Comments on: When You Control the Mail, You Control INFORMATION! http://www.dailyslope.com/2006/11/30/when-you-control-the-mail-you-control-information/ Community website for the Park Slope neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:58:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: coppertopmom http://www.dailyslope.com/2006/11/30/when-you-control-the-mail-you-control-information/#comment-7524 coppertopmom Thu, 03 May 2007 22:37:54 +0000 http://www.dailyslope.com/2006/11/30/when-you-control-the-mail-you-control-information/#comment-7524 It's not the carrier's fault most of the time, its a hellacious job. The supervisors at Van Brunt are ridiculous. You are right that there are not enough carriers and what most people don't realize is that the carriers are timed! They have to scan every few blocks or so into a GPS and they have to be back to the station by a certain time. All this and the sorting before they ever hit the streets. I know because my close family member sweated it out there for a year. Also, he complained that if mail had an apt number on it, he would put it in the corresponding box. If the party no longer lived there, the occupants would throw it on the floor or table and then other occupants would call the Post Office to complain about the carrier! Park Slope gets 8 times as much mail per head as Bay Ridge Post office. FYI, take it easy on the carriers. Also, the people who work at the counter are a different division than the carriers. It’s not the carrier’s fault most of the time, its a hellacious job. The supervisors at Van Brunt are ridiculous. You are right that there are not enough carriers and what most people don’t realize is that the carriers are timed! They have to scan every few blocks or so into a GPS and they have to be back to the station by a certain time. All this and the sorting before they ever hit the streets. I know because my close family member sweated it out there for a year. Also, he complained that if mail had an apt number on it, he would put it in the corresponding box. If the party no longer lived there, the occupants would throw it on the floor or table and then other occupants would call the Post Office to complain about the carrier! Park Slope gets 8 times as much mail per head as Bay Ridge Post office. FYI, take it easy on the carriers. Also, the people who work at the counter are a different division than the carriers.

]]> By: sloperez http://www.dailyslope.com/2006/11/30/when-you-control-the-mail-you-control-information/#comment-843 sloperez Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:32:48 +0000 http://www.dailyslope.com/2006/11/30/when-you-control-the-mail-you-control-information/#comment-843 11215 - Van Brunt station is totally out of line. I've made numerous complaints directly to them (when I've gotten through) and to the USPS 800 hot line. I think if hundreds of disgruntled customers complained to the USPS we MIGHT get somewhere - who knows. It's a very, very bad situation. They don't have enough staff to sort the mail and definitely don't have enough carriers. 11215 - Van Brunt station is totally out of line. I’ve made numerous complaints directly to them (when I’ve gotten through) and to the USPS 800 hot line. I think if hundreds of disgruntled customers complained to the USPS we MIGHT get somewhere - who knows.

It’s a very, very bad situation. They don’t have enough staff to sort the mail and definitely don’t have enough carriers.

]]> By: Klee http://www.dailyslope.com/2006/11/30/when-you-control-the-mail-you-control-information/#comment-829 Klee Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:37:29 +0000 http://www.dailyslope.com/2006/11/30/when-you-control-the-mail-you-control-information/#comment-829 Where shall I start? The time the post office delivered the pink slip which indicated a package was waiting two weeks after the package hit the post office, and one day after the package (containing medication) was returned to sender? And the person at the window yelled at me for waiting so long to come in with the slip. Or the time they delivered my package to the building next door (rental building w/almost the same address), and I knew it had been delivered somewhere because I could track it online - only to find the empty box with the packing slip outside in their courtyard. I reported it to the postal police and they never called back. Or the time I waited 45 minutes at the post office to pick up a package during which time they managed to extricate only 3 packages from the pile inside, and I still had 7 people ahead of me. Or the time I received the mail for seven different addresses on my block. I now have all of my bills delivered online and packages delivered to my work address. Anything important at all I just do not trust them to deliver (or my neighbors to deliver). I can, however, rely on the 11215 Van Brunt employees to walk out in a group for breakfast at 8:00 and to return and eat said breakfast before helping anyone. This is not a joke - there are a few good helpful people there, but the service is outrageously bad, and often rude. Where shall I start? The time the post office delivered the pink slip which indicated a package was waiting two weeks after the package hit the post office, and one day after the package (containing medication) was returned to sender? And the person at the window yelled at me for waiting so long to come in with the slip. Or the time they delivered my package to the building next door (rental building w/almost the same address), and I knew it had been delivered somewhere because I could track it online - only to find the empty box with the packing slip outside in their courtyard.
I reported it to the postal police and they never called back. Or the time I waited 45 minutes at the post office to pick up a package during which time they managed to extricate only 3 packages from the pile inside, and I still had 7 people ahead of me. Or the time I received the mail for seven different addresses on my block. I now have all of my bills delivered online and packages delivered to my work address. Anything important at all I just do not trust them to deliver (or my neighbors to deliver). I can, however, rely on the 11215 Van Brunt employees to walk out in a group for breakfast at 8:00 and to return and eat said breakfast before helping anyone. This is not a joke - there are a few good helpful people there, but the service is outrageously bad, and often rude.

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