My mom bought my daughter some clothes for Christmas. She lives out of town but drove 3 hours to spend the holiday with us. She forgot to pack one of my daughter's presents, a shirt. She told me she'd mail it via 2-day Priority with the post office.

A few days go by, then a week. I track the package and it's in New Mexico. My mom and I both live in Indiana. It turns out my mom wrote the wrong zip code (transposed 2 numbers). She calls the post office to notify them. They assure her they will take note of the correct zip and I should receive the package in a few days.

The package goes from New Mexico to Columbus, OH, and then to Cincinnati, OH. The Cincinnati location is roughly 20 miles from me. Goody! Imagine my surprise when I check the tracking the next day and the package is now in Des Moines, IA!!! My mom called the post office again. Apparently, this package is just going all over the US, except to my house. Who knows if my daughter will ever receive her shirt?!

I so wish we could mystery shop the post office on packages AFTER they are shipped. I've done a few of the post office shops and the package arrives mangled or almost in shreds. Thanks for letting me vent. Keep your fingers crossed about my daughter's shirt

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Hope there is a gift receipt in the box. You will probably need a larger size for her by the time it hits your door.

And, now the package is back in Albuquerque. Seriously, why can't they simply ship it back to my mother, who put her return address on it? Ugh! Yep, we have the receipt. Mom's filing a claim. Unfortunately, by this time the shirt is now on clearance and my daughter's size is no longer available anywhere.

Phoebe70, that is just horrible. About two weeks ago, my neighbor came over with a handful of my mail (two MS checks were in the pile). The next day, I tried calling the post office, but the line was busy all day long. So, I called the toll free number and complained. The customer service rep then sent an email to my local post office telling them about the problem and gave me a confirmation number. The next day, here comes my neighbor with more mail. So, I made a trip to my local post office and stood in line for 20 minutes. I finally made my way to the counter, explained the situation and the lady asked me to wait. So, I waited for another five minutes and here comes a supervisor. I explained the situation again and he assured me that he would talk to the carrier, but he couldn't guarantee that it would not happen again. Oh, by the way, I asked the supervisor if he received the email and he told me that he receives at least 50 emails a day and he doesn't have time to read all of them (OMG - are you kidding! I wanted to clobber him at this point). Well, guess what, I received a call from our credit card company to let me know that my statement had been returned. Apparently, it was delivered to another neighbor, who didn't want to walk across the street. So, back to the post office I went, only to find out the supervisor was on vacation! I was livid. The lady told me she would have the supervisor call me in a couple of days -- I am still waiting for the call. This past Saturday, I waited at the mailbox for the carrier and gave him an earful. He was oblivious as to why I was so concerned. Anyway, that's my story - thanks ya'll for listening. I saw on the boards that my post office is shopped -- thinking seriously of doing it.

We have the same problem. We've lived in our house for 25 years and have had the same postal carrier for nearly all of it. Our 'important' mail was getting delivered to the good neighbor next door but we worried that it might get delivered to the bad neighbors on the other side. We called and complained...i mean reported it. Filed claims etc. So now what little important mail we actually get via USPS, most we now get via email, goes to a postal box.

On a side note, I saw one of those banner adds (on the top of the forum) that said USPS is hiring. $21 hr to start, $72K a year, no college degree required.

It is just so irritating and I cringe every time I go into the post office. The employees are not friendly and certainly not helpful. And, they take their sweet time in doing anything - drives me crazy!

I am glad to see that I am not the only one here that has a mail carrier who hates them.

My mail carrier hates us because we get packages almost everyday and he has to drive up the 25 foot driveway from the mailbox to deliver them. He also hates us because sometimes I check the mail before he comes, not knowing he hasn't come yet and he has put a too big for the mailbox package in the mailbox. He then as a retaliatory measure stuffs the entire street's mail into our box. I was so mad one day when he did this. We had everyones mail, and NONE of ours. Yesterday he informed me he was holding our mail at the post office until he made sure we got yesterday's mail out of the box (2 magazines and 2 letters). I was once again PO'd. I just look at him and glare at him when he comes. Get off your behind and drive the boxes up the driveway. It is job security that my husband gets a gazillion things off ebay each week!

We need to shop our mail carrier. It isn't the post office that is the problem, it is the carrier.

Alright, I am not a fan of the post office but ..... those ads for jobs are phony. The post office is laying off people. And, they can't be too much to blame if the zip code was wrong initially.

However, my mail lady seems to love to deliver my mail to my neighbors.