealing is the concern of the post office, and then only on government property.
But it does prevent wayward grandsons from being sent to Leavenworth.
It’s a balance of priorities.
Since then my renter sends me electronic payments.
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Concerning a theft from a post office:
My great grandfather had a brother named Frank who also rode with the 12th Missouri Volunteer US cavalry.
(Which today might be like saying Frank was also a member of Seal Team Six. )
Frank had a beautiful daughter who attracted a no good, handsome man who was prone to drink, and gamble, and carouse, and knew his father in law during peacetime was a pacifist.
As my cousin Robert Bruce told the story, one day the son in law came outside Frank’s General store, and threatened to ride his horse through the store. Frank said he’d shoot him if he did, and he did, and Frank blew him off his saddle dead inside the store.
The sheriff was summoned, and confirmed with Frank there was a post office inside the General store.
The sheriff lamented he had no jurisdiction inside a post office, and Frank was only guarding the United States mail.
To this day in Missouri, local authorities have no jurisdiction on post office property.
That’s why DeJoy confines the Postal Police remaining to federal property.
My great grandfather had a brother named Frank who also rode with the 12th Missouri Volunteer US cavalry.
(Which today might be like saying Frank was also a member of Seal Team Six.
)Frank had a beautiful daughter who attracted a no good, handsome man who was prone to drink, and gamble, and carouse, and knew his father in law during peacetime was a pacifist.
As my cousin Robert Bruce told the story, one day the son in law came outside Frank’s General store, and threatened to ride his horse through the store. Frank said he’d shoot him if he did, and he did, and Frank blew him off his saddle dead inside the store.
The sheriff was summoned, and confirmed with Frank there was a post office inside the General store.
The sheriff lamented he had no jurisdiction inside a post office, and Frank was only guarding the United States mail.
To this day in Missouri, local authorities have no jurisdiction on post office property.
That’s why DeJoy confines the Postal Police remaining to federal property.
Robert Bruce would kill off Frank’s son in law, and proceed to tell how the son in law’s brother started bragging he was going to kill Frank.
Unfortunately for him, Frank had five other brothers who also, had rode with the 12th Missouri cavalry, and they drew straws to solve that problem.
When the no good son in law’s brother went down to Indian Territory the stationmaster told Frank, and the fellow just seemed to vanish down there, he never came back.
Of course Frank was right there at his general store the entire time, and fully alibied. The second time around his daughter married a millionaire and Frank died of old age, a happy and contented man, in his daughter’s mansion.
Robert Bruce would tell these stories in front of the gravestones of the parties involved on Decoration Day.
If he made them up, he always told exactly the same legend each time.