[Assam] The other side of USPS

[Chan Mahanta]

*** When I wrote "I will write to my Congressman"  or  "--- to my 
Post Master --- " , it is a polite way of saying "you should be doing 
that". It is an American mannerism, 'kothaar maat'.

I wish I could help. But I am too bust  with too many different 
things.  I am sure you are quite able to pursue it on your on. Good 
luck.

If the Post Master  gives you the run-around, which I don't expect 
him to, a call to the elected rep. does wonders. A few years back, we 
could not get cable in our house. After two years of getting the run 
around from the cable company ( because the house sets back more than 
the 200 feet or so that they are required to string cables to) I 
called our County Councilman's office. The clerk made one call and we 
got cable within the next two weeks. Did not even have to pay the 
extra fees for 200 yards of cable laying that I anticipated paying.

I told the story to my fellow Board Members of our large neighborhood 
association about a a year or so back. Our leader remembered it. He 
too had been having the same problem. So he inquired again how 
exactly I got results. Told him again. He called the same 
Councilman's office, and voila--a month later he had cable.













At 12:35 PM -0700 4/25/08, Krishnendu Chakraborty wrote:
>Thanks C'da.  I have sent all details (dates,
>locations etc) to you separately.   Please keep us
>posted on the progress/response.
>
>USPS domestic service is great but for International
>Service I found UPS to be more reliable. 
>An occassional miss (by USPS, Fedex, UPS ,  any body)
>is perfectly understandable but the attitude of
>passing the buck is definitely not acceptable ...
>particularly when you are paying such a high service
>charge.
>
>Did you use the same service (GXG) or the regular
>Postal Service?  How was the delivery ? Did they stick
>to commitment?
>
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>>
>>  >I would compile the facts, and send it to my
>>  Congressman. And follow
>>  up with him/her in two weeks or so.
>>
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