USPS let my neighbor sign for my package when no one was home. Should I call and complain?

[NikPreviousAcct]

It's not like my neighbors are bad people; I have a very good friendship with them. But the simple fact that the USPS guy let a woman who was walking down the sidewalk next to my house sign for a package bothers me.

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The package was sent Priority Mail without a certified signature required -just needed someone to sign for it. But the driver let someone who wasn't even from the house sign for it.

Should I call and make a fuss about it? If I do, are they going to blow off my complaint? Has anyone else had something similar happen?

Thanks,
Nik

 

[Pastore]

Would I? hell no...

Do I think you should? hell yes

 

[DAWeinG]

YES! Go complain! Maybe next time, the person walking down the street will be a troll and you won't be so lucky! Or even worse that person might be me!!! I heard UPS does that too, or in one case at least on the FS/FT forums. They just let a stranger on the street sign for the package and the package was stolen... go figure... Stupid jackhole bastages

 

[flyfish]

I think your lucky you even got your package.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

<< Stupid jackhole bastages >>

That, sir, is the reason your quote is in my sig. I started laughing when I read that. The customer I'm on the phone with is wondering why I'm laughing at him asking how to release his IP.

God that's funny!

Nik

Okay, I'll make a call as soon as I finish with this customer... Thanks guys.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

<< I think your lucky you even got your package. >>

Hell yeah I am. I would have killed someone if it was stolen. After delivery, the insurance is no longer applicable. It was a 64meg GeForce2 Pro (that is overclocked to run still stable and faster than a default GF2ultra. )

 

[DAWeinG]

lol

 

[hans007]

one time. i ran down my postman. on the street. and got my package. he handed it to me without me showing ID or anything. i mean it was mine, but hell i coulda been lying.

 

[cuteybunny]

why are you so mad, you got the package anyway. for others who don't well that's different.

 

[need4spd]

Mailperson prolly knew the women..that's why he had her sign for it.... no biggy

But... really this is something you should take up with the USPS... you can go down and speak to a supervisor and ask them to not do this again. Or maybe even speak directly to you mailperson.

Be nice... don't bitch. Just explain that you prefer they do not do this. Chances you have a regular carrier and he/she will take care of you.

I have had the same carrier for several years..

 

[peto]

I don't know my mailman's name, but he kinda looks like Ted Kazinski (sp), so I call him Ted.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

I'm not mad. Who said I'm mad? Do you see any angry faces?

Nik (will do it later -TIME FOR GAMES! )

 

[Moonbeam]

Jesus, what's with people today. Have you had to stand in a post office line lately waiting to pick up a package. Your mailman was exercising intelligence and the intention to save you a very painful and unnecessary experience. There is nothing worse tham getting some officious ahole of a mailman who won't go a single extra step to help me avoid that just because he or she has been dumped on my some unappreciative idiot like yourself. You get the public servants you deserve. I know my maillady by name and give her a nice crisp bill and a bottle at Xmas time. My packages are on the porch or signed for by her. But then what do I know. Maybe you like waiting for Aunt Maude to figure out how she's going to mail thirteen packages to her grand kids while she tells the clerk at the single open window at your local PO the story of their lives.

 

[amnesiac]

I understand that yes, maybe the mailman was trying to be nice, but you have to realize that HE IS NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT.

Mailman is only allowed to deliver mail to a mailbox or a person @ the residence. No one else.

And I dont know where you live, but my local PO is not very crowded all the time.

 

[Moonbeam]

Why amnesiac. Simple really. The PO hopes like hell the carrier gets rid of the mail and doesn't leave a notice, but the management doesn't want to be on the hook legally or complaint wise of something goes wrong. That way they get the best of both worlds, service and a fall back position of blaming the carrier. Wake up. People who function in a bureaucracy ignore the bull crap legal protections to make it function, untill of course they are made truly professional by ingrates.

And besides, If you have ever gotten a chance to hear postal people talk without knowing you're listening, you'd know they get even. The first little problem with your address, and it's "I never heard of this guy time." or "gee the rain seems to have destroyed the address on this letter".

Enjoy life or be a rule nazi. It's up to you.

