What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[WinterDeere]

...a countywide recycling program was shut down because a few people are too lazy, cheap, or stupid to take their trash a few miles away and pay a $10 fee to get rid of it.
I hope they catch the lazy bastards.

You'd think that with a $199 Ring camera, the county could not only eliminate the expenses associated with this, but actually make money of anyone illegally dumping.

 

[Oaktree]

Our county had eight recycling collection centers several years ago. About four years ago they closed four of them due to excessive dumping of trash, furniture, TVs, etc. Two years ago they closed all of them for the same reason, and opened a new site across the street from the sewage treatment plant, fenced in with limited hours and surveillance cameras. I caught a family dumping old bedsteads one day, told them that needs to go to the landfill. They wouldn't load it up, so I took their license plate number and turned them in. I saw in the court news a couple of weeks later that they got fined $150.

Most of the towns around here have the recycling center at the transfer station. You have to pay to drop off trash, electronics or white goods but recylables are no charge. Seems to work well enough.

Not using a clear bag is a fine…

Here we have to use special "town" bags that you can purchase at either town hall or at the transfer station.

 

[Runner]

Pet Peeve (warning: incoming conspiracy theory)

Poor mail delivery. We haven't gotten any mail in a week. This is not normal, usually at least get a couple of pieces of junk mail each day. What IS normal is that certain pieces of mail get "lost" on a regular basis, such as magazines and utility bills. Our last electric bill was "lost" and I didn't catch it until it was late. They didn't turn off our power, but it makes me look bad.

So now, I have done the same thing with the electric bill that I have done with cable and phone, i.e., put them on auto pay.

Here is the conspiracy theory - I think the Post Office is doing this deliberately, knowing that the more it happens, the more people are going to go to auto pay to keep from having their utilities turned off, thereby reducing the amount of mail that they have to handle. And, of course, the companies sending the bills are also thrilled to get more people on auto pay.

 

[WinterDeere]

I think the Post Office is doing this deliberately, knowing that the more it happens, the more people are going to go to auto pay to keep from having their utilities turned off, thereby reducing the amount of mail that they have to handle. And, of course, the companies sending the bills are also thrilled to get more people on auto pay.

Isn’t reduced mail volume the thing that got so many post offices closed and workers laid off, 10-15 years ago? Seems they’d want to do the opposite.

 

[Jstpssng]

Isn’t reduced mail volume the thing that got so many post offices closed and workers laid off, 10-15 years ago? Seems they’d want to do the opposite.

You forget that they had a leader who made it clear he wanted the Postal Service to be privatized. Slowing down service was part of that plan.

 

[Runner]

Isn’t reduced mail volume the thing that got so many post offices closed and workers laid off, 10-15 years ago? Seems they’d want to do the opposite.

I hadn't heard about that. But whatever is going on, the level of service in my city has deteriorated horribly over that time for sure. I don't follow our local news that closely, but my wife informs me that people all over our city have been complaining about this for several years now and we are just starting to feel it where we live. Even to the point that state representatives and USPS auditors have been investigating the situation.

100,000 pieces in 3 days: USPS audit finds myriad of problems causing Kansas City mail delays

An audit from the United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General pointed to several systemic issues causing problems with mail delivery in the metro

www.kmbc.com

 

[bigtiller]

Isn’t reduced mail volume the thing that got so many post offices closed and workers laid off, 10-15 years ago? Seems they’d want to do the opposite.

I am doing my part to help out.

Every time I get an unsolicited piece of mail with a postage paid return envelop, I send it back...with as much junk mail as will fit in the envelop.

 

[Eagle1]

I hadn't heard about that. But whatever is going on, the level of service in my city has deteriorated horribly over that time for sure. I don't follow our local news that closely, but my wife informs me that people all over our city have been complaining about this for several years now and we are just starting to feel it where we live. Even to the point that state representatives and USPS auditors have been investigating the situation.

100,000 pieces in 3 days: USPS audit finds myriad of problems causing Kansas City mail delays

An audit from the United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General pointed to several systemic issues causing problems with mail delivery in the metro

www.kmbc.com

KC has been messed up a long time. Our mail goes through there and then down to Springfield (on a good day) . I can't tell how often something was stuck, lost or redirected during it's "brief" stay in KC

 

[WinterDeere]

I am doing my part to help out.

Every time I get an unsolicited piece of mail with a postage paid return envelop, I send it back...with as much junk mail as will fit in the envelop.

I love that! It's honestly too bad that 90% or more of my junk mail comes in the form of email today, or I'd start doing the same.

 

[Oaktree]

Here is the conspiracy theory - I think the Post Office is doing this deliberately, knowing that the more it happens, the more people are going to go to auto pay to keep from having their utilities turned off, thereby reducing the amount of mail that they have to handle. And, of course, the companies sending the bills are also thrilled to get more people on auto pay.

I'm not a "conspiracy" kind of guy, but as WinterDeere noted, this makes no sense. While first class mail has declined, parcels are making up an increasing percentage of what the USPS delivers.
If anything, you'd think they'd conspire to slow things down to get voters to get after their congress(wo)men to increase funding.

You forget that they had a leader who made it clear he wanted the Postal Service to be privatized. Slowing down service was part of that plan.

Not buying that one either.
At this point, privatization might be better than the quasi-governmental organization they are today with congress constantly meddling in their affairs.