Sometimes I think that the dumbest bird: the turkey and not the eagle ought to be the symbol of my post office. I say this because the turkey represents my mail carrier. Not only does my mail carrier that works out of this office do stupid things but it seems like he is doing it on purpose. I have lived at my address longer than I have been yelping, which is years. At this address that I have lived in, I return to my mail box after a week and a half to find a surprise when I turn the key and open my mailbox. All my mail is gone. I know that I left a small pile of mail in the nearly empty mailbox when I was leaving because my landlord was inspecting my apartment wanted it clear of info. When I opened the mailbox there was going to be a problem of resenting my bills. Fortunately there were no checks in transit. My other concern is that my postal carrier is going to stop mail delivery to my address. So after a hard day's work, I had to motor across Green Valley to the post office. This leads into another complaint that I will address in the following paragraph.
My major beef with this post office besides incompetence is that I reside less than a mile from another location, however, it is this location nearly five miles each way that is my post office. This makes absolutely no sense.
When I arrived in this United States Post Office there was a relatively short line. Now being the post office none of the postal workers were in a rush. Now I do give credit for a postal worker attempting to remediate the line by sending some of the people to the UPS desk.
When it was my turn, one of the two postal workers at the counter assisted me. He asked me why I left the mail there. I told him it was a small pile and that the mail box was mostly empty. He took my address then walked to the back to try and find my mail. Now there was one postal worker assisting the long line of easygoing people in back of me. As I expected my mail was gone. He claimed that my mail was in the mail box later than ten days. Hmmm! In ten days no bills or mail arrived! This leads into the issue that the Post Office has the attitude that they ate never at fault and are perfect. For all I know my postal carrier could of thrown out my mail or did something worse. It is obvious that one postal worker would never hold one of their own culpable. Instead he told me that if I go away that I need to fill out an "Authorization to Hold Mail" form. Consecutively he filled out a note informing my mail carrier to deliver mail to this address and that I still reside here. His last words were to place a note in my mailbox standing up saying that I want to get my mail and still live here.
The United States Post Office deserves some of the negativity directed toward it. There was absolutely and positively no reason to clear out a resident's mail box that was nearly 80 percent empty a week and a half ago. I think the mail carrier was purposely showing off his power while busting my chops. He has nothing to lose. Well maybe my mail. I remember the expression of going postal. It seems that at my post office there is trickle-down going postal where the mail carriers create bad situations that trickle down to their residents. I hope that my mail carrier reads my letter and starts sending my mail. In the future I will have to visit the Post Office up the street from me to pick up "Authorization to Hold Mail" forms to avoid a surprise if I am gone for a few days.