Sat 25 Jun 2005
I pick up my mail once every 4-5 days because my annoying neighbors like to sit in their open garage and sometimes their kids’ creepy friends are over and they smoke (sometimes weed) in the garage and stare at me or are rather rude, and I have to walk by all of them to get to the collection of mail boxes. So after a hard day at work, the last thing I want to do is feel self-conscious or fake being social to get mail. So I tell myself I’ll wait till everyone’s back in their house and I’ll pick up mail later on in the evening. Usually I forget.
The mailman today left a note at my front door on which he’d handwritten “IF YOU DON’T START PICKING UP YOU MAIL ONCE A WEEK YOU WILL BE PICKING IT UP AT THE POST OFFICE”. I’m gonna avoid the obvious crack about the “you” and get to the meat of the matter: Can he even legally follow through w/that threat? I mean, don’t they have some sort of legal duty? And I DO pick up my mail at least once a week, but that’s aside from the point.
i say you test him and pick it up once every 10 days. that will teach him!
And have him “lose” my bills and packages for ignoring his warning? The thing to do is pick mail up precisely every 7 days, and that way I’m still operating within his defined confines.
i guess it’s within the mailman’s “power” to “threaten” you that he will not deliver. that happens to jen and mike all the time. but unlike some other comments posted here, i don’t recommend “teaching” him a lesson, since you end up being the one troubled by having to go to the post office, and the mailman ends up having one less deliver to make.
The post office has no legal duty to deliver mail to your home.
Darn it.
pick up your mail at your mailbox. going to the post office to pick your mail up sucks. i’ve done it many times before because jen doesn’t check mail like she’s supposed to.