PaulKTF upset about the mailman cramming his box
Apr 29, 2018 1:31:50 GMT
Post by Soul Pinata on Apr 29, 2018 1:31:50 GMT
PaulKTF:
Does anyone else have an issue with their mailman (or mailwoman, as the case may be) cramming packages and boxes into your mailbox so you have to struggle to try and pull them out instead of just putting them on your front porch?
Here are some examples from others.
Oh, come on, mailman! This is the wrong way to deliver a package [pics]
They do this because they're too lazy to get out of the truck and carry the package up to your front porch (or garage area or wherever). It isn't a big deal if the package/envelope happens to be small enough to be easily removed from the mailbox but a lot of them aren't.
I actually had to call my local Post Office to complain about it because I was tired of trying to pry packages out of the mailbox! :mad:
Does anyone else have an issue with their mailman (or mailwoman, as the case may be) cramming packages and boxes into your mailbox so you have to struggle to try and pull them out instead of just putting them on your front porch?
Here are some examples from others.
Oh, come on, mailman! This is the wrong way to deliver a package [pics]
They do this because they're too lazy to get out of the truck and carry the package up to your front porch (or garage area or wherever). It isn't a big deal if the package/envelope happens to be small enough to be easily removed from the mailbox but a lot of them aren't.
I actually had to call my local Post Office to complain about it because I was tired of trying to pry packages out of the mailbox! :mad:
prognastycator:
Nope.
Nope.
PaulKTF:
Then yours is doing their job the way they're supposed to. :righton:
Then yours is doing their job the way they're supposed to. :righton:
prognastycator:
Yes they are.
Yes they are.
MYKE:
I'm repeating myself here, but what the hell. The metal cubbyhole apartment mailboxes here, are designed so that the end of the container as it were, is wider on the end facing the mailroom. The end you see, when you unlock your door, is more narrow, so in the 36 + years I've lived here, imagine how many packages I've gotten that were impossible to remove without the help of a crowbar, usually tearing up the package pretty good, but finally getting out.
And no, the apt. manager does not have a key to the room, only the USPS does.
:cussing:
I'm repeating myself here, but what the hell. The metal cubbyhole apartment mailboxes here, are designed so that the end of the container as it were, is wider on the end facing the mailroom. The end you see, when you unlock your door, is more narrow, so in the 36 + years I've lived here, imagine how many packages I've gotten that were impossible to remove without the help of a crowbar, usually tearing up the package pretty good, but finally getting out.
And no, the apt. manager does not have a key to the room, only the USPS does.
:cussing:
danner:
The only incident for me is when my mailman bent a record nearly in half to fit it inside my mailbox. Shockingly, it actually managed to not hurt the record at all.
The only incident for me is when my mailman bent a record nearly in half to fit it inside my mailbox. Shockingly, it actually managed to not hurt the record at all.
PaulKTF:
Contact them and complain. Either call them or go here
USPS - Email Us
and select "Daily mail delivery" and then click on "Mail condition". On the next page, check "Crammed in mailbox" and fill out the form with your comment and they should get back to you within a day or two.
Contact them and complain. Either call them or go here
USPS - Email Us
and select "Daily mail delivery" and then click on "Mail condition". On the next page, check "Crammed in mailbox" and fill out the form with your comment and they should get back to you within a day or two.
noname74:
I guess actually talking to the mail person to explain the situation face to face is too much to ask before a registered formal complaint?
I guess actually talking to the mail person to explain the situation face to face is too much to ask before a registered formal complaint?
PaulKTF:
I'm either too busy doing something and not looking out the window when they happen to deliver the mail, or I'm otherwise away. Even if I did happen to notice them at the mailbox I'm not going to sprint out there to try and flag them down before they drive away. They come at varying times within about a two or three hour window every day anyway so I never really know when they'll come.
I was very polite when I sent the message via the form and said that the mail person otherwise does a great job except for this small issue. I got a phone call back from their supervisor like two days later apologizing and saying that what they were doing was not supposed to happen. The whole point of the form is to report issues you're having with mail delivery and that's what I used it for.
I'm either too busy doing something and not looking out the window when they happen to deliver the mail, or I'm otherwise away. Even if I did happen to notice them at the mailbox I'm not going to sprint out there to try and flag them down before they drive away. They come at varying times within about a two or three hour window every day anyway so I never really know when they'll come.
I was very polite when I sent the message via the form and said that the mail person otherwise does a great job except for this small issue. I got a phone call back from their supervisor like two days later apologizing and saying that what they were doing was not supposed to happen. The whole point of the form is to report issues you're having with mail delivery and that's what I used it for.
