Thank you, Jan. We wondered what those were for with keys simply hanging loose in the locks of many. We know this 'ain't Dallas' but the small town ways of the Swamp often make us smile. If the Post Master decides to have lunch or go over to the feed store to get change, he just closes his window and off he goes. One of his little trips left us wandering around the post office looking the place over. No problem. You can not get in a hurry around here. They didn't even have our pictures posted. Fame is just so brief. Polly
Well that's it.... we all need to squish Taria to give her carrier a work out.... now make sure you put a delivery confirmation number on that squishie so we know they were actually delivered
ROTFL... this whole thread has me remembering summers at the grandparents..... town of maybe 200 if you counted the stray dogs... everyone was provided a box free of charge because there was no delivery offered. The PO was directly across the street from my grandparents house. Grandma would send my grandfather over there.... he MIGHT come back within 2-3 hours.... why? There was always a hot domino game in the lobby ;-) All the women sent the men over there to get them out of their hair ;-)
That bus locker thing is great!! No worries about the hours, the lines etc. One of the many perks of having a box. Not to mention your packages are never left on your front porch in the middle of a tornado ;-)
Our posties ride yellow bicycles. Not an ounce of extra fat on them. Packages come in a DHL truck (contract with the German post office), and are brought to the door. Roberta in D
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our posties ride bicycles (with or without a little motor for assistance) or drive a van if they do the more remote rural area's packages come by one of many services depending on how they were sent some slip through the letterbox and some get hand delivered and if I'm not home the postie delivers to a neighbour and leaves a note to that effect in my letterbox. if I have to sign for the package they will hand deliver and if I'm not home leave a not on when they will retry to deliver if attempt #2 fails I get a not on when I can collect from the depot
My letterbox is a fair way away from the house so when I get letters the little 3yo from next door brings them down to the house for me in exchange for a small choc bar. He is VERY diligent, and I think I may even get his mum's junk mail some days lol
Parcels are brought to the house (and inside the house if they are heavy), and the hubby & wife contractors who deliver always chat and gratefully accept the same payment (choc bar). If I am not here they push them through the cat door or bring them back the next day. The last contractor was so intrigued by my parcels (she used to stay to see what was in them) that she became a quilting student here when she "retired" from the parcel run.
This is the norm in the UK except that the slots are usually in the front door. Our post delivery man has a bike with a large carrier on the front.
A couple of streets away where they have small paths to the door, the postman has a trolley thingy for the letters.
If we have anything a bit big for the ordinary postman, it comes by van later in the morning, and they always come and ring the bell, or come and find me in the garden. PO Box numbers here are usually commercial firms.
Officially, sure, but if they can spend the time and energy to put in a notice, surely they can expend the tinsiest bit more to put the mail in?? It's not like the sky's gonna cave in. Sometimes "officially" needs to give way to compassion and courtesy.
but who's is the responsibility to keep it unblocked? It's got to be someones and it can't be Taria in this instance. I guess it she's blocked it herself by putting a skip there, or building work or something that it would be her responsibility, but on a public road it can't be and don't recall anything in the driving code that says you can't park infront of a mail box.
use one of the non PO, box services, we have several near us, pony express and the like, you can pay more to get a bigger box if you regularly get parcels, but even then you don't tend to have to wait more than a couple of people if it doesn't fit.
we just bought a house, we didn't pay that much but not far off, right now we would struggle to pay for even small things like that, food and shoes for the kids are higher on the priority list.
Every year at Christmas I give our Post person a card and a few bucks. She is a sweetie and ALWAYS delivers any packages to my door that won't fit in my box. She also picks up any box that I have out by the mail box (I use priority mail with the postage affixed.) My husband parks in front of the box on Saturday and she still puts the mail in the box. I can't say enough nice things about her.
I sure miss our old carrier--he had the nerve to retire!!!!! If we had a package, he'd bring it to the door, ring the bell, then knock, because he knew I usually was sewing in the basement. He also brought all the mail that came that day instead of leaving it in the box. I had to laugh one day. As I got almost to the door I heard him calling "hurry up, woman, it's freezing out here". The new one brings packages to the step, but never rings the bell or knocks, so unless we see them as we drive in, they may be there a day or more. It's SO hard to knock on the door. Gen
On the other hand, this is the postal service, not valet & butler service.
