[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by jerryss

Does this happen at other stations, or do I have a lazy postal team?

Nope, not mine.

Never met your team, so

[jerryss]

Originally Posted by RICH1

May I suggest knocking on the Door at the local PO station, introduce yourself.. A generous gratuity will go a long way... (or not and continue to make your life more difficult )

Why should I have to pay a tip for them to do their job?

[DonnaNi4os]

They will deliver to.my front door

[Cassieb]

They are to deliver it to your house if the parcel lockers are full. Do not contact the Lady Lake post office as they are useless. Contact the Postal Inspection Service and the Office of the Inspector Geneneral.

[mrf6969]

We were told that the postal workers used to be able to bring packages to the home, but the contractors are no longer able to per some directive.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by RICH1

May I suggest knocking on the Door at the local PO station, introduce yourself.. A generous gratuity will go a long way... (or not and continue to make your life more difficult )

So money bribes works? I don’t think Florida considered 3rd world yet.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by mrf6969

We were told that the postal workers used to be able to bring packages to the home, but the contractors are no longer able to per some directive.

USPS needs to be contracted out. Too many worthless high level managers making 150K plus year have no clue what goes on in trenches IMO.

[TheWatcher]

Originally Posted by RICH1

May I suggest knocking on the Door at the local PO station, introduce yourself.. A generous gratuity will go a long way... (or not and continue to make your life more difficult )

I tried this with our postal service when there was a mixup with hold and forwarding between our Villages home and our home in Central Pennsylvania during our vacation (this situation never happens in the Villages, right? <sarcasm Sheldon>). The PA mail kept being delivered for 3 weeks while we were on vacation (yes, we had a house sitter weekly but not daily) and the Villages mail was continued as stopped well after the hold period. Figured as above that a friendly contact at the local post office would solve the problem.

The postal person answered the door and when she found out the address she started verbally abusing me about how she was reprimanded. I was clueless as she shovelled the small bin at me (which had a small but expensive electronic component in it with mail), but apologized for the misunderstanding, but that did not seem to help.

Turns out my wife had called USPS in PA to straighten out the deliveries in PA and they mistook the PA and FL addresses. (again).

We have had comments from postal employees that "you cannot have 2 addresses".

Currently, I have my mail on forward from FL to PA that was put in place for an unexpected emergency return to PA. Family had sent me a Father's day package. It is in limbo in a postal locker since packages are not forwarded and there is no way currently to place further shipping on item.

Looks like the package is lost to the USPS. Will consider alternate delivery and do use UPS, FEDEX, and Amazon when available. The pass offs still happen occasionally but the Amazon contract to pass off packages for final delivery expired, thank goodness. However, an alternate delivery service does not catch mail/packages sent by 3rd parties to the current Villages address as happened with the current dilema.

Wife will retire in a few more years but am not hopeful for better service.

[MollyJo]

Originally Posted by Carlsondm

WE have a lazy postal team. I have had to drive from Everglades to Lady Lake several times to pick up a pair of shoes or small objects that could have fit in the mail slot. I spoke to the “supervisor” at Lady Lake asking why the Driver passed my home at 5:15 pm and left an orange note for me to pick up my package at Lady Lake or request redelivery. The package would have fit in thee slot with the orange note.
The response was that mail carriers are no longer required to deliver to homes more than 0.5 miles off of the carrier’s main route. With that rule even redelivery is a problem. USPS would not give me anything in writing. I told them this could be a form of elder abuse and would slow critical deliveries. Several of my neighbors are recovering from surgeries and can’t drive to Lady Lake.

Unfortunately, people rarely take pride in their work. It’s a slacker attitude. Little effort =little success. Started w/t-ball, everyone gets a trophy regardless of effort…

[R2keeper]

Yes it does, The Villages as an obscure policy that prohibits the post office from delivering packages to your house if you live more than 1/2 mile from a postal station which we find really baffeling

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by TheWatcher

I tried this with our postal service when there was a mixup with hold and forwarding between our Villages home and our home in Central Pennsylvania during our vacation (this situation never happens in the Villages, right? <sarcasm Sheldon>). The PA mail kept being delivered for 3 weeks while we were on vacation (yes, we had a house sitter weekly but not daily) and the Villages mail was continued as stopped well after the hold period. Figured as above that a friendly contact at the local post office would solve the problem.