You dooo sound Republican.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Moonbeam, your opinion is not wanted or accepted here. I do not agree with you. You insult me, but I'll be a nice guy for once. I don't want some joe off the street walking up to my mailman and taking my packages. I'm lucky it was only my neighbor who did so. I'm lucky that I got my package. In my neighborhood, leaving it on the doorstep for a few hours until someone gets home is like picking a random house to deliver it to and basically going to deliver it there instead -i.e. no one will ever see it again.

I dunno who got your BVD's in a bunch tonight, but lay off the drinks man. Go get some sleep.

Nik

 

[jthsmak]

UPS left my retail radeon 8500 in my freezing cold garage until i found it ten hours later. Needless to say, it didn't work. Funny thing is, I was home and they did not knock, probably assumed that since the garage was open that's where I wanted it.

 

[Jfur]

Airborne Express enjoys forging signatures for expensive computer equipment and leaving it in my yard. ONe of the drivers actually bragged about it to me, as if he had done me a favor :disgust:

 

[Moonbeam]

No problem FFM, One can't expect everybody to put themselves in other people's shoes with 100% success. I didn't so much want to insult as to make you think, but if your neighborhood is truly one where stuff would get stolen, I sympathize. In such a case this is what I would do:

Dear mailman, thanks for saving me a trip to the PO to pick up the package you kindly gave to my neighbor to give to me, but I would like to ask you in future, if nobody is home to pick up a package, would you please leave a notice for me to pick it up and not leave it at my door or with the neighbors. Thanks

 

[Murpheeee]

My UPS man always leaves packages with one of my neighbours.
Couple of them work from home, so they are always there.
He just leaves a slip on my door saying where he left it.....it's fine with me.

USPS on the other hand are usually very strict about who signs for stuff....maybe because they are gov.?
I am surprised they would do that to you.

 

[cherrytwist]

<< I know my maillady by name and give her a nice crisp bill and a bottle at Xmas time. My packages are on the porch or signed for by her. >>



Damn. I envy the relationship you have with your postal worker. Seriously. We've gone round and round with ours, trying friendliness first. Then complaints to his supervisor. More friendliness. More complaints. The guy won't do his job and we can't make him.

Last time I was in the P.O. to pick up a package which required a signature, there was a neighbor that had the same complaints. Packages that require signatures go undelivered *every time*. I have been home and heard him drop the mail off without trying to get a signature from me. Instead, he leaves a notice because he doesn't want to carry the freakin' package.

It's this kind of crap that is unacceptable to me and it doesn't end there.



<< There is nothing worse tham getting some officious ahole of a mailman... >>



No, there isn't.

FFMCobalt - I would definitely mention it to your carrier, perhaps in a letter as Moonbeam suggested. If he knows you'd prefer to sign for it yourself, it sounds as if he'd be willing to do that. It seems as if he was trying to make it more convenient for the both of you.



<< "stupid anteater jackhole bastages!" >>



Damn fine quote. I nearly pissed myself laughing the first time I read it.

 

[Modeps]

I get mad when they DONT leave my packages... no one can see them from the road, and my neighbors are all old and therefore wouldnt understand what they were stealing. (j/k about that elderslur)

 

[Ornery]

I'll be damned! I agree with Moonbeam 100% on this, and I'm a 'nazi' Republican! :Q

IMO, the guy went out on a limb to help, it's that simple. My UPS driver asked me about leaving packages when nobody is home. I told him to do it. He was concerned about kids that he happened to know pass by frequently. I told him, don't sweat it, just leave the packages. I'm glad he didn't have to go by the book. Another driver may have been different, and that would have been a hassle for me.

This same driver delivered a rifle here. My wife happened to be home to accept it. He asked if the package was, "what I thinks it is?" She confirmed it was. He said, he wouldn't have been able to leave that at the door in good conscience. In other words, some of these guys can use their noodles a bit. I'd try to cultivate a friendship with the carrier instead of making waves... but that's just the 'nazi' Republican in me talking, I guess.

 

[Moonbeam]

Ornery, you can't fool me by trying to fob yourself off as a nazi Republican. You're a wallet Republican, a sweet wonderful person as long as nobody mentions taxes. You are so sweet, in fact, that I don't mind paying for the road your UPS and USPS guy uses to deliver.

Second appologies to FFM,