So I was expecting a package from Amazon today, and they shipped this one via USPS. I knew the package would be bigger than the mailbox, so I looked on my porch before going out to check the mail. “Oh well, guess it’ll get here tommorow.” Start walking towards my mailbox, and notice a package in the street, below where my mailbox is. With the Amazon logo on it.
What the fuck, USPS? Is it really to hard to get out of the car and walk the five extra steps to my door? Or at least leave it on the lawn? Not in the fucking ROAD, with cars roaming around. Luckily the package wasn’t flattened by an oncoming car, or swiped by hooligans on their way home from school, but still…since when does the USPS leave packages on the street?
It is common practice for my carrier to leave packages outside my door. Even if each individual book will fit through the letter box. if there’s an elastic band round them he’ll leave it outside.
Unless it’s recorded delivery, in which case someone must sign for it or he takes it back to the depot.
I seriously think it depends on the mail carrier and how familar they are with their route.
My mail box is like 300 feet from my door at the end of the driveway. Sometimes the mail person will drive around and actually knock on my door, or they leave it outside my door, or they leave it propped on the mail box itself and I have even had a card left in my box stating I was not at home and to please pick up at the post office. There is ALWAYS some one home so I figure they just did not know to drive up the driveway to get to my house so they just leave a card.
I don’t think we even have a regular mail carrier. It seems to be a different person everyday and the way they deliver the mail differs as well.
I can assure you that, at the very least, that shouldn’t be the standard. My carrier brings all packages up to our front door and knocks. If there is no answer, she leaves the package on the porch. My step-dad was a mail carrier before he died and I remember him saying there is an actual procedure for these things- whether or not the letter carriers follow that procedure is an entirely different issue.
Our mail carrier likes to hide stuff under our front door mat, nevermind the size of the thing. If it’s small, he tucks it in the corner, drapes the mat over it and we come home to a brownish lump lurking in the corner. The other day we got a larger package, and so came home to find a large cardboard box with a bad toupe waiting on our door step. It looked embarassed to see us.
InkBlot
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You can report this to your local postmaster. There’s a form in the post office you can get – it’s a multi-copy thing and one part gets sent up the line to a district manager IIRC, so they can’t just toss the thing.