At One Post Office, Slogan Is: "We Mis-Deliver For You!"

We are always quick to blame management. The only thing I would blame management for in this instance is for hiring incompetent people who can't read. Machines are not perfect. However, if the machine misdirects a piece of mail, it's not themachine that delivers that piece of mail into the customer's box. Misdelivering it the first time is not okay but I'll accept. Twice? Thrice? Four times? That's incompetency at it's highest. The carrier should read the complete address before delivering the mail. Some areas hahe streets with the same name but different suffixes eg. Oak St., Oak Ave., Oak Cir. etc.

There are also different street with similar numbers.

There is really no excuse for not getting it right the first time.

Obliterating the bar code on the front of the piece won't help. It's the faint pink(salmon)color bar code on the back of the piece that must be completely obliterated.

the USPS in Brooklyn is completely, utterly screwed up and unreliable.

When I lived in the South Slope, I would get mail delivered all the time that was addressed to other parts of the borough, the country, and twice even letters addressed to places in other countries.

The USPS is a make work program for people, who in a more civilization age were landless serfs. They should go back to tilling the soil.

The ink is likely magnetic, like on checks. Good luck with that.

It's not. Unlike the banking industry, the USPS uses only optical scanners, which is why you can print the barcodes yourself with almost any word processing software.

I hate to step in on the USPS side, but if your intention is to get something somewhere, you should clearly type out the address- no cursive.

If this is too difficult you can always walk to your local precinct and ask them to tap tap tap out an address for you on their typewriters.

Somewhat true. I always follow USPS instructions when I address envelopes. All caps, no punctuation beyond the top line, abbreviate parts of street address like E for east and ST for street, state abbreviation, nothing like an "Attn:" line below the city/state/zip. But that's still no guarantee. I've seen packages come from 300 miles away... by way of Missouri.

Of course, this doesn't beat my UPS experience, where a package I ordered kept going coast to coast and back. Again and again and again... for about a month and a grand total of over 30,000 miles. Too bad it couldn't get frequent flier miles. And yes, it had a computer printed label.

Back in my mail-order CD days BMG Music used to foist on me CDs I never ordered. When I "returned to sender" I kept getting them back till I realized that I had to hide any evidence of my name and address and scrawl "Return to Sender" on every inch of the package with a black Sharpie.

only in nyc!! the most inefficient, incompetent, disorganized, incapable, pathetically run city in the u.s.

Hey ypou forgot Lazy, at least when referring to Post Office.

hah! i would apply "lazy" to more than the Post Office! how about the MTA, the EMS, every single hospital, the POLICE, the 911 dispatchers, the cab drivers, the school bus matrons, the school bus drivers, the school administrators, the school teachers.. um, who have i left out? basically everyone who benefits from taxes is a grumpy uncordial person unwilling to provide the basic services they ARE PAID TO PERFORM. i am completely baffled. this city is such a bumbling mess. the quality of life could be improved and actual LIVES could be saved (construction accidents, bicycling fatalities) if people just decided to give a damn!! such foolishness and with such dire consequences.

Usually that happens when there's something wrong with the address as written and the computer system substitutes another address, thinking that was the one that you meant to write.