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  3. I know their service can be inexcusable at times. I routinely get mail for an address a block away (different street but same house number). It always irks me but then I remember, “love your enemies and do good. . .”

    So, I taped to the mailbox a ziplock bag with a couple of homemade cookies and a little handwritten note labeled, “Mail Carrier,” I thanked them for their work. It seemed that things improved after that. My dad had a similar outcome he lived in the hot southwest US and would periodically give a cold bottle of water or can of soda to his carriers.

    Most likely, all carriers feel overwhelmed and underappreciated.

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      1. You just gave me a chuckle. If you heard my mental or private “ranting” before the Spirit’s gentle admonition you might not call me a “patient person” but thanks for thinking kindly of me. 😉

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    1. I did complain … or at least tried to. I got absolutely nowhere. My calls were not returned and now the PO isn’t even answering their phone. Emails go unanswered and there’s no way I’m going to write a letter. That concept is laughable. The PO has us over a barrel and they know it; they are the only game in town so unless we want to rent a PO box and go to the PO every day to collect our mail, we are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

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    1. Anything with a “4” in the address gets delivered to our house. I’m pretty damn sick of it. If it’s meant for any house on our tiny street or around the corner, no big deal but if it’s meant for the next town, it kinda pisses me off. We used to leave outgoing mail in the slot in our front door and our former wonderful mailman would take it during his rounds and mail it for us at the PO. One of the 27 mail carriers we’ve had over the last 2 years took our mail and did God-knows-what with it. We had no idea it wasn’t arriving at its destination until we started getting overdue notices and late fees on our credit cards bills. (We do not do online banking.). Now Bill takes our mail to the PO every week and mails it himself.

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    1. See what I mean!? We had THE BEST mailman ever. He was super efficient and quick yet always had time for a chat. He never slacked off and was such a great worker and a nice guy. Then his route got changed and our mail service has been a disgrace ever since. We never know from one day to the next who will be delivering our mail. There are days when we don’t get mail or get the wrong mail. On the days when Colette is here, Bill puts a sign out at her nap time. He tapes the sign over the doorbell; the sign reads “DO NOT RING THE BELL”. The mailman removes the sign and rings the bell! Sometimes we find the sign thrown on the ground! Once a week we have a female mail carrier; she is pleasant and efficient, always gets the delivery right and never rings the bell when the sign is out. I realize it’s a difficult job but the least they can do is put in the effort and get it right. There are a lot of people out of work who would love to have their job and be better at it! Rant over (for now).

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      1. We used to have the same carrier for long periods of time. Since covid, we seem to have them change every few weeks, and some of them are not in uniform, so we would see total strangers come up on our sunporch! Since they left mail and didn’t take anything, we figured it out right away. We still have Linda about once every few weeks for a few days, and the last time we spoke she said they were switching up the routes all the time so all the new people could get used to the routine.
        I don’t have my cute FedX guy any longer either…

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        1. Haha!! I have no idea what happened to our cute and very helpful UPS guy. I think we need to put out an APB!
          One of our holiday fill-in mail carriers parked his truck outside our house and played loud music in his truck while his female companion twerked!
          You cannot make this stuff up!
          Then there’s the Amazon guy who must have had a frontal lobotomy because he drives around with the side doors of his truck open and packages fall out whenever he make a turn. I swear this is all legit.

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          1. Oh my! I believe it all, and I can see the packages slipping out. Almost every day, on our town forum, there’s another notice of missing packages!
            A few years ago, a group of us got together and wrote a little play for our town’s 250th birthday. It was kind of a spoof on the signing of the town’s charter. One of the