What is your pet peeve of the day?

[Chuckanut]

Si, yo comprendo. Estoy aprendiendo español con Duolingo, y leo mejor de lo que hablo.

(I got the gist of your Italian, but supplemented with Google Translate.)

Mi piace Duolingo. È molto buono.

Quando parlo l'italiano gli italiani ridono. Idiota! Imbicille! Cosa ha detto di sua sorella

Mama Mia!

I thought I might try to be reasonably fluent in Italian. That was to hard. Now that I have given up fluency, studying Italian is a lot more fun. besides, my fellow American travelers in Italy think I am a sophisticated international traveler.

 

[MichaelB]

Oh no! This is a COVID free zone. Please, effective social distancing means all COVID related posts must be in the quarantine zone.

 

[Gumby]

MOD NOTE: And let us now leave this fascinating discussion of Constitutional rights for another day.

 

[target2019]

I just completed an important telemed session. The audio didn't work, so he called me. Then the video froze. But it did not bother me since he spent a lot of time typing in my answers to the same old questions.

It was a peeve, but I'll get over it.

 

[aja8888]

USPS Informed Delivery......I am waiting for my paid car registration window sticker to arrive from the DMV in Austin, TX. Informed Delivery shows "the envelope", postmarked 5/12 a week ago......but it has not arrived in my mailbox as of today.

Saw the mail lady this morning so I asked her where she put it? I showed her a photo print out of the Informed Delivery envelope indicating the postmark date. Her answer: "you can't believe that Informed Delivery stuff.....they really shouldn't do that.....I ain't seen your envelope.....I'll ask my boss if he has any idea.....etc. "

Screwed...now have to go to the DMV in person and beg for a replacement sticker for this year.

 

[Boho]

I never figured out what this was. Definitely didn't come "in today's mail."

 

[ExFlyBoy5]

USPS Informed Delivery......I am waiting for my paid car registration window sticker to arrive from the DMV in Austin, TX. Informed Delivery shows "the envelope", postmarked 5/12 a week ago......but it has not arrived in my mailbox as of today.

Saw the mail lady this morning so I asked her where she put it? I showed her a photo print out of the Informed Delivery envelope indicating the postmark date. Her answer: "you can't believe that Informed Delivery stuff.....they really shouldn't do that.....I ain't seen your envelope.....I'll ask my boss if he has any idea.....etc. "

Screwed...now have to go to the DMV in person and beg for a replacement sticker for this year.

I have noticed that sometimes the notice of what's showing up "today" actually means "in a day or two" I actually have this happen about once a week, so give it a couple more days...it might show up.

 

[aja8888]

I have noticed that sometimes the notice of what's showing up "today" actually means "in a day or two" I actually have this happen about once a week, so give it a couple more days...it might show up.

I gave it a week.

And pieces of mail that were pictured in my Informed Delivery after the subject one was seen were delivered the same or next day. She (our Post Person) clearly mis-delivered the item, which she is "known" for. We have terrible mail service in our area (and complaining to the Postmaster does no good.)

It's a "sign of the times", I guess.

 

[REWahoo]

I gave it a week.

And pieces of mail that were pictured in my Informed Delivery after the subject one was seen were delivered the same or next day. She (our Post Person) clearly mis-delivered the item, which she is "known" for. We have terrible mail service in our area (and complaining to the Postmaster does no good.)

It's a "sign of the times", I guess.

The quality of the final link in the US postal system is critical. We live in a rural area and our mail is delivered by a subcontractor. Thankfully ours is a lady who is an absolute gem and does a wonderful job. She replaced a guy who had the mail sorting skills of a careless, vision impaired dyslectic - with a short attention span.

 

[statsman]

I gave it a week.

And pieces of mail that were pictured in my Informed Delivery after the subject one was seen were delivered the same or next day. She (our Post Person) clearly mis-delivered the item, which she is "known" for. We have terrible mail service in our area (and complaining to the Postmaster does no good.)

It's a "sign of the times", I guess.

Maybe. We've lost more mail via USPS in the 19 months we've been in Texas (outside Austin) than we did in 32 years living in our two Silicon Valley addresses. It's brutal out here, and it was that way even before the you-know-what became the topic of the day.

We've had a package disappear. We've had two magazines disappear. We've had two (that I recall) utility bills not make it to us. We've been using Informed Delivery since our move from California.

 

[Aerides]

My mail carrier is an absolute gem. Of course, however, the one time...

Saturday - informed delivery says that both DH's and my replacement SSN cards are being delivered that day (we'd requested replacements to get ready to real ID since neither of us could find out originals)

Saturday mail comes...no SSN cards...So since it was too risky of a mailing to chalk it up to "eh, probably will come soon" and it was a weekend, we spent the next half hour getting all our credit bureaus locked and I started to wonder if my awesome mail carrier was just maybe in a fraud ring lol....

