Inconvenient Annoyances

Oh why couldn't the mail man just take our packages back to their little mail place to pick up? I got one day shipping on a new keyboard as the keys on this one are failing. I thought if I can't get home in time during the day and miss the delivery I can pick it up at the post office the next afternoon. Nope! They left it with our neighbor. I don't know them but before I worked the lady seemed to be a stay at home mom and home all day via hearing them through the walls. Five days now. No answer.  This is getting old. I know they've been home as their blinds open/shut/lights in the house are on/off. UGH!

Surely the postal service would need to know you give permission to leave your items with someone else? This isn't the 1950s anymore, when everyone is neighborly and you can trust, and actually know, the people who live right beside you. How annoying,

Mine: When we did all the paperwork, hubby used his green card as his picture ID. Today I went to have the plates transferred from the old car to the new one, and found out the title hadn't been sent for yet.  I left the license branch, went to the dealership, was given a paper, went back to the license branch... to find out it was the wrong paper. The woman helping me at the BMV called the dealership and was told it was because they didn't have hubby's state ID (as a non driver). So I drover back across town to the dealership, gave then the ID and an earful of what I thought. They should have said the needed it instead of the green card the first night, when we asked if they wanted the state ID or the green card. They could have said something when I went in with the first payment two weeks ago. They could have said the first time I was in this morning. They could have called at any time in the last three weeks. I let them know how unprofessional it was.

So now I wait for them to let me know I can come pick it up, so I can go wait at the  BMV again. I was there when they opened this morning, and was one of the first two people there, and taken right away. Should have known it wouldn't be that easy. 

TamaMoo:  Did you mean at the DMV instead of BMV? Although I can think that BMV could fit for a good description for the DMV.    Ugh, that sounds irritating!  You'd think they'd give you a call sooner if there was a problem, but nope!


Still no packages. I spoke with the post office today. They said it is their new policy since last summer to leave any packages with available neighbors over taking them back to the main office for pick up. Postal manager said they sent around a poll last summer (Funny I don't remember this) asking what people would prefer doing with their packages when they are not home. Apparently you have to write your nearest post office to tell them you don't want your packages left with neighbors.  So I will do this plus put a sign on the door. But the manager said they couldn't do anything about the packages. It's up to us to get them from our neighbor. No, it's up to us to get them from the post office! Also the post office is not liable if packages are never returned/given to the rightful person. Apparently the only recourse is filing a police report. 

Hubs has knocked on their door all day. The neighbor next to them came out, an elderly lady and said those neighbors had packages of hers as well! I felt a bit odd when we walked out of their yard and saw their blue bin open and a box sticking out. I ordered hubs a blooming tea set with a glass tea pot. The box had fragile tape all over it and was about the size of the tea set. I reached over the fence and opened their bin lid. Address and company sent from ripped off the label. Probably a coincidence but grr. Every day different lights are on/blinds open/shut/different doors open inside the house you can see from their front window... silly.

I don't know if it's just my area, but sounded like all areas this is the new rules. So if you don't want it left with your neighbor write your post office!

The big sign on the inside wall said Bureau of Motor Vehicles, as did the sign on the front of the building. That would make me think BMV.

Oh! I didn't realise it was called BMV in some states. I've always just lived in states where it was called DMV. 

It does seem like it should be the same everywhere, doesn't it? Another reason why America is so odd. 

Just to add to the confusion it's the RMV in Massachusetts.   (R=Registry).   Which reminds me, my license expires in July and I'm planning to move to the UK in July - hopefully I'll be gone before needing to spend a day at the RMV.

Just to add to the confusion it's the RMV in Massachusetts.   (R=Registry).   Which reminds me, my license expires in July and I'm planning to move to the UK in July - hopefully I'll be gone before needing to spend a day at the RMV.

Odd that one agency has so many names.

The paper the dealership was supposed to call me about once it was faxed to them Friday came in the mail today. I called today to see about it. They told me I could pick it up and didn't bother to tell me they mailed it. Two payments made and I am already tired of them. I hope this is the end of the woes with them. We have it set up for automatic payments so we won't have any contact with them now that the title paperwork has gotten to us. When I stopped in to pick the paper up, the one I told off glanced at me then suddenly got busy with.... something. Didn't look like much, but just enough to not have to look up. Wimp. 

It's the MVD in AZ (Motor Vehicle Division). Everyone calls it the DMV anyway...which makes it difficult to find when you Google! 

Odd that one agency has so many names.

Well, it isn't one agency, is it.  There are 50 of them (or more?)  Each state has its own motor vehicle laws and it's own bureaucracy for enforcing them.  Each state has its own driving license and vehicle registration.  So I guess they can call their department/bureau/registry whatever they like 

I was meaning type of agency, not that they are all linked, since each state has different plates, laws, etc, not meaning it is all one interlinked agency. I didn't type it the way I was thinking it.

I didn't type it the way I was thinking it.

I know    It just doesn't seem odd to me that there are so many names though.

I know    It just doesn't seem odd to me that there are so many names though.

Suppose I am easily confused. 

So I guess they can call their department/bureau/registry whatever they like

I could think of some new names... you come up with some good ones after wasting half your day waiting on your number to be called! 

I could think of some new names... you come up with some good ones after wasting half your day waiting on your number to be called! 

Yep. By the time we were finally able to get there Wednesday after work we sat there for about nine years (or maybe it was nearly an hour) before our number was called. Then we spent less than 10 minutes getting the plates transferred. By the time we got called, hubby had already checked us in on Fb saying if they were any slower they would have stopped. There were five people working and only four people ahead of us.