Anyone Else Suddenly Having Their U.S. Mail Opened? | |
Man 2.0 User ID: 74224 United States 05/20/2006 01:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 95522 United States 05/20/2006 01:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Its been happening here quite a bit for the last few years. Packages that should get here in just a few days take MONTHS!! Letters are opened, come shreaded, magazines have been opened & read. (you can tell) I've complained MANY times, doesn't do any good. Our post office has had a few anthrax scares. I would hope the investigation would help straighten it out but it didn't. We are thinking about moving this summer. Hopefully, in our new town, the service is a bit better. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 95765 United States 05/20/2006 01:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | YES. For the last several months our mail from the UK to the USA has arrived opened and then poorly re-sealed. It has been at leat 10-14 days "late" as well. The envelopes are from our London brokerage and stamped "confidential", sent to us via airmail, and contains often large bank checks drawn on a London Bank. We don't know what the deal is but we don't like it. The checks are always still in the envelope. But either its the UK or US govt' sticking their noses in our business. Are they keeping track of the amount of $$$ we receive? Whatever the reason it pisses me off. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 95772 United States 05/20/2006 02:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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Grafted Promise User ID: 95784 United States 05/20/2006 02:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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BlueDolphin User ID: 95795 United States 05/20/2006 03:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It happened to me about 2-3 months ago, I ordered a book {on Native American Spirituality } and when I received it the envelope had been torn open and it was stamped in red ink "Media mail subject to inspection" by the time it arrived in my mailbox the envelop was pretty much in SHREDS, and the book was sticking out from all over, amazing I even got the thing at all ! I did complain at my local {small town } post office, they were polite but clueless. <<< !! VIVE LA RESISTANCE !! >>> |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 2433 United States 05/20/2006 04:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 7250 United States 05/20/2006 08:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Dr. Postman, I've had two acquaintances that worked for the USPS that admitted to the practice of "borrowing" magazines for a while and sending them through once they realize it's close to the end of the month...or not at all if it's gone past the end. Have you found this to be the case? I'm not accusing you or anyone of anything, I'm curious and I trust what you write. Your candor is always refreshing. |
gooderboy User ID: 68238 United States 05/20/2006 08:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... no... big no no... and as in big big no no. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 94722 United States 05/20/2006 08:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The greatest fear of the ones who crave power is losing it. Their paranoia is bringing these despicable actions into our reality. Remember the news article when Senor Boosh was attending the opening of the Clinton Library? As he looked around the room he commented that a submarine could get him from the river, and quickly made a hasty exit. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 91487 United States 05/20/2006 08:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't know what happens in small POs, but in large ones, you'd best not be found reading magazines or opening mail. It would probably be dismissal. If they catch you opening/removing mail, the postal inspectors will come to you and arrest you. In spite of problems you might have, the US postal system is the best in the world, and very safe. Most of the torn up packages and envelopes are caused by customers putting too much weight into the package. I get loose stuff continually coming to me. It all gets sent to one work location and maybe they can match the envelope or package to the contents, or maybe they can't. Before you mail something, visualize it being churned down conveyor belts and falls and decide if you think it will survive this treatment. And ALL envelopes are BENT during processing. If your envelope can't be bent at least 45 degrees, you'd better put it into a package. Just because you mark "fragile" on something doesn't mean a thing. You'd better pack it good. The post office isn't a bunch of old guys sitting around with visors on putting letters into boxes. It's AUTOMATION and mechanization. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 74271 United States 05/20/2006 08:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The damage and opening was done, according to the stamps (ink stamps, not postage stamps) that cover the back and edges of the open portion, are from a fairly big city in another state. I live in a pretty small community with about fifty people working the post office... So it is unlikely it was opened here. |
gooderboy User ID: 68238 United States 05/20/2006 08:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "It's interesting how the privatization of the US Mail was pushed as a necessity on the public prior to events like the Oklahoma City Bombing and the WTC and Pentagon attacks." ------ It was being pushed by conservatives long before those events and continues to be. But we are still not privatized. ... lol, no privatization.... although, and much like our government, sometimes methinks it would be really kewl if all us postal employees would get together and make it so. The sanctity of First Class mail is taken very seriously at the USPS. If someone is opening your mail contact the Postal Inspector Service. They don't fool around. ... for sure and for sure OP... report it immediately if not sooner. Do not open it... take it directly to your nearest P.O. Also... we do get stuff, and sometimes, that has been roughed up a bit going through the mail system... but... it is also "always" plainly marked as such, and before you guys ever even get it. At our P.O. here... we have recieved only one letter that had been opened before reaching its destination. It too was plainly marked as being previously opened, and from where and/or who did it as well. "But one little tidbit that many don't know. When your mail is in our system it technically belongs to us. I might be wrong about that, but ever since I took the oath that's what I have heard. I couldn't find verification with a web search. My own personal experience is that when I came across a package that belonged to me I had to ask permission to take it home if I didn't want to wait for it to finish going through the system." .... methinks/feels it only belongs to us in a care-taker kinda way. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 74271 United States 05/20/2006 08:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It is that all the personal mail to AND from me is getting places late, like weeks longer than it used to take, for some reason... Only a few things have been obviously opened. I have actually NOT had a lot of "damaged" or obviously torn open letters. This is very careful work, without damage, but NOT being hidden at all... |
gooderboy User ID: 68238 United States 05/20/2006 08:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "I live in a pretty small community with about fifty people working the post office... So it is unlikely it was opened here." ... lol, what you call a small community I calls a city.... and as in out here, and for our entire county (or 4 post offices)... we have a grand total of 17 postal employees in all. |
gooderboy User ID: 68238 United States 05/20/2006 08:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
gooderboy User ID: 68238 United States 05/20/2006 09:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "I am not worried about a couple of thieves here and there, that is just part of the cost of doing business in any culture..." ... if it involves the mail, the post office does though... and a great deal too.... and cuz ya just don't fool with other peoples mail... it is a Federal crime to do so, and it is taken very very seriously, and for real. |
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AT User ID: 83511 United States 05/20/2006 09:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think that parcel post got slower at the beginning of this year. USPS decided that it would save a few cents if they made sure the PP grade mail trucks were completely full before they rolled. Soooo the trucks now sit at shipping docks for days & weeks waiting for full loads. |
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