I used to have unbelievable issues with the Hesperia post office and their employees, but now that Amazon delivers most of my things, and I get most of my bills electronically, the issues have tapered off.
In the past, the problems were pretty severe. One time, I complained about a postal worker running into my chain link fence with his white mail truck, because he would always make a u-turn right in front of house. Anyhow, after I complained, I encountered the worst retaliation on the face of the earth. After I complained that the mail truck had hit my chain link fence and damaged it, one of the things they did in retaliation was call the city of Hesperia and complain that I had my trash can out more than 24 hours ahead of time and that it was "in their way". My mailboxes are across the street from my house, mind you, not in front of my house. The city worker who had to come out to my home to respond to their complaint was very apologetic and said that in all his years on the job, he had never heard such bogus BS before, but that every "complaint" had to be responded to. He did not give me a citation for having my Advance Disposal trash can out front of my house. It was not hindering mail delivery, this was all about a mafia-type mentality at this post office that responded to complaints with retaliation at that time. They respond by bullying old ladies.
Another thing is, I am allergic to the ink on the newspaper ads that come out weekly. I took my name off the ads with the company that sends them out so that I would not get them delivered to my address anymore. Although I was successful in having my address removed from the list, they then started just jamming in other weekly flyers with random addresses on them and refused to stop delivering them. The smell when I take them out of mailbox does make me sick, but I throw them in the outside trash can immediately and wash my hands asap.
Many years later, I still have that dent in my chain link fence from the mail truck.
The only good thing that I can say is, my mail carrier now is actually a very nice lady, I like her, but don't know what her name is. When she is off, I know it.
I would just say, limit the amount of stuff you have to have delivered to your home by doing everything online and using other carriers when you order stuff. The longer you go without dealing with the USPS the better off you'll be.
The clerks inside the post office are hit and miss with their friendliness. It's usually the women who are not friendly, and usually the guy clerks who are nicer to deal with. I don't know why, that's just been my experience.
Yes, when I look back over the years and think of some of the terrible problems I've had with this post office, I honestly don't know how I lived through it.
I wouldn't open a post office box here because I would not feel safe going into the lobby after hours to retrieve my mail.
Hesperia has an unbelievable and out of control mail theft problem, so I got a locking mailbox at home now. It almost seems that thieves follow the truck, and just wait 30 minutes or so and then pull up to the boxes and check them. I've had sensitive mail stolen. I know this is not the post office's fault, just wanted to mention it. I would recommend anyone who has mail theft problems to buy and install a locking mailbox at their home as opposed to opening a post office box at this facility. And also, point a security at your mailbox, so that when your mail is stolen you'll at least have the suspect on video. read more