USPS Losing Ground in Service

 USPS Losing Ground in Service
If you can’t tell, I’m upset. The ever increasing prices for their postal service’s postage stamps and their continuing decline of service have made me irate. Let me set the stage; I have lived at the same address for over thirty-five years and have not had many issues with the delivery of my mail. I just had a misdirested bill from my water company. The bill had an attached tag covering my home address saying that the bill was “unable to forward/ for Review/. When I received the bill, it was delivered late and because of the late delivery it caused my payment be late. Even though I sent the check out when I recsived the bill.I sent my check to the water authority on Aprin 12, 2025. I received a second bill from the water company saying they’d added a late fee because they hadn’t received payment. So I called the water company to ask about the payment that I just sent in. They hadn’t received that check in the mail which caused to initial late fee.
I drove to the water authority today and was disturbed that they’d not received the check I’d written on the twelfth. It’s a good thing that I did because I would have had a second late fee entered. Although I was upset that the water company was unable to waive the fee, I decided to pay the double month fee to avoid a second late fee. I had no choice. The USPS failed to deliver a local mailing after ten days. What if it didn’t arrive on time?
The lady suggested I go to the local post office to see what they were abe to do. I drove to the Acme post office which is where my rural delivery is distributed. The postmaster was also unable to help but did give me a 1-800 telephone number.
When I dial the number, I am hit with a barage of “if you want… Press number 1, 2, 3, 4 etc.”There were about eight of r so options. Then you are directed into another volley of selections that are voice activated or by pushing a corresponding number. After listening to the offerings for a second time, I chose one that I had a concern about a delivery person, which wasn’t true, but it was as close as I could get in an attemp to talk to a real person. The first option was to give them a phone number so they could send a text message, but I hung in long enough to talk with a real human.
She couldn’t do more than to register my complaint because there was no way to track my mail. I did calm down a bit once I spoke with a human, but suggested that they sell the USPS to an entreprenuer and out of government’s hands.
USPS Losing Ground in Service
If you can’t tell, I’m upset. The ever increasing prices for their postal service’s postage stamps and their continuing decline of service have made me irate. Let me set the stage; I have lived at the same address for over thirty-five years and have not had many issues with the delivery of my mail. I just had a misdirested bill from my water company. The bill had an attached tag covering my home address saying that the bill was “unable to forward/ for Review/. When I received the bill, it was delivered late and because of the late delivery it caused my payment be late. Even though I sent the check out when I recsived the bill.I sent my check to the water authority on Aprin 12, 2025. I received a second bill from the water company saying they’d added a late fee because they hadn’t received payment. So I called the water company to ask about the payment that I just sent in. They hadn’t received that check in the mail which caused to initial late fee.
I drove to the water authority today and was disturbed that they’d not received the check I’d written on the twelfth. It’s a good thing that I did because I would have had a second late fee entered. Although I was upset that the water company was unable to waive the fee, I decided to pay the double month fee to avoid a second late fee. I had no choice. The USPS failed to deliver a local mailing after ten days. What if it didn’t arrive on time?
The lady suggested I go to the local post office to see what they were abe to do. I drove to the Acme post office which is where my rural delivery is distributed. The postmaster was also unable to help but did give me a 1-800 telephone number.
When I dial the number, I am hit with a barage of “if you want… Press number 1, 2, 3, 4 etc.”There were about eight of r so options. Then you are directed into another volley of selections that are voice activated or by pushing a corresponding number. After listening to the offerings for a second time, I chose one that I had a concern about a delivery person, which wasn’t true, but it was as close as I could get in an attemp to talk to a real person. The first option was to give them a phone number so they could send a text message, but I hung in long enough to talk with a real human.
She couldn’t do more than to register my complaint because there was no way to track my mail. I did calm down a bit once I spoke with a human, but suggested that they sell the USPS to an entreprenuer and out of government’s hands.