How 'bout if the postal carriers had to do that bit 100 times a day because some idiot parked in front of the post box? The notice is just that, a notice: I won't/can't deliver the mail if I can't get to the box. Maybe one or 2 notices will fix the problem, but maybe not because *some* people are too lazy to find another place to park. I know some of my neighbors would be calling the post office to complain that their mail was delivered late, completely ignoring the situation where they &/or their kids and neighbors parked in front of the curb-side box so the mail carrier had to hop up & down for most of his route. Nah, I'm on the mail carriers side on this one. Some are nicer than others, some have shorter routes or easier stations or different attitudes. And some stations are just waiting to find any excuse to get rid of the carriers who don't finish their routes "on time." With new 'hoods going up all around us, this mail route gets longer every month. So if my mailman had to hop in and out of his jeep
100s of times a day because people are too careless, lazy or stupid to park elsewhere, the mail wouldn't, couldn't show up "on time", he wouldn't have the time to deliver any pkgs to the door. When my own young drivers kept parking in front of the mail box ("we don't know what time the mailman comes! how should we know not to park there?") I put a little sign on the mailbox: Do not park here. And when the kid across the street parked there, I added "Nails on curb" to the sign; he got the idea and learned to park in his own driveway. The mailman has a job to do, and a limited time in which to do it. Btw, what do people expect for 39 cents, anyway?
Ragm> Officially, sure, but if they can spend the time and energy to put in a
I think she expects the guy putting my new garage door should have schlepped the old double one across the circle and down the street to a parking spot? In my case we are talking workmen about 98% of the time and only a few times a year. She is lazy. If this gal can honk for me to collect packages she can honk for the mail because her butt doesn't leave the seat. SHe doesn't take the time to leave a warning. Did I mention she is lazy? My last carrier here was Bertie. SHe loved my cookies and my jam and when her DH died I hugged her and shed a few tears. She is a good woman and was a great mail carrier. She was appreciated for both the nice person she was and the great job she did. My dad has had carriers deliver mail at a box that has had a vehicle in front of it every day for over 20 years. He is in southern OC where the workers must know the folks they service might rattle cages if they don't do the job. That and the carriers he has had are just plain decent folks. Parking in front of a mailbox is not illegal. SOmetimes it is the only option. I don't expect valet service but this attitude reminds me of a sil who has the attitude that she won't do any more than she has to EVER. (and usually she does a lot less and expects to be waited on) All 3 immediate members of my family work for some kind of government agencies. DH has a job in census for the DOT (caltrans) and is hollered at regularly to F'off just because he is in one of the CT vehicles. DS is not even out of field training has been called about everything. DD is lucky enough to be in GIS and doesn't deal with the public although some unhappy person threatened to shoot everyone in the building not long ago. Govt. employees are not all lazy and clearly from all the msg.s in this thread the ones doing a good job are often appreciated. The job they do really does make a difference. I just really don't like lazy wherever it is. Taria
My fabulous, friendly (and did I mention fabulous?) mail carrier just changed routes. The new one has a first-class attitude (pun intended). She and I may need to have a little talk soon, just to let her know I don't make cookies for people with attitudes. *grin*
Trust me, Jeanne. Before Yogi got the biscuit, I read it to be sure it was a Milk Bone and saw the box it came from. That was kinda funny. Delivery guys carry 50 pound boxes of doggy treats. I guess 'going to the dogs' is part of their job description. Polly
My elderly parents in Birmingham had a maibox at the street and were not able to make the walk. My dad started buying the carrier a bottle of his favorite beverage about once a month. The carrier then brought their main to the rear of their house, opened the sliding glass door and left the mail on a chair near the door. If mom had outgoing mail she left it on the designated chair with proper postage or enough money to cover the postage and the carrier picked it up.
My parents could not drive and if this arrangement had not been worked out, I'm not sure what they would have done.
I'm also real sure that a call or visit to the postmaster would have run into a real dead end.
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