Our small village post office window has been closed for months due to a shortage of staff
It is to open back up today to "normal operating hours" which is 10-2:00 M-F and 12-2 on Saturday. The PO window in the county seat 6 miles away is closed from 12:00-1:30 for lunch with two employees sitting in the back. Argh

Sounds like all of our small town offices. Very limited hours, often closed for lunch.

The majority of folks who take their lunch to work sit in the back to eat. You expect them to wait on you during their lunch break?
Easiest way to remedy this is get a job at the post office.

It seems to me a pretty simple fix. If you know the hours that they are open, only go during those hours. If you know when lunch time is, don’t go during lunch time.

Sounds like our little post office. Everyone seems to know it and it doesn't cause much of an issue. The lobby is almost always open. We only get mail through our PO box.

… yall live in villages up there ?

… like the smurfs ?

… see yall down at the shire lol

My towns is open but ain't worth a crap. Mail lady will deny you service for about anything won't even attempt to deliver boxes list goes on.... Mention my town s mails service to the post offices in the surrounding areas and all the people just look at you like " o yeahhhh......those folks "

Yep and rural delivery keeps on ticking out here

We ran out of old mexican churchs to build adobes around so we had to use villages.

Who still gets mail?

We get something every other day and it's usually sales flayers or political bs.


USPS / Govt needs to admit defeat and go to twice a week delivery and even then, subcontract out to a private corp.

I have lived in two small NC towns that did not offer mail delivery. In the last village, it was 7 miles to the Post Office. Always thought I deserved a mileage deduction for the round trip to the PO.

Is that you Gandalf ?

Ours is supposed to be but wonder when we don't see the mail come through every day.

I get lots of mail most days thats not junk.

Get mail everyday except Sunday. Rural delivery. As far out in the sticks as I know. Gas bill, electric bill, trapping magazines, bank statements...the list goes on.

Then there's all the packages from trapping supplies to carburetors.

Birthday, anniversary, Wedding invites, family reunions Christmas cards....

I get two different Pennysavers by mail a month

I still write letters to family members and they write letters back (and lost art form).

Not all people text, email and do their banking online.

And like you said, different kinds of junk mail but not much. More; the closer it gets to voting time.

All that can come 2x a week.

USPS lost $9.5 and $9 billion the past 2 years.

Amazon is the only thing keeping them afloat.

I don't hate the Postal Service, it's just another example of govt miss spending.

Yet the USPS is still the most profitable branch of gubmint.

Right!

They actually do SOMETHING. As little as it may be

I lived in Goshen AR for a year. If you got a PO box in Goshen you used your Goshen address. If you wanted RFD to your mailbox on the street you used Elkins as your address as thats where the rural carrier came out of. No rural carrier out of Goshen.

… bunch of village people in here

We live rural so out west here we get delivery by man & horse. You got to keep a sack of carrots around for the horse and my wife gives the man a cookie when she fresh bakes them. You guys problem is you are not taken care of your mail person.

Not sure it would fit, but I was answering your question about who gets mail still that not just junk. Not about doing away with USPS and hiring out.
What happens though when it's hired out and they can't handle it?
Which is bound to happen. Does mail get piled up and lost?
I think the system needs revamped, with lower pay and benefits. Government wages and benefit packages are out of hand high IMO

Lol you got that right!

I can see why they lose money.if there not any better delivering mail then in the rest of the us then they are here.i try to do everything on line as far as paying bills.ive mailed bills out as soon as they come in the mail and they still dont make it there by the due date.if you call the company and tell them you mailed it out weeks ago they acknowledge the mail is terrible and will take the late fee off that's why I pay online.if any other business was run like that they would go under in a heartbeat.its pathetic.

Yeah for a government office it might be typical. However to better serve the public they could stagger their lunch break. If they cared, but those two obviously don't.

My camp is in the village of Moshannon. The post office here closed up a couple years ago.

Hey...Village People is where I learned out about the YMCA

I blame it all on the appointment of Louis DeJoy as Postmaster general. He has completely dismantled what was once a reliable service. My brother has been waiting for a large check that was mailed three weeks ago from just 80 miles away. It's completely nuts. My little post office is just open three hours a day and two on Saturday.

I send packages and they take a tour of the USA before comping back to me because their scanners looked at the return address. Postal worker morale is in the toilet form why I see locally anyway. Ever try to get your money back on an undelivered package? Nice try anyway right?

The little po-dunk postal office 5 miles from me is open 6 days a week. Excellent service and rural delivery
Here the hours

Don't you have giant Smurf mushrooms, Amanita muscaria/fly agaric/fly amanita mushrooms in Texas? Do you build your villages out of giant tacos, burritos and chimichangas instead? That's positively un-American.

Keith

Take staggered lunch breaks so someone is always on duty.Especially if your only going to be open for those short hours.Buch of bums.Thats like saying I want a job from noon till one,,with an hour for lunch.

They cant hire ppl here because orher places pay better.
I tried to buy Christmas stamps in a PO in Florida and the Muslim gal runnin the place told me they dont sell Christmas stamps there. Seriously.

I'd like to see them go to delv 2 days/week, they could cut delvy staff by 2/3.
Our PO has one person behind the counter, thats all thats in the place except for the time the delv people are there sorting/prepping for delv.

Also I think bulk rates should be increased, would cut down junk mail and allow the PO to be more towards or in the black.

A PO delivery person told me junk mail is what keeps them employed.

I get almost no US mail I want or need. I got my property tax bill, twice this year, that I needed to pay. I got some plants from Beaverpeeler, about a month after he shipped them, which are doing great. I got one money order. I don't think I got a single other piece of relevant or wanted mail this year. I get multiple pieces of mail almost every day, except Sunday. That's hundreds of pieces of mail, I almost entirely throw away, without opening.

Keith

… have no idea what you’re talkin about there papa smurf

I collect all the flyers.
Great for lighting the fire at trapping camps,skinning sheds and wash house in winter.

Typical Texas village.



Keith

Whatever you do, do not send anything USPS that gets routed through Richmond VA. The entire PO there is a den of thieves, and the the gubment won't do a thing about it; I think I have an idea why.