STEAM ROOM FOR ANGER
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Here's my mail story - it's actually a good one. Hope that's ok on the "anger" thread. haha
I was out in the desert and was getting low on a certain coffee I wanted. Ordered it on Amazon and the USPS delivered it on SUNDAY. I saw the mail truck out front, so I went out to talk to the driver. It was a woman, and I apologized. I told her that I was sorry she had to work on a Sunday and that my order was only coffee and that it could have waited a day or two. Her response was something like, "Hey, I'm thankful to have the work." I thought that was nice of her.
My experience at home is not so good. We get the neighbors mail pretty often. We used to have an awesome carrier and everyone knew when she was off, because the mail delivery was messed up. The neighborhood threw her a party when she retired. There's been nobody like her since. Oh well, at least we have a house and a mailbox.
Cheers,
Carol
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Yes we had a nice carrier and now we get rotating ones and never the same ones it seems or at the same time even. I can see my box from my front door and usually can see if my carrier comes or not out my window at least. We do not like the "online bill pay" stuff and do not like to bank online. Guess too old fashioned. We stocked up on forever stamps before the price went up.
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I guess my neighborhood (in a good-sized city) is lucky. Our mail carriers keep going until it's all delivered. On heavy mail days, when every house gets deliveries (weekly grocery ads, occasional election documents, etc.) we sometimes get deliveries at 7:00 p.m. or later. That's pretty dedicated.
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I’ve seen our carriers out on Sunday, more frequent around holidays. One flea brain we had was in such a hurry to get finished, couldn’t be bothered to make sure the door was closed properly. Not great when raining or windy.
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I don't mail much these days but one of the things I miss from living in the States is being able to put outgoing mail into my mailbox and having it picked up by the postman.
I know the U.S. still has Saturday delivery but it surprises me, since I know that the idea of eliminating Saturday delivery has been discussed since at least the mid-70s. How do I know this?
In the mid-70s I was at McGill, and I took Economics with Professor Eric Kierans. Just prior to becoming a professor, Kierans had been a member of parliament and a cabinet minister in the Trudeau government (that would be Pierre Elliot, not his useless idiot son Justin). Kierans didn't take himself too seriously and was always regaling us with stories of things that had gone on in cabinet meetings - it was one of my all time favourite classes. Anyway, coming to McGill to speak that year was Ralph Nader. Kierans was the host and introduced him. I don't remember the topic that triggered his comment, but at one point during Nader's speech he mentioned, with horror, that the U.S. government was considering eliminating Saturday mail delivery. That drew a big laugh from the audience, which Nader didn't understand. So Kierans stood up from his seat at the side of the stage, and mentioned that in Canada, Saturday mail delivery had been eliminated in major markets (not rurally) in 1969. Kierans paused (for effect, no doubt) and then added "I was Postmaster General at the time". That took the wind out of Nader's sail, on that point anyway.
Although we don't have Saturday delivery for mail, we sometimes get parcels delivered by CanadaPost on Saturdays. And I love FlexDelivery. At least in Toronto, there are no longer many post offices. What we have instead are lots of small postal centers in drug stores, etc.. With FlexDelivery you can designate a nearby postal center as your delivery hub for parcels. You sign up and are assigned a FlexDelivery address (the address of the location you've selected along with a special number that's uniquely yours). Provide this address when you order something and the parcel is delivered to that location; you get an email immediately when it's arrived there. The package is held at that location for 14 days and you can pick it up anytime. The location we've selected is in a small family run card shop that's a quick 10 minute walk from home. It's great because we don't worry about missing a delivery if we're not home or on vacation and it eliminates having a packages sitting outside the front door. We love it. I guess the service is popular because Amazon now offer the same service and use the same FlexDelivery locations. Is there anything similar through the USPS?
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Yeah, the mail is broke. I only write and mail 2 checks a month now. Everything else -which is insurance premiums, cable, is auto withdraw.
I am under lots of weather warnings right now. I'm not really scared, but as you can imagine being by myself, what if? I've had a tornado warning, flash flood warning, and just hoping the power holds out for a few more hours til this storm moves on out of here!! I'm sort of a weather freak and I've been listening and watching what has been happening in New Orleans area on line the last couple days which is why I haven't been here. Hope any bc.org members in that area are doing well. It was a devastating hurricane. I really wish you the best. Great people. Please let us know if you need anything.
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I have lived in two houses that had mail slots cut through the exterior wall of the house. The letter carrier would shove the mail through the slot and it would fall onto my kitchen floor. Sometimes I had to race the dog or the toddlers to retrieve the mail before it disappeared, but every day at 3:00, PLOP! Mail's here. I clipped letters I wanted to send to the outside mail slot with a clothespin. The luxury of such an arrangement escaped me at the time.
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LOL!! I lived in military quarters before with a slot in the door and had to make sure to get the mail or the dog would chew it up since an "intruder" had been at our house. They thought they were protecting us from something I think. Was to move from there to an outside box!
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My dad had a story where he received a letter that had been stamped by the post office, that the delay in delivery happened because the letter was in a bin that had not been used for 2 years. He figured that the Post office spent 2 years developing that special stamp. Story probably happened before 1970, maybe before 1960......
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Beesie:
The closest thing I can think of to FlexDelivery that the USPS offers is a P.O. box which can be rented at the post office or at an independent business or a service called "General Delivery" where a person can have their mail sent directly to a participating post office without using a P.O. box. But General Delivery is intended for those who do not have an address or local carrier service.
The USPS will also hold for pick up a package that they deem undeliverable, for example if it won't fit in the mail box and the carrier can't find a suitable place to leave it.
