Our new mailman is driving me nuts. My wife sells stuff on eBay an Amazon.com so she has pickups going out nearly every day, and our new mailman won't even deliver the mail half the time, let alone pick it up. I don't know if he moved here from Alabama or what, but he won't deliver mail when there's snow on the ground. I'm not talking about walking through snowdrifts, either. He seems to be unwilling to deliver the mail unless he has perfectly dry pavement to walk on, and that's pretty much impossible in Millinocket during the winter. Though the sidewalk might have been newly cleared with a snowblower or shoveled, if the town plow truck comes by once in between, he won't so much as step over a deposit of snow they might have left at the end of the driveway, and there have been several times when there didn't seem even to be that as an obstruction. Personally, I think he drives up the street and unless he can see dry pavement all the way, he won't even get out of his truck. To complicate things even further, there doesn't seem to be any particular time when he's likely to come by. Our last mailwoman would be by at about ten o'clock every morning, so I could make sure to clear anything the town might have plowed into my driveway. For that matter, unless the snow were particularly deep, she would walk through it. But she's on a different route now. Not this guy. If he comes at all, it might be any time between nine o'clock in the morning and four o'clock in the afternoon. When he doesn't pick up, we have to drive into the post office to pick up our mail and to drop off any packages that are scheduled to go out, and that's annoying. The woman who works in the post office said that she had received a dozen complaints about the guy the last time we had to do that, so I know it's not just me. I'm not sure that he doesn't just park his truck at home, so that he can watch television all day, then bring all the mail back to the post office in the afternoon, saying that there was too much snow or ice to deliver.
Don't understand 'how' he can get away with this, he 'has' to do the work surely I'm amazed too that he collects packages, over here you have to take parcels to the Post Office and send them Anyway - he's not fit for purpose, report him
That's a regular service of the US post office. They used to pick up media mail too, but now there has to be at least one first-class package going out, and then they'll pick up the media mail along with it.
http://nypost.com/2016/12/20/jerk-postal-worker-busted-for-dumping-mail-in-woods/ For a couple of years now I have been reading weird News articles about postal workers not delivering the mail but instead storing it in their homes, rented storage units, etc. The above article is the latest one I found but if you type in "postal workers not delivering mail" the internet will bring up plenty of articles on this and the reasons the postal workers have given for not delivering. There is every excuse from they just didn't feel like it, to those who kept the mail to steal gift cards, etc. Every once in awhile our mail carrier "forgets" to take a letter we have put in our box to be mailed but we haven't had any serious issues so far with any of those delivering the mail to us. The Postal System keeps raising prices and yet their service is getting worse every year. It seems @Ken Anderson you have one of those "rogue" postal workers who makes his own rules for when he will deliver and pick up the mail. Surely there is something that can be done about this.
Someone who was a supervisor with the postal service once told me that if a mail carrier refused to carry the mail, it would take at least two years of paperwork before they could fire him, and then there'd be a chance that the postal union would get him his job back. He cited one person who had been storing undelivered mail in his garage, saying that although the guy was fired after it came out in the newspapers that he was doing that, he was later reinstated by the postal service, although not as a mail carrier.