USPS Mail Service...again in Zip Code 77493-3067

USPS Mail Service...again in Zip Code 77493-3067
[Note. If you're not familiar with USPS Informed Delivery, you can sign up online to get an email every day with PICTURES of the mail you'll be receiving that day. Helpful, so you don't bother walking to the mailbox at the end of the block to collect junk mail, and so you know if something really important is coming.]We've lived in Katy (in the city) for nine years. We use the USPS Informed Delivery to know what's coming to our local cluster box every day. Here's our lost, misdelivered, or returned mail so far that we know of.2017. Target card monthly statement returned to sender "addressee unknown". Target froze our card so we lost the 5% discount for using the card. In the long run it hurt Target, since most of what we'd have bought there, we now buy from Amazon and get back 5% with the Amazon Prime Visa card. After that, we switched all credit card, bank statements, broker statements to email/online only.2020. We signed up for Vote by mail. Neither of us got our mail ballots, but when I went to vote, the list had me as a mail-in voter, so I had to vote provisionally and told if the mail ballot was used, I'd have to go to the courthouse and contest it, else my live vote would be not counted. We both cancelled Vote by MailThis year. Our new voter registration cards--appeared in the morning Informed Delivery email--so we knew they were coming that day--but they did not arrive that day or ever. Also, one prescription sent to me by the VA never arrived in the mailbox, although I received a shipping notice.Yesterday. There was a card in the morning Informed Delivery email, from someone I had helped with a computer problem. It didn't show up in the mailbox. I texted the sender and told her "Thanks for the card, but our mailman decided to keep it for himself, I guess." She told me then that had sent as thanks a gift card and receipt in the envelope. I hope our mailman/thief enjoyed his free meal.In both of the lost items this year we filed the required report at USPS.com. Nothing happened with the missing voter registration cards, and I'm fairly confident nothing will happen with this "lost" gift card either. If you use the mail for anything important, you might want to consider alternatives. Anything we can, we have either online only or when feasible UPS or FedEx. So far, I've lost only one of the six VA prescriptions I receive every three months, and my only alternative to mail is picking them up at the VA in the Medical Center. I'm considering that 75-mile round trip drive across the city.