Rant on shipping

[two_bit_score]

I know I'm a prude but... years ago a customer of the flower shop decided to save the price if a stamp and left a check in our mailbox as he drove past on his way to work. He called my parents a couple of days later, apologized, and said that the mail carrier reported him and he was in deep trouble. Even though you buy your mailbox it's still USPS property, and a federal offense to put anything in it which isn't US Mail. I never heard what came out of that.

It's his job.

I’m pretty sure that the penalty for this “federal offense” is limited to the “offender” being billed for the postage due on the improperly delivered mail piece(s).

And it’s at the discretion of the local postmaster to enforce it.

Most often it’s a warning at the most. Never goes beyond the local post office if it’s only a couple pieces.

 

[California]

I’m pretty sure that the penalty for this “federal offense” is limited to the “offender” being billed for the postage due on the improperly delivered mail piece(s).

And it’s at the discretion of the local postmaster to enforce it.

Most often it’s a warning at the most. Never goes beyond the local post office if it’s only a couple pieces.

I wonder what happens when its the local realtor spamming everyone for several blocks. We see this occasionally.

 

[two_bit_score]

I wonder what happens when its the local realtor spamming everyone for several blocks. We see this occasionally.

You can report it and see then let us know.

I doubt it will be anything more than a simple form letter warning them, if anything.

 

[goeduck]

I wonder what happens when its the local realtor spamming everyone for several blocks. We see this occasionally.

Here it is the landscaping companies

 

[Diggin It]

And then drivers have to deal with this kind of thing:

UPS Worker Finds Frozen Body of 80-Year-Old Michigan Man Outside Home
Richard Theodore Kokochak's body was found frozen in a curved driveway close to his car.

UPS Worker Finds Frozen Body of 8-Year-Old Michigan Man Outside Home

 

[Frankenkubota]

And then drivers have to deal with this kind of thing:

UPS Worker Finds Frozen Body of 80-Year-Old Michigan Man Outside Home
Richard Theodore Kokochak's body was found frozen in a curved driveway close to his car.

UPS Worker Finds Frozen Body of 8-Year-Old Michigan Man Outside Home

This just happened to a friend, truth. His basket case ex called him to come over, the renter in the trailer in the back of the lot has not been out and about for a few days.

Apparently, while my buddy was on his way over, the UPS guy went to the renters trailer to deliver something and the ups guy finds the renter with a shotgun in what was left of his mouth.

My buddy walks in on the scene and called police.

 

[aczlan]

The letters are processed by OCRs that sort the mail at the rate of 25 - 30 K per hour. The machines only do what they are told to do. If the letter gets back to your local PO, the carrier is supposed to make a notation in his/her "edit book" that will direct the sorting machines to handle the mailpiece accordingly. If you see the same letter repeatedly, the carrier is not making the notation. There are a lot more steps involved but that is the simple explanation.

Sounds like our carrier has been slacking, we still get mail for the previous owners (who moved 8-9 years ago).
Must be that they are too busy opening every box that comes in via Media Mail and complaining that I wrote "return to sender, moved 8 years ago" to update their edit book.

Aaron Z

 

[Diggin It]

Would *YOU* (generic you) want to be a rural route carrier?

I applied many years back, took the written, passed, got on the list, but was never called since no positions were open in my area. Back then I could have done it ... probably. Now, not so likely.

 

[Dftodd]

This just happened to a friend, truth. His basket case ex called him to come over, the renter in the trailer in the back of the lot has not been out and about for a few days.

Apparently, while my buddy was on his way over, the UPS guy went to the renters trailer to deliver something and the ups guy finds the renter with a shotgun in what was left of his mouth.

My buddy walks in on the scene and called police.

Sometimes the delivery drivers and mail carriers are the only contact for some of the elderly with no families in the area.

Gramps was a rural mail carrier. He's found a couple elderly that needed medical attention after there mail started stacking up and he went and checked on them.

He's also called the police to due welfare checks on a couple others when something didn't seem right, or the resident nutter seemed unusually nutty.

Plus one resident that he found deceased in their driveway. Cops figured they had a heart attack walking up their steep driveway.

 

[Oaktree]

Saturday night, I ordered a pint of special furniture paint on Amazon with free Prime shipping. I didn't expect to see it soon. No problem.

UPS shows it was picked up in Cleveland yesterday noon, and was sent Overnight Air. It was delivered to me in rural California at 1pm today.

Not bad, Amazon!

How does Amazon's warehousing system work? I get that not every item is in every warehouse, but is it like Rock Auto where (for example) exhaust components are in Warehouse A, brakes in warehouse B, etc (or so it seems)?
I'm on the east coast and most of my orders tend to come from western states, you're in Calif. and you're getting orders shipped from Ohio.