Minor things that bother you

[Molandfreak]

I had to return/exchange a large DVD set because some of the discs were defective.  The replacement is on track to arrive tomorrow - when I'll be out of town most of the day for a roadmeet, and have essentially no time to check the discs (there are 50 of them, so even just looking at the back and testing to see if they're recognized/play if they have scratches will easily take a whole hour) in the limited evening hours when I'll be home.  I can't find a way to force the post office to hold the package until Monday so I can deal with it then.

If you have home delivery of your mail, you can always request a hold on your mail. When I had home delivery, I did it a couple of times.

(Realizing that you'll see this too late to actually arrange the hold.)

He said its being delivered Saturday. He can go to his postoffice right now and put the hold on.

I'm sure this is unintentional, but vdeane uses she/her pronouns.

[1995hoo]

You can request a hold through the USPS website. I've done it many times, although it looks like they now require a login. A request submitted this afternoon is supposed to be timely for mail due to be delivered tomorrow—the site says you have until 2:00 AM for tomorrow's mail.

[vdeane]

You can request a hold through the USPS website. I've done it many times, although it looks like they now require a login. A request submitted this afternoon is supposed to be timely for mail due to be delivered tomorrow—the site says you have until 2:00 AM for tomorrow's mail.

They do, and I have one from when I was at my previous apartment (my current apartment requires a key to get regular mail, so I don't bother with anything less than a week now).  They also require that holds be a minimum of three days long (unless that changed again), enforced by the date picker, so unless I want to stop all mail until well into next week, that's not really an option.

[gonealookin]

They also require that holds be a minimum of three days long (unless that changed again), enforced by the date picker, so unless I want to stop all mail until well into next week, that's not really an option.

"Not really an option"?  You can't go three days without getting mail delivered?  I get all my mail delivered to a PO Box because USPS doesn't do home delivery here (they do give us the PO Box for free, with annual proof of current residency like a utility bill), and two visits a week is plenty often.

With so many items that formerly went via USPS now delivered via the Internet, I don't see why residential delivery needs to be more than three times a week at most.  Businesses should get mail every day, but not every single house.

[Rothman]

They also require that holds be a minimum of three days long (unless that changed again), enforced by the date picker, so unless I want to stop all mail until well into next week, that's not really an option.

"Not really an option"?  You can't go three days without getting mail delivered?  I get all my mail delivered to a PO Box because USPS doesn't do home delivery here (they do give us the PO Box for free, with annual proof of current residency like a utility bill), and two visits a week is plenty often.

With so many items that formerly went via USPS now delivered via the Internet, I don't see why residential delivery needs to be more than three times a week at most.  Businesses should get mail every day, but not every single house.

Internet, but no home mail delivery...methinks your neck is quite red. ;D

[mgk920]

Political powers-that-be who have conveniently forgotten that the 18 Amendment was repealed over 90 years ago.

Mike

[gonealookin]

"Not really an option"?  You can't go three days without getting mail delivered?  I get all my mail delivered to a PO Box because USPS doesn't do home delivery here (they do give us the PO Box for free, with annual proof of current residency like a utility bill), and two visits a week is plenty often.

With so many items that formerly went via USPS now delivered via the Internet, I don't see why residential delivery needs to be more than three times a week at most.  Businesses should get mail every day, but not every single house.

Internet, but no home mail delivery...methinks your neck is quite red. ;D

Heh.  Congress is the entity that has prevented USPS from downsizing in response to Internet delivery.  This is an area where Trump could use his power over the current Congress to do something I would fully support, which is to reduce USPS service to five days a week and have each residential delivery route run only on alternate days.

I would probably eliminate Monday service, so as to allow people who work Monday through Friday to easily be able to access full USPS service on Saturdays.  One week a particular residence would get mail delivery on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and the next week just on Wednesday and Friday.  It would eliminate a lot of make-work jobs that were necessary 50 years ago but just contribute to USPS bloat today.