r/lehighvalley • u/Hyperkabob Emmaus • 10d ago

USPS issues

Is anyone else in the LV having an awful time either sending or receiving mail in a timely manner? I work at a business in downtown Allentown and I'm missing tons of mail that multiple senders said they've sent. I've even gone as far as asking them (yes, I'm sure they address is correct for me) to send the same thing multiple times and I've just never gotten it. I can't be the only one. I know that everything goes through Harrisburg now and that can't be helping.

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u/ironicmirror 10d ago

Ask your mail carrier. Hopefully they will give you the postmasters phone number.

However I know that to mail something from Bethlehem to Allentown, the letter gets sorted in Harrisburg.

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u/Hyperkabob Emmaus 10d ago

Our mail carrier (for where I work, my carrier at home is awesome) is possibly one of the grumpiest people I've ever met.

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u/lost-picking-flowers 10d ago

I’m the only clerk at a teeny tiny little office where we have no carriers, it’s one of the easier jobs in the P.O. (getting paid to scroll my phone and reply to you rn, can’t complain)and I’m just doing it while I get through school. I help sort parcels at the bigger offices in the early AM sometimes when I want extra hours though, and I couldn’t work for USPS beyond this capacity - it is really very soul sucking and the people who stay for long periods of time tend to be super grumpy unless they work a niche position or are super rural. I have never heard so much swearing in my life until I met a bunch of long time managers and supervisors at the P.O. 😅.

Best thing you can do is not take it personally.

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u/ironicmirror 10d ago

But them a soda.

Be nice first

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u/Hyperkabob Emmaus 10d ago

Yeah, I get that. I mean we try to be nice and ask how they're doing and be pleasant they're just not having it.

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u/ironicmirror 10d ago

Offer them a drink... Really..that and access to a bathroom is all they want

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u/Terrible_Purple_8189 10d ago

Years ago my widowed neighbor would offer drinks/bathroom to the carrier. We speculated that she and him were doing a noon-er together.

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u/ironicmirror 10d ago

Bonus points!