zSo this is how the Postal Service is going to pay off their massive debt!

[P&R Fan]

I have been self-employed for over 26 years and have maintained a P.O. box at the local post office all that time. I always pay the rental fee by check, at the post office. Today my Wife was looking at our bank account online and saw they had charged us $35 two times for P.O. box rental....on boxes I have never had! I would like to know why that is, but more importantly I would like to know how they got access to my bank account to make these false charges.
Maybe THIS is how they intend to make up that massive deficit.
Jim

 

[JJEH]

This needs some serious investigation!

 

[rilkil23]

My concern would be that your information was stolen and used by the person. Doesn't make sense that the PO just magically gained access to your bank account, might want to call your bank and freeze your account just to be safe.

 

[P&R Fan]

This needs some serious investigation!

Yeah, and nobody's gonna pay me my hourly rate.
Jim

 

[David LaPell]

I cannot believe how far my local Post Office has gone downhill in service over the last couple of years. All the tellers I knew save one have retired or quit, what they have replaced them with are lazy and rude. Not young kids, but adults in their 40's and 50's. We have one guy who looks something like Edgar Winters and he has the personality of a wet mop. There is one woman who seems like she is bothered by having to talk to people, and a third who will chat with people she knows while the line stretches out the door. The one guy that I have known for years told me not that long ago he can't wait until he retires because his coworkers are there for a guaranteed paycheck and all they want to do is hire more of them. I get someone elses mail at least twice a week, I have had money orders lost, I sent out an important letter two weeks ago with a return receipt which I never got, and I have had package notifications go missing. I have been told the packages I know are there are not there despite having a copy of the tracking info in my hand. THe sooner it goes broke the better so maybe someone with a clue can get in charge.

 

[Stevens]

The local office crew is so slow and dissagreable I bring my mail to the next village, about 4 miles away. This bunch would be licky to last a day in private industry. The pedestrian or rural carriers I have dealt with have all been first class though.
Steve W

 

[Sprefix]

Please call your congressman, or........

All I can say is this is MANDATED from the bosses on down. The feeling of being knifed by your employer is ALWAYS present. It doesn't matter how good of a job the clerk or carrier does, the upper management is steering us to the rocks and we have to keep on rowing. If you want to make a change in your P.O., then call your congressman and tell them your complaints. Get your friends and neighbors as well as your family members to do the same. This will do way more than you think it will. You DO have the power!! Use your rights instead of complaining about how they are being taken away. If you are not willing to do this, then respectfully exercise your right to remain silent. JMO

 

[brucev]

I like the USPS. My experiences with it have been positive. I've bought a fair number of rifles using USPS MO's. The local PO is a small affair... three windows, letter boxes, etc. Sometimes when I arrive after hours and need to retrieve a package... and hear someone in the back working, they've been kind enough to open the door and hand me my package in spite of it being after hours.

Doubtless some of the employees are not folks I would hire. But the man who lived across from my home was for years a Postal employee who carried the mail. I've found that the folks who currently work at our local PO facility are nice folks. We get along very well.

 

[chud333]

Government run agency. What did you expect??? Enough said..

 

[Texas Star]

This may be an offense that the Postal Inspection Service has jurisdiction over. Looks like some kind of fraud.

But it's an example of why I DO NOT bank Online.

 

[relic]

The local office crew is so slow and dissagreable I bring my mail to the next village, about 4 miles away. This bunch would be licky to last a day in private industry. The pedestrian or rural carriers I have dealt with have all been first class though.
Steve W

Yes! What Steven said. My letter carriers, the route folks serving our neighborhood for the past twenty some years, have all been good people who became first-name friends.

I live on the outskirts of a metro area and can visit various Post Offices. Those close to me all share a common problem. The window people are ill-mannered, disgusting and slow. They certainly demonstrate how the Postmaster supports quotas and handicapped employment. Compounding the P.O. window situation are the English challenged aliens buying USPS Money Orders. You would think I could figure out their paydays but I can't.

