Some days are more taxing than others. A few days here and there have moments of relaxation. Yesterday was no such day.
I have been waiting for four very important pieces of mail related to my widow benefits and the like. I had to do a temporary mail forwarding as I got surgery.
Lo and behold that mail forwarding was and continues to be an epic failure. All my mail has gone missing, and when I try to track down two certified letters, I am told one is waiting to be scanned somewhere and the other is riding around with a possible new postal carrier. And, no one seemed pertubed by this.
Mind you, this is the same post office that couldn’t help me send a certified mail containing a death certificate because it was not in their job description.
Isn’t there any sympathy or empathy in a bureaucratic public service that keeps raising its rates?
In my posts, I usually try to put forth a lesson learned or a glimmer of hope or potential.
This was just a rant. Perhaps a bit mild, considering how frustrating the whole situation was and its immensely huge impact on my life.
Actually, here is a lesson learned. Don’t have your mail forwarded for a temporary period. Just put it on hold. That nugget can be applicable to many things in life actually.
Categories: Culture, identity, Psychology, society
psychologistmimi 
The horrors of most postal services
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Hope your certified mail turns up – how frustrating! It isn’t necessarily the post office’s fault – their budget keeps getting cut – but the things which appear nice in principle don’t always work.
They DO seem to be able to handle ‘Hold.’ Thanks for the warnings.
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Indeed the Competency oF iT Ain’t my Job; Just Got off the Phone
With A So-Called Legal Specialist From the Office of Personnel
Management Who was Supposedly Working For 4 Months to Get
my Retirement Pay Corrected to Include the First 8 Years and 5 Months
of Service As Apparently They Had Lost the Paperwork That Credited me
For That Service. Finding the Paperwork and Sending it to them wasn’t
Enough as He Said Today Someone Took Over His Cases And He Didn’t
Forward That Information to Them And Of Course This All Started When
They Failed to Tag my File For What Was Supposed to be 100 Percent of my
Retirement Pay at 62, 14 Months Ago And it Took 8 Months to Get
That Corrected And
Dear Lord When i Started
The Disability Retirement Way
Back Officially in 2009 i Had to
Send them the Federal Law that
Said i Was Entitled to the Benefit
As They Had No Clue it Existed
in my Particular Circumstance That
Was Complicated as i switched From
Non-Appropriated to Appropriated
Funds in a Portability Act Law That
Credited the Service Many Decades Ago…
Anyway, Dear Miriam, so i Found myself Being the Legal Specialist
Then With A Dentist Drill in my Right Eye and Ear With The Suicide
Disease Some How Compiling Over 100 pages of Medical Documentation
in That Pain to be approved on a First Try by Myself Living Dead on Earth
For Social Security Disability too It’s True i Was through with Living Yet
i Wanted to Make Sure my Wife Would Be taken Care of as i Saw No way
Out of death then and there was no Prognosis for Recovery Either; i Suppose
The Lesson is We Better
Learn to Advocate For Our
Selves as it is So God Damn Easy
to Slip Through The Cracks if We
Aren’t More Competent Than Everyone Else Who is Supposed to Be
Competently Doing Their Job as my Boss Always Said in Justification
of my Work-Load Like it was a Medal of Honor That 10 Percent of
Employees Get 90 Percent of All the Work Done. i Suppose that’s
How folks
Stay in a Job
By Saying No
to the Whole Damn Tsunami…
Yet i Will Say This For Sure, There is A Tsunami
of Folks Who Don’t Get the Help They Need as
They Aren’t More Competent than the Ones
Responsible For Doing Their Job…
It’s True, i’ll Have to be Patient Yet
i Won’t Quit to they Get it All Correct…
Hehe at Least
If it Doesn’t
Kill Me First HAha…
And Honestly if Artificial
Intelligence Can Actually
Help People By Competently
Getting The Job Done More Power to the Machine…
As Perhaps “The Machine” Will Work Efficiently
Enough to Make Making Money Totally Obsolete Hehe
at Least that’s
What the Owner
of X Elon Musk Thinks
Speaking of Questionable Competence Again!
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