Delivered at last, it took almost three weeks!!
By Marie Coyle
@MarieCoyle (60677)
June 8, 2026 1:55pm CST
Some of you may recall I wrote recently about some legal papers we sent to my son’s lawyer. This disability business takes forever! Anyway, although I sent the papers via Priority Mail and also registered, so that they had to be signed for, they were finally delivered today!!!
I had contacted our Congressman. We did all we could do and all we could find out was that they were waiting in some mail bin to be delivered. And today, after three weeks, they finally were!!! Oh, and this particular lawyer is only about 90 miles from my home.
Unacceptably poor service, yes. But they finally arrived!! We are so relieved.
Are you going to send out Christmas cards this year? You might want to start on them and at least mail them by the 4th of July!!
We are currently having a whopper thunderstorm so the power will probably go out yet again. They are still working on it from that long outage we had the other night. Just wanted to share the good news about the missing legal papers. We are so relieved!
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@Juliaacv (56955)
• Canada
8 Jun
@MarieCoyle Yes, I can only imagine the relief that you feel knowing that the papers have been delivered.
Do you have a 3 in 1 printer?
You can make copies of things on there if this comes up again.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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9 Jun
@Juliaacv
My son in law has a spare 3 in 1 printer, and he said he would bring it over to us soon. I told him about this mess and he knows I can't always leave here to make copies, it will be a great help. My printer only works when it wants to, and that isn't ever on the days I really need it to work. It's going to go to the recycle! Thank you.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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8 Jun
That particular storm wasn’t too bad. We are to have an evening and night of off and on storms.
We are so thankful the papers were delivered!! Thank you, Julia.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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8 Jun
I checked to be sure, from my home to their office is 93 miles. In that length of time. crippled or not, I think I could have walked there AND back home again. Really, really bad service.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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8 Jun
@Wrexxo
The service is too bad to not say anything about it. We deserve better postal service.
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@GardenGerty (170230)
• United States
9 Jun
I hope your son was not penalized for the lateness, or excluded from what he is try to achieve.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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9 Jun
They did not penalize him, as we had the receipts to prove we sent it out in plenty of time.
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@AmbiePam (123455)
• United States
8 Jun
I’m so glad they arrived! You know I’m with you on my ire for the disability process, but also the USPS. They lost my Christmas card business when they stole from me so now Amazon gets it. I will now send them via free shipping to the recipient, and include a message inside. The post office makes me want to cuss.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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8 Jun
One of my friends here sent her daughter a card with a $100 gift card in it. The envelope arrived yesterday...opened, and of course the gift card was gone. It's nuts. I am on Team ''do not use USPS'' unless you are ready for a disaster! And be ready for a nightmare.
Thanks so much, Amber.
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@AmbiePam (123455)
• United States
8 Jun
@MarieCoyle The same thing happened to my mom sending something to my sister only it was a $75 gift card. My brother-in-law called their post office, irate.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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8 Jun
@AmbiePam
I grew up with the USPS having a stellar reputation for accuracy and honesty. Um...not anymore.
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@snowy22315 (211179)
• United States
8 Jun
That is really good. I hope you didn't miss any kind of deadline with that buffoonery from the Post Office.
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@snowy22315 (211179)
• United States
9 Jun
@MarieCoyle Awesome! Time to celebrate. If son is allowed you should have a glass of champagne.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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9 Jun
@snowy22315
No champagne here...he and I are having iced tea. But it surely tastes wonderful to us, and we are celebrating, thank you!
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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9 Jun
Snowy, since I have the receipts for registered mail and Priority Mail, I sent them pictures of the receipts. The lawyer and the powers that be at SSI decided that we had more than made the deadline and accepted the paperwork. We are so very thankful!!
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@celticeagle (191713)
• Boise, Idaho
8 Jun
I'm sure glad we don't have such awful mail here as you seem to have. We've been very lucky in that regard and I hope it continues. So the delay was at the mail delivery end and not the legal office?
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@celticeagle (191713)
• Boise, Idaho
12 Jun
@MarieCoyle .......I am sorry to hear that.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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9 Jun
The delays were totally the fault of the USPS. You are very fortunate not to have issues there. I know people in many places are having problems with them.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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12 Jun
@celticeagle
Thank you. At this point, using the USPS for anything important seems futile here.
