# And a Crappy New Year! (January Mini-Rants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 1, 2022, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-crappy-new-year-january-mini-rants/957024 "2022-01-01T05:26:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-crappy-new-year-january-mini-rants/957024/221 "2022-01-28T23:27:57Z")
I would have expected FedEx to be better than that but I guess jerkness is a matter of the individual driver. Leaving packages in the driveway is ridiculous and inconsiderate, risking not just running them over but easy theft. Amazon’s contractors always leave my deliveries right at the door. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-crappy-new-year-january-mini-rants/957024/222 "2022-01-29T12:16:00Z")
The FedEx hub here seems to have a pretty bad reputation, from what I’ve seen on line. We’ve had problems with deliveries before. In fact, the only thing that made it to the porch recently was an envelope of documents. We hates them, we does… ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-crappy-new-year-january-mini-rants/957024/223 "2022-01-29T14:01:12Z")
My moms entire block stopped getting mail delivery. No notice no nothing. It just stopped. The reason they gave was it was because two, TWO houses on the block had a fenced yard and sometimes there where dogs in those TWO yards. So they stopped delivering to the entire block?!?!?!? My mom is 92yo, and wheel chair bound. She can’t go get her mail. She called and gave them ‘the whole nine yards’. The block is getting their mail now, the PO had no excuses, and I suspect the carrier is in a bit of hot water. Sheeesss. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-crappy-new-year-january-mini-rants/957024/224 "2022-01-29T18:03:41Z")
We’ve had a lot of delays with the PO here. Sometimes we’ve gotten mail at 10 at night. I feel terrible for the carriers. I think DeJoy really messed up the entire system. We did have some days where no one got any mail at all. I suspect COVID decimated the ranks and there weren’t enough people to pick up the slack. I hope once he’s gone they can rebuild the USPS. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-crappy-new-year-january-mini-rants/957024/225 "2022-01-29T22:30:46Z")
I’ve given up on trying to figure out when my mail gets delivered. Sometimes I’ll go out to check the box around 1pm and it’ll be there, sometimes there won’t be anything at 3-4 pm but when I go out the next morning to get my paper I’ll look in the mailbox and find something. Last weekend I didn’t get any mail on Friday or Saturday, and then got a bunch on Monday. Last December I had a mail hold for a week when I was out of town; the day after I got back instead of getting the mail from the time I was gone I got a bunch of mail for other people on my street, and my held mail wasn’t delivered until the next day. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-crappy-new-year-january-mini-rants/957024/226 "2022-01-29T22:33:28Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > I’ve given up on trying to figure out when my mail gets delivered. Sometimes I’ll go out to check the box around 1pm and it’ll be there, sometimes there won’t be anything at 3-4 pm but when I go out the next morning to get my paper I’ll look in the mailbox and find something. I’m with you there. I basically check the next morning for the previous day’s mail. I don’t even waste my time before that. I’ve checked at 6 PM and not seen mail, but it’s there the next day. Some days it’s delivered by noon. 🤷‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-crappy-new-year-january-mini-rants/957024/227 "2022-01-29T22:38:49Z")
I’m starting to reach that point. I’m getting too old to have to make multiple trips down the steps and up the driveway. Except for those times when I’m expecting something and I’ve gotten a notice that it would be delivered that day. Or on those rare occasions when I’ve put something in the mailbox for pickup and I can look out the window to see if the flag is still up. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-crappy-new-year-january-mini-rants/957024/228 "2022-01-30T01:06:54Z")
For the last few months I get mail maybe 2 or 3 times a week and it will be several pieces. It’s usually 8 or 9 pm when it arrives. Then today it came before 5 for some reason. I haven’t gotten my mortgage statement since October (they don’t do e-bill). Today I got it, opened the envelope and wrote notes on it (date, extra principal paid) since I paid it last night. Then I noticed that the amount due and outstanding balance was wrong. It was a neighbor’s bill. Now I wonder if they haven’t been getting mine and throwing it away. I’m going to tape the envelope back together and put it out for pickup and include a note explaining why it’s written on. Hopefully, they don’t depend on the bill to pay since I don’t expect they will get it until well after the 1st. So, yeah, the USPS in my area is sucking big time. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-crappy-new-year-january-mini-rants/957024/229 "2022-01-30T01:19:38Z")
Not only is our mail deliver very erratic, but lately we’ve been getting a lot of our neighbors’ mail. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-crappy-new-year-january-mini-rants/957024/230 "2022-01-30T15:37:03Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Women (and I assume men too, but I’ve never dated a man) who have suffered abuse in the past become comfortable with it. To the extent that if you are a stable and problem-free person, they don’t know how to handle it. I remember a line from the old TV show “Ed”. He was asking his friend why women always seem to wind up with abusive jerks rather than nice guys. His friend replied “Because they know exactly how _those_ relationships will turn out.” ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-crappy-new-year-january-mini-rants/957024/231 "2022-01-30T17:56:44Z")
The author Theodore Dalrymple identified one aspect of women who go from one abusive relationship to another: The abuser is intensely interested in what their spouse is doing - every minute. (And want a report on it!) Otherwise they will lose their power in the relationship. Mr. Dalrymple reported that these women who later had a relationship with a non-abusive person felt that the new partner had comparatively little interest in them. ---
**Author:** ![Drsunflower1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drsunflower1/32/12711_2.png) [@Drsunflower1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drsunflower1)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-crappy-new-year-january-mini-rants/957024/232 "2022-01-30T18:46:44Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > I’m starting to reach that point. I’m getting too old to have to make multiple trips down the steps and up the driveway. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bX1BQM_XJnk/maxresdefault.jpg "No mail today.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX1BQM_XJnk) ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-crappy-new-year-january-mini-rants/957024/233 "2022-02-01T00:13:02Z")
The mail service here sucked horribly long before DeJoy and COVID crapped on it. It’s the reason every single bill my mother and I receive is electronic. …With the exception of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina’s Medicare Supplement and PDP bills, which have no e-delivery option, because apparently the elderly don’t know how to use electronic devices. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-crappy-new-year-january-mini-rants/957024/234 "2022-02-01T16:20:30Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > So, $22.49 to travel 24.5 km. That’s about 15 miles for you Murricans. But only $17.72 in _real_ money. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-crappy-new-year-january-mini-rants/957024.md?page=11)