I really really loath and despise the US Postal Office.

[Javaman]

I had to get that off my chest.

That is all.

[Richardo]

1. Not me.

I get great service from the people behind the counter, pretty reliable delivery and reasonable pricing.

In fact, my mother sent a letter to my office, but forgot to put the street address on it; just my name, the company name and the city and zip code. It got to me in two days, and I live in the 4th largest city in the country and 1,200 miles from my parents.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Not me.

My mail comes on time. The counter service is great. No complaints from me.

[MicaelS]

3. Dispise, eh?

Does that mean you despise, and dis' them at the same time? :sarcasm: :nopity:

[Javaman]

5. I fix. LOL nt

[nuxvomica]

4. I don't

I had to ship a large package overseas recently and didn't think twice about sending it UPS or FedEx. The private carriers would have cost literally twice as much and the help I got at the PO counter was friendly and knowledgeable.

[tigereye]

6. I would like a little more variety of products and shorter lines at my own

small local post office, but generally, they do a very nice job for low, low prices.


And the lady who does the passports was really fun, too.

[Kali]

7. not me

postal socialism works pretty damn good for me

and they will leave it in a lock box if it doesn't fit in my regular one, as opposed to the private companies who won't come down our road and just send my stuff back when they can't figure out how to call the phone number ON THE BIG SIGN at the end of our road so I can drop whatever I'm doing and drive up to meet them (provided I even have a vehicle at that point) - no, at least at the post office I can go get my stuff whenever I want, even if it is a few miles further.

[Tikki]

8. Not me....

and our route carrier is going to be our neighbor as soon as he retires in a couple of years..

Tikki

[cbdo2007]

9. I love USPS.

I think they do a great job with first class mail and save me lots of money. The only thing I hate is I wish you could "opt out" of advertisments or things to "Resident". I don't want that stuff.

[pinboy3niner]

10. "Neither snow nor rain nor heat...

...nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."

Despite a long history of being abused by management, postal employees generally do a great job--and their first-class letter delivery rates are one of the best bargains in America. USPS employees are some of the most unfairly-maligned workers (along with DMV employees).

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. You also despise cops and firefighters right?

I mean public employees are MEAN I TELL YOU.... and them UNIONS are really bad for America.

:sarcasm:

Now assuming UPS could do it, you think they'd be able to ship a letter for 43 cents across the country?

Oh and the Founders got it. The USPS IS in the Constitution.

[Javaman]

15. Wow, just wow.

you pulled a lot from a simple statement.

I see you are a member of the zero to 60 club.

[Codeine]

32. I've never had any problems with the Post Office.

UPS on the other hand -- seriously, fuck those guys with an axe. I got a package from them today containing presents for my girlfriend; they'd managed to shatter a bubble-wrapped bottle of hot sauce in the box, which then poured all over the other contents.

Hopefully ThinkGeek will replace the package for me, but there's no way I'll have it for the holiday. Grr.

[sarge43]

12. Why?

I have my mail delivered to my home six days a week, often right to the door, even on days when because of storms everything else is shut down. I don't know how much of my taxes are going to the USPS, but whatever it is, I'd bet if I had to pay a private company for the same service it would cost a hellva lot more.

[LiberalAndProud]

13. I adore them.

They get my stuff there every time. cheap. And I get my mail in my box next to my front door every day except for Sunday. They are AWESOME!

They also fill my recycle bin every week, but I can't hold that against them.

[jobycom]

14. They are not what they used to be, that's for sure. I've had more mail lost or delayed in the last

few years than ever before. Used to be when a customer told me "The check is in the mail," I assumed they were lying. These days I assume the Post Office lost it, and that assumption has been right more than wrong. I'd say out of about 400 pieces of mail I send or receive every month, they lose two and delay (two or three weeks) a couple dozen.

It used to be efficient. Now the only thing I get regularly is junk mail.

[Skittles]

16. not me

I think they do a great job

[Gold Metal Flake]

17. I see it as a direct link to the legacy of Benjamin Franklin.

But, yeah, going there can be a PITA.

[Haole Girl]

18. It beats the postal service in India

Trust me on this one!

[GoCubsGo]

19. I "loath" FedEx

I loathe them, too. At least the USPS can read a street sign. The last time FedEx delivered a package to me, they dropped it off at the house on the next block with the same house number. The street names are not even close. The only reason I got the package was because the person whose house it was dropped off at was honest enough to run it by my house. On top of that, the person who sent me the package paid extra to require a signature at drop-off. They did not oblige that. Just left it on the porch--the wrong porch.

[struggle4progress]

20. Y'know, once, when one of my nieces was about 5, I got a postcard addressed to

Uncle <my first name (almost illegible) with no last name>
<completely wrong number> My Street
My City, My State, My Zip

Somebody from the Post Office stuck a note on it with rubber band: Took me a month but I'm sure this is yours. Please tell them to use the last name

[KurtNYC]

21. a lot of variation from one post office to the next

and this season really stretches everyone.

[pitohui]

22. i love my post office

for 20 years i made a living in large part thanks to their hard work, and while i'm just an occasional visitor there in this past decade, the internet age, i still have great feelings toward them and all they do

they helped me put food in my stomach, i think they prob. helped a lot of people and they won't even ever know what all they achieved

[nolabear]

23. I LURVE the USPS. It's like a magic trick.

You put something in a little box and it shows up way the hell across the country! For 42 cents! WOW!!!

[Orrex]

24. They are far superior to any alternative currently available at the same price

If the USPS vanished, the price to send a standard letter from California to New York would jump to about $1.98 instantly.


Be grateful for the USPS, because no matter how bad you think they are, it would be worse without them.

