[identity profile] lovefourpaws.livejournal.com
Hi there,
I live on Paulina and it seems as if the postal service missed us today (didn't pick up outgoing mail or leave anything for both apartments at my address). Our mail sometimes comes as late as 4, but I just wanted to check and see if anyone else in the area got skipped today.
[identity profile] koloratur.livejournal.com
Hey, Davis Square

I'm probably grasping at straws here, but just in case  -

On Friday, UPS allegedly dropped off a package in front of my house on Highland ave, near the corner of Willow and Highland, at 9:57 am.  They didn't bother to ring the doorbell.  The package is now missing.  All that was in it was my great grandmother's mandoline (the musical instrument, not the cooking implement).  It has very little monetary value, but great sentimental value, and I am hoping that it will turn up somewhere.  If you have any information that might lead to its recovery, or if you found it and would like to return it, no questions asked, please comment or send me a message at my lj name at gmail.com  Thank you.

ETA - Package appeared on my porch yesterday, none the worse for wear!  The UPS driver rang the bell this morning to deliver another package, and was sort of adorably flustered when I told him that it had come yesterday (he kept saying "Oh man, that's awesome!).  He had pretty clearly been upset that it went missing, and had been in contact with the powers that be.  He had an assistant that day, and thinks that person may have mis-delivered it.  So thanks, mystery good samaritan!  And thanks to DSLJ for the mixture of great advice and sympathy :)
[identity profile] nvidia99999.livejournal.com
Hi, I did not see the mail person on my street today. Are there any rules about not delivering mail on very cold days like today? I would hate being the mail person delivering mail with real feel temperature under zero. I was just wondering if it's codified in some rule.
[identity profile] sungold123.livejournal.com
Okay I'm going to sound like a country bumpkin here... but before I lived in Somerville, I lived in the middle-of-nowhere New Hampshire, where if we had outgoing mail, we'd put it in our mailbox and put up the red flag. The mailman would then take said mail and put the flag down. So, I figured if I left my outgoing mail on the little hook below my now-attached-to-the-house mailbox in Ball Square, the mailman would take it. However, I've tried this a number of times now and the mailperson has just left the mail there.

According to the USPS FAQs:

Outgoing mail is picked up:
* For curbside delivery if the flag is up or if there is mail to deliver.
* For door delivery if there is mail to deliver.
* From the outgoing mail slot in a Cluster Box.

Since I receive mail literally every day, it seems like my mail should be picked up. I'm curious to find out what other people's experience with this is...?
[identity profile] mermaidcafe.livejournal.com
Hello!

I have a huge amount of boxes that need to be shipped, and I don't know what my options are outside of the UPS store and FedEx (They're too big for the USPS.) Are there other options?
[identity profile] ludimagist.livejournal.com
Has anyone else had issues with their mail service recently?
[identity profile] o0dano0o.livejournal.com
Today I was expecting a package from UPS, and the online tracking info says that the package was delivered to my front door. However, no package arrived.

A year or so ago, at a different address in Davis, this same thing happened to me. Thinking that it may have been stolen, I contacted the shipper (Zappos) and they overnighted me a new box. Both the missing and replacement boxes showed up the next day.

So I'm hoping that the package will come tomorrow. I guess I'm just wondering if anyone else in the area has experienced a disconnect between tracking numbers and reality when dealing with UPS.

Thanks.
[identity profile] mermaidcafe.livejournal.com
Hi!

I need to mail something postmarked by today. The Winter Hill P.O. and their mailbox outside had their last pickup at 1 and my own mailman came early this morning.

I know there's the all-night post office in Boston, but are there any closer mailboxes or post offices where I can still get something postmarked today?

Thanks!
[identity profile] mermaidcafe.livejournal.com
I know there are services that will take your name/address off junk mail lists,but does anyone know if there's a way of not getting the bundle of ads and coupons and whatnot that come every Thursday?

Answered, thanks! Apparently you can unsubscribe by filling out the "Have you seen me?" missing kid postcard, which also cleverly has unsubscribing information on it.
[identity profile] toastygw.livejournal.com
Hi Folks -

Just wondering if anyone else has had packages stolen from their house recently?  In the past 2-3 weeks I've ordered a few things online (3 packages) - of those only the one small enough to fit in my mailbox made it into my eager hands...

2 packages were left on the porch (according to USPS and FEDEX) but I never saw them.

I would suggest that whenever possible you request a signature is mandatory for delivery of your packages or have them delivered somewhere else where they will be safe.

I live on Appleton street between willow and college ave - Anyone else since an increase in missing packages lately?

No mail?

