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Mail delivery blues...
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08 April 2002
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To Resident:
Your mailbox is getting full. You need to pick up your mail on a regular basis, or your mail will be pulled and placed on hold at the post office.
Thank you.
Dear Mail Person:
My box is NOT getting full. I would hardly call a few days’ worth of JUNK mail FULL.
The only mail that is delivered to me is bills. I don’t start receiving those until the middle of the month. I’d appreciate you NOT pulling my mail AGAIN unless I ask you to do so.
Thank you.
P.S. I pick up my mail regularly – at least once a week during the first couple of weeks of the month and more often the last couple of weeks. Please accept this as my notice of such. Should I decide to take an extended vacation or move, I will take care of holding and forwarding. I’d like to suggest that if you think my mailbox is getting what you consider to be full, that you withhold all that JUNK mail.
I thank you kindly
Oh my gosh! My mail delivery person is just really annoying me. At the end of October, he decided that I didn't live in my house anymore, and he stopped delivering my mail. I, of course, hadn't a clue for a week or so. I thought, Gosh that is strange. I've not even gotten the stupid bi-weekly junk mail. My bills should have started arriving by then, and I was starting to wonder. I've never had my mail person decide that I no longer live in my residence, so that thought didn't even cross my mind.
Finally, after a couple of weeks - it was now the last week of the month - HELLO!! Bills?!?! - I decided to call the post office. First of all, it is nearly impossible to find the Post Office's number. I'm serious. I looked everywhere. So, I ended up going online and looking it up that way, calling the 800-number, then getting my local number for that. You see, by now, I'm starting to really get annoyed. I am a happy-go-lucky person, but when I'm annoyed, that couldn't be further from the truth. I finally got a hold of someone and asked them to please check for me because it was getting darn near the 1st of the month when all paid bills need to be sent out. The woman finally got back to me that, yes, my mail was being pulled because I "no longer lived at the residence."
I assured her that I DID still occupy the residence, and declared my utter disbelief that the mail person would think such a thing! What does he want? A frickin' neon sign outside my door??? Good grief!
I asked her to please make sure that it was delivered again because it contained my bills. She said that she would. About four or five days pass. (Yes, it is getting dangerously close to the 1st - fortunately, my credit card bills go to my P.O. box - only my residence-related bills come to my house.) I go out to the mailbox and there is one of those little nylon closure thingies LOCKING MY MAILBOX!!! Can you believe that????
I walk into the kitchen, grab my scissors (yes, I'm angry), cut that sucker away, and what do I find in my mailbox? There is a little note to the next occupant of the house asking them to please put their name on the paper for the mail delivery person. Eh? Huh? I moved? I left? Good grief!
I marched back into the house and furiously scribbled out a note on the back of that little "notice". It was a Saturday, and I didn't get home until after 1pm, which is the time that the P.O. closes. I *have* to mail out those bills, so I call the P.O. and someone answered. Yay! I told him of the problem, he looked it up and said, "Yep, your mail delivery person is a real stickler for the rules. If you don't pick up your mail after ten days, then he is to pull it and put it on hold to be picked up by you."
"That's fine and dandy," I tell the nice man. "However, it hadn't been ten days since the last time I had picked up my mail. I don't get mail every day, so it would be kind of difficult for him to know when I *didn't* check my mail, wouldn't it?"
He chuckled and said, "Yes, but as I said, he's a real stickler for the rules. I'm sorry that this happened. Perhaps in the future you would just make sure to check the box more often."
He was being very nice and understanding, so I just stated nicely, "And perhaps he'd like to refrain from assuming that someone doesn't live in a home because she doesn't collect her mail on a daily basis."
He chuckled and agreed with me. He was very nice about it all. I told him that I *needed* to get that mail because of the bills. He went to locate my bundle, and said, "Yep, there are lots of bills in here. If you can be here soon, come in and get it. Just knock on the door, and someone will get it for you."
I thanked him and rushed off to the P.O. I got there and knocked on the door. I waited. I knocked on the door again. I waited some more. I knocked very loudly on the door. I waited. I listened to the people on the other side of the door chuckle at me. I knocked on the door loud and long. Finally, someone answered. I told them that I had talked to someone about collecting my mail that was inadvertently held." She went to collect it, shutting the door, of course. A moment later she returned with my mail and I reached for it.
"Do you have your I.D.?" she asked as she looked at me with a crooked smile.
Wench.Sighing, I reply, "No, I didn't know that I'd need it. I just talked to someone and they told me to come and get it."
"I can't give this to you without seeing your I.D."
Mumbling under my breath, I reply, "Fine. But please wait so I don't have to stand at the door and knock for ten minutes AGAIN."
I run out to my car and grab my purse. I go back in and the door is closed. Argh! I knock a couple of times and she finally returns. I show the I.D. to her and take the mail from her hands. I thank her (albeit a tad sarcastically) and go home to hurredly fill out my bills.
This little note from the mail delivery dude today just got my blood boiling again. Yes, perhaps I was a little rude in my letter to him, but I tell ya... If he stops my mail again, I'm going to get really mad. I check that box regularly.
Do you know what was in my "full" mailabox today? Two sets of the bi-weekly junk mail/flyers, two catalogues, a letter to me from Honda (okay, so that is the exception - not a residence-related piece of mail, but it's not a bill either - it's for my car maitenance), and a bank statement that belongs to previous residents. Wow! Full, huh? *rolling my eyes*
Okay, I am done with my little rant. ;-)
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