First, there are good folks working at the Yelm post office. I have had multiple fill -in drivers who have had a great attitude and will actually deliver to my home and place my packages in a box I built on the behest of my normal carrier and postmaster. Now the bad, specifically our normal postal carrier. This nice lady has run into my vehicle, driven multiple times through my yard (50 yrds), has driven my wife and my son off the road. The best part, our local USPS does not care. Our carrier is untouchable. Recently she decided she did not like my road maintenance level. Which interestingly is not an issue for any other carrier, and I know that because I ask. Even my carriers fill in driver's have indicated they have no issues. These issues have been going on for nearly 20 yrs. I have even been tasked to fix the shoulder of the county road from damage caused by her full gas full brakes driving style. So now, which is not a bad outcome, she has been invited to never deliver to my property again, which will be safer for everyone involved. As an aside, this is yet another government agency that have some members who will take great satisfaction in their ability to lord over you and make you dance to their music because they are virtually untouchable. read more

Made the accidental mistake of going into their store with a UPS labeled package to send out. Samuel greeted me instantly with an attitude and condescending tone. Got it, I made a mistake. I said what a waste of time and left. As I was walking out he shouted saying it's not my fault very defensively. Completely unnecessary and unprofessional. I admit the mistake was mine. Unfortunately, I was greeted, interacted, and treated with an zero decency. The employees' actions (Samuel) were concerning and questionable. I would recommend customer service training or policy review when trying to inform the customer they made an honest mistake. read more

Had a package weighed and helped me prepare to ship out of state very kind n helpful The place was clean and the staff was kind wasn't too busy for a Monday. read more

We have maintained this same PO Box address for TWENTY-FOUR years. Prior to the end of last year, our packages were delivered either to our PO Box or our physical address in the same zip code. During the last holiday season, ALL of our online purchases (gifts) were returned to various senders---just in time for the holidays. Twice, we discussed this issue then with the persons behind the counter; twice we were told that our PO Box address would need to list 10503 Creek St, and then to include the POB number. It would have been good to have known this earlier, as nothing in our account had changed since 2001. Last month, our first online package, with the new address, arrived without a problem. The proof that this worked. But no, the second delivery of this year has been returned to sender, just like in December. WTF!!! Their reason states, "moved". We contacted the Postmaster General for this region. After a very polite email, the response was, "deal with your problem at your local post office". Thus far, we are lucky that we are not relying on this service for life saving medications. Our frustration is overwhelming. We hope we are not the only hostage to this office's ineptitude. Please hire literate staff. read more

This one takes the cake! I have always had patience and understanding for our local post office. I am officially no longer able to be understanding of their actions. I received a label taped to a piece of computer paper that clearly was not attached to the box any longer. You can visually see that it was no longer attached. Please see pictures. They took the time to scan the label as a "received package" and sent it on through. Had the wherewithal to attach a written note stating "this is the only portion of your parcel that arrived", took the time to deliver what is clearly not a package and placed it in my mailbox as a "package received". I imagine that if I was a postal service person I would see that package and say there is something wrong with this. No thought went into receiving this package. This is concerning. How many other people have to receive a label with no package for someone at our post office, to see there is something wrong and realizes someone is committing a FEDERAL CRIME of tampering with US MAIL. This is a travesty that we can't trust the people handling our mail that are supposed to have INTEGRITY. This is the exact reason why people don't want to use your services. read more

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Always clean and staff are helpful and pleasant nice small towns atmosphere they have p o boxes available boxes for shipping as well convenient parking and location and safety read more

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Keep miss-delivering my packages, and forget about getting a hold of any postal staff. I have nothing positive I can say about this Post Office. Absolutely nothing! Communication = nonexistent Professionalism = poor Customer service = nonexistent read more

Scary to read these comments. I have a package out there some where, I was notified by the tracking that my package had been delivered, it did NOT specify where, my box, parcel locker, my door, given to me directly? Usually always states where it was delivered to. I have spoke with both the sub and the driver, the sub seems to recall a package delivered for me. ??? Not in my mail slot, no key, just an empty slot. Now what do I do? Looks like contacting the Yelm post office will get me no where. I just want my package. Thank you. J.Herron Yelm read more

have not found a way yet to talk to a human being on the phone. My neighbor half a mile down the road keeps letting me know she has my packages. One package note says undeliverable because of a dog. I don't even have a dog in the fromt, but she does. I cannot wrap my brain around how they cannot seem to deliver mail correctly. I have three different peoples names that get delivered to my house and I literally never get my own packages sent to me with the correct address on the label. i'm glad some people have good experiences, but in the past 20 years, I have had nothing but problems. Last time this year they withheld my mail for a month and a half, which of course included other peoples mail. It did not belong to me because a number fell off of my mailbox. first of all that's illegal and they're withholding other peoples mail because they can't deliver correctly. I really wish that this could change. read more

