the Post Office is apparently fucking me over...

[frustrated]

Originally Posted by Dravyk

Hasn't happened often, but certainly not the first story I've heard about the post office doing such things. Doesn't happen that often on the one hand, but on the other, in eight years or so of this, I've heard this story about two dozen times. It does happen.

At least your situation is better than many others I'd heard - you actually got your checks without them having been reissued by the sending company.

I apologize for somehow leaving that part of the story out. I've paid a pretty penny having these things reissued, and not even seen the reissued version. I'd call them and rip them bad, saying I was going to drop them for CCBill if they didn't get their act together because these problems were ridiculous. They never really had much to say about it, so I always suspected it was the old 'check is in the mail' routine.

So I've had them UPS my checks on a couple occasions. And now I feel much relief knowing where the source of the problem is, but I also feel bad for the misdirected accusations.

I want to kick that postal worker in the nuts. He really stressed me financially.

[Trev]

I thought it was an offence to fuck with the mail... or does that only apply to non postal workers.

[TheEnforcer]

Originally Posted by Trev

I thought it was an offence to fuck with the mail... or does that only apply to non postal workers.

It's a crime to open someone else's mail but I'm not sure on the law in this type of area. i would assume it is illegal but not sure.

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Trev

I thought it was an offence to fuck with the mail... or does that only apply to non postal workers.

Any "fucking with the mail" is a felony. It would be up to the Postmaster to decide what constitutes "fucking" and whether they want to prosecute.

Luckily, we've had the same mail carrier ever since we've lived here, my beloved babe-o-licious Julie. We can always tell when it's her day off, though. That's the day we get the little piece of paper that says "we tried to deliver a package but no one was home." That causes Julie to *really* loose it. First off, it's very, very rare I'm not home. If she doesn't get an answer when she knocks, she just leaves everything on the patio table. (I live in a place where it's perfectly safe to do that.) I shop online all the time, and get a lot of packages. On one of her days off, my husband came home to find a very expensive book I'd ordered as a gift on the ground leaning against the pole that holds up our mailbox. I'm grateful that none of the large amount of traffic on the main street included a thief.

Whenever I don't get mail I'm expecting, the post office is the usual first suspect.

[Dravyk]

Originally Posted by frustrated

I apologize for somehow leaving that part of the story out. I've paid a pretty penny having these things reissued, and not even seen the reissued version. I'd call them and rip them bad, saying I was going to drop them for CCBill if they didn't get their act together because these problems were ridiculous. They never really had much to say about it, so I always suspected it was the old 'check is in the mail' routine.

So I've had them UPS my checks on a couple occasions. And now I feel much relief knowing where the source of the problem is, but I also feel bad for the misdirected accusations.

I want to kick that postal worker in the nuts. He really stressed me financially.

Ouch! Don't blame ya at all.