Clayton, NC USPS…Red-Green Colorblind?
First of all, I appreciate all the work that my regular USPS delivery person puts in day after day. And I appreciate it even more when she takes a day off.
You see, whenever there’s a substitute driver, I end up annoyed and holding a pencil - ready to stab my eye out. But I’m a writer, so instead I stab my leg.
Take today for example…I was driving home from an appointment and passed the USPS truck on its way up my street, having already delivered to my side of the street. I pulled into the driveway and noticed my red flag still up. Figuring the USPS driver took my mail and just didn’t push the flag down far enough, I went to the mailbox to investigate.
They didn’t take my mail. Apparently, I had none to be delivered, either.
Note to driver. Red flag = I have mail for you to take as part of your job.
Today, it’s important mail that I wanted out…today. So I hop into the Relocate Claytonmobile and chase the driver down. The driver looked rather shocked and seemed to not know what to do with the mail I handed them. This scares me. It scares me because:
- I’ll never know if I embarrassed the driver enough for them to get angry and throw my mail away
- The driver looked confused when I handed them the mail and proceeded to explain that they had missed my house
- This is not the first, or second, time this has happened
- I probably got put on a government watch list for trying to get a federal employee to recognize the color red
And what’s worse…when I call the Clayton, NC USPS Post Office to talk to somebody about it, I get the following:
Four-to-five rings followed by a message that says: “Hello. Please leave your message after the beep.”
After five calls, I gave up and called the 800 number. I was told by a USPS representative at a call center that the local offices aren’t required to even HAVE messages and that most calls to local offices get re-routed to call centers.
I never could get an answer to my questions as to why they publish local numbers with no intention of answering the phone.
Ironically, the person at the call center told me that someone from the Clayton USPS center in 27520 would be calling me by the end of the next business day.
So let me get this straight…they don’t have time to TAKE my concerns at the local USPS, but they have time to call me back about them? Interesting.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a huge complainer. In fact, I’m very much a benefit-of-the-doubt kinda guy. This is the third time this summer this has happened. If someone had picked up at the local office, I probably wouldn’t even be writing this bitchy post.
I was also informed that I might not have the most correct number for the Clayton, NC USPS office. I was given another number of (919) 553-1867 to try. Instead of an answering machine, I get a busy signal.
At least one of us can see red, USPS.
Where I come from, we call this EPIC GOVERNMENT FAIL.
Written by RelocateClayton on September 2nd, 2008 with 2 comments.
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