r/USPS • u/othelloperrello • Aug 30 '18
I had to cross-share this, from. Fb, because it's so satisfying.
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u/jasnel Carrier Aug 30 '18
This is why you want professional carriers delivering your mail/parcels. This is what privatization looks like.
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Aug 30 '18
I mean, ups and FedEx are private and they don't do this, right?
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Aug 31 '18
From what I've heard, UPS union is stronger than the NALC right now. Meanwhile Amazon's unio....wait a minute
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u/Bigfrostynugs Sep 01 '18
This looks exactly like shit that gets pulled all the time at USPS. We're not so high and mighty.
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u/thisismesmiling Aug 30 '18
Err, have you seen what government postal service in this country looks like?
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u/domonx Aug 30 '18
Who would have thought that paying your "independent contractor" by the number of stops they do would inevitably make them take short cut to maximize their income?
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u/Mrdudemanguy Aug 30 '18
Ahahah! Yeah screw the carrier, it's not like he has two hours of overtime to get to or anything. Let him just call his supervisor and inform them that he won't be making it to the overtime because he needs to do door delivery to these obnoxious apartment dwellers with shitty tiny mail boxes.
Whoever wrote that note in the middle can go play in traffic. I'd leave notices for them all!
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u/wddiver Aug 30 '18
These look like parcels left by Amazon contract drivers, not the postal service.
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u/Mrdudemanguy Aug 30 '18
Ah, my misunderstanding.
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u/wddiver Aug 30 '18
Yeah, it's gotten confusing. So many carriers for Amazon now.
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u/Mrdudemanguy Aug 30 '18
I haven't seen any amazon delivery drivers where I am.
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u/wddiver Aug 30 '18
They're not in every city, but they're expanding.
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u/Mrdudemanguy Aug 30 '18
Honestly I wouldn't even be upset if they came to mine. I could use a lighter load.
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u/jennyfurhh Aug 30 '18
If you don’t want to take packages to the door, then leave notes for them to come pick it up. Don’t leave it in an unsecured place.
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u/Mrdudemanguy Aug 31 '18
Oh I never do. I do think it's annoying when I have to deliver to a place like that though with crappy little boxes. I don't leave stuff out to be stolen though, i'd feel bad.
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u/jennyfurhh Aug 31 '18
If it’s either that table or my door I’d prefer my door as my apartment has cameras in the hallway but not the entry as that isn’t necessary assuming those who go into the apartments use the entryway which there isn’t any other way, ya know?
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Aug 30 '18
Sounds like a good opportunity for USPS (if we’re the ones delivering these for Amazon) to tell apartment management that they need to invest in parcel lockers....or the residents can come pick up their parcels at the post office
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u/up_and_at_em Aug 30 '18
My son recently moved, and one of the reasons he chose his apartment complex was because they have an office with a mailroom and someone who signs for everything. And although I try to make sure I don't send anything to arrive on a weekend, especially a Sunday, if it happens, there's always somebody there. And they have all kinds of security cameras everywhere.
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u/Mrdudemanguy Aug 31 '18
I doubt this place is that nice of a complex though. I haven't delivered to any nice complexes that have boxes like that.
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u/up_and_at_em Aug 31 '18
Not really. I'd say mid level? He moved to the Phoenix area, and it's costing him more than he thought. Maybe because they're remodeling? I don't know. I just know he could have got a 1 bedroom at another place same price as his studio , but it didn't have a mailroom. He gets a lot of packages.
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u/Kingmickez25 hazmat window clerk Aug 30 '18
Why is there mail in that little tub
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u/Clint_Swift Wave Magnet Aug 30 '18
outgoing, I'd assume
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u/KingOfTheP4s It fits, it ships Aug 30 '18
Christ, I'd never put outgoing in an unsecured bin
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u/shiningdizzy Aug 30 '18
Same in my building. Smh. My package was stolen because of this.
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u/joe-foshow Aug 30 '18
Amazon doesn’t care they will send you another package 1 day shipping for free. One package to their billions of profit is nothing.
