?? Usps ???

**Vagabond101** · 04-28-2013, 04:15 AM

Okay here's my dilemma. I travel constantly for work. Staying on the road for months at a time and usually only coming home for a week then I'm back at it. The USPS will RTS my packages after three missed attempts.
My source Requires a Signature on Delivery and won't budge on that policy. Has anyone jumped this hurtle yet? If I get a P.O. Box will the post office hold my mail until I'm able to sign for it. Or should I just put all my mail on hold? I know you'll probably say I should just get a better source but a good source is hard to find!
I'm going to ask the post office my options on Monday I am just trying to see what all the options are.

P.S. No I'm not going to get Married just so someone can sign for my package!

**ironbeck** · 04-28-2013, 04:35 AM

How about a live in sex slave.

**Vagabond101** · 04-28-2013, 06:29 AM

All options are one the Table or handcuffed to the table in the basement anyways lol

Originally Posted by ironbeck

How about a live in sex slave.

**Vagabond101** · 04-28-2013, 06:30 AM

All options are on the Table or handcuffed to the basement table anyways lol

Originally Posted by ironbeck

How about a live in sex slave.

**LGM** · 04-28-2013, 08:05 AM

Have someone else authorized to sign for your parcels, or have them dropped at another address. You can also put all mail on hold while you travel, and they will hold all parcels and nail till you get back. You can do this online on their website.

I suggest having your mail held; it's very common and easy to do.

**Sfla80** · 04-28-2013, 08:12 AM

Just sign the pink slip. Check off leave it at USPS and go pick it up

**LGM** · 04-28-2013, 08:15 AM

Originally Posted by goode80

Just sign the pink slip. Check off leave it at USPS and go pick it up

If it comes USPS registered or signature required, they leave the slip at the door. If he's gone, after three attempts they rts. He can't sign ahead of time legally, and a carrier can lose their job for any alteration of that process. Accountable mail is a HUGE deal at the USPS.

**Sfla80** · 04-28-2013, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by LGM

If it comes USPS registered or signature required, they leave the slip at the door. If he's gone, after three attempts they rts. He can't sign ahead of time legally, and a carrier can lose their job for any alteration of that process. Accountable mail is a HUGE deal at the USPS.

That pink slip had options on it. You can check the option to leave it at the post office. Next time mail is delivered post man sees the slip brings it back to office. U go in and pick it up and sign for it. Done this with mutliple packages.

**LGM** · 04-28-2013, 08:20 AM

If it comes while he's gone, how does he check the box?

**Sfla80** · 04-28-2013, 08:27 AM

Originally Posted by LGM

If it comes while he's gone, how does he check the box?

You know I never took in to consideration that he's out of town. Thinking they are delivering while he's just at work.

I apologize. :/

**LGM** · 04-28-2013, 08:29 AM

lol, no sweat homie.

**Rusty11** · 04-28-2013, 08:38 AM

Yea, it complicates matters if you're gone for months at a time. Having it shipped to a trusted neighbor/relative may work. Or, place orders at a time when you'll be in town and not on the road.

**JWP806** · 04-28-2013, 09:45 AM

Have it shipped to a friend. That's really the only solution I can see here.

**Lunk1** · 04-28-2013, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by JWP806

Have it shipped to a friend. That's really the only solution I can see here.

Hey freind

**Vagabond101** · 04-28-2013, 01:15 PM

Originally Posted by LGM

Have someone else authorized to sign for your parcels, or have them dropped at another address. You can also put all mail on hold while you travel, and they will hold all parcels and nail till you get back. You can do this online on their website.

I suggest having your mail held; it's very common and easy to do.

To me it wouldn't feel right having someone sign for my gear idk that seems like a bad spot to put someone in. Having them put a hold on it is Probably going to be my best option. Thanks for the advice!

**Vagabond101** · 04-28-2013, 01:15 PM

Originally Posted by Lunk1

Hey freind

HaHa are you sure you wouldn't mind. lol

**Vagabond101** · 04-28-2013, 01:21 PM

Originally Posted by LGM

Have someone else authorized to sign for your parcels, or have them dropped at another address. You can also put all mail on hold while you travel, and they will hold all parcels and nail till you get back. You can do this online on their website.

I suggest having your mail held; it's very common and easy to do.

This is probably my best option thanks!!

**ChiveOn** · 04-28-2013, 02:07 PM

Exactly ^ have it held. Registered mail is a big deal to the post office, bit they're also a bunch of rtards working there... I can only say that because I work for them lol.

**LGM** · 04-28-2013, 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by ChiveOn

Exactly ^ have it held. Registered mail is a big deal to the post office, bit they're also a bunch of rtards working there... I can only say that because I work for them lol.

