Is your town having troubles with mail delivery?

[Hoppy]

Our town in New Jersey has residents that have mail not delivered for days at a time. Billing statements are not received in a timely manner. Not even junk mail gets delivered... who doesn't get junk mail. Residents were told to call the local post office between 8:30 and 9:30 to register their complaints. But no one answers the phone.

There was a segment on ABC news yesterday about a similar problem in the Bronx.

The question is, whether this is a local or widespread problem. If widespread, what to do about it.

[FSogol]

1. No problems in No. VA. n/t

[smokey nj]

2. No problems with mail here in Bayonne.

[WinkyDink]

24. I *heart* Bayonne! BEST pizza ever! My Grandparents used to live on Toidy-Toid Street!

[smokey nj]

26. Bayonne pizza is AWESOME! Even the mediocre stuff is pretty damned good.

My husband was born and raised in Brooklyn and he agrees.

[WinkyDink]

29. :-)

[JustAnotherGen]

3. What town are you in?

I'm in Flemington. We just bought our house out there in October - but I don't think we've had any issues. Only issue is we have a mail slot on our front doors and my husband wasn't looking behind the screen door on the left door - for packages. But the mail (letters/envelopes) is on the living room entryway floor every day but Sunday.

[gollygee]

4. Only when there's been crazy amounts of snow

otherwise it's been fine.

[wryter2000]

5. Welcome to DU

Hi!

I haven't heard of anything like that in the SF Bay Area, although my latest check from Harlequin took an extra week and a half to get to me.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. Funny you should ask.

I haven't had any problems with my personal mail, but this letter appeared in our local newspaper yesterday.

http://swtimes.com/opinion/how-you-see-it/letters-missing-mail-costing-money

[DebJ]

7. I've noticed that over the past several months, we NEVER get mail on Mondays.

The truck goes by, but for some reason, never mail on Monday, then TONS on Tuesdays.
Thought maybe the carrier might be doing every other house to save some time or something, LOL.

[northoftheborder]

8. I think I'm getting all my mail; but our carrier does not have a postal mail truck, carries....

....our neighborhood mail in his trunk, and he doesn't have a uniform. I would feel more confident if it was all in an official truck.

[2pooped2pop]

10. u have a rural carrier

they are employed by the post office just like the city carriers. It is usually more cost effective to have them supply their own vehicle because the route usually is high milage.

[northoftheborder]

17. you might be right, but...

....this is an apartment complex in a large subdivision; it is outside the city limits, but in the ETJ, not rural. Our postal carrier used to have a truck until sometime last year. But perhaps he is delivering to our apartments as adjacent to the rural area that is nearby, I hadn't thought of that.

[2pooped2pop]

18. many of the rural routes have complexes on them

They are usually determined by distance from the post office and how many boxes are average per square mile. Once it's classified as a rural route, they usually stay classified as that even as civilization moves in and builds apartments on the route. Most rural carriers use their own vehicle or buy old postal vehicles, but some with shorter distances are assigned postal vehicles.

[upaloopa]

9. Did your mayor support Christie?

[dipsydoodle]

11. No problems in the UK.

.

[joe_sixpack]

12. Short staffed

Post office has an autocratic, top down management system. People at the top who never set foot on a workroom floor, see computer programs that say the organization is over staffed. The districts shout down for managers to abolish and revert positions. Managers who honestly say they can't afford to lose more people, are yelled at some more. It's pretty bad in some areas. Overtime and grievance pay outs are sky high. Delayed mail is getting so crazy, that one of the unions is conducting their own investigation.

[sinkingfeeling]

13. None at all. Completely happy with my mail service.

[Le Taz Hot]

14. There are some days I don't get any mail and I KNOW

I'm supposed to get at least some. There are weeks I don't get the grocery store circulars and I KNOW they've sent them out. I think there are days when they just dump those somewhere.

[LumosMaxima]

15. Yes, it's happening in my town, too. nt

[stuckinodi]

16. No First Class mail All Week

Got some junk mail. Now I'm worried! (Dayton, OH)

[TroglodyteScholar]

19. I have a lot more "no mail" days in the past few months...

Seems like they're delivering every other day or something, even though I know that can't be true.

[moondust]

20. Cost-cutting consolidation of post offices

in the recent past has made my mail arrive later in the day because the carriers have a heavier load/more stops, but it's still reliable as ever. My town's post office was combined with the larger town next door.

The weather may be causing delays as well.

[bigwillq]

21. Not that I am aware of (nt)

[PCIntern]

22. Horrible business mail deliveries in Center City Philly...

some days it comes at 7 PM

[WinkyDink]

23. No problems. Eastern PA. I'm skeptical.

Call me crazy!

[reformist2]

25. My mailman takes Wednesdays off.

[HeiressofBickworth]

27. Small town north of Seattle

No problems here. I went to the post office this afternoon -- small building built in 1967 (LBJ's name on the plaque- just happened to catch my eye). Two-person counter, one person already being served; I walked right up to the second postal worker. My mail at home is delivered by a postal worker, in uniform. He parks his USPS truck down the street and does the street on foot. The mail is here by 2:00 six days a week. Pretty darned good service, if you ask me.

[Brigid]

28. Other than too much junk mail . . .

No.

[Holly_Hobby]

30. Awful delivery here in NW Ohio

My regular mail man always delivers, but when he's off, which is 1 or 2 days/week, we don't get anything, which happened about 3 times in 21 years at this address in the past. This has been going on for 6 months or so. Something ain't right.