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u/Jcarter1632 Aug 30 '18
Amazon has become a monster. It is becoming the largest Monopoly America has ever seen. I try whenever I can to buy from the smaller online stores.
For instance when I was phone shopping, B&H ended up having a sale for $60 off the phone I wanted. The second they went on sale, Amazon instantly beat their price by 4¢. Fuck Amazon
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u/domonx Aug 30 '18
A lot of the time I find random products that amazon really can't compete on price because it's either too random or too "low tech" for them to focus on.
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u/Jcarter1632 Aug 30 '18
Yeah, eventually they will have everything. They have algorithms that change prices on their products based off your search history, social media etc. They have shopping prices (which are lower) and then buying prices (higher). They know exactly when they have you backed into a corner and you need something. It sounds crazy, but it's real.
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u/joe-foshow Aug 30 '18
Honestly, I love Amazon as a consumer but hate delivering for them. Lol. Usps would be a nicer job without them.
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u/aintsuperstitious Retired Clerk - 27 Years Aug 30 '18
Not really. I worked in distribution when Amazon only sold books. USPS work sucked then, too. Amazon only adds more people to the suckage.
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u/Orson22 Aug 30 '18
I avoid amazon too, but sometimes when I buy from ebay it comes in an Amazon packet.
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Aug 31 '18
Amazon is in no way a monopoly. 99.9% of the items sold on amazon can also be purchased from their competitors.
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u/mickey_magnum Aug 30 '18
I don't think is only Amazon that does that. I've had Fedex packages left at he door all the time
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u/BrandonNeider Aug 30 '18
Funny enough a while back my UPS Driver changed and he was dumping packages at my side door next to my garage or literally my garage door. So I made a print out that said UPS Please deliver at front door. He saw it once and it's at the front door. I left the note up in-case of substitutes and other companies.
USPS has a new driver, guy looks at the sign (Cameras) and drops the package a few times now. I guess cause he just sees the UPS logo it doesn't qualify for him. I laugh about it, too lazy to change the print out again.
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Aug 30 '18
I’m probably one of the very few usps cca’s who actually takes even a weightless spur, right to the door, 15 stories up. Hell if someone steals it, not my problem. That’s how they want it. “Do ya fuckin jobs” - Soprano
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u/rhahalo Aug 30 '18
If it's a weightless spr why wouldn't you put it in the mail box?
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Aug 30 '18
Specifically on Sundays, because that’s what amazon wants. If it blows away, all well, that’s what you wanted me to do.
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u/rhahalo Aug 30 '18
Honestly can't really fault you there Sunday deliveries is bull I hated that as a CCA.
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Aug 30 '18
Right? It’s like fu*k the customers package? I was putting them in the box/cbu for a while until I got reamed about it. No porch cover and it’s gonna rain? Still leave it at the door lol. Postal logic.
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u/toshah Aug 30 '18
We still use the cbus on Sundays. I don't use the turn by turn anymore but when I did it would bring me to the cbu, not the house. Guess it depends on the office.
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u/SpookyActionSix I have a pulse Aug 30 '18
The USPS should start mandating that regulars have to deliver every amazon parcel to the door just as they do CCAs on Sundays. What makes a Sunday delivery parcel any more special than any other day?
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u/Orson22 Aug 30 '18
Why would the USPS push for centralized delivery and then all of a sudden do the exact opposite of that.
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u/SpookyActionSix I have a pulse Aug 31 '18
The post office is where logic goes to die a slow and painful death.
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u/jennyfurhh Aug 30 '18
What? All my packages are brought to my door by USPS whether a CCA or regular. Same with others. Same with my boyfriend who is the regular taking them to the door.
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u/scott81425 Aug 30 '18
I think what they mean is on Sundays all parcels are supposed to go to the door, not be left in mailboxes or parcel lockers. Even the little padded envelope things are supposed to go to the door.
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u/jacob6875 Rural Carrier Aug 30 '18
Amazon only pays drivers per stop so all those packages count as 1 stop.
If I was an Amazon driver I wouldn't want to walk around the entire apartment complex either attempting to deliver to peoples doors if I didn't get paid for it.