Instructions ..

**bluebedouin** · 5th January 2010, 02:06 AM

..for US mail men.

**TexasAda** · 5th January 2010, 02:43 AM

Very funny. But i think it applies more to UPS. They are supposed to ring doorbells and hand over packages personally, but almost every time I've received one via UPS, it's just a doorbell ring, drop the package, and sprint to the truck without looking back.

I must say the United States Postal Service has performed ADMIRABLY for me both sending and receiving packages over the years. Hope that's not jinxing anything.

Also, some people who live in dodgy or dicey areas should probably arrange to have their packages delivered to their work address if nobody's home during the day.

Didn't mean to scowl on your humor.

**pearlygirl555** · 5th January 2010, 03:29 AM

That would have been better service than we used to get where we lived before moving to Iowa. We would watch the mail truck drive through the woods, stop at the little bridge over our creek and then turn around, never even making it to the house with the package! The next day we'd get a little slip in the mail saying the package was undeliverable because we weren't home. That was the end of mail-order pharmacies for us

I'll join Ada and risk jinxing myself, but the USPS since we've moved here has been amazing. The post office in our town even won an award a couple years ago for being one of the best performing POs in the nation.

UPS has been very good here too; the UPS guy throws out biscuits to the dogs whenever he comes. Some of the other delivery company drivers won't exit their trucks in our yard; they just lean on the horn while the dogs circle the van, expecting biscuits.

**harold69** · 5th January 2010, 10:06 AM

Hope i get to deliver you something, someday, i would have fun giving biscuits to your babies, as long as mine never learn of it.

**wyocowgirl1** · 6th January 2010, 07:21 PM

I observed the UPS guy delivering a package next door yesterday. I think he was afraid of their dogs. He never went up to the door, he wrapped the package in a plastic bag and put it in front of the gate. There is another UPS guy that leaves the gate open while he goes to the door - Grrrrrr!