I'm shocked how many people are being affected by the laziness of our local Gardena PO.
First of all, of the 4 years I've lived in Gardena, I've never had a problem with receiving packages until recently. Now with my suspicious confirmed thanks to fellow yelpers, its safe to say that the Gardena PO is lazy to the bone...I guess the service at the counters inside the PO is OK but not great, but I digress, most people are in and out of there in 5 mins getting whatever business they need to do in there.
The problem begins with the logistics. The delivery person for my address scans all the packages as "delivered" when in fact its still sitting somewhere in the back of the mail truck. The point of a tracking number or paid tracking is so that the buyers can rest assured knowing the whereabouts of their package at every stage of the delivery process. But scanning them as delivered when they're not - it kind of defeats the purpose of tracking and you can't be for sure where the package is anymore, giving both the buyer and seller unnecessary headaches. Sadly, of all the post offices I've been to, only in Gardena delivers packages this way. You guys really need to retrain your personnel to stop pre-scanning the packages as delivered and giving out false notifications.
All is well if the package does in fact arrive at the residence eventually. But what happens when it does not..? In my case I can't even file a claim with the seller because they see the tracking showing as delivered, and I can't make the post office find my package because now they have no idea where my package is.
I've went back and fourth by visiting the Gardena post office as well as sending as much as 10 emails to the seller regarding the issue. So in conclusion I've wasted my time as the post office just sent me into an endless loop of filing claims and in the end the claim was of course rejected because on the tracking it was showed as delivered. Their customer services phone number also just goes to a dead end and automatically hangs up on you. The fact that the post office even have GPS records of where the package was physically scanned as "delivered" but still they can't do anything about it. I am so disappointed with the results and the poor quality of our Gardena PO..I just want my money back...
To make things worse, just after I got home from my most recent visit with the post office, apparently the supervisor called our local delivery person and she came knocking on my door and had the audacity to tell me that she's sure she made my delivery 2 weeks ago (btw she was the person that mis-scanned the package). I would of taken her word if she had properly delivered my package but at this point I can't take her word over the fact that my package was mishandled and subsequently lost. She then noticed that we have a CCTV surveillance camera at our door and told us to look at the footage from 2 weeks ago to see if she's made the right delivery. She was certain that she made sure to drop off every package at the right address, but as much as I'd like to check, our landlord said the CCTV only goes back 5 days worth of recording. Shame.
And to wrap this all up, this would not have happened had she just scanned every package outside the correct address as she is making her delivery which is part of her job!!! I'm now short $160 thanks to the laziness of our local post office. From now on I will make sure all the buyers I buy from ships with UPS or Fedex..and as for the 1.5 average review for our post office on Yelp, you guys have truly earned it. read more