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@FourWalls (87941)
• United States
9 Jun
Doofus question here: did they give you a refund?
Very thankful that your attorney has is, and hopefully he can e-mail things to Social Security.
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@FourWalls (87941)
• United States
9 Jun
@MarieCoyle — be quick about it, there’s a time limit sadly.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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9 Jun
I haven't made it back to the post office yet to ask for one, but I do plan on doing that. Not because it was a fortune, but it's the principle of it all...and I am still mad at them. But I promise, I'll be sweet....
Yes, thankfully the attorney seems to have a sort of direct line to Social Security.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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9 Jun
@FourWalls
I went there to see about a refund. In order to get that, I was told I have to give them my original receipts. The lawyer’s office told me not to let those receipts go anywhere at all. I offered copies of the receipts but since they can’t have the original ones they laid a big fat no to that. They seem to pride themselves on bad service and rude employees. Very sad.
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@LadyDuck (505143)
• Italy
10 Jun
@MarieCoyle - Sometimes I cannot understand how those services work. I was reading yesterday that the Swiss Post Office fired a mailman because he always went up the stairs to deliver the packages fearing that they could be stolen. He was doing a great job and they fired him!!! I am sure they will be obliged to give him his job again.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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11 Jun
@LadyDuck
Amber needs that mailman. I think her deliveries that come by mail get tossed in her hallway.
Fire someone for doing a good job, sheesh. The world truly is upside down.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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9 Jun
Yes, I agree. And to think they actually charge for this type of service is ridiculous.
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@RasmaSandra (99324)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
8 Jun
The important thing is that they were delivered, I hope the sun comes out again soon,
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@Marilynda1225 (91695)
• United States
8 Jun
I am so glad those papers finally arrived. A big WHEW!!
I recently wrote about sending a package which was going from my home in Pennsylvania to someone in Wisconsin and it went all around the mulberry bush including a tour of Puerto Rico before it finally reached it's destination in Wisconsin (also Priority Mail)
Sending Christmas cards now is a smart idea and add to the fact that postage is going up again in July. 
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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9 Jun
That's just insanity--from Pennsylvania to Puerto Rico to Wisconsin. The postal service needs to be scratched and started completely over with new bosses, new service, new everything. This is NOT working.
I added that Christmas card thing as a joke, but it might actually be a smart idea...if this continues, there's no point in sending cards at all. Going up to 82 cents soon. Unbelievable.
@noni1959 (13106)
• United States
9 Jun
I'm glad the papers made it. Prices have gone way up and yet service is slower. I don't mail out cards now. Everyone I know likes to send them by digital or do memes on social media. It's not the same. I miss it but most may not since stamps are close to a dollar now.
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@noni1959 (13106)
• United States
10 Jun
@MarieCoyle A couple close friends and I send gifts and we add one in the packages, but mailing is just too much to send out several.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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9 Jun
Not many people send out Christmas cards anymore. The cost is just too prohibitive. A sad thing all around.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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11 Jun
@noni1959
The United States Postal Service is their own worst enemy. No one wants to pay premium prices for terrible service.
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@JudyEv (385283)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Jun
@MarieCoyle I guess the rain is quite welcome but you could do without the storms.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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11 Jun
@JudyEv
Things are wetter than I thought they were. I went out to my little garden before it stormed this evening, and my plants are basically being swallowed by black mud at this point. I hope they survive.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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11 Jun
We have had more whopper storms. It's like they pop up out of nowhere at times. And more rain...last year was so dry, this year we have had a lot more rain.
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@LindaOHio (223812)
• United States
13 Jun
I'm so glad the paperwork was finally delivered.
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@allen0187 (59989)
• Philippines
9 Jun
Good that the papers arrived.
Hopefully, the power did not go out.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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11 Jun
It did, but we survived it. You have no idea how relieved we were that the papers were finally delivered. Thank you so much.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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9 Jun
They used to provide such good service. It’s definitely gone by the wayside now. Thanks so much.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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9 Jun
They are!! And we are so glad that they were delivered at last!! Thank you.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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9 Jun
It’s so frustrating. For years we could always trust the United States mail. That trust is gone now,very sad.
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@MarieCoyle (60677)
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11 Jun
It was such a relief...it truly was like a huge weight removed from us. We were going crazy over this nightmare.
