OT totally off topic postal service

if she had to get out and do this at everyones mail box i could see the problem in a days work. i'd think on the odd occasion there is a blocked mail box she could benefit from getting up off her fat a$$ and do it as a courtesy. she needs some exercise other than pushing on the pedals and steering. geez, lazy or what. yup, i'd call the postmaster there and have a friendly discussion about this. saves fuel if she just does this when shes there rather than carry the mail around for a day to maybe get lost or to make you come into the PO to pick it up. dont they think about global warming? geez your posties use a bike to deliver here. oh well, good luck, jeanne

I think you need to make a trip to the Post Office to have a chat with the Postmaster. That kind of behavior is ridiculous! Can she not get out of her little truck? Sheesh!

Laurie G.

I think officially they are not required to leave mail in a box that is blocked. Usually they will leave a note in the box to warn you that mail will not be delivered before they just don't deliver it.

From the official USPS website:

I found this by searching for "mail delivery blocked mail box"

Julia > This is way off topic but since you guys know just about everything

Well.... PO Boxes are quite affordable... and with your DH retiring.... you might travel more?? You might send him to the PO on a regular basis so you can consume donuts in his absence??? Honestly.... I have found that to be my best bet for cutting thru it. Probably not what you wanted to hear, but it's my honest answer.

Jan RCTQ Coffee Diva

They do not have to leave the mail if a car/truck is blocking the mailbox. I live on a circle, and there have been cases where they would not leave the mail if a vehicle was parked in front of the mailbox. Usually, this only happens because it is the same people leaving their vehicles blocking the mailbox. Some of these people have more vehicles than people living in the house so one or two are parked on the street instead of the driveway. Most of the time, they will warn them a few times before they stop leaving the mail. Good luck talking to anyone at your post office unless it is better than the one in my neighborhood. DH & I have considered getting a post office box, but we take so many magazines that it would not work if we were gone for any length of time. We have been known to be gone 3-6 weeks at a time, and the post office box would not hold it. They also will not hold your mail longer than 4 weeks. Luckily, our friends just live 2 blocks from us, and they get our mail. They throw away all the obvious junk mail, and shred the credit card offers.

Sherry Starr

If we're doing a lazy mail carrier contest, please let me nominate ours. She doesn't 'do' packages or much else. We have to keep a big trash can beside the mail box for her to hurl packages into. Not a chance that she's going to move from her comfy seat. During the week, delivery is right slim, on Saturdays when the relief carrier is on duty, most of our mail comes in. To add insult to incompetence, she regularly plows up DH's carefully tended lawn because she's sorting mail instead of looking at the road. We are the proud parents and grandparents of UPS cute guys . . . and today, the Yorkie and I were out for our walk. The FedEx guy stopped us on our journey to hand Yogi a puppy biscuit. Gotta love 'em. Polly

sounded great til i got to the last line. do check what brand those biscuits are, eh. with some of those also being recalled, what the heck does one feed their animals now. jeanne

Jan, almost forgot. I do like the donut angle. : ) Sammy makes the best donuts and now I am back up here near his shop! You think there is such a donut that is whole grain and low fat enough that my dr. will say it is ok? Last time I stopped in I got powdered sugar jelly filled. I ate it in James truck. Powdered sugar donuts are not a good donut to eat without leaving evidence! TAria

Taria wrote:

She honks and wants you go run out to her car to get your package??!! What a bunch of crap!! No joke! What if you were ill, or in a wheelchair, or in the bathroom? I really can't imagine the postal service would condone this.

I hate it when people forget / ignore the very reason they have their jobs! She is a mail carrier -- it is her JOB to get your mail to you.

I live in an apartment where there are several boxes in the entry. The boxes are OK sized - a large newspaper and couple of fat magazines fit there just fine. But I still get these notes saying they couldn't deliver the package and that I'll have to come to the post office and pick it up, and that they tried to deliver it to my door, but I wasn't there. Which is bull chit. I live right by the entry door, and watch them come and go. My door is the first one they see. The times that they say they tried to deliver it but couldn't are pure lies. I was right there, watching them, and nobody knocked on my door. I'm disabled and don't drive anymore. I have to have my family do all my errands. I do not want to make them go to the post office when it should have been delivered right to my hands.

I did send a note to the postmaster once, and things got better for a while, then they went back to their lazy ways.

René

She is not required to leave the mail if the box is blocked, but she should be getting her lazy butt out of her truck to deliver packages. This makes me appreciate my carrier all the more; she does actually get out of her truck to put my packages at my front door, and I get a lot of them. Also, the idiots who live next door, and have their mailbox on the other side of the post from mine, constantly leave a car parked in front of the box, and she still delivers. Wilma broke the door on their box and they have still not replaced it, it's just hanging there. My mailbox had some dents from Wilma, and the door doesn't look so great, so I bought another box--it was $7.00. The people next door I know paid $510,000 for their house and can't be bothered to get a new mailbox? Geesh!

Sorry, rant over. :)

Oh now you are just making me hungry!!! But look around at that post office next time you are standing in line.... a special feature at many is bus style lockers... no don't go stick your purse in there... but you have a package for your box, they have larger boxes and they'll put a key in your small box, you walk over and unlock the bus style locker... you are in! No line!!! :-)))))) Ours does that! I love it!!

Jan RCTQ Coffee Diva