[Ponte Alto] mail service thoughts

[Mary Bowles]

Thanks Barbara/Lady Anne, :)
 
You're advice is well worth the vent. I'm about to head to the post office tonight to post waivers so instead of the usual USPS. I think I'll run by FEDEX. :)
 
YIS,
Lady Maria-Therese de Normand
Seneschal, Ponte Alto

Barbara <barb at ravenstreet.org> wrote:

Hi guys.  I hear that there is a need within our officers to make sure that, in the future, certain pieces of paper get to their destination without fail.  And I understand that registered mail is being considered the best option.

 

May I add a piece of advice?  Don’t use registered mail or any other form that requires that the recipient must sign for it.  I know that this is the surest way to prove that the person got the mail, but its also the surest way to make sure it arrives late.  Why?  Because the recipient actually has to be home.  Very few of us are really home during the day – and even in the evening!  There are USPS mail options that deliver mail with a high degree of certainty and speed, and don’t require a signature.  You can also send something by fed-ex without requiring a signature, and you still get a lot of really good tracking information.  Please consider that one of these be used!

 

I get a fair amount of SCA mail that is time-sensitive (that deputy kingdom exchequer thing).  Nothing is more annoying than arriving home from work to see that USPS notice that they tried delivering something that requires a signature.  And the next time I’m available to meet them isn’t even the next Saturday, because I’m heading out of town for the next kingdom-level event…  

 

While I have your attention, may I insert another pet peeve? Why do people address envelopes using SCA names and titles?  Really, the USPS doesn’t know who Mistress Anne of Carthew is. (Well, maybe MY post office does by now…!)   Modern names for all autocrats/reservationists and officers are provided in the Acorn.  I personally haven’t had a problem with mail delivery because of this (at least, not that I know of!) but it is known to happen.  Mail service is part of our modern world, and modern names and titles should be used!  Don’t confuse them more than you have to!

 

Thanks for letting me vent.

Anne

 

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