How Reliable Is Your Postal Service?

I have actually recieved my mail open, even packages torn.I have made sure to tell people who I know are sending something to do it either through UPS or make sure to include a tracking number or something. It seems when I am to recieve packages and they aren't tracked they are either abused or I do not get them at all.

Oh Fathers!!! Pls dont talk about the postal service.It is just crap.I think all government owned enterprises are nothing but frauds.Last week I sent my sisters certificates to her by express post which is supposed to reach her that very day.But she still has not got it.When I went there to complain,the person there tells me to wait for fifteen days and if it still does not reach then file a complaint.Then what is the purpose of the extra cash for the express delivery??? Im on pins because its her certificates.If it is lost,everything is lost.

Hello,Ellie! Here in India the postal service is the worst service ever provided to people.Few years back I received my bank draft,sent from my head office,after four months and letter I received frm my nephew after about two months from date of its posting.This is how our postal services are prompt.thanx.

I am furious about the fact that you've not received that parcel yet Ellie. I have asked the PO to look into the matter but I'm not holding out any hope. Generally I think that the post is pretty good, at least here. That's part of the reason why I am so cross. Our mail comes every day at about 10 am - it used to come at 8 and again at 2 but "modernisation" and "increased effectiveness" has seen that service reduced to once per day and apparently we should count ourselves lucky to have that!

Eversince there are approximately 2 or 3 mails that I haven't received which was confirmed from the other end that it was sent yet it never arrived. And you are right, it made me realized about those who was sent to us unknowingly or we don't have any idea. Somehow the count maybe far higher than what I expect. And speaking of the bills, it's just stacked right there in the office, undelivered for months.

I know the one _I_ have to use is awful. In fact, I've never had a LOT of luck with the Pest Awful...uh, s'cuse me, Post Offal, dagnabbit--I mean POST ORIFICE!!! Put it this way. The U.S. Snail sez they"only" lose about 2% of their mail, yearly. Stop & think, how many MILLIONS of pieces that IS! "Only?!" And most of 'em seem to be MINE. Okay, joking, but seriously, I'm often forced to call utilities companies & so one to see if they've sent me a bill, lest I wind up not GETTING it, & then forget that, thus ending up having to pay a LATE fee! It's often asked why P.O. employees "go postal." I think they should be asking why the P.O.'s CUSTOMERS =don't!= Maggiepie

I rely on the postal service to get and mail out all my packages and then pray that it get where it is supposed to. I sent out a package 2 weeks ago to my cousin whom lives in the same state about an hour and a half away from me(neither of us own cars)and she still hasn't received it yet. I am very disappointed because what was in the package cannot be replaced. I will from now on start getting the insurance and also a tracking number. It would be worth the extra cost to know it was received.

They are alright I guess. I hardly use Postal services nowadays. But, they do deliver.. sometimes late. And once is a while, they do lose a letter, but you can't prove it because they always blame the sender. Cheers and happy mylotting

The postal service here is very friendly and efficient. I usually don't deal with parcels, but I do send and receive letters in the post, and I've not lost a single one yet in as many years as I can remember. There are many post boxes around for people to post their letters, and the postal agency comes around everyday at certain prescribed hours to collect the mails for sorting and delivery. Here the postal service is so reliable that if I post a letter to anyone locally, it will be delivered by the next working day. In practice, it works because I usually send out letters and payments one day before due date and the recipients usually receive them on time.

Oh, man... Good question, ellie. In the Philippines, the answer is "not so much". If you're sending anything more than pencil/pen on paper, don't get it through the post offices here. I once sent a letter to my previous girlfriend, and I included a keychain in it. It never reached her. It was HERE. IN THE SAME CITY! Hah! ------ When I was in college, I thought about working there part-time because I thought that it was something noble. Now, if I ever think about working there again, it would be 'cos I want things done right.

Yes, we get lots of hate-mail too, lol! The post round here doesn't seem too bad. I don't know of anything that we were supposed to get that hasn't arrived; but like you point out, you don't find out about those things (unless the sender asks you if you've got it and you haven't!) We've had a couple of things sent from overseas that have gone astray, or taken months to arrive when they should have taken weeks, but it's difficult to know who's a fault there. We also get post every day, but most of ours is either bills or a load of junk mail.

The speed and quality of the Aussie mail service differs from place to place. It works in a strange way - places which are reasonably close (as the crow flies) have the mail go through a capital city, which slows it up. We have a daughter in Darwin, and sometimes it's nearly a fortnight before we receive parcels and things from her, so now she registers them and they arrive much sooner, as well as having a tracking number just in case. Our hate mail (love it!) NEVER gets lost. More's the pity ...

hi Ellie in my area it depends the company.some are very slow and some are fast.we still get the stuff but it takes a while if you complained but if not bad luck.

Hi ya ellie333 I am never sure if it is the sender's fault I haven't received a parcel yet or darn old Royal Mail. I really hate it when I hear the letterbox goes and there on the mat is, like you call it, hate mail especially when I am waiting for something. Most days I get mail but there usually a few days in the week that I don't get any. No news is good news my mum always says!!

well the postal service is quite reliable... all the important papers always reach late and the ones i wish never to come seem to come before time... I had applied for a payoneer card but it did not show up so after ne and a half month i got it cancalled and reissued but this time also i haven't received it.. and i can't withdarw all the money i have collected in that account.. thanks to the postal services... :)

My mail has gotten lost a few times. My grip is with my postman. He won't bring me my big packages, he leaves me a note to collect them at the post office. He doesn't even try to give them to me. He is suppose to come to my door with a package that won't fit in the box. Also if I have a letter that needs to be signed to recieve it he won't bring them to my door, even when I was in a wheel chair. He would just leave me a note telling me I had one and to pick it up at the post office. I wouldn't mind if I had no medical problems and it wasn't so far to the post office. My post office for Hillsboro says I'm too far out to recieve my mailf rom them so it comes from another town that is almost 20 miles away. Odd since it's only 5 miles to the Hillsboro post office. My home address is Estill Springs instead of Hillsboro. Many places in Tennessee are the same way. It's annoying that my mailman will not deliver to me the way he is suppose to. He's too lazy to get out of the car and come to my door.

my postal service is pretty reliable i hardly have any problems to complain about when dealing with getting my mail on the other hand other family member have problem with the mailman leaving their packages at other people house because he is to lazy to walk and give it to them are leaving there mail in oother people mailboxes.they have told him many times and yet he still do it.i don,t have any mail lost thank god

All the parcels that I have been expecting have arrived with no problems. There aren't many that I dont know about as I only get parcels near my birthday or around Christmas time unless I have ordered off the internet. My family tend to inform me when they are sending parcels except my brother didnt this year and I had to got to the Royal Mail office to pick it up. It does make you wonder about all the post that does get lost or never arrives at its destination!!!

Except for federal holidays, our mail comes Monday through Saturday usually between 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. if our regular postman delivers. If it's someone else, there's no telling when it will come, but that's because the substitute has to do his/her route first and then the other. Our regular postman is very reliable and very seldom makes a mistake.

Hi, Ellie! Where I live as far as I know my family never has any trouble with the mail and in fact our mail lady sometimes even goes out of her way to deliver it to us at the door rather than at our box so we don't even have to cross the street. This includes our packages that are too big for our box. On the other hand when I lived in downtown, Tampa, Florida, I still find it funny that it took 3 or more days later for something coming to me in the mail (even from Tampa itself than for something coming from Guam. That's out in the Pacific Ocean not in the neighborhood.)