Advice - mail dilemma

So.......needless to say I get tons of mail from casino... Over the last few months I have notice stuff that always seems to be missing. Well I had my neighbor call me today and tell me he saw the mailman throw mail in the trash can. Not sure what to do- if I call the post office they will not do anything I'm sure. If I had video proof I would but I think he just gets mad when it's near the end of the month and all the mail rolls in

1) Just get video of him throwing your mail out, or anyone's for that matter.
2) Post to YouTube and send a link to the post office and a couple news stations.
3) You'll have a new mail man within a couple days.

Quote: Romes

1) Just get video of him throwing your mail out, or anyone's for that matter.
2) Post to YouTube and send a link to the post office and a couple news stations.
3) You'll have a new mail man within a couple days.

Ditto. That's a firing offense at the USPS. Make the call.

Quote: beachbumbabs

Ditto. That's a firing offense at the USPS. Make the call.

As well as a federal crime: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1703

I'm nit sure what the fix is- I hate snitching completely I wanted to go and confront him one day- but that may lead to something physical- it's a bad situation because some days I may get 100 pieces of mail and I'm sure he just gets aggravated from it

https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/contactus/filecomplaint.aspx

They want to know.

Now, if you want to quietly mention to your letter carrier first that you were expecting some mail that you didn't get, and it wasn't junk mail even though it looks like it, that's your call.


I thought it was worth the annual fee for a post office box. I have had exactly zero problems. I have found it extremely convenient to just go once or twice a month, pick up all the offers at once, sort and process them, then be on my way. My local station has a convenient blue bin for appropriately filing recyclables, right next to the counters where people stand to sort their mail.

The hidden benefit: if you have two mailing addresses, you can sometimes sign up for two sets of coupons to be mailed to you... so I get extra Harbor Freight coupons. (Free flashlights? +EV!)

Quote: Wizardofnothing

I'm nit sure what the fix is- I hate snitching completely I wanted to go and confront him one day- but that may lead to something physical- it's a bad situation because some days I may get 100 pieces of mail and I'm sure he just gets aggravated from it

Interesting quote from WizoNothing, noticed another earlier today ( some VP thread, maybe ). I had thought that the poster had just jumped on the bandwagon of the much more experienced and enlightened 'longtime regular' posters here that have questioned my contributions ( can you hear me now? Or do you have me blocked?) which made perfect sense. Now I have to re-think....

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oh ya good advice here. Report him to mail service

That meant what, exactly?

Face is a mail carrier, does he still read
this forum? He rarely posts anymore.

Quote: Wizardofnothing

some days I may get 100 pieces of mail and I'm sure he just gets aggravated from it

Actually it my accrue to his benefit. A couple of years ago, a friend who is a deliverer described to me how the Postal Service audits the number of pieces being delivered and adjust wages accordingly. Customers like you just might be helping earn him a wage increase.

Quote: Wizardofnothing

So.......needless to say I get tons of mail from casino... Over the last few months I have notice stuff that always seems to be missing. Well I had my neighbor call me today and tell me he saw the mailman throw mail in the trash can. Not sure what to do- if I call the post office they will not do anything I'm sure. If I had video proof I would but I think he just gets mad when it's near the end of the month and all the mail rolls in

There are bad apples in every bunch and there have been some idiotic mail carriers who improperly disposed of deliverable mail, so I won't say that the possibility you projected didn't happen. However, the likelihood is very low. Sure, you're neighbor probably saw something, but was the mailman really throwing away mail? Deliverable mail? Did your neighbor retrieve the mail and confirm this? (Not that he would necessarily know whether or not the mail is deliverable or undeliverable, and from my experience, people don't know the difference between First Class mail and Standard Rate mail.) After I deliver to the apartment complex on my route, I wind up with a bunch of undeliverable bulk business mail. (Standard rate mail addressed to previous resident or vacant address.) There have been days when I wound up with a lot of UBBM and I chose to dump it in the recycle bin outside of the mailroom instead of hauling it around the rest of the day. (From my understanding, the PO disposes of undeliverable bulk business mail through recycling.) Sure, the mailers from multiple casinos here in the LV area at the end of the month aren't pleasant (because they're never sorted in automation but left to us to case manually), but it's my job. It's great when a mail count is at the end of the month and includes these mailings. More credit for raw mail that isn't in the delivery point sequence letter trays. Do some carriers not do their jobs? Probably.

If you think you're mailman is throwing away your mail, you really should report it. We need less bad apples. Actually, get your neighbor to report it, since he supposedly witnessed the mailman throw mail in the trash can and called to tell you about it.

Quote: SanchoPanza

Actually it my accrue to his benefit. A couple of years ago, a friend who is a deliverer described to me how the Postal Service audits the number of pieces being delivered and adjust wages accordingly. Customers like you just might be helping earn him a wage increase.

What that is, is a mail count. Two weeks in September when every piece of mail delivered by Rural Mail Carriers are counted. Not to be confused with City USPS mail carriers who get paid by the hour. Anyway the rural carriers do get paid by the size of their route.

This is the city

Check with Face, resident USPS expert.

BlueEagle is a postal carrier. Hence the Blue Eagle:

Not likely to be fired.

Probably suspended from duty - WITH PAY.