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[Pax]

Glad you're not on the cut list, NY. What a crappy situation for all involved.

[emily_in_nc]

Glad you were safe this time, NY. I lived through years of downsizing, "rightsizing" (horrible corporate-speak) and just plain layoffs at my company, and it takes a toll. So many of my friends and even my DH got downsized out of a job. Lots of people much smarter than me who just happened to be on a project that got cut. Somehow I survived 10 years of cuts and managed to resign when I was ready instead of when they decided to walk me out the door. Eight months after I resigned and moved to Belize, my manager and about half my department was laid off, so I feel sure that would have been me too. I am so glad I got to leave on my own terms. I hope that you are able to stay as long as you want as well -- but not a moment longer.

[ny biker]

Arrived home tonight to find a notice from the post office about a certified letter they attempted to deliver. Now who is sending me a certified letter? Looked up the tracking number, I can see that it's from NYC but no details about the sender. I don't think this is going to make me happy...

[ny biker]

...and the post office has lost the certified letter. The incompetence at my local post office is breathtaking.

[Crankin]

Oy! This is very disconcerting.

[Catrin]

YIKES! Hope they find it and, yes, it's disconcerting...

BTW, the last certified letter I received was related to a mechanic's lien to someone who used to life at my address - years ago. Hopefully it's something like that, nothing that has a direct impact on you.

[emily_in_nc]

Wow, that is crazy, NY! I hope it was nothing important. I can't even imagine!

[Pax]

...and the post office has lost the certified letter. The incompetence at my local post office is breathtaking.

Not surprising at all. In Chicago I only got mail about two days a week. My dad once called me and said "honey, did you move?" because he had a letter returned stamped "Moved, Left No Forwarding Address".

[ny biker]

For my neighborhood we have a regular retail post office and a separate warehouse where the mail is sorted for our zip code. Mostly I have to deal with the people at the warehouse, for vacation holds and stuff like that. And they have been consistently awful for the entire 12 years that I have lived here. In my two most recent encounters with them before this one they were downright hostile. I dread having to deal with them.

So yesterday afternoon the supervisor at the warehouse called and left a message that he had the letter and I could pick it up or he could deliver it. But of course by this time I was 25 miles away, at work. And by this time I had called their 800 number (help desk) to report a lost certified letter; the person I spoke with opened a ticket to look for the letter and said it could take several days for someone to get back to me. I did not have time to deal with picking up the letter today or sitting home waiting for it to be delivered. For now I am not calling the supervisor back and I'm not calling the help desk back to update them. I want the issue to be open in their system, for someone outside of this local facility to see that there is a problem. I think one reason the problems continue is that the supervisor tries to smooth things over, which means no one outside his facility finds out about them. So from now on I will call the help desk whenever there is a problem, so there will be a record of it.

As for the letter, my best guess is that I am being sued related to a 3-car crash that I was totally not responsible for. One of the other drivers' insurance companies took full responsibility, paid the entire cost to fix my car and sent me a check for pain and suffering. But a passenger in the other car (not driven by the person at fault) was injured and is suing. My insurance company has already sent them a letter explaining that I was completely not at fault but I fear it has been ignored. If I'm right, it will just be a waste of time and money. Whatever it is, it's already been a waste of my time and energy trying to get the stupid letter. So I'll worry about it next week.

[ny biker]

Omg omg omg. The stomping loud upstairs neighbor with no rugs got a dog. I'm literally sick to my stomach. I can't live like this. I just can't.