Mail In Utility Bills

[sawmilljim]

Well a local town put the folks utility bills in the mail. Now these are local bills for the most part. These bills travel at least a hundred miles to a sorting station then a hundred miles back. Makes a lot of sense right. Now the best part they vanished ! Gone they have no clue at present.

Don’t know if this is the good part or not but the city has reprinted them and are trying again. Mail in voting anyone.

[Jolly]

They're visiting the ballots?

[ceresone]

Perhaps they are on the mail truck that someone posted a picture of, in a cemetery!

[solargeek]

Sounds like Chicago in the 1990s.

[Ozarks Tom]

Mail-in voting, what could possibly go wrong?

The other day we got a small package in our mailbox. Wrong name, wrong street, but at least he did get one thing right, our and the intended recipient's address end in 8. Close enough for government work.

[woody]

I get others people's mail, kinda on a regular basis. Once every two weeks or so. Yesterday the only thing they had right too, was the house number....wrong street.

I put a sticky on them & put them back in the mail box for the mail lady to deliver to right address. Kinda getting tired of it.

Mail in voting, others voting in person, no matter what, it's going to be a disaster of an election. Honestly, I'm ascared(

[mzgarden]

Any local dumpster fires recently? Maybe utility bills make good fire starters? Seriously though, very sad, very scary.

[Txsteader]

Shoot, my postal workers have y'alls beat. I got a letter several years ago.....right PO box#, wrong recipient, wrong city, wrong state, wrong zip code!! So I returned it, pointing out the ridiculous error.....only to have them put it back in my box the next day.

Another incident, we started getting mail for another lady, but all addressed to our PO box. I'd return it, telling them that nobody by that name had ever lived w/ us for the 20+ years we'd had the box. Well this went on for weeks. It seemed to me that the woman wasn't getting any of her mail - her credit card bills, tax bills, car note bills! So I finally took it upon myself to look up her name in the phone book. Called her & explained what was going on. Apparently she'd recently rented a box but our PO serves 2 zip codes & they'd given her the wrong zip code when she rented the box. The postal workers gave her the wrong zip code!!!!

A more recent incident, a couple years ago I'd mailed our county tax payment only to have our account show delinquent a few weeks later. When I called the tax office, the lady told me I wasn't the only one, apparently all the tax payments from my community never reached their destination. We later rec'd notices that saying that the penalties had been removed but we all needed to resubmit payments. No explanation about what happened but the scuttlebutt was that several bags of mail were found in a ditch somewhere.

I've said for years, our postal workers must be a bunch of crackheads. They obviously don't know how to read - or just don't bother. IMO, they're waaaay overpaid. Any wonder I have zero confidence in voting by mail?

[Deleted]

I go to vote in person.

I pay the taxes in person.

Some things, I don't mess around.

[willowgirl]

My dad retired from the P.O. Back in the day, it used to be a decent union job. It was fairly difficult to get hired (I tried but couldn't get in despite scoring 90+ on the civil service test).

Then the union started making concessions, mostly along the lines of allowing a two-tier system in which an ever-decreasing number of workers were union members drawing a good wage and benefits, but new hires would be non-union. Nowadays it's mostly a part-time job, no bennies, and carriers have to use their personal vehicles (no more mail Jeeps)! I imagine most people figure it's not worth the hassle, and good workers can easily find something more lucrative.

[joebill]

I know of a case where a gun was mailed to an FFL license holder, never arrived. Some time later, it was found on the person of a fellow being arrested for a felony. Carrier was only recently fired for a different offense. It's getting nutso out there......Joe