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From: Always More Questions
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Subject: Re: Why Does The US Postal Service Suck?
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 13:47:35 -0700
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Hal Hanig wrote:
> Always More Questions wrote:
>
> >Hal Hanig wrote:
> >
> >
> >>bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote:
>
>
> (Snip)
>
>
> >so due to an error by the insurance company your friend wasn't insured?
>
>
> Yes.
>
>
> >how is that the PO's fault?
>
>
> Because, instead of trying to delivering it to the addressee by
> forwarding it to
> the community's postal facility shown in the address (where it would
> definitely
> have been delivered in a timely fashion, incorrect address
> notwithstanding) they
> returned it to the sender.
>
>
> >.....And your friend didn't notice that he hadn't
> >received the renewal and didn't do anything about it?
>
>
> As it happened, he was quite ill with cancer at that particular time,
> and was
> not in condition to go looking for his mail that hadn't arrived. No,
> he didn't
> notice that he hadn't received a particular piece of mail, and why
> should it
> matter? There would have been no untoward results if the PO had
> forwarded the
> item to its intended destination for delivery, and allowed them to
> return it to
> the sender if they couldn't deliver it.
>
>
> >.....how is that the PO's fault? seems to me the usual way of doing
> business
>
> is to send out
>
> >renewals at least 30 days in advance...so either the hurricane destroyed
> >the car after the policy wasn't renewed and it's your friends fault for
> >not following up or the car was destroyed during the "grace" period and
> >should have still been covered.
>
>
> All of that doesn't matter. You're merely making excuses for the PO's
> failure
> to deliver the mail by shifting the blame to the victim of their
> overly-officious handling of the matter. There was a time when the PO
> prided
> itself (and deservedly in those days) on extending itself to deliver
> inadequately addressed mail on the first try, but those days, alas,
> are long
> dead and gone. Now we have a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats covering their
> backsides by slavish devotion to their regulations, even at the
> expense of not
> even trying to do what they were paid to do.....deliver the mail.
>
>
>
I'm not making excuses for the PO. they've done stupid things and
they've also done amazing things. Point I'm making is sick or not it's
your friends responsibility to keep his financial affairs in order.
Knowing that the insurance company, the post office or even the thief
down the street can screw up your mail delivery, when you know your
insurance renewal is near/due you don't just sit there and go "hum".
I strangely see no condemnation on your part of the insurance company.
I'd assume your friend was in good standing with the company...why
didn't they try more than one delivery or even one phone call?
If your friend can prove that the renewal was sent to the wrong address
resulting in his inabiity to renew leading to the loss of his car, there
are courts for that.
Bottom line everybody can make a mistake and your friends mistake was no
less egregious than any other party.
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