Mail Mishaps

[MMJNICE]

Ordering from Evergreen is easy. You just have to follow the (very simple) instructions.

No need to disparage the company when complication was due to user error

An honest mistake was made and the way a company handles that is very important to me as a customer. If I feel my business isn't appreciated or valued then on the real it probably isn't. I have my own business and the way someone handles customer service tells the customer whether or not they are really valued. Sure, most times there is a reason why a business owner does things this way, or that way, but not EVER picking up a telephone to clear up something or providing an accurate telephone number is beyond me..

 

[penumbra]

Another example. Package mail from New Jersey to Northern Virginia, was in Maryland yesterday and is now in South Carolina.

 

[namnhi]

WTF?
How come I don't even know this? Did I get this old that I did something and not knowing?

 

[andrewiles]

Not bonsai related, but one time I sent a letter to my father, which he never received. We figured it was lost forever. Then about 2 months later we received the letter. Or rather, he received the half with his address and I received the half with the return address. It was sheared diagonally down the middle. No accompanying comments or explanation. It's like they hoped we wouldn't notice.

There must be some beastly sorting machines somewhere. To the post office's credit they did eventually send each piece on its way.

 

[namnhi]

Not bonsai related, but one time I sent a letter to my father, which he never received. We figured it was lost forever. Then about 2 months later we received the letter. Or rather, he received the half with his address and I received the half with the return address. It was sheared diagonally down the middle. No accompanying comments or explanation. It's like they hoped we wouldn't notice.

There must be some beastly sorting machines somewhere. To the post office's credit they did eventually send each piece on its way.

That's strange. In my case I think the it could be the irresponsible delivery person? Luckily it just seeds but I hate this kind of thing.

 

[Japonicus]

Not bonsai related, but one time I sent a letter to my father, which he never received. We figured it was lost forever. Then about 2 months later we received the letter. Or rather, he received the half with his address and I received the half with the return address. It was sheared diagonally down the middle. No accompanying comments or explanation. It's like they hoped we wouldn't notice.

There must be some beastly sorting machines somewhere. To the post office's credit they did eventually send each piece on its way.

This is what "body bags" are for.
That's what we called them at our plant here in Huntington. The body bags have a generic appology printed on them, and are clear.
I kept a fistfull of them at my case.
When machines replace jobs...

These

beastly sorting machines

...are indeed beastly sorting machines handle up to 55,000 letters/hr and it happens.
More commonly letters jam and the belt spins on the clump of lettets leaving rubber pieces and burn marks on the lettets until the jam is physically removed. Often lettets are severed or ripped in half or worse. Not always the case, but most common cause is a belt jam.

Misdelivered mail gets cruel treatment as well
in the hands of the wrong recipient. As @Carol 83 mentionec a neighbor bringing a pkg days later, some folks just trash it or hold onto them for a year then put all the accumulated pieces back in the box or even keep pkgs that belong elsewhere.

 

[MalsRFun in TN]

This is what "body bags" are for.
That's what we called them at our plant here in Huntington. The body bags have a generic appology printed on them, and are clear.
I kept a fistfull of them at my case.
When machines replace jobs...

These

...are indeed beastly sorting machines handle up to 55,000 letters/hr and it happens.
More commonly letters jam and the belt spins on the clump of lettets leaving rubber pieces and burn marks on the lettets until the jam is physically removed. Often lettets are severed or ripped in half or worse. Not always the case, but most common cause is a belt jam.

Misdelivered mail gets cruel treatment as well
in the hands of the wrong recipient. As @Carol 83 mentionec a neighbor bringing a pkg days later, some folks just trash it or hold onto them for a year then put all the accumulated pieces back in the box or even keep pkgs that belong elsewhere.

I have lived in my home since before COVID and have no clue where the couple who sold the house as part of their divorce went, but I constantly still receive what appears to be important mail for both of them and previous owners. I used to mark it as wrong address and return it to the USPS, but now I just throw it away. Five years is long enough.

 

[Japonicus]

I have lived in my home since before COVID and have no clue where the couple who sold the house as part of their divorce went, but I constantly still receive what appears to be important mail for both of them and previous owners. I used to mark it as wrong address and return it to the USPS, but now I just throw it away. Five years is long enough.

Can only be forwarded for a year anyway.
Then it's returned to the senders who never get the point either.
I've had drivers liscense renewal mail for customers deceased over 10 years.

 

[Carol 83]

So this one is ridiculous. I mailed a bubble wrap envelope with some kinzu fruit last Monday, a week and 2 days ago, marked Priority Mail. As of yesterday it was still in St. Louis, which is the first stop after my local post office. I'm sure the Pony Express was faster than that.

 

[Carol 83]

I've had drivers liscense renewal mail for customers deceased over 10 years.

My dad's been gone for 11 years and I still get mail for him marked URGENT, they'll be waiting a LONG time for a response.....

 

[Desert O'Piñon]

After my wife and I were married for a year, we bought our tiny home from her great uncle. This was in 2001. We've been receiving mail from Social Security, AARP, and other miscellaneous retirement agencies. It finally started dwindling off since the plandemic. Now we just get hearing aid mail. What I found the most ironic is that the senders used the same address, but most of it had our names, not her uncle's or his wife. Now, it won't be too long before we start receiving legit old folks mail.