Been going here for almost 4 years now. Had a HOST of problems. The last straw was being chased out the door, being screamed at and threatened with physical violence by an unstable employee, being falsely accused of assaulting an employee (are you kidding?) AND having my box illegally closed without notice when it was fully paid - in retaliation. It all started when I had the last of my MANY missing "delivered" packages (wrongly scanned as usual) and asked the girl at the package door to look for it. She looked for 20 seconds in the small package bins only... and couldn't find it. She told me to just ask the sender to send me another item (great solution, right?) I tried to ask her to please look on the shelves for my item, because I didn't know the size of the package, but she got mad and called her famously-grumpy, disgruntled coworker over saying she couldn't deal with me. I wasn't even mad I was just trying to finish my sentence to ask her to look for my package once more. The girl kept yelling at me. Grumpy Pants coworker came over, stuck her hand in front of my face so close I could have licked her dirty hand, she told me to "shut up" and then proceeded to shut the barn doors IN MY FACE saying, "we can't help you, we can't help you..." Both of them walked away to the left. Grumpy Pants went back to her cash register and the other girl went back to a staging area. I tossed the scrap of paper I had written my tracking number on through the tiny opening in the barn door that got shut in my face. The angle was to the RIGHT... the total opposite of where Grumpy Pants and Screaming Girl walked. Grumpy Pants then yelled, "you just assaulted a federal employee!" I just kept walking out the door calmly and silently. Then Grumpy Pants yelled, "don't ever come back!" I continued out the double doors and heard screaming behind me, turned around, and Screaming Girl had followed me out the door and was screaming at me and the only words I caught were "I'm gonna beat your ass!" I didn't say anything, I just turned around and kept walking to my car. They closed my box that was fully paid for the next few months. And I sent my friend in to get my missing package... she walked right out with it. It was there the entire time. She said the girl who helped her even took her phone number for another package she couldn't find and was going to call her when she found it. That's customer service. Then I did some digging and found all the horrible reviews on Facebook about Grumpy Pants and her harassment of customers dating back years. She's closed the barn door in other people's faces rudely and pulled the same nonsense with other people. Then I found a video that showed Grumpy Pants not only filing a false police report against a person (and lying to police - the video proves she lied) but Grumpy Pants got in her car and followed that person, stalked her, and waited for her to get back to the car and was yelling slurs at them. I won't even go into the other issues I've had with this post office. All the other reviews are just repeats of the same problems. I am happy to pay a 50% markup at UPS to mail everything and to have a private mailbox. The great thing about UPS is their boxes are twice as expensive, but the people are always amazing and very friendly. The UPS store just changed owners, too, so they are fixing the strange numbering and adding even MORE mailboxes. Take your business to UPS, I promise you, you will be completely taken care of! They even hold packages for a loooong period of time and you'll get an email when a package arrives. I used to work for a mail center, I know the game. These people don't play by the rules and I've called them on their lies many times and they think I'm just some bloke who has no idea how it works. They lie to get out of having to do any work. Oh, I can't forget to add that when my mail was being stolen from my house I filled out the form to have my mail put on hold. A month later I went to pick up my mail on hold and they didn't have my mail - the hold was never processed. The thief had been taking my mail for a month. They had drilled out my lock and replaced it with their lock. I drilled out their lock and the thief replaced it again with a steel lock I broke 2 drill bits trying to remove. I had to call a friend with a more powerful drill and it took ten minutes to get that lock off. All the while, the thief was getting my mail thanks to the incompetence of the post office. I could share more ridiculous stories, but I think that's enough for now. I'm not in Kansas anymore, Fred. Beam me up, Scotty. I've landed on the wrong planet. Someone needs to put some LSD in the water stat. These people are aaaaaangry! read more

