HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- When Jimmie Blackstone signed up with a new internet provider, he said he was offered a $100 Visa gift card as a bonus.
After it didn't show up, he said he contacted the company, who told him it was used at a nearby restaurant that he's never been to.
Blackstone said he doesn't know for certain who stole his gift card, but he said since his mail sometimes arrives from the U.S. Postal Service already opened and at odd times, he suspects it could have been one of their workers.
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I've never had mail stolen, I've never had a package snatched off my porch and I've never had my mail delivered already opened. Just sayin'.
Its a Goddamned cryin' shame when even the Post Office has to caution to avoid using the outside blue mailboxes to send mail over the holidays.
ReplyDeleteI get a lot of requests from USPS inspectors about stolen gift cards.
ReplyDeleteNever mail cash or gift cards................................
The answer is blowin' in the DEI wind. In 2022, Black workers made up 29.0 percent of the US Postal Service workforce — more than double their 12.6 percent share of the total U.S. labor force.
ReplyDeleteThis is very true. When I was younger, I thought working for the postal service would be a good dependable govt job. After applying and trying for years, I determined I was of the wrong color. Even after spending money on making myself look more attractive to the post office, they would never even interview me, not once. Gave up after several years of trying. Long before dei became a thing...
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Hear, hear. Our former carrier, of that persuasion, who probably wasn't born here was a disaster. The final straw came when mail concerning our financial affairs was delivered to another address and thus the person who initially got the mail had knowledge of our financial affairs they shouldn't have. Wrote a letter to the local postmaster and amazingly we did get a personal response. This mail carrier was replaced by a nice, asian, female mail carrier, who tends to her work and we have had no other mail-related episodes since.
DeleteA letter carrier told me that Post Office employees hold envelopes to the light looking for money. Theft is so bad that I do not ship purchases to my address. I've never had a porch pirate but I have watched as the PO leaves my package on top of my mailbox across the street. I could write a book of PO improper delivery including registered mail I am supposed to sign for. they just stuff it into the mailbox and keep going.
ReplyDeleteYou see this sort of thing in more urban environments. My last neighborhood porch pirates were common. Oddly enough, not at my house. I'd crack up watching the Ring videos. Go ahead, grab my package of underwear or whatever weird part I bought.
ReplyDeleteWhere I live now isn't anywhere near as nice, and the way my house is built, you can't see if there are any packages on my porch unless you stop right in front.
Far as mail goes, I don't get anything worth taking. 95% of it is junk or for the last four tenants here. Only thing I get that's worth opening is my pay stub and utility statements (that are already paid). If I get a package of any kind, the mail carrier (a fat black woman) will stuff it in the box rather than waddle her fat ass to the porch.
I've never had any problem. I know my letter carrier, and the girls behind the counter at the po. If I get a large package they know to hold it for me
ReplyDeleteJust yesterday, I received an Amazon purchase delivered to my doorstep by USPS. It was so beat to shit that I took pictures of it to send in with my complaint to both Amazon and USPS. They had it in their possession for less than 12 hours before it was placed at my door but it looked like it had been dragged through the mud for a week. I honestly think their line workers deliberately knock the snot out of packages for their own twisted amusement.
ReplyDeleteHire the turd world, become the turd world.
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Thirty years ago I contacted the IRS to ask when they were going to get around to sending me my refund. Turns out that it had already been cashed in a small 7-11 and signed “Mr Timbotoo and Mrs Timbotoo” which should have struck them as strange.
ReplyDeleteIt's my shit hole city! hahaha
ReplyDeleteI have gotten an opened USPS package. My wife has sent mail that the recepient reported had been opened.
ReplyDeleteWhen I lived in Houston (Very nice neighborhood) about 1/3 of my mail never got delivered.
ReplyDeleteNot that long ago (5 dog years) we had the same middle aged mailman who knew us by first name and always had a pleasant demeanor whenever he delivered in hand. He retired after nearly twenty five or so years of delivering our mail and we got him a card and I personally congratulated and thanked him for his faithful and unwavering service. Since then, it’s been a hodgepodge of various diversity hires and I have never seen the same mail (person) for more than a few months. And yes, I have received open or obviously tampered mail as recent as a few weeks ago. I certainly don’t have the faith in the USPS that I once had..
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I have had all three. Consider yourself lucky.
ReplyDeleteI have had packages stolen bu USPS employees, in the end they admit to it.
ReplyDeleteIn late 2022 a client mailed me a $2800 check. Forged signature, e-deposit via cell phone by a USPS employee. I got my $$$, verified that it was stolen to his company's bank, and they went after the guy. Nabbed him; he got 2 years in ATL.
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