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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeysie" data-source="post: 3530288" data-attributes="member: 51817">I used to be happy with the post office back in my hometown. There was almost never a line at the post office, and I have mailed lots of things back and forth with no issues... tape trading, book trading, online purchases, etc. I generally preferred the post office to UPS because I could get my packages even though I seldom was home to sign for things.Then I moved to a bigger city, and the lines got much longer, but the service was still good, so I lived.But then recently my mailman has started refusing to deliver Priority Mail packages, even though I've never had problems with it before, and I never get services that require signatures. So I end up having to sign the pink slip and have them redelivered.After having this happen twice when a friend sent me packages, when I decided to buy some comics on eBay, I figured I'd try to head off the trouble at the pass. I wrote a note saying, "Dear mailperson, please leave all Priority Mail packages in the usual spot. Thanks!", put my name and apartment number, and taped it to the mailbox.Come delivery day, I arrive home to find not my lovely comics, but a dreaded pink slip, along with my own note with "I'm sorry, but I'm not your normal mail carrier, I don't know where the usual spot is." jotted at the bottom. *headdesk* This was on a Saturday, mind you, so now I had to wait until Monday to get my package...So on Monday, I go down to the main post office branch this time instead of having the package redelivered, since I don't feel like waiting *another* day on top of my wait already. I wait in the long line, and finally hand over the pink slip to get my package. The clerk goes out back, then returns after several minutes and says she can't find it, that it must not have come over yet from this other branch where it ended up at for some reason.So I sigh and call the other branch. They say *they* don't have it either, and that the carrier must have been going to try to deliver it again. So the fellow who answered calls the carrier, then calls me back and says, yep, that's the case. So I ask, "Is he actually going to *leave* it this time?" To which the guy says "Yes". And I actually did get my darn comics, hooray.Although it's still rather annoying, since I wasted my time trying to pick up the package... plus the previous times this has happened, I had to wait until the next day after leaving the pink slip to get my package, meaning the mailperson wasn't trying to redeliver it that day. Sigh.So, plus points for previous good performance, minus points for this recent shenanigans. Bleh.Peace & Luv, Liz</blockquote>

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