Re: RE: Re: Ebay Orders.

On 5/23/2024 6:50 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:

On Wed May 22 21:01:53 2024 AMuzi  wrote:

On 5/22/2024 7:28 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 5/22/2024 3:59 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 5/22/2024 1:35 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

I'm not sure what to suggest except
to get a PO Box. It's a bit tricky, but you can get
packages
delivered for pickup, which has eliminated the porch
pirate and "lost
in shipment" problems....
The catch is that the PO Box costs money and you have to
pickup your
packages at the post office.

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ISTM that if this were a significant problem, some company
would provide a service to fix it. "Ship your stuff here and
we'll hold it for you."
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Maybe there is such a company. I haven't looked into it
because like most of Tom's problems, I've never had the
problem.
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If your local post office is short on
staff and long on lines, that can be a problem.
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Varies by local Post Office.
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Our PO box is accessible in the lobby (6am to midnight).
Packages too large for the box are in a parcel locker, the
key to which is left in our box with directions printed on
the keyfob. Retrieve package, drop fob in the mail slot.
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We do not have long lines nor the scrum of legendarily
irascible and surly postal staff. Our limitation is by the
severely truncated open hours for mailing and our single
postal clerk usually works 3 nearby Post Offices in a
typical 8 hour shift.

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The village post office moved to the edge of our
neighborhood maybe 20 years ago, into a building four times
the size of the previous one. They said the reason for the
move was that the previous one had only two clerk counters,
so sometimes fairly long lines. But the current building has
only two clerk counters, so fairly long lines. And they were
going to move in lots of mail sorting equipment; but that
went to Cleveland instead.
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Anyway, the post office boxes seem to be available 24 hours;
and I've always found the clerks to be friendly and quite
efficient.
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The branch manager is another matter, but since he no longer
lives across the street, he no longer affects me much.
Unfortunately our mailman - um, or "mail carrier" - is a
nice guy who still has to put up with him.
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+1 on USPS middle management. Hated by customers, line
staff, upper management, all with good reason. Incompetent
martinets mostly.
-- Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971
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    Probably due to soo much automation introduced too rapidly. Hard for relatively low IQ postal workers to change from packing mail to having a machine pack it.

I don't think you have much inside knowledge of the Postal system and probably haven't even dated a Postmistress.
--
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971