She wasn't, of coures, they arrived Monday, all was fine.

 

[RunningBum]

USPS Informed Delivery......I am waiting for my paid car registration window sticker to arrive from the DMV in Austin, TX. Informed Delivery shows "the envelope", postmarked 5/12 a week ago......but it has not arrived in my mailbox as of today.

Saw the mail lady this morning so I asked her where she put it? I showed her a photo print out of the Informed Delivery envelope indicating the postmark date. Her answer: "you can't believe that Informed Delivery stuff.....they really shouldn't do that.....I ain't seen your envelope.....I'll ask my boss if he has any idea.....etc. "

Screwed...now have to go to the DMV in person and beg for a replacement sticker for this year.

That's a beef about your mail carrier, not USPS Informed Delivery. The informed delivery let you know that the DMV sent it, and I think it made it to your post office. So at least you know to get a new sticker rather than wait and wonder if it might come. Some of the mystery of missing mail is filled in with informed delivery.

 

[michelek]

Pet peeve: me not getting sarcasm ugh

 

[Nemo2]

Pet peeve: me not getting sarcasm ugh

Well color me surprised.

 

[W2R]

My pet peeve of the day is that birthdays are so unidirectional. Just ONCE I'd like to awaken on my birthday and find out I'm a year younger! Now that would be worth celebrating.

 

[michelek]

Well color me surprised.

You win alot and I never loose my eagerness to be write

 

[aja8888]

That's a beef about your mail carrier, not USPS Informed Delivery. The informed delivery let you know that the DMV sent it, and I think it made it to your post office. So at least you know to get a new sticker rather than wait and wonder if it might come. Some of the mystery of missing mail is filled in with informed delivery.

I'm all for Informed Delivery. It's the delivery part that is the problem, and there is no evident solution for it around here.

 

[jollystomper]

That's a beef about your mail carrier, not USPS Informed Delivery. The informed delivery let you know that the DMV sent it, and I think it made it to your post office. So at least you know to get a new sticker rather than wait and wonder if it might come. Some of the mystery of missing mail is filled in with informed delivery.

+1

Without informed delivery, we probably would have lost about 30 pieces of mail this year, including a check, credit cards, and pre-paid debit card rebates. I posted elsewhere how the local office at first said sometimes the mail for the images take a couple of days to show up (which we had not experienced), but we kept pressing and eventually it was discovered the carrier delivered them to the wrong address - even stranger in that there is only one other home in our zip code with the same house number, but the street name is totally different. I shudder to think what would have happened if the folks at the other address kept our mail and claimed it was not delivered there...

This has happened enough that we are on speed dial with the local post office, and now when Informaed Delivery says mail will be delivered and it does not show up, they take our word and immediately start investigating.

 

[folivier]

3D pictures on facebook. NOT 3D, not even close. The perspective just changes as you scroll. Extremely distracting and distorted. But I guess for the simple minded who think facebook is the ultimate entertainment venue then it works for them.
My rant for the day.

 

[ExFlyBoy5]

I'm all for Informed Delivery. It's the delivery part that is the problem, and there is no evident solution for it around here.

Wow, that's quite unfortunate. Thankfully, I couldn't tell you the last time we didn't get an item we expected. It might be a few days past when we see it on informed delivery, but we do get it. Odd too, since we are on a rural route and have about 3 contractors that run our route (not same day). We do have issues w/ Amazon leaving boxes at the wrong house, though. About once every couple of weeks, we have a neighbor bringing us a package or we are taking a misdelivered package.

 

[aja8888]

Wow, that's quite unfortunate. Thankfully, I couldn't tell you the last time we didn't get an item we expected. It might be a few days past when we see it on informed delivery, but we do get it. Odd too, since we are on a rural route and have about 3 contractors that run our route (not same day). We do have issues w/ Amazon leaving boxes at the wrong house, though. About once every couple of weeks, we have a neighbor bringing us a package or we are taking a misdelivered package.

We are on the "end" of a big city mail service. Since we have lived here (4 years now), mailpersons change every 3 to 4 months and are"contract" employed. The service is terrible and meetings with the postmaster have not resolved anything.

We (and our neighbors) have experienced lost packages, lost or mis-delivered, mail, etc., and it's routine for us around here to deliver each other's mail when it's stuck in the wrong box.

 

[Koogie]

D**n local teenagers playing mailbox baseball because they are bored.

 

[GalaxyBoy]

D**n local teenagers playing mailbox baseball because they are bored.

Yeah, as I take my daily walks I've noticed a few of those in my neighborhood. Several were on the same street so it looks like they were hitting one after the other.

 

[Gumby]

The use of the term "active shooter" in news reports. Is there such a thing as a "passive shooter"?

 

[RunningBum]

The use of the term "active shooter" in news reports. Is there such a thing as a "passive shooter"?

Isn't it as opposed to a non-active shooter, meaning one who has been detained or killed?