This is one of the most dated and behind the times post offices I have been too, they are lacking basic supplies and where you ask for other supplies I.e.. labels I was informed "we don't give them to customers just write in the box" this need a major upgrade and is a far far fall from the post office I am use too. Update!! They don't close at 2pm they close when the employees want too. And if you are there before closing doesn't mean you are going to get helped... read more

My sister paid for expedited delivery from out of state. The driver never rang my doorbell for a signature required package. I checked my doorbell and the driver never attempted to deliver the package. I am now unavailable for delivery or pickup. I will be asking them to return to sender with a full refund. Lazy driver. read more

Constantly losing my package. The people up front show concern and care. Post master does not seem to show any at all. Poor Leadership. Losing confidence in the Yelm Post office. I regularly receive mail and packages that don't belong to me. I get everyone else's mail but my own. You would hope that your mail is safe and secure. This worries me. New Post Master May be needed. Things were already bad. They're just getting worse. One star is as low as I can go. Zero needs to be an option. read more

What is with the postal driver that says she attempted to deliver a package last Thursday but couldn't because there was no access to our front door or sidewalk? That's crazy! I watched her sit in her truck never making any attempt to get out or come to our door. Our front door is totally accessible as well as our sidewalk. Other drivers never have a problem! Now I have to go to the damn post office and stand in line for who knows how long to pick up something that I paid to have delivered to my home. We live on 109th in Yelm. They've done this before. read more

DO NOT GET A PO BOX HERE. ALL OF MY PACKAGES get stolen and the post master claims they never get delivered here. I'm not the type to make up stories;however, there is a shady inside job going on. read more

Really getting sick and tired of my packages being delivered at a different street address just because they have the same house number especially the same day I receive another package. Be more aware of what you guys are doing. I get you have a lot to do but come on...I receive one package but not the other? A little silly... Thanks for the workout of tracking down my package today read more

Love the ladies there! We make 3+ trips every week to mail out products for my business and they are always friendly to myself and my son. Sometimes the wait is a little long, but it's understandable when you have a line and only 2 cashiers. The lawn is always maintained, and the building is always clean. I have never had any issues with the staff when we go in. We did have a hiccup with our mailman giving us mail that wasn't ours and loosing some of our mail, but the postmaster was very polite and helped get our mail and took the mail that wasn't ours. read more

Wish I could give no stars, love my postman, and the lady who helps inside but other than that I'm about ready to switch to a PO Box in Roy! If I have any deliveries on Sunday it is misdelivered and nothing has been done about it. I was even told the GPS on the truck said it was properly delivered, insinuating I was the liar...we live in duplexes and the truck parks in one spot, plus I've had neighbors bring them over. The manager could care less and all I get each time is "I will talk to the Sunday driver". I don't understand how this post office can be so careless with customers mail and nothing gets done about it. read more

This is the worst postal servers we have ever had. In 12 years I am not sure they have ever gotten anything right. Today was the latest. Left slip in the box that they could not deliver. Yep not on the door but in the lock box and we were home so did not even try. Mail is constantly delivered incorrectly, post office employees are nasty if you go in for help. Don't even try the phone as they will tell you they don't have the time for you and the postmaster is a joke at getting anything fixed. Sending formal complaint to Megan.J.Brennan@usps.gov general post master general to take care of our post office. Suggest you do as well, if they get enough complaints from us maybe they will do something. read more

I assume that this post office is so busy since Yelm is so rustic and spread out. But it really is busy on a regular work day. I will say it felt odd taking pix while people are around. But I do love Yelm and I do love this post office. read more

horrible, yellow slipped every damn time because they are to damn lazy to drive down my drive way and leave the package on my deck. Even when given specific instruction and permission they just sit at the end of my drive way honk twice then take off seriously i'm going to hear your damn horn in side my house more then 500ft from the street? every order I place I leave feed back telling the sellers to NOT USE USPS fedex or UPS put it on the deck EVERY TIME no matter what the package I ordered was I wish sooooo much I had a choice because if I did I would never EVER use yelm's usps read more

The worst service and employees ever. Rude and even the Asian lady slaps your hand if you put your payment on to early. We have no other choice to get our mail there unless we want it stolen from a rural area. When you order from Amazon and have one day shipping the post office gives it to you 4-5 days late saying they don't have the staff. read more