Aug. 26th, 2008 06:17 pm
[identity profile] mark0429.livejournal.com
So it's 6:20 and there has been no sign of a postal carrier at my house on Francesca. Has any one else been left mail-less this far today?
[personal profile] ron_newman
My apartment building lobby has four notes posted, by four different tenants, about packages that have gone missing in the last week. That's four tenants out of 50.

Is this a general problem in the neighborhood between Davis Square and Mass. Ave., or is it specific to my building? I'm wondering if we need to ask management to re-key the outside locks (an annoying and expensive process).
[identity profile] ellkaiesse5.livejournal.com
Has anyone else seen groups of kids stealing packages during the day? A package of mine disappeared last week (the third since Christmas!), and I got an extraordinary call from DHL that made me wonder if this is an epidemic around here. The woman who called said that her delivery guy passed by my house (on Holland Street) again 10 minutes after delivering my package, noticed that it was gone, and spotted a group of "kids" hanging around nearby. Apparently the DHL guy "knows people" in the Somerville police dept., who somehow knew who to talk to, and they actually found the little twits and got my package back! I'm thrilled to have it recovered, but I can't expect to get that lucky every time, and I'm pissed that apparently deliveries aren't safe around here. I read someone's post about missing packages from the Teele Square area, and I'm wondering if the culprits are the same...

On a side note, I'm moving this summer (hopefully to a place out of the range of the mail thieves!) and I'd love any suggestions of who to contact for nice, modern apartments in the Davis area. I love the look of some of the loft complexes around the T and Minuteman trail, but I'm having a hard time finding info about the cost of renting!
[identity profile] 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.
[identity profile] vibrantabyss.livejournal.com
Monday, letters go up to $0.42.  I don't recall the Post Office doing this before, but the undenomiated stamps they are selling now for $0.41 will be $0.42 after the change.  They are called 'forever' stamps and will *always* be valid for full 1st class postage.  Not that this is D^2 specific, but I thought it merited a news-bit.
[identity profile] jamiesquared.livejournal.com
I have an odd sort of question.

I live on Russell Road (somerville) however within walking distance is Russell Street (cambridge). I am having a lot of issues with packages being delivered to the wrong address. It more often than not is UPS but there is the occasion that USPS has done this as well. I have two packages that a company is saying they were delivered last Friday. However I was home all day and never received anything which also says it couldnt have been left and then stolen. I know my usual UPS driver and he knows me so he wouldnt deliver it to Russell St but a non-regular route driver might? Any suggestions on what I should do? I tried calling the local UPS office but I couldnt seem to gain headway. This happened a lot last Christmas and UPS was able to recover some of the packages by going to the other home and they were still in the hallway. I dont really feel comfortable going to some random house to talk to the people who live there.

Mail woes.

Jul. 6th, 2007 12:20 pm
[identity profile] koloratur.livejournal.com
Although I have lived in the same place for nearly a year, and my name is most definitely on the mailbox, some of my mail is being returned to the sender as "attempted not known." I know it's not an addressing error, as this was a card sent by a family member, and something else sent by my office's hr department. Has anyone else run into the same problem? I live on Highland Ave, if that makes any kind of difference. I called the USPS and filed a complaint, but I have precious little faith that they will actually return my call. I'm really weirded out, because I am still getting mail (just not all of it.)
[identity profile] unbelman.livejournal.com
I have an address which is the same as an office building in Cambridge (clearly the city and zip are different) The office building is almost entirely occupied by lawyers and social services.

I consistently have mail delivered to my address that is clearly meant for the Cambridge address. There is no mistake on the envelope or package (today's was a very large package). I'm sure much of this mail is confidential and at the very least important. Does anyone know who can I talk to to have this mail go to the correct address. Every time something is incorrectly delivered, I go to the Davis Sq. post office and drop off the item and let them know. They seem very unconcerned. Last week I was away and three pieces came to me - all addressed to law offices.

suggestions?
[identity profile] rozasharn.livejournal.com
We have one of those mailboxes built into the wall with a locking door.

I lost the key. It's smaller and thinner than a regular door key, with simple rectangular prongs; when I moved in and made copies of the apartment keys, the hardware-store folks said they couldn't copy this mailbox key.

Any recommendations for what to do if I can't find it?

stamps?

Feb. 10th, 2007 12:51 pm
[identity profile] shellyckickinit.livejournal.com
stupid question.

but the post office is closed and id rather mail these today than wait til monday and have to pay more. im sending valentines, basically construction paper hearts, some have a lollipop in them, in manilla envelops like the size of a pice of paper. they dont weigh much clearly. im sending them all to NY. do you think if i put a couple stamps on them, that will be fine? if so, how many stamps? 2? 3? i dont want them to get sent back to me and then have them never get there. but would rather not spend extra money to send them so they get there in 1 or 2 days...

thoughts?

tks.

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