Did Someone in D/FW Send Me a Package?

[the elephant]

USPS, inbound from Dallas on Saturday…

Who sent me this? Please PM me ASAP. I might not be here to accept it, and we have a whole crew of Porch Pirates in my 'hood.

[bloke]

I hope someone speaks up.
Otherwise I hope you have one good trustworthy neighbor to watch for you.

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[bort2.0]

Can't you request USPS to hold it for you, and you pick it up from the post office?

[the elephant]

I'm in a small town in Mississippi. I am lucky to get mail at all, ever. Terrible!

[the elephant]

Bueller?

Bueller?

[bloke]

Almost off topic:

Every day, all of our mail is taken from our local post office to the Memphis sorting center,
Certainly by the end of the next day, that mail should all be sorted and anything headed to Nashville should be on a truck headed to Nashville - arriving there the same day because it's only a 3-hour trip.
Certainly by the next day, it should be processed by the Nashville sorting center be sorted, discovered as local and sent to the local post office for delivery.
Certainly by the next working day, that mail should be delivered.
I sent a pretty large check to KHS America to pay for some Jupiter parts to de-customize instruments played by young scholars last year. I paid by check - rather than credit card - to avoid a fairly significant credit card fee.)

I'm seeing 4 days or 5 days maximum.
I'm pretty sure it took them eight or nine days to get my check.
Of course, I still don't have the parts.

I'm thinking that the "because covid" excuse has become somewhat obsolete, but maybe I'm being unreasonable. After all - unlike myself - I'm pretty sure those people get paid whether or not they deliver the goods.

[bort2.0]

Here in the middle of the big city, it's not unusual for us to only get mail 4 or 5 days of the week. Or, when there's a substitute, sometimes we've gotten our mail delivered at 7:30 or 8:00pm. It's still light out, but it's still weird.

On the plus side, our regular letter carrier has been working the same route here for about 25 or 30 years, and she's awesome. The other guy who does other parts of the neighborhood is a great person too. I see both of them and say hi almost every day when I walk my dog.

The post office generally kind of sucks, but like most companies that suck, there are quite a lot of really great people there.

[Mary Ann]

the problem with the post office, from having watched it from the inside via a friend lo these 20 years or so -- is micromanagement by people who have no idea whatsoever about what actually works. Consistently and repeatedly, edicts come down from above (WAY above) about how the most minute things must be done; those edicts always make it more difficult to do the job, make no sense, slow down the work, and must be obeyed. Nice people are not promoted to even supervisory positions, because the assumption is that all carriers will do anything and everything to avoid doing work, and must be forced and treated badly in order to get them to do anything at all. How we end up with good carriers -- I have aways had good carriers in the 11 years i've been in this house -- is beyond me. Those who want to do a good job and have means of doing that, are prevented, and it's not their fault.