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Our house has the mail hole cut into the wall, but it's always had a mailbox built into it. It's a couple inches wide, about 7" tall, and the depth of the interior-to-exterior wall. There's a lift-up door on the outside and a regular door on the inside. The houses with these types of mail boxes were built around 1940. I always wondered how many kids grabbed mail carrier's hands through them.
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oh… I am so glad the usps thread is within the rant thread because I CANT get mail delivered to my house. I have an address. I can get ups or FedEx packages delivered, but no USPS. Instead they give us a PO Box. But the post office has super limited hours so if you work you can’t go. And they have a 2 hour lunch break. And a lot of places don’t accept my physical address since it’s not in “the post office database of valid addresses” which I didn’t know was a thing till we moved here.
We pay for a PO Box in the neighboring town so we can actually get mail during the week.
So I am jealous of your mail carrier, even the bad ones
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Oh brother!!! How can your address "not exist" when you live there and you have a house number. I hope soeone figures that out soon since it is not fair at all you have to pay for box and drive to get mail.
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Correct, moth, they pick up parcels too. I sell online and my lovely carrier takes my packages for me as long as I request the pickup online.
I love the United States Postal Service but I hate Mr. DeJoy. I was hoping he would be ousted after the election. Still hoping. That's my rant.
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Speaking of mail, I was going through a stack of it the other day and found a letter my health insurance company sent out a few months ago. Apparently in January they added coverage for iatrogenic fertility preservation to my policy. That's great but it's three years too late for me.
But hey, I've almost hit my deductible and since they didn't want to pay the $8,000 to $13,000 for it when I could have used it they can pay the $22,000 to $50,000 to get rid of the parts I no longer need.
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Where I worked we had a post office box from which our mail clerk picked up mail for our two buildings every day. Because we had the post office box, we were not allowed to get street delivery. I guess it's a "no double dipping" arrangement. We had a brisk FedEx business going with clients because the mail arrangement didn't get to our offices until too late in the day to take care of the more urgent matters.
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Notascalmasilook - I have the same issue here, but they don't give us a PO Box. We have to pay for them. I haven't had the problem with not being able to get a delivery because we don't exist in a few years, though.
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WC3 that is hard when something like that happens. Fighting with insurance companies for payments is tiring and they should cover all cancer related issues.
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Got out of work early today- Yea! Taking the opportunity of free time to clean up the house, wash my clothes.Was stopped dead in my tracks when I had to water the plants!!! I think I might be certifiable! ? Time is helping my grief but it was a challenging week. Daughter just moved and is now displaced from flooded basement. School just started. We made plans to go to the bay cottage this weekend and was alerted they have opened the dam. The boating folks are not too happy about that. Will be interesting to see what debris comes down. Still going, Just no water activities. Oh and tomorrow I turn 60!! Eeek gads! Starting to get a little nervous of next test next week. I don't want to know anything about my liver or any other organ in my abdomen. I better pass! Going to try and enjoy myself and not get emotional or drink too much but who knows? None of us do.
Wishing you all a good weekend! Little vent is over. Vacuum and mop time!
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ctmbsitka, Happy Birthday! Hope you have a fine time at the beach.
I wish there was a way to take the flood waters and water all the forest fires.
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I am going to rant about my cancer, which I haven't really done. I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling okay one minute and not okay the next. This cancer has been in me for eight years but not known about until it spread to my stomach and I couldn't eat.
I've been on Ibrance for a little over two years. I'm tired of the unknown with lobular, where the scans don't tell a story and the bloodwork doesn't help.
I've been in tears for two days because I feel in my heart that I need to switch meds but have no freaking proof it's not working, except I can't eat a lot again, just like it started and I'm losing weight. For the first time, a CT scan says I have gastric wall thickening, but is that enough to say it's getting worse?
I'm sad that my husband bears the burden of being the only one who truly knows what I'm going through because I act like I'm fine with everyone else.
I'm jealous of my brother who found out in October last year that he had cancer and went quickly and passed in January, and yet I don't want to go. I'm tired of the unknown. I want to feel good, and it's been so long since I haven't.
I'm a strong person and feel so weak right now. I know it's because I'm scared to make the wrong decision. I know the first line is your best line, and I have no definite proof it's stopped working.
I've had a good cry and know I will feel better tomorrow, except for the major headache I’ll have from crying.
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I'm sorry you're having such a rough time right now, KBL. I wish I could send something more than just a virtual hug.
Wishing you a better day tomorrow.
Trish
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Thank you, Trishyla. I really appreciate it. I had written in the Covid thread before I saw your post here. We do feel for each other in a way no one else can, even in rough times.
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cm2020, thank you.I have an appointment on the 13th. I will be telling her I'm ready. I have no idea why I'm so scared to switch. I just think since it's in my stomach that switching means I'm that much closer.
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KBL, I'm so sorry you're going through such a rough and scary time.
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Thank you, AliceBastable. I really appreciate it.
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KBL,
I am so sorry you’re in a funk and hope tomorrow is better.Don’t feel obligated to respond, just take care of yourself.
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KBL, I don't have any words except that fucking sucks. Maybe others will take exception to this and maybe (but I'm hoping not) you will too. I'm angry that you are so sick, I'm angry that a 10 year old girl on the news tonight has cancer, I'm just fucking angry. We can fly to the fucking moon but we can't put that power/money to work finding some GD cure for this disease???? You got GD rich people flying their private space ships to space and here we are. My tears are your tears. I look like shit when I cry too.
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