usps is worthless around here.
Don't even get me started on USPS.
Whoop's, too late
For years, we had the nicest and most dependable mail lady in the world
Absolutely dependable. If we got a package that was too big for the mailbox, she would come right to our door, knock on it and deliver. If we were not home, she had a place that she would leave it. And she was a very nice lady as well!
And then she retired and was replaced by the "Evil, Lazy Mail Bitch From Hell"
Now kiddies, while I spin this tale of postal woe, keep in mind that I live in a rural area. Where we have our mailboxes on the side of the road.
I took great pains to purchase the largest/legal sized mailbox that is endorsed by the Postmaster General.
It is Freaking HUGE!
A lot of times, we end up with the failed delivery cards (the ones where you have to go to the post office and pick the package up) where she states that the package was too big for the mailbox. Even when the mailbox would take 5 packages that size.
Or, one of my favorites.................The mailbox was blocked.
Perhaps a frigging deer was standing in front of it?
Her best one yet.......................
A large and viscous black dog was chained to my front porch and prevented her in fear for her own safety from delivering the package.
First of all, the Mrs. and I are contented cat owners. And both of them stay inside and I have never chained the small black one to my front porch.
Also, I have never owned a dog.
I also have a very nice front porch with a roof supported by those big Greek looking columns. I would never risk scuffing them up by chaining a dog, imaginary or not to one of them.
And then come the visits between me and my neighbors exchanging each others mail.
I get their mail and they get mine.
And complaining to the local postmaster is a total waste of time!
Also to add insult to injury, our mail used to arrive no later than 3:30 PM.
Now we are lucky if it arrives by 5.
It is now the norm for it to arrive after dark (with Daylight Savings Time, which is a bitch session for a later time) so I bought an extra flashlight just for use to trudge down my 200' driveway in the dark to pick up my freaking mail!
If by chance it get's delivered in the first place!