So, I also drive to a nearby rural community to do my window business. Makes me kinda mad to think they've beaten me on this but it's no big deal.

 

[Steve in Vermont]

My concern would be that your information was stolen and used by the person. Doesn't make sense that the PO just magically gained access to your bank account, might want to call your bank and freeze your account just to be safe.

Yes, it sounds like someone has hacked your bank account. I've been paying bills through our local bank for many years and never a problem. The ONLY way someone can legally withdraw funds from your account is with your permission, which includes bank information and your signature. I suggest you contact both the PO and your bank ASAP.

 

[C.S.63]

OP,
sounds like someone may have gotten your banking info and is hijacking your account and info
As to the Postal Service, In my area they are top notch from the full timers to part timers and to also include all of the rural carriers.

 

[charlie sherrill]

One of the mail sorters stole my credit card and gave it to her ex-con boyfriend who activated it somehow by using it at a car wash. He then went to Wally World and bought two cam-corders at over $900.00. I went to Wally World and pulled up the video and recognized the perp as the same guy I had sent to prison for breaking in mini-warehouses a few years ago. I baited him with some girl he knew who needed some help and instead of finding her at the rendevous as he drove up in a stolen Explorer he found me and a shotgun. He's out now and was still polite the last time I saw him in jail. She got fired and probation. Someone close to me works for the PO and has stated several times that if they got rid of the union and ran it like a business it would do as well as UPS and FedEx and wouldn't cost us taxpayers anything.

 

[Sprefix]

Here's a question......

One of the mail sorters stole my credit card and gave it to her ex-con boyfriend who activated it somehow by using it at a car wash. He then went to Wally World and bought two cam-corders at over $900.00. I went to Wally World and pulled up the video and recognized the perp as the same guy I had sent to prison for breaking in mini-warehouses a few years ago. I baited him with some girl he knew who needed some help and instead of finding her at the rendevous as he drove up in a stolen Explorer he found me and a shotgun. He's out now and was still polite the last time I saw him in jail. She got fired and probation. Someone close to me works for the PO and has stated several times that if they got rid of the union and ran it like a business it would do as well as UPS and FedEx and wouldn't cost us taxpayers anything.

Since when do you fund the post office with other than services you choose to buy? (other than a scam by some criminal?)

 

[williamlayton]

IMO--There are SOME goverment functions that are necessary and should not be profitable but maintained for the good of the people.
The military and Post Office are good examples.
Blessings

 

[jimmyj]

U.S. Post Office:
1. Rates keep going up
2. Service keeps going down

 

[BuckeyeChuck]

If you want to make a change in your P.O., then call your congressman and tell them your complaints. Get your friends and neighbors as well as your family members to do the same. This will do way more than you think it will. You DO have the power!! Use your rights instead of complaining about how they are being taken away. If you are not willing to do this, then respectfully exercise your right to remain silent. JMO

Sprefix is right. I urge all of my fellow voters to call their Congressional representatives and urge them to do the following:

(1) Remove the legalized monopoly granted to the USPS by federal law.

(2) Abolish Congressional oversight of the USPS entirely. If they are private, allow them to function as such without interference, in a market where I may choose who delivers my mail to/from my property.

 

[Armyphotog]

Unless they get a massive Government bailout, which would be a massive mistake, they just don't understand the problem. The electronic age has arrived. HELLO! If it wasn't for catalogs, unsolicited mail, and just plain old junk mail, they would already be out of busines. Let UPS and Fed EX take up what little slack there is for fast mail, and hang up the post office. Buggy whips are out, sorry. It's a new world. I don't particuarly like it, but there you are. I'm on my way out, too.

 

[Shooting Padre]

Prompt delievery???

I live in a rural area with a mail box at the end of the driveway. Our letter carrier left HIS mail in our box one day.