I've been home all day and I got USPS's "We Missed You!"

[A Casual Fitz]

Stupid slip says will be available for pick up tomorrow at 9am. I'm working through the post office's hours the next 5 days. Would it be worth it to swing by before closing time today and complain/try and snag my package? I'm sure others have had similar issues, what did you do?

 

[kranky]

They should just relabel those as "Ninja notice" because they never do anything but sneak up to the door and leave the note. No ringing the bell, no knocking.

 

[A Casual Fitz]

They should just relabel those as "Ninja notice" because they never do anything but sneak up to the door and leave the note. No ringing the bell, no knocking.

Yeah I'm really pissed since it would have taken him an extra 10 seconds for me to come to the door and sign the delivery confirmation.

 

[KaOTiK]

Had FedEx try and pull that shit once with me. I called them up and they sent the driver right back to my house.

 

[bradley]

My USPS packages probably are delivered by ninjas. Mere seconds after their ringing my doorbell, I look out my window to see nobody there... every single time.

 

[MiniDoom]

It's happened to me several times before. They probably won't have it if you go to the facility today. They will say it's on the truck and won't be available for pickup until tomorrow. Pisses me off, my mail dude doesn't even knock. He just puts the sticker on the door and leaves. I have to try to catch him in his truck if i want to receive anything that requires a signature or pick it up the next day at usps.

 

[lupi]

One of the most joyful phonecalls I've had is after getting off the phone with a shipper when the said they couldn't guarantee a delivery time after a failed delivery several hours prior to what the said the window would be and I would have been home for after leaving work early. Just called the sender and said they'd need to send a new package via another shipper or cancel my order, said they'd take care of it. Got a phone call a couple of minutes later from the shipper saying it would be arriving next day at a later drop time and they would waive the signature if I wasn't home yet.

 

[kaerflog]

Depends.
My UPS main center closes at 7pm and usually the truck is back by then.
I have gone there on the same day before and waited for the truck to get back.

 

[lokiju]

If I'm staying home (working from home) specifically for a delivery that requires a signature then I always put a note on the door saying "Yes I am home, please give me enough time to get to the door."

 

[A Casual Fitz]

Depends.
My UPS main center closes at 7pm and usually the truck is back by then.
I have gone there on the same day before and waited for the truck to get back.

USPS

 

[ShreddedWheat]

I have been fighting with USPS for the past week over a pkg that was never delivered even though I was home all day when they supposedly delivered it. Driver will not return his mgr's phone calls as to what happened???? Finally complained to Amazon to see if they could escalate the problem...they just refunded my money. USPS sux!

 

[lxskllr]

I'd call the USPS facility, and get them to make arrangements for you to get it tonight. There's no reason it can't be ready, especially since they fucked you today.

 

[Newbian]

At least they didn't pee in your yard.

 

[chimaxi83]

They're lazy fucks. I've watched some shit heads walk to my door with the notice in hand, stick it to the door, then walk right back down the stairs. I call them back as soon as they get to the truck.

 

[jagec]

The best thing that ever happened to me, shipping-wise, was when I learned that my work didn't mind if people got personal items shipped to the front desk. Someone is ALWAYS there to sign, and I ALWAYS get my packages.

Now it pisses me off when someone won't ship to my work address, because it means that I'm going to miss the delivery due to the ninja effect.

 

[Dumac]

Happens all the time to me.

Sometimes I swear the must knock and literally run away. I hear a knock, yell as loud as I can "I'll be there in a second!", run to the door, open it, nobody there but a slip saying I missed the delivery.

 

[waggy]

god i hate it when they do that. I had FedEx do that once. i called up and complained. A manager made the driver make the delivery.

its such bullshit. just knock on the door. ugh

 

[Rumpltzer]

The beauty of the USPS is that they're not very good at delivering the mail, and they just don't give a fuck.

I leave the country several times a year, and I never know what's going to happen with my mail when I put it on hold. Sometimes they ignore the hold. Sometimes I need to go down there to get them to start delivering again after the hold expires.

Last month I came back after 2 weeks out of the country and my mailbox was stuffed full of mail even though I had put a hold on it and said I'd go to pick it up. I did notice stuff missing, so I waited a day (normal mail the next day) and then went to see them. They handed over a huge pile of stuff that they'd collected. So it seems like they just stuffed some into my mailbox for when I came back and took the rest back to the post office... ?

No clue.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Funny I never had this ninja issue with the carriers here but it does seem to happen to lot of people in the states. Though here it's usually Canada Post, FedEx or Purolator. Purolator handles the UPS packages so anything sent to be via UPS comes to me via Purolator.

The issue I have is most carriers try to deliver in the day, when I'm at work. Residential packages should be delivered any time after 5:00. Everyone is at work before that, why bother trying? In my case I work shifts so I might happen to be home if I'm on a day off, but 99% of people work 9-5ish.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I once had a ninja notice attached to my screen door with the door open and I sat 5 feet away watching television.

 

[jagec]

Funny I never had this ninja issue with the carriers here but it does seem to happen to lot of people in the states. Though here it's usually Canada Post, FedEx or Purolator. Purolator handles the UPS packages so anything sent to be via UPS comes to me via Purolator.

The oil filter people?

 

[Dulanic]

Happens all the time here.

 

[mmntech]

My theory with ninja notices, the mailman/courier never had the package to begin with. Too lazy to lug it around/forgot to grab it so they just leave it at the post office and get you to do the lifting.

 

[Dari]

USPS always does that shit. They never attempt to do it the first day. Lazy bastards just want you to go pick it up at the office.

 

[Binarycow]

UPS delivery man during the day, fighting crimes as a ninja at night, got his two jobs mixed up?

BTW, it happened to me too. I was taking a **** (with the bathroom door open, was home alone that day) while waiting for my package and almost got ninja-noted by the ups dude. Luckily, I heard his truck coming and got to my front door as he stepped up his truck to leave. Needless to say, I called his ass back and gave him the most confrontational stare that one could muster right after taking a dump (or more likely in the middle of a dump).