B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for January 22, 2024

Too bad it’s for Wiley.

The old postal slogan was “Mail moves the country, but Zip code moves the mail.”

Back in BC days, Peter’s Zip code was 3, grog’s was 5, BC’s was 2, and …

Good luck with that. Around here, if it snows very much at all, CDA Post does not deliver to the superboxes. I have to chase all the way across town to the depot- which has limited hours- to retrieve my mail. I asked the supervisor whatever happened to “through sleet & snow & hail, etc.”?

He said: “Unions.”

Respect? Are you kidding! Postage rates just keep going up and up… and their debt gets deeper and deeper.

That’s better service than we receive in Illinois.

Ooooh… No birds today but three showflakes in each panel!

My postman is cool!

Even in the snow, our mail man still wears his shorts………

Paper post? Me thoughts they only sends stone tablets back then through seamail.

It’s actually a subpoena! You’ve been served.

Must be junk mail.

When it snows I see the USPS the next day.

Depends on where you live. At one place we lived, our carrier was so awesome, she’d take the letters to Santa and answer them herself for our girls. Where we live now, it’s so bad, someone finally had enough and late at night, set the lobby of the post office ablaze costing about $200K in damages. It’s all relative, I guess.

Probably a bill…

Represent!

Given the USPS’s reputation over the last few years, that’s a little harder to do!

Some city in New York had almost 7 feet of snow last week Whew ! : (

Tell that to the victims of one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British history over the Horizon scandal which is STILL ongoing

See Dagwood Sunday 1-16 if you want to know why USPS has fallen so far from its original reputation. Don’t need to go into that, as the stories of change are endemic.

When I am outside at the time my rural carrier comes, she stops to talk to me for 5 or 10 minutes and complains about how long her route takes.

And then there’s NNNNNewman!

Canada Post carriers are pretty good where I live.

That was the Post Office of a different day and age. Now you’re lucky if you get your mail at all.

“Foop”? Realy?

Yeah! Like the current post office would ever do that. We just got five Christmas cards last Friday that were postmarked December 12-17. I had to start paying bills on-line because my payments would arrive late even if I sent them 2 weeks before the due date and I’d get hit with a late fee. And the price of stamps just went up again.

Nope that was FedEx.

I get that service for all my junk mail. never misses – however 3 day express or anything else including overnight most of the time gets there whenever they feel like it. complain and they just shrug their shoulders. USPS without AMAZON would have nothing but junk to deliver——— oh wait! they just do deliver junk. js

First thought that was a ghost standing in the cave.

Ha Ha Ha…Not now-a-days!

If there was no junk mail we’d have no post office at all.

Times have changed!!!!

$.68

For a minute there I thought it was a ghost…

Soon the postman will be a ghost…

I am not sure the mail delivery “people” know how to read.

Postal service is over the hill and gaining speed to become the worst service in history! Thanks to Dejoy, a rump appointee! ☹️☹️☹️

I respect the mail delivery people. It’s not their fault if you do not get your mail. Sometimes its lost before they get it or lost in transition from one postal center to another or lost on a boat or plane. I guess there are a lot of factors, huh? Now for the guy who lost 100 Christmas Cards that were sent out to family and friends and none of them received it, I don’t have an explanation.

Well at least the snow put an end to the draft.

We went almost an entire week last week without mail delivery. Between the holiday, snow the next day, and being short staffed we went from the previous Saturday to Friday before a mail truck stopped at our house.

We ship quilts 7 or 8 times a year. The USPS is more reliable and just as quick for considerably less than either UPS or FEDEX in our experience.

I assume I have mail in my mailbox. There is too much ice between me and the mailbox to go find out if I have any junk mail. I haven’t checked in at least a week. Last time it took me 5 minutes to get across the street and back. Even my dog, who was with me, seemed skittish on the ice that was very uneven from the winds. The next two days: wintry mix. Can’t wait.

I did respect it, before DeJoy came in to tear it down.

Those were the good old days. Now if the weather is bad, the local mailpersons don’t want to drive in it so the mail doesn’t get delivered. It is a different era at the USPS now.

You’re kidding. They won’t even ring the bell, just mark it as “nobody home”.

The Post Office is not what it once was. Neither are the workers that work there.

I live on a main road in our town and the snow plows will end up blocking the entrance to our parking lot when they go by and if the mail truck can’t get through it they won’t deliver the mail that day and we have to go to the post office to pick it up. With having the 3 snow storms in a row this past 2 weeks Dad has made sure he shovels and/or sno blows part of the entrance to our parking lot so the mail truck can get in and so that we can get out, our landlord usually comes with his plow on pick up the day after storm to clear lot but he is still recovering from stroke and his plow is broken so he is trying to get it fixed so we understand that this winter is harder for him to clear it.

Not on my street