Used to work there too; I was an RCA. What'd you do?

**ChiveOn** · 04-28-2013, 03:40 PM

I'm just a casual. I work the docks on tour 3 when the mail is heavy

**Lunk1** · 04-28-2013, 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by LGM

Used to work there too; I was an RCA. What'd you do?

Originally Posted by ChiveOn

I'm just a casual. I work the docks on tour 3 when the mail is heavy

You 2 are throwing every box from Maldova in the trunk of your car lol

**LGM** · 04-28-2013, 09:14 PM

Originally Posted by Lunk1

You 2 are throwing every box from Maldova in the trunk of your car lol

I worked in a small town, and you wouldn't believe the shipments we got from India and other "drug companies". I mean, I could shake them and hear the pills rattle, fluid slosh, the size of the bottles...

I'd yell out to the postmaster that I had another steroid shipment, and he'd laugh. I told him we should open it (because we can if we have cause), and he'd just roll his eyes and tell me to deliver it.

**crazy mike** · 04-28-2013, 09:24 PM

Place the order with a source that can get it to you in 3, not more then 4 days. That's what I do. Pay today receive in 3-4 days, or like suggested. Have a PO box and have it held. .....crazy mike

**Vagabond101** · 04-29-2013, 02:45 AM

Originally Posted by LGM

I worked in a small town, and you wouldn't believe the shipments we got from India and other "drug companies". I mean, I could shake them and hear the pills rattle, fluid slosh, the size of the bottles...

I'd yell out to the postmaster that I had another steroid shipment, and he'd laugh. I told him we should open it (because we can if we have cause), and he'd just roll his eyes and tell me to deliver it.

So what happens if you open it and find it's just some Knuckleheads Multi Vitamins? Do you wrap it back up with a note that says were sorry? lol Or is that why packages come ripped and taped sometimes??

**LGM** · 04-29-2013, 03:11 AM

Originally Posted by Vagabond101

So what happens if you open it and find it's just some Knuckleheads Multi Vitamins? Do you wrap it back up with a note that says were sorry? lol Or is that why packages come ripped and taped sometimes??

If we inspect it, it gets a stamp that says so; sometimes a notice. It really depends on the clerks at the post office; some are more curious than others, but overall, we really don't care. We want it out and delivered asap.

**ChiveOn** · 04-29-2013, 09:45 AM

Originally Posted by Lunk1

You 2 are throwing every box from Maldova in the trunk of your car lol

Hahaha I don't work the foreign mail. It would be asking for a federal offense if I did because this is exactly the temptation

**ChiveOn** · 04-29-2013, 09:47 AM

Originally Posted by LGM

If we inspect it, it gets a stamp that says so; sometimes a notice. It really depends on the clerks at the post office; some are more curious than others, but overall, we really don't care. We want it out and delivered asap.

We don't care. That's exactly the postal mantra. Now if it was a recreational drug....... You could bet our life a postal employee would be stealing it

**crazy mike** · 04-29-2013, 09:59 AM

Hey I will tell you my experience and that is I have had no problem with USPS. It is quick easy and fast. No inspections or scrutiny. If you need advice on this PM me. ....crazy mike

It can go to a Po box or a street address.................cm

**LGM** · 04-29-2013, 10:03 AM

Originally Posted by ChiveOn

We don't care. That's exactly the postal mantra. Now if it was a recreational drug....... You could bet our life a postal employee would be stealing it

They try to bait you at your plant? Leave a dollar bill on the floor, or a gold earring? I found a bill once when I worked processing in one of the racks, and turned it in. Supervisor told me it's great that I turned it in, but next time touch nothing. lol

They've got cameras and security all over the plant I worked in.

**ChiveOn** · 04-29-2013, 11:42 AM

Ya they have the one way mirrors in catwalks spanning the entirety of the building. They're usually empty but around Xmas time postal inspectors walk them and they bait like crazy. But our plant is usually just drunk as a whole, supervisors and all so nobody really cares lol

And I know everything that goes in in my area. My dad is the major metro DM so he runs all of Illinois and a good chunk of the surrounding areas

**LGM** · 04-29-2013, 12:25 PM

How funny. My dad is an ET at our plant; that's how I got into the processing side, then transferred to the delivery side. Much less work. You push bins, or drive one of them cart thingies?

**ChiveOn** · 04-29-2013, 04:33 PM

I was a pusher. But lately I've been doing all the NDC breakup. I hand sort every piece of parcel post and send it out to either the Chicago, Pittsburgh, or Des Moines NDC