when postal workers can't read.....

[asher]

Rhett&SarahsMom :

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I was told to actually write eggs and fragile on them. Mine normally make it fine and I don't think it's special b/c of working there.

That box looks like it got caught in a machine, to be honest. Not everything is hand done. There are a lot of machines in the process of getting to and from their location.

And alot of those machines can be bypassed if need be.

* Neighbor to a postal employee that works on those machines and has told me that they try not to put anything marked "WARNING EGGS" through those machines. It can mess them up if they break open and ooze. Costing USPS more money​

I think in some areas, that thought process isn't even encountered because so many don't even realize that people DO ship hatching eggs. I've been doing it at my post office for several years and worked there for a year and I still go through questions from the clerks when I bring some in to ship! It's just totally new territory for a lot of them, I think some truly have no clue. (And I'm sure there are some, too, that think "What?! Eggs won't even make it home in a grocery bag sometimes and these idiots are sending them in the MAIL?! Whatever happens, happens!"

I KNOW there are bad people in the world, mean people, INCLUDING the post office, but I am amazed (and yes, saddened and offended) at how much hatred there are towards all postal workers as a whole. It's normally referring to "postal workers" generalized as a whole and, quite frankly, I think it's rotten that all of us are painted with that same brush. We are NOT all like that, regardless of what some experience(d).

 

[Buster]

The trouble I have Asher, is that once you've seen packages treated in a malicious manner, as I have, that incident burns in your memory and makes you suspicious of all employees who handle my packages- especially after having witnessed abuse with my own eyes several times. I'm not pointing fingers at you, I'm just saying that if I've witnessed it more than once just in my small corner of the world, how many more times is this going on all over?

 

[Lobzi]

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I'm telling ya.... they are doing it on purpose. They dont care about their jobs and certainly dont care about anyone but themselves. With the state of the economy, senseless crimes are going to increase. Mark my words.

Generalize much?

Based on my observation of how people's attitudes have changed over my lifetime.

 

[Robin'sBrood]

Oh my goodness! With that cute little hatching-chick pic drawn on the outside, I can almost hear some of the dock workers laughing as they played football with that box.


BTW, my father is a retired PO Postmaster, so I'm not saying all PO employees aren't honest, decent workers. But, it only takes one or two bad ones to make a box look like that.

 

[asher]

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Generalize much?

Based on my observation of how people's attitudes have changed over my lifetime.

What do you do for a living? (You don't need to answer, I'm trying to make a point.) How would you feel if you saw someone putting down everyone in your profession at every turn, not just the bad ones, but ALL of them b/c if you've seen a few bad apples, they must all be bad?!

Yeah, it stinks.

I'll say that the majority of eggs that I've gotten in the mail have been great. I've gotten some that didn't make it and the majority of the time it has been how they were sent/packaged.

I will also say that I have NEVER seen anyone mistreat packages, etc. at my office. Not saying none of them do when they're out on their route b/c I have no way of knowing that, but I've never personally seen it. I HAVE seen packages come in to US from the truck that were in bad shape, though. Don't know where or how it happened and I always hate seeing those come in and feel incredibly bad about it, even though it's nothing *I* did.

 

[amazondoc]

Just an added note --

I just received another box of shipped eggs today. They were also marked "hatching eggs" and "fragile", although not so exuberantly.

The box is is perfect shape, with no cracked eggs inside.

 

[asher]

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[Lobzi]

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Based on my observation of how people's attitudes have changed over my lifetime.

What do you do for a living? (You don't need to answer, I'm trying to make a point.) How would you feel if you saw someone putting down everyone in your profession at every turn, not just the bad ones, but ALL of them b/c if you've seen a few bad apples, they must all be bad?!

Yeah, it stinks.

I'll say that the majority of eggs that I've gotten in the mail have been great. I've gotten some that didn't make it and the majority of the time it has been how they were sent/packaged.

I will also say that I have NEVER seen anyone mistreat packages, etc. at my office. Not saying none of them do when they're out on their route b/c I have no way of knowing that, but I've never personally seen it. I HAVE seen packages come in to US from the truck that were in bad shape, though. Don't know where or how it happened and I always hate seeing those come in and feel incredibly bad about it, even though it's nothing *I* did.

Its not just PO workers, it is everywhere. I am a teacher and I see in the students that schools graduate.

 

[Rhett&SarahsMom]

My attitude to postal workers is generally a good one. But like every profession you get some rotten eggs. Pun intended.
I like the people at the city USPS office. I like the new new mail man. The last new mailman wouldnt deliver the mail or pick it up if the weather wasnt "perfect" Not kidding. We went 2 days with no mail delivery on our street because it was raining.

It was a warm summer rain! Not the cold nasty stuff no one likes to be out in.

I worked in customer service for most of my life. So yeah. I get how much it stinks to hear your "job" get knocked all the time.
BTW- the customer is NOT always right. Especially banking customers. Sorry, but you enter the wrong PIN 3 times. You are gonna loose your card to the ATM. And no. No one is going to run down to the machine in the middle of the night to get it back for you. And no. most of us really dont care if you entered the wrong number because you are drunk. And yes. We are laughing at you.

 

[speckledhen]

I think probably the small town P.O.'s are much kinder to their smaller load of packages than say, Atlanta, or similar large cities. I do everything I can to keep any box from passing through there. I have had postal employees go above and beyond to get a package to me in good time. That, after some other postal employees misdirected that same package on purpose, even writing a different zip and just throwing it on a truck to get it our of their hands. I know this because the postmaster who drove an hour to pick up my box told me. He was furious.

The egg pkg I sent to Virgina last Tuesday (Priority) just arrived today. No idea why.
I never, ever write anything except FRAGILE or Do Not Shake, Drop or Crush on the box. In all my mailing of hatching eggs, only one egg was ever broken--customer said it looked like a pencil sized object was shoved into the box, denting, but not puncturing it. Usually, they get there intact. I pack them well.