by Wendy Owen

Created on: December 18, 2008

Well the U.S. Post Office strikes again. They wonder why they are losing their business and all I can tell you is why they are losing my business. Last week I was sent pictures of the grandkids and on the front of the envelope was written "photos do not bend". Well that's all I got. The front of the envelope! It was stuck in a post office envelope that told me sorry your mail was damaged. I wonder why they even bothered to send me the front of the envelope, seems stupid to me. Then I won a sweepstakes and I had 72 hours to get the paperwork signed and mailed in. I signed it and notarized it like I was supposed then took it up there and express mailed it. It cost me $16.50 to get this done and the letter was supposed to be there yesterday by noon. Well I tracked it online this morning and it got there alright, but NOT at the right place!

So I called my local post office to tell them of the trouble and I was given many excuses as to why this sort of thing happened. I was then told that I can not get my money back because the letter was delivered and I kept telling her that yes it was delivered but it's not at the right place. What is so hard to understand about this? I did not hand this lady $16.50 and tell her, " just ship it where you want too Miss." I double checked the address that was on my receipt and the address that is on the proof of delivery is over 200 miles away from where my letter is supposed to be, yet I don't get my money back because it was delivered. This is the craziest thing I have ever heard.

I am so angry and upset. This has cost me because it was a great prize. A very large shopping spree at a major electronics store which I can not name until I get this mess straight. Which I'm sure I have lost my prize and I just want to say thank you very much you incompetent boobs! I have never seen such in my life. I have been so happy and excited for the past three days and now all I can do is cry and my stomach feels like it has a big knot in it.

From now on I plan to pay all the bills online if they are offering. I'm going green folks! When I have something I have to mail that needs to get there I plan to use fedex. I will not give our us post office one penny if I can help it. Our mail here is so ridiculously slow that I can't even use services like netflex because my mail don't arrive when it's expected. I sometimes think the ladies in there keep the movies and watch them before I get to. The post office here keeps our magazines and I swear they read them before they give them to you because you can tell it's been went through when someone has opened the perfume sample pages in them. I guess I will start smelling our postal workers. This is just another small (or large to me because I'm the loser here) example of people taking no pride in their job. Over paid are the words I personally would use for the postal workers here.

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