I was buying a stamp, I remembered times stamps were less years ago. Then another cashier referred to my weight. I notice this when a another customer said she was savage for what she said to me. I was being nice. I am heavy set woman, so it is offensive. Clearly she and her other cashier have no customers experience. You think these elder woman would know how to do their job. They talked the whole time after that as I wait for a stamp with a long line behind me. Now I see why so many reviews do not like this post office. I was having a good day too until this happened. The old saying goes if you got nothing nice to say, don't say it. They should be grateful to have a job, there are many that do not. I suggest they be retrained in customer service because regardless of their age, they clearly have no customer service experience. read more

Go as early as you can. The closer you get to lunch and on, the more miserable it is. As far as mail delivery goes, my neighborhood uses community boxes, and we constantly receive our neighbors mail and vise versa. I'm just glad we are all friendly with each other and walk it over ourselves. I'd be missing a lot of important mail otherwise. read more

Why do they keep saying they tried delivering a package and no one was there. I was here all day waiting for my prescription glasses and not one knock or doorbell. Got my letters fine yet the package was marked as: Held at Post Office, At Customer Request. I called them to see what happened and they said they passed by at 11:30 am. Now I have to go to the Post Office to pick it up. read more

Where do I begin... I received two packaging slips in my mail box today which I was anxiously waiting for as they were instant pots to be given as Christmas gifts. Upon attempting to pick up my packages I was told that I needed to pay over $60 if I wanted both of them. This was not a collect on delivery order, rather a Christmas order placed on December 8th, 2017. The mail clerk proceeded to tell me that the shipping originator (Military Aafes Exchange) did not provide the appropriate shipping therefore it was MY responsibility. Might I add that I was not charged for shipping as it was waived due to meeting the requirement for free shipping by Aafes Exchange. I very politely asked for an exception as this was not noticed beforehand by the USPS therefore was not my error. She, Darlene proceeded to say that I would either pay the "reduced, and lowest cost" shipping or they would send it back. She showed extreme unprofessionalism throughout our conversation. I stated that this shipping was a paid service by Aafes Exchange, and therefore should have been collected appropriately prior to the shipping taking place, as well as providing slips stating that my packages were "ready for pick up." It was very clear that Darlene was not willing to cooperate with me over the phone. She then called me "honey" and hung up on me. I am appalled at the actions received by the Yelm Post Office, and especially the way I was disrespected by Darlene. Poor customer service does not begin to cover this interaction, rather disrespect for human kind especially this holiday season. read more

Been using this post office for a few months now and even for a government run business, it's surprisingly awful. Most notably is how long it takes them to have a package sorted for pick up. On average it takes 2 business days after a package arrives before I can actually pick it up. More than once it's taken 3+ days. A couple staff members have been surprisingly rude as well. We will be finding an alternative soon. read more

Customer Service - what does that mean? You can't ask that question here because they don't know the meaning of the term. Of the last 5 times I have been in there, 4 of them I have left wanting to cry or CRYING or so mad, that punching one of them square in the face would not have made me feel bad or guilty in any way. Customer Service is a foreign concept to them of which they want nothing to do with!!! And - don't try to call because I have never been able to get past their busy signal. I am almost sure they take the phone off the hook during business hours. read more

If you love ordering things and then having them delivered to the wrong house, this post office will make you very happy. If you love getting to know your neighbors (3 blocks away) because you have to deliver their mail that was in your mailbox, this post office will surely be a dream come true. If you love calling to talk to an incredibly rude manager named Ken who will blame you for his employees constant mistakes and tell you it doesn't matter that you have surveillance video of your mail *not* being delivered to you at the stated times, this is the place for you. read more

I hate their service. While I am waiting my important parcel front of my home they just drive by mailbox to leave note that said "No secure location available" I have private acres with front and back porch and home is 50 feet away from mailbox and I am sitting front of my house waiting that box with my dog... What more they want for secure??? Actually this is happening multiple times. read more

This is more of a review of the USPS policies than my dissatisfaction with the error the Yelm post office made today on my delivery. I paid $6 to have my package shipped 2 day priority. And while this isn't a "guaranteed" delivery option I do expect that if the package makes it to the local office on time, Is sorted for delivery, is "out for delivery", and then returned due to a supposed "inaccurate delivery address (that was accurate)" that due to the error at the local USPS station I could be compensated for having to drive to the station to get my package. This is not the case... Even though the package was most likely nearly in my driveway, due to a USPS error I had to go wait in line and pick up my package myself as a paying customer. USPS here in Yelm and USPS main customer service both straight up told me that even though they made an error there was nothing they could do but say sorry and take my 6 dollars. I'd understand weather delays, un realistic distances for the package to travel, accidents and other forms of delays. But when it is an error made by an employee at my door step a consideration should be made. My address was indeed correct as the USPS post master in the yelm office confirmed (also confirmed by the countless other packages, bills, and advertisements that arrive accurately). What I can say is that the customer service agent at USPS main, the desk agent and post master in Yelm were polite even though they were unable to help me. =\ read more

