Package Theft

[vinyl-raven.livejournal.com]

So my inlaws sent me me birthday package and the post office says it was delivered on the 7th. No one in my apartment building has see it. So it was probably stolen off our pourch, I know this happens a lot. Yet through out the 3 yrs I've live here this had never happened before.. I live on a end of a side street in teele square.
I am talking to the post office tomorrow just to see if it is there.

Anyways, just get packages insured and with a signature required.

Comments

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

Somerville mail delivery is the worst I have ever experienced, and I've lived in Canada and Georgia. If they do deliver it, then the weather gets it. Or they jam it in the mail box. Or they deliver it to someone else. I got my neighbor's credit card bill once...good thing I'm not into identity theft.

That's why I have a PO Box at South Station (the 24 hour main post office). Much better to know my mail is inside and safe (and dry) than to deal with Somerville's PO.

[firepail.livejournal.com]

TESTIFY!! I get my mail maybe delivered maybe three days a week.

I have complained about it and the post office has given me excuses like, "Oh, your carrier was sick one day last week". Like that explains months worth of non-regular mail delivery. And yes, I know that I may not actually have mail every day--but it seems unlikely that my entire street would also not receive mail, say, on a Tuesday. And when I do get my mail, it is usually bundled with my neighbors mail, or items marked 'fragile' are folded and jammed into the box, or my personal favorite, the bundle of mail left in the middle of the porch that is not-enclosed.

I too have had packages disappear from my porch. It sucks because who wants to suspect their neighbors? It is good to try to mention such an event to neighbors though to find out if similar things have happened to them or to at least put them on guard about their own mail if they are expecting packages.

Are Canada and GA known for bad mail delivery?

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

I like when my mail guy doesn't deliver for a few days, and then I come home to a mailbox so jammed with mail I can't pull it out without ripping something.

I also liked the time my friend sent me a gift, and then had it returned to him about 2 months later, despite having the correct address and postage.