The postal person answered the door and when she found out the address she started verbally abusing me about how she was reprimanded. I was clueless as she shovelled the small bin at me (which had a small but expensive electronic component in it with mail), but apologized for the misunderstanding, but that did not seem to help.

Turns out my wife had called USPS in PA to straighten out the deliveries in PA and they mistook the PA and FL addresses. (again).

We have had comments from postal employees that "you cannot have 2 addresses".

Currently, I have my mail on forward from FL to PA that was put in place for an unexpected emergency return to PA. Family had sent me a Father's day package. It is in limbo in a postal locker since packages are not forwarded and there is no way currently to place further shipping on item.

Looks like the package is lost to the USPS. Will consider alternate delivery and do use UPS, FEDEX, and Amazon when available. The pass offs still happen occasionally but the Amazon contract to pass off packages for final delivery expired, thank goodness. However, an alternate delivery service does not catch mail/packages sent by 3rd parties to the current Villages address as happened with the current dilema.

Wife will retire in a few more years but am not hopeful for better service.

The last sentence, is wife going to be sorting mail after retirement?🤦

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by Topspinmo

Why aren’t the packages held till bin become available? IMO USPS responsible to deliver packages that customers paid for delivery. But, IMO being the USPS has more management that actual boots on ground this what you get. SAFU…..

I've had our postal person hold packages for me, w/a note in our box that she had it and to call for it.

'Course, I did give her a pretty nice tip last Christmas...

[shut the front door]

Originally Posted by R2keeper

Yes it does, The Villages as an obscure policy that prohibits the post office from delivering packages to your house if you live more than 1/2 mile from a postal station which we find really baffeling

The Villages has NOTHING to do with USPS policies. I get packages brought to my house frequently and I'm 2 miles away.
Why would anyone in their right mind think that The Villages can dictate what the USPS can do? SMH

[TVTVTV]

Originally Posted by Carlsondm

WE have a lazy postal team. I have had to drive from Everglades to Lady Lake several times to pick up a pair of shoes or small objects that could have fit in the mail slot. I spoke to the “supervisor” at Lady Lake asking why the Driver passed my home at 5:15 pm and left an orange note for me to pick up my package at Lady Lake or request redelivery. The package would have fit in thee slot with the orange note.
The response was that mail carriers are no longer required to deliver to homes more than 0.5 miles off of the carrier’s main route. With that rule even redelivery is a problem. USPS would not give me anything in writing. I told them this could be a form of elder abuse and would slow critical deliveries. Several of my neighbors are recovering from surgeries and can’t drive to Lady Lake.

Remember to take all of these issues into consideration at holiday time. Good work deserves good tips, and poor service, well, optional.

[Pairadocs]

Originally Posted by jerryss

We live in Duval and twice in the past 6 months the post office could not deliver a package to my local mail station because the parcel lockers were all full.

They want me to pick it up at the Lady Lake post office They will only retry delivery once then if I don’t pick it up within 14 days, they will send it back.

Does this happen at other stations, or do I have a lazy postal team? I’ve always had good luck with the mail in the past.

Thanks for your input
Jerry

Mail has been a total nightmare in our experience since we came here years ago. It's always something. Would not attempt to relay all through the years, some VERY serious, some just annoying such as constantly (several times a month) getting some piece of mail for another party. Also have had many things ruined by villages postal employees (they are NOT U.S. government employees) taking delicate items and folding, crushing, whatever it takes to MAKE it fit into our pigeon hole of a mail box.... one time managed to push and rip a shoe box until the top came off they were able to shove the shoes in the pigeon hole...LOL... and said, "oh, probably done in in shipping", no, this is something the villages does repeatedly to MAKE things "fit" in the small space. Doubt things will ever change. Have complained, U.S. post office said "that's a private mail system" (???) "can't help you". Villages listen to complaints but never changes ! Lack of "good" employees maybe ?