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Threads like this make me sad too. I carried mail for some 18 years before being injured and transferred to other jobs in the post office. I've seen nearly every type of postal facility there is from the small rural offices where I've inspected routes both in the office and the street to huge city carrier annexes to major sort facilities to administration and human resources offices.
The local post offices are where the people are that really care and unfortunately that is the people that nearly always get blamed for damage. It is the huge, factory type sorting facilities that mail must go through where damage usually occurs. No one throws anything to "feel big" - they do it because that is the way they must do it. You might think it's no big deal to take a couple extra steps to set something down gently but imagine doing that over a thousand, even a couple hundred times a day - you're talking serious time lost, and these people are all being pushed to work faster, faster, faster.
Think too about how we almost all receive mail daily from the post office yet only occasionally from UPS, etc. That should give you some idea of the relative volume they are dealing with. The less you have, the easier it is to be "gentle."
Unless it's marked as hippiehen has suggested, it will get sent in the normal mail stream where there is a chance of crushing and they will, without any doubt, get thrown at some point.
Well then do something about it..Im sorry but post office insurance is a sham and you guys know it...It should be against the law and I hope somone makes it against the law for the post office to sell insurance..Its a great big scam...its just a way to rape even more money out of unsuspoecting people then laugh in thier face while Post office destroys property..
You dont need to tell me a thing about fast pace and fury..I work at a hospital ER that can on given day make post office look like a long vacation.
Thou my shipped box from across the country said in plain easy to understand english..PLEASE HOLD AND CALL...and phone number..A third grade child could have read that and understood it. ..it had set in my mail box, in wind chills well below zero for lord knows how long..a few hours is about all it takes in minus 11 - 25 degrees to really ruin my day and Im not going to forget it, and I tell everybody what a perfect scam that insurance is..dont waste your money.
Threads like this make me sad too. I carried mail for some 18 years before being injured and transferred to other jobs in the post office. I've seen nearly every type of postal facility there is from the small rural offices where I've inspected routes both in the office and the street to huge city carrier annexes to major sort facilities to administration and human resources offices.
The local post offices are where the people are that really care and unfortunately that is the people that nearly always get blamed for damage. It is the huge, factory type sorting facilities that mail must go through where damage usually occurs. No one throws anything to "feel big" - they do it because that is the way they must do it. You might think it's no big deal to take a couple extra steps to set something down gently but imagine doing that over a thousand, even a couple hundred times a day - you're talking serious time lost, and these people are all being pushed to work faster, faster, faster.
Think too about how we almost all receive mail daily from the post office yet only occasionally from UPS, etc. That should give you some idea of the relative volume they are dealing with. The less you have, the easier it is to be "gentle."
Unless it's marked as hippiehen has suggested, it will get sent in the normal mail stream where there is a chance of crushing and they will, without any doubt, get thrown at some point.
Well then do something about it..Im sorry but post office insurance is a sham and you guys know it...It should be against the law and I hope somone makes it against the law for the post office to sell insurance..Its a great big scam...its just a way to rape even more money out of unsuspoecting people then laugh in thier face while Post office destroys property..
You dont need to tell me a thing about fast pace and fury..I work at a hospital ER that can on given day make post office look like a long vacation.
Thou my shipped box from across the country said in plain easy to understand english..PLEASE HOLD AND CALL...and phone number..A third grade child could have read that and understood it. ..it had set in my mail box, in wind chills well below zero for lord knows how long..a few hours is about all it takes in minus 11 - 25 degrees to really ruin my day and Im not going to forget it, and I tell everybody what a perfect scam that insurance is..dont waste your money.
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. I can dream right!