[krispos42]

25. I mailed most of my entire library to Connecticut last summer

Seven boxes, averaging about 40 pounds each. Cost about $200 total. Shipped right to the end of the driveway (I told the guy to come get me when they came).

Worked great for me.


My boss is starting up a makeup business (see below). She's using the flat-rate USPS Priority Mail boxes... much simpler than anything else on the market, and the pick up at the house and ship to all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

[KT2000]

26. Love mine!

Was in there during Christmas rush and an elderly woman put her package on the counter. The clerk started processing it and said "This is an invalid zip code. It doesn't exist." The woman was distressed and the clerk said, "It's OK, let's figure this out."
No one in line was perturbed by the kindness - which is common at our post office.

[K8-EEE]

27. We send 200 christmas cards and most of them get there next day

I think they do an amazing job!

[BlueJazz]

28. The USPS is a wonderful. thing.

[ohheckyeah]

29. I don't

I had some things ordered for Christmas. FedEx didn't deliver for two days because of a little (and I do mean little) bit of snow. The post office had no problem delivering.

I'll take USPS over FedEx and UPS any time. I never know where UPS might leave a package...like up against a garage door where I can't see it sometimes, or on the front porch, or the back patio or the back deck or on top of a water faucet, a rock wall or wherever else they might come up with.

[Skip Intro]

30. I like 'em. Glad they're there. nt

[quakerboy]

31. Not me.

It has some issues with lines. Occasionally there has been an annoyance with postage supplies.

But damn if they are not the cheapest option available. I can go to the post office and send pretty much anything for 5-8 bucks. I walked across the street to a mail box place and they wanted 20. And all they are doing is handing it off to a USPS truck in the morning.

Plus they always get the packages to my home. They don't give me shit, they have local offices where I can pick things up when necessary. Unlike ups where I have to drive halfway across the city to their ONLY pickup location, and half the time they have rerouted it to another truck so I have to drive down again tomorrow. or Fed EX where They have a location closer than UPS, but still further than the post office, but it ALWAYS ends up being out on a truck when I arrive to get it, despite several calls and the paper they left specifically stating it WILL be there. But it never is.


No, I love me some USPS. I have not found any other service as reliable for getting or sending packages (lots of sales on Ebay, a fair number of purchases also)

[Mad_Dem_X]

33. And they probably loathe and despise you.

/Husband works for the USPS

[Tom_Foolery]

34. I greatly admire the work that they do...

When I was a big eBay seller, I shipped over 7,000 packages through the USPS; and they didn't lose or break a single one. Now UPS and FedEx, they're another story.

[FamousBlueRaincoat]

35. i always use USPS

additionally, i don't even order anything online unless the post office can deliver it.

Apartment building in the city - UPS tries to deliver it, and if they fail, take the package to store in their suburban warehouses impossible to reach via public transit. then they send it back to the sender. then you're screwed.

USPS, it's just a matter of walking a couple blocks to your neighborhood post office.

[Crystal Clarity]

36. Living a rural life, my only beef w/them is nosiness!

More then a few situations w/them reminds me of Seinfeld's 'Soup-Nazi'.

And in this particular case, it became 'No Mail' for you!... NO exceptions!!! I realize rural mail delivery is probably not the easiest of jobs, but jeez!!!

Case in point:

Our old mail-guy (known in town as Frank) got all righteously indignant one year, about the fact that my SO allowed his recently widowed mother to shovel out her own mailbox, instead of my SO (or me) doing it for her. BTW, we lived 4 miles from her. These storms btw, can come as often as 3 to 5 times or more a week.

My SO would always faithfully arrive before or after work on stormy days ready to shovel and plow her out, but it'd always already be done. Frank had no idea about how much my SO fought w/his mother over these types of matters. She was/still is, a very proud and independent person and always got pissed whenever my SO would do 'stuff' for her, despite her advancing age.

So anyway, my SO had already relented w/his mother on this particular issue, as long as she'd agree to stop plowing her driveway. The woman has never had a driver's license and even way back then (12+ yrs ago) couldn't see well at all. Hey, it was getting downright scary! Not to mention pointless. At least the plowed driveway part. :shrug:

However, because Frank saw my SO's mother shoveling out the mailbox on more then a few occasions that year, he stopped delivering OUR mail. Instead, he left a note saying that we had to pick it up at the Post Office because of it! BTW because we are so rural, that PO in town was only staffed for 20 hours p/week and we both were doing 50/60 hour work weeks (each) at the time.

It really sucked because back then, our mail was so much more important bill-wise then it is now. BIG pain-in-the-a** and it took over 3 weeks for my SO's mother catch up with Frank and give him hell about it. Ha Ha! I would have loved to have seen that!

I realize that mail delivery is a federal issue and IF we had made a stink about it, Frank very likely could've gotten in big trouble. Or at the very least, gotten a suspension or even lost his job. But though now long retired, he lives in our community and is one of us. I'm glad we didn't. Plus, though I don't agree w/how he handled what he perceived to be a bad situation, his intentions/motives were good. He truly thought we were neglecting a recently widowed elderly lady and took it upon himself to take a stand.


Long, boring story aside, the point is that I'd still rather have a 'Frank' then multiple ill-paid people working for some giant corporation who is "just doing his/her job" :eyes: that NOBODY will take responsibility for. :grr:

[ohiosmith]

37. You're fucked man. Dissing a union on DU is death. The USPS could rape your dog, kill your family

and poison the water supply and still be defended here. I'm with you, my local service sucks big time, and they know there is not a fucking
thing I can do about it.

Happy holidays.

[WinkyDink]

39. What's your beef? You go in, buy stamps, leave. They bring you mail.

[KillCapitalism]

38. They need some extra seasonal help.

I had a package to send off and the line was loooooooooong. I waited around 2 hours.