If I hadn't seen this with my own eyes I would not have believed it. I've been receiving many UPS package deliveries via Quiet Times store in Quartzsite. Everything was going fine until one of the packages ended up in the US postal system (which I have no control of). The USPS website said my package was delivered but, I saw a big orange message "Package returned to sender because of insufficient address." WHATTT???Thinking, no, that's just crazy, I stopped in at the post office to check. Sure enough, the lady said "We send them back the same day." Her tone of voice indicated this happens all the time. So...what was the problem? A missing box number. Quiet Times also has a Box number in addition to the street address, which I now find out you must use for this very problem. And if you put "PO box" on it, UPS won't carry it, and apparently if you leave off the box number, the post office will return it.. (to Vermont). which is exactly what happened.Just a couple thoughts: a) If the address is insufficient, why doesn't the USPS know that when the package first enters the system? b) What is it going to cost them to "teach me a lesson"?c) Quiet Times has been here for years. The PO employees don't know their box number by now? This is not a big city.d) Rules are rules, but are the counter employees not allowed to use any common sense whatsover? I would have responded politely if she had just said "Here's your package, but please remember to use the box number next time, ok?"It's no surprise the USPS is hemorrhaging money. I hope they go out of business.

I AGREE!!!!!!! Last year we decided to have a package of our mail (one package) sent to us in Parker. We had had so many problems with Q's post office in the past. The package was sent on Dec. 15. Unfortunately, our friend didn't keep the tracking slip. We checked in Parker 2 x a week and for over a month we didn't get it. Finally said to send the NEXT package to Q, General Delivery. Well it was to be there on Thursday, we went in Monday and it wasn't there. Went in Tuesday and it wasn't there. I slammed my fist on the counter and asked "What the H*** is going on" and explained about the Parker pkg. She got a look on her face, went to the back room in a DIFFERENT area and there was my package. The package was addressed General Delivery in PARKER but had been sitting for over a month in QUARTZSITE!!!!!! We are now with BCM Mail and Shipping in Q.....same post office but maybe better service. Good luck on your package.....maybe a letter to the post master General....this bit with sending UPS or FEDX packages to the post office is unacceptable in my book

amandasgramma wrote:Good luck on your package.....maybe a letter to the post master General....this bit with sending UPS or FEDX packages to the post office is unacceptable in my bookI don't know where the package will end up.. maybe Amazon will let me know! And I suppose I would have to send a 'letter' to the PG.. you think he gets email?? :)In this day and age it's just beyond my comprehension how this happens. And the counter lady seemed quite proud of her ability to follow the rules.

It's UPS fault for handing package off to USPSIF you had shipped it USPs Priority you would have had it yesterday

2oldman wrote:amandasgramma wrote:Good luck on your package.....maybe a letter to the post master General....this bit with sending UPS or FEDX packages to the post office is unacceptable in my bookI don't know where the package will end up.. maybe Amazon will let me know! And I suppose I would have to send a 'letter' to the PG.. you think he gets email?? :)In this day and age it's just beyond my comprehension how this happens. And the counter lady seemed quite proud of her ability to follow the rules. it will go back to the sender...not Amazon. Your history in Amazon will give you that info. As for the PG...doubt he/she has email....they want to hide from us!

Old Biscuit....we had the same issues in our former home. UPS and Fedx now have contracts with USPS that if they can't deliver to your home, they'll take to PO. Seriously, one day I followed the FedX guy out of my neighborhood to the post office. The next day the tracker said my box was delivered to the PO. I KNOW he passed my house and went 5 miles out of his way to the PO. GRRRRRRR

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2oldman
Explorer II
Nov 09, 2015
dons2346 wrote:
I get my stuff in Blythe, forget Q
Have you used the UPS customer center there, for packages?
2oldman
Explorer II
Nov 05, 2015
Another update: The post office in Vermont had to place a call to the post office in Quartzsite to get the address that Q will accept. Unbelievable.

All this because the clerks at Q are too stubborn to simply look up a box number of a company that's been in town for 20 years.
amandasgramma
Explorer
Nov 05, 2015
Me Again wrote:
2oldman wrote:
amandasgramma wrote:
can they explain why I STILL get mail in my former name....not only did I remarry over ten years ago, but we went full time one year ago...
I still get mail for my deceased father and bride. She died 7 years ago, he 3 years ago.

Just shows you that when a letter gets dropped in a box it is delivered as promised! NOT a PO problem, someone mail something to them and PO delivered it! Good Job on there part!

Chris
no...you don't get my point. I've moved twice...told PO to ONLY forward mail for me and my husband.....and I have used my new name. The old name wasn't on the order. They forwarded mail addressed to the old name. Also they say they forward for one year at most....nope 7 years later I still got junk mail for my former name and it was FORWARDED.
Me_Again
Explorer III
Nov 05, 2015
I got old owner and for my parents for years after they were gone. Chris
2oldman
Explorer II
Nov 05, 2015
Me Again wrote:
Just shows you that when a letter gets dropped in a box it is delivered as promised! NOT a PO problem, someone mail something to them and PO delivered it! Good Job on there part!
I don't consider it so. Nobody by those names lives there, and the PO knows that.
Me_Again
Explorer III
Nov 04, 2015
2oldman wrote:
amandasgramma wrote:
can they explain why I STILL get mail in my former name....not only did I remarry over ten years ago, but we went full time one year ago...
I still get mail for my deceased father and bride. She died 7 years ago, he 3 years ago.

Just shows you that when a letter gets dropped in a box it is delivered as promised! NOT a PO problem, someone mail something to them and PO delivered it! Good Job on there part!

Chris
camperguy99
Explorer
Nov 04, 2015
If the Post Office wanted to be profitable now, every piece of mail they deliver would have a 1st class stamp on it. Maybe even at less than the nearly 50 cents now.
2oldman
Explorer II
Nov 04, 2015
This is really turning crazy now.

I just got an email from the company in Vermont saying that they tried to re-ship the package using the corrected address, and the USPS wouldn't take it because it's not a valid address.

Go figure.
Naio
Explorer II
Nov 04, 2015
Returning to the Quartzite / Borrego Springs problem, do neither of those towns have a private option, a small business that rents mailboxes, accepts packages, etc.?

Private co's vary widely, of vourse. But the one near my S&B is incredibly nice and accommodating. They didn't ask for anything except maybe photo ID, and, with my permission, they will even open my mail and tell me if it's anything good :).

I tried one in another town and the owner said he did not serve people of my race, so, you know, things vary.

For Q, I seem to recall someone on rv.net saying that the hardware store accepts packages for people?
2oldman
Explorer II
Nov 04, 2015
amandasgramma wrote:
can they explain why I STILL get mail in my former name....not only did I remarry over ten years ago, but we went full time one year ago...
I still get mail for my deceased father and bride. She died 7 years ago, he 3 years ago.

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