<p>I’ve finally reached my breaking point with the Edgartown post office.</p>
I’ve finally reached my breaking point with the Edgartown post office. Here is a quick rundown of offenses that have happened to me in just the last couple of months:
• I received a package pickup slip in my rural route box, went to the post office to retrieve said package, only to be informed, after waiting in line for 15 minutes, that said package was not there. After calling the Vineyard Haven Post Office, who informed me that the package was, in fact, sitting at the Edgartown post office, I went back the next day only to be told quite rudely that the package was not there. Days later, I returned in search of the elusive package and was told “it’s been here for a week.”
• I returned home to find a package containing my expensive computer board, sitting on the ground, in the weeds, on the side of a busy road at the foot of my mailbox post.
• After waiting for two months for my daughter’s college ring to arrive via U.S. mail, I finally called the company and asked about the status of the order. They informed me that the local post office returned the ring because the address was “unknown.” She read the delivery address to me over the phone, and it is in fact my correct address.
• I have had mail delivered to my mailbox that was addressed to not only completely different people and addresses on the Island, but to people in completely different states!
• I routinely have neighbors show up at my door with my mail in hand that was delivered to their mailbox in error. What is going on here? I am not the only person, even in my small circle of people, who have these experiences with this post office regularly. Calls to the postmaster are in vain, since the voice mailbox is always full. I know I’m risking retribution for sending this to the newspaper, but at this point, how can it possibly get worse?
Carla A. Cooper
Edgartown
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Carla I too have been victim
Robert EdgartownCarla I too have been victim of the package nightmare as I am sure MANY others have as well. It's no wonder why the postal service loses so much money every year
Carla, thanks for posting
BG EdgCarla, thanks for posting what we all know. Sad but true, that this post office has 'earned' its reputation. I actually have all my mail sent to an off island address due to lack of reliability here.
Carla, I feel your pain. I
Matt Nelko New York, New YorkCarla, I feel your pain. I've been dealing with a 10-year ongoing nightmare with my own local post office in Upper Manhattan. Pretty much the same thing: carrier can't be bothered to carry packages from the truck into the building (and God forbid, to each actual apartment). He doesn't even buzz us to come down and meet him in the lobby; he just papers our mailboxes with those damn salmon-colored "Sorry We Missed You" notices to come fetch our packages at the local post office (17 blocks away). Those of us who actually work for a living have to block out at least two hours on a Saturday for this needless errand. Once when I arrived, there were 70 (not a typo) people in the package pickup line!! Everyone, of course, with the same story: we were actually home at the time of "attempted delivery". There have been worse problems, including the carrier leaving piles of mail for the building next door in OUR lobby. After four days, I took it upon myself to break federal law by sorting that mail myself, and hand-delivering it to each apartment. I did this because I recognized that many of those items were not only personal correspondence, but bank statements, bills, and even paychecks. Our local postmistress was also apparently fired and charged with theft for STEALING PACKAGES. The list of offenses is actually breathtaking.
Why am I telling you all this? The only way I was able to get results was to sit down and write a letter to the Postmaster General in Washington, D.C. -- and send a carbon copy to the chairman of the USPS Board of Governors.
Good luck.
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