The driver assigned to my route was the laziest lying bastard.
Granted, I live off the beaten path. But that's no reason to lie
We're retired here, so we're almost always home on a weekday except for one or two days a month when we're both out. Otherwise, there's nearly always someone here. Especially when we're expecting an important package. One day we're home waiting for a package and it doesn't come, and using the tracking number find out that the driver attempted delivery but did not because "nobody was home". Which was a lie. What he (and a lot of other people) didn't know was that there are multiple security cameras all over the outside of the house. There was absolutely no footage of a FedEx truck "attempting to make a delivery" just in case we were doing yardwork out back and didn't see him, but then the dogs would have barked up a storm had anyone come into the driveway.
Another time a box of diabetic meds and supplies got misdelivered to some neighbors at the top of the hill, and the kids opened it up not realizing that it wasn't theirs.
And, worst of all, some Christmas gifts for the grandkids I ordered at the beginning of December one year which were delivered the day AFTER Christmas to a neighbor's house. They stayed on that truck for TWO weeks. That's when I wrote to the Corporate Office and complained. Never got a reply...no "Sorry for your inconvenience"...nothing! But since then the driver has never pulled the same crap again.
UPS...what can I say. The hill I live on is nasty, even in the summertime. In winter it's treacherous. So the driver leaves my packages with a neighbor who has a business in town at the bottom of the hill. She drops packages off here on her way home
And the USPS...our mail lady for years has been using her own jeep to deliver mail, and gets a gas, etc. allowance from the USPS. At the beginning of this winter, residents of "the hill" as it's called here, were informed that we would no longer get our mail, because the big white truck our mail lady would henceforth be using would be unsuitable for the terrain, and we would have to travel into town to pick up our mail. Well, there are a lot of elderly/retired people here who don't leave their homes on a daily basis. Plus, the mail lady provided full services to residents, including picking up outgoing mail. If she didn't come around, that means mailing a letter or a bill would require a ten mile round trip. A complete waste of time and gas.
People complained, and the USPS put chains on her tires, so she's been coming around when she can, although not during snowstorms.
Yesterday she got stuck at the end of my driveway and had to call the town road crew to come out and sand the road to the top so she could get out.
So if I had a choice I would rather FedEx and UPS drop my packages off at the local post office for USPS delivery.
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