Any Postal Workers here?

[Cadiewampus]

Just caught me off guard, I would not have even checked my mail today if I had not seen him making the rounds. It was regular mail he delivered to my house, including the usual junk mail.

Maybe he didn't get the memo

 

[KPeterso]

It would be interesting to hear why they delivered today. That’s definitely rare. As for Amazon, just last week I ordered an item & had 3 options for delivery, one was something like 7-11 pm, another 3 - 8 am, the 3rd was 10 am - 1 pm. I’ve never seen options for delivery during the night. I picked the 10am time of course.mm

Sometimes if you spend enough, there is the same day option (or crazy overnight times). I have tried overnight and discovered it is hit or miss as I live in a condo. All Amazon delivery should be able to get into the community with no issues but the overnight ones are often different drivers and cannot get in. They often deliver to the office door (outside the gates) or throw over a fence (one neighbor's package nearly landed in the pool and I found one on my balcony a bit after it was delivered for someone who lives on the 4th floor) or gate (found one of mine next to the gate). If I am going to have a package go missing, it will be one of those. So now, I pick for after 8 AM the next day as they should be more easily able to get into the community at that time.

 

[CarolynFH]

We are signed up for Informed Delivery also and find it accurate enough to be useful. Several years ago my elderly father mailed us a substantial check, and the envelope showed up on our ID email but didn’t arrive that day. When it didn’t arrive the next day, either, we used the ID website to report it as missing, and two days later it finally arrived. All our mail is processed through the Houston distribution center, which has had serious problems with lost and stolen mail. We’ll never know whether my dad’s check would have been delivered without having ID to report it missing, but in any case I’m glad we get those emails. (And we finally convinced my dad that he could send us money via Zelle.)

 

[Marrila]

We have used informed delivery for years and we like it. We have a locked box and I grab the mail every few days unless there is something important.

I could see where it might not be as useful for someone who keeps an eye out for the postman each day and still has individual home delivery.