I'd like to put this under the "I Just Don't Get It" category, but Business/Finance will have to do.
On Wednesday I mailed an envelope of drawings and an invoice to a client using the street address on her county tax account, assuming that would be the one used to mail her tax bills & receipts. This is a very, very tiny community in the central southern tier of NY.
The package came back with an official USPS "Return to Sender" stamp on it with the "not at this address" blank checked. What I just don't get is why the PO employee who hand wrote her correct address (a PO Box) on the envelope, didn't just put it in the PO Box that he/she was no doubt standing within 10 feet of while writing its number on my envelope.
Tell me again why the Post Office is on the ropes....
SS
Do the same here. The employes from out of the area are usually the ones doing it with a few exceptions. We have some that do put the mail in the box when the street address was used. No mail delivery in Heppner but at the ranch it is delivered 3 days a week from Lexington, we have two mail bags home stitched, mail is delivered in one and the empty is taken back for a refill.
jud
who else is going to take a piece of paper from FL to OR for 40 some odd cents?
If the mail clerk continued to put the mail in the PO Box then the mail clerk would have to keep doing that for the next thirty years. Sending the mail back is the only way of getting some people to use the correct address. All the mail to the rural delivery routes is pre-sorted at the processing center (here it is 70 miles away). The rural carriers allowed time was reduced (pay was cut) since the mail is "pre-sorted".
James
As JUD said most of the sorting is now done at regional mail centers. It arrives at your local post office already sorted into routes. The former ability of the Postal Service to correctly deliver incorrectly addressed mail has been lost.
That is not the problem. Knowing which box to place it in and not walking 10 feet and doing so, instead of taking the time to write a note, then placing it in a special mail bag to be returned to sender is the problem, maybe justified in large population centers but not in small community's like what we are talking about. Only those who live in large population centers seem to think one rule that is required and works for them fits all, they do not but it quickly reveals the lazy and those unwilling to think for themselves.
jud