artyoung posted:Sounds like somebody at the Post Office needs to be looking for different employment.
I would suggest a formal complaint, beginning with the local postmaster, and working your way up to your congressman. This sort of inaction is illegal under Federal law.
The complaint to the local postmaster should likely be filed and also simultaneously be sent directly to the main USPS offices and possibly the U.S. Postal Inspector Consider if the "cause" might have originated at the direction of that same local postmaster. Two or three years ago over the holiday season my local post office was repeatedly coding some tracked mail as "delivery attempted - undeliverable-business closed" to residential customers without even an attempt to deliver or take the shipment out of the post office. Word was that some local supervisor (i.e. postmaster) felt it was easier to delay delivery a day or two of the increased holiday volume of mail than schedule and pay staff to handle the short term uptick in packages and/or suffer reduced performance ratings due to late delivery scores. Further covering up the delay with a business hours related delivery delay code when the item could've/should've been sent out and placed in a homeowner's mailbox or doorway.
