I ordered a new WiFi Mesh, cost $230. Amazon shows that it was delivered and “left in a parcel locker.” I went to the community mailbox, and inside of my mailbox was a key, attached to a key chain that plainly says “A1P.” The key doesn’t open A1P. So I try it in all of the other parcel lockers, and it opens box D1P. Inside of that locker was another key attached to a keychain that said D1P. That obviously wasn’t the right keychain, so we try them all again. This time, the key opens locker B2P.
There is a parcel in it, but that one is addressed to someone around the corner from my house. We take the package to them, and they tell us that they had a key in their box, but when they opened the parcel locker, it was empty.
I try to contact Amazon, but they tell me that I can’t report the box as missing until 48 hours after it was reported delivered. So I have to wait.
For now, I am out my $230 and don’t have what I ordered. You bet your ass that no one will admit to getting a $200 WiFi router. So now I have to hassle with this because the USPS can’t get their shit together.
This happens with our postal carrier at least once a month. It’s a constant battle of misdirected and lost mail. Two years ago, they lost some Gold Eagles. Then a Roomba. A month later, it was a missing laptop.
There is a postal worker somewhere near my house that is getting rich from stealing mail.
13 Comments
EN2 SS · July 19, 2023 at 7:07 pm
Not as frequently, but I’ve had the same problem with Amazon, package delivered but to wrong house. Takes days to get straightened out.
Mean Josey Wales · July 19, 2023 at 7:54 pm
You’ve seen the drivers of those Amazon vans right?
We got an A.A. hire USPS comrade that can barely place the mail in the box and it used to come around noon, now comes at 1700hrs which is brilliant with all the traffic.
O/T-Bolshevik commie RAT POS enemedia was on about Stand Your Ground and trying to frame it as a conservative issue.
Rastus Gibbs was on there lamenting about how poor downtrodden dindus are impacted by it.
A tiny violin plays Misty.
Tim · July 19, 2023 at 8:00 pm
After the USPS lost two bill payments of mine I was forced to pay the bills plus penalties using other methods. Now I make all my payments in person. Anything I order online I specify that it must be delivered by FedEx (whom I hate) or UPS.
It's just Boris · July 19, 2023 at 9:42 pm
PO box rental or private mail drop? (I’m not sure what the formal name of the service is, but basically, a “real” mailing address for times a street address is required.)
Divemedic · July 19, 2023 at 10:44 pm
My neighborhood is using the new “Community mail boxes” that the USPS is pushing.
Send mail to a street address, the USPS delivers it to the box that corresponds to that address. Large parcels go into the large box, and the key to that box goes into your address’ mailbox.
dc · July 20, 2023 at 4:50 pm
I think two events ruined what used to be the Postal Service. First was when the Postmaster General defederalized the service in 1971 and Second, when Charles Bukowski left his long term job ant the post office to write full time.
Boneman · July 20, 2023 at 5:07 am
Not that I at ALL relish the thought… but a security cam overlooking the mailboxes would have been a help here. Hope you get it resolved. Your description of the “Hunt” almost sounded like some kind of escape room caper.
Divemedic · July 20, 2023 at 8:39 am
I don’t live near the mailboxes. They are about a quarter of a mile away.
Aheinousanus · July 20, 2023 at 9:59 am
Don’t order from the most retail company on the planet. Most crap that Amazon sells can be bought cheaper elsewhere. You just have to stop being lazy.
I just bought a Dewalt reciprocating saw from eBay for $95. Amazon has the same for $120.
A month ago I bought a hobby battery charger for $150. Amazon has it for $220.
Do a web search for the same thing and most of the time you will find it cheaper.
Don’t use Google. Use Brave or Swisscows or.Quant.
Divemedic · July 20, 2023 at 10:44 am
EBAY? There are more ripoff artists and thieves on EBAY than there are real sellers.
Aesop · July 20, 2023 at 10:36 am
I live literally yards from the local post office.
This is not the boon one might imagine.
The USPS routinely assigns this neighborhood to the most inept and incompetent newbs being broken in, on the (false) theory that they can’t get lost themselves if they can see the Post Office building from wherever they’re standing. (I haven’t asked, but I’m pretty sure the USPS makes them sew their names and telephone numbers on labels inside their uniforms, for insurance.)
So every month, I have a new Diversity Hire 80-IQ Dipshit-In-Training misdelivering my mail. They’ve lost everything: paychecks, bank cards, blank checks, packages, letters, ad infinitum. The make the Italian Postal Service and Botswanan Parcel Post look competent and efficient by contrast.
Then I got a FedEx box, and I haven’t lost a parcel once in three years. The only one that never arrived was due to seller fraud, and was never sent.
I don’t send or get anything in the mail if I can help it. They’re less competent than teachers in ghetto public schools, and for the same reasons, not least of which because they hire the products of ghetto schools. Probably the class valedictorians, who know almost all 26 letters of the alphabet (not necessarily in order, but you take what you can get).
Stumpjumper · July 21, 2023 at 10:58 am
Occasional I sell stuff on Ebay. Just enough to keep me in beer money. Not a bad way to make some extra spending cash but it does have on flaw at least for me. The post office. They are not friendly. When I take a package in they have to get off their computer or put their cell phone down. They don’t want to see me. They get paid if they have customers or not and it shows.
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