WARNING! YELM POSTMASTER KEN.. HOSTILE POST OFFICE! This year Ken the postmaster made inappropriate comments to my wife. Then he "locked us out" of our paid for P.O. Box. We complained to the USPS and all they did was forward the complaint back to the postmaster. Now yesterday we get our package back after we sent it. The clerk said it was rejected by KEN in retaliation for our complaint. We are a US Veteran family with a small ebay business and had to pay out of pocket to cover the loss of sale because of KEN not sending our package. read more

I went in to post office to mail a package at 330pm. A guy behind the counter was being rude and yelling at a lady customer. She got upset and walked away. Then he looked at me asked what I needed. I said mail a package. He rudely said "Theres only one person working all day and shes on break, you'll have wait 20 min". This is a business that was open no sign up someone on break and after him yelling at lady before me I decided to post. Been in there many times the one women who works behind counter and this guy (why he couldnt fill in for someone on break dont know) just very rude way of talking to customers. Someone needs break guy could cover forccxthem as they are open instead yelling at people. read more

Mail delivery lady is pretty awesome but person(s) answering the phone at the post office are rude and extremely unhelpful to the point of hostility on their part. I guess when you have a Federal Job, you don't have to learn customer service or helpfulness. I was left a re-delivery slip for a large envelope that could not be placed in a locked mailbox slot and the QR scan code would not work online, nor would the Article Number or Barcode Number. The woman taking my phone call could not or would not get it to work either even though it was directly off the USPS notice. She refused to communicate to the delivery person to redeliver to the exact same address that is marked on the package. I understand if there was a request to re deliver to another address, but this is a no signature envelope. Said she couldn't verify my identity, as if a online website can. Not a nice woman. Evidently she is angry at the world and should not be serving the public. read more

The worst post office I've ever dealt worth. The post master is incredibly rude and arms to absolutely hates his job. Do not go here looking for any kind of customer service or resolution to mail issues because it won't happen with him in charge. read more

I'm so sick of the Yelm post office not delivering the mail right! I've had neighbors with my mail in their boxes. What really got me today was the fact that the driver didn't even knock on the door and left a note for me to pick my package up tomorrow! How inconvenient!! read more

These people are downright the worst post office I have ever dealt with in my life. When we first moved into our home I put up a new mailbox that had a secondary locking inner door but did not have a lock in it. I was not concerned with it. Almost a year later all the sudden we stopped receiving mail. I had to contact the post office and was informed by them that they could not deliver mail by law because we had a locking mailbox that did not lock. They then lied to me and said that they had not been able to deliver mail for a long time. We had been receiving mail for almost a year before they decided this was an issue. The lady I spoke to on the phone was absolutely no help and rather rude. I was informed that the carrier had left numerous notices in our mailbox telling us that there was a problem. We never received even one single notice from them. I had to go into the post office to collect our mail which included some very important papers that were now late at this point. I wouldn't give them one star. Every time I have dealt with them they are beyond not helpful. read more

was expected to receive a package today in mail, got a message from USPS saying "Carrier is unable to gain access to front door to deliver the package. Please contact the carrier to resolve" I have no gates, no passwords to get to my door, there was even someone at home waiting for the package, the fuck you mean you couldn't get to door usps, thanks for nothing. read more

We use to get are mail on saturdays by noon now it's 7 pm and the mail still hasn't come u need to fire your employees and hire new ones cause these drivers are obviously screwing around on the job read more

The worst service I have ever experienced. Numerous occasions where our package was delivered to someone else, they see it on their tracking but said," huh, sorry". Today I had a package I paid for two day shipping. Tracking says it is in Yelm. I called to see when it would be delivered. The person that answered the phone was ridiculous. I remained very calm and he was becoming agitated for no reason. He hung up on me-very professional. I called back to ask for the post master. The person that answered stated he was the post master. I asked for his name and he hung up-again. If I could use any other carrier, I would. read more