Update. After sending off those two posts I checked my snail mail again and the book arrived along with a couple other pieces of mail. So my carrier didn't read it first. I also did some searches on USPS tracking and many folks say that it can take an extra day after tracking says "out for delivery" to actually be delivered. America is falling apart.
In some cases though I've seen tracking behind the delivery. On 02/07/2013 05:01 PM, Mike Dixon wrote: > Maybe your carrier is reading your books first. > > > > ________________________________ > From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 2:49 PM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The next logical step - USPS? > > > > > I pay most of my bills via snail mail but some of the banks and my > credit union have added another option other than autopay. I can now > just pay my credit union credit card via transfer so saves the cost of a > stamp. Same with my rarely used credit card from a bank that I have a > petty cash checking account. So another stamp saved. > > Over a week ago I bought a used book via Amazon for $1. The shipping > and handling from the book store was $4. Fine but the book store was > only up in Washington state (I thought I had selected a California store > but maybe they had a store in California but no longer). Anyway the > order went out the following day. It arrived at the post office > yesterday and tracking said "out for delivery". As of today it still > has not shown so I will call the PO and ask what is up with that. > > Two years ago I won a book and it too never showed up so they sent > another copy. The book fit fine through my mail slot so I doubt if the > first copy was swiped from my doorstep as there was no need to leave it > there. I also doubt that yesterday the book was left at my doorstep > because I went for a short walk and actually ran into the carrier. I > should have asked if she had the book and instructed her to just push it > through the slot. My bet with the book and maybe the one two years ago > it was miss delivered to another address. You may have noticed that > those post office boxes you can't put a package weighing over a certain > amount in them which would preclude books. Hence someone getting my > book might not know what to do with it because they would need to return > it to the PO. They should be able to call the PO and have them pick it > up. Bet they won't do that. > > My neighbor said she got a Christmas card for another address completely > out of this area of the town. She was able to correct the address as > apparently it was a little unreadable by looking up the person in a > directory. When she asked the carrier why it was delivered to her house > the carrier said "I didn't know what to do with it." That's what we > have for postal carriers these days. > > On 02/07/2013 07:45 AM, Share Long wrote: >> I wonder if there are other Boomers like me who like to pay their bills via >> snail mail. I never liked the idea of online banking and I liked it even >> less after my credit cards and SS# were compromised last year. I know >> online banking is inevitable. Just putting it off as long as possible. >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Richard J. Williams mailto:richard%40rwilliams.us> >> To: mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com >> Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 8:51 AM >> Subject: [FairfieldLife] The next logical step - USPS? >> >> >> >> "The USPS owns eleventy-billion trucks and employs >> eleventy-billion union workers, all to deliver a >> product nobody wants." >> >> Posted by Stephen Green: >> http://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2013/02/06/only-one-michael-moore-was-harmed-in-the-making-of-this-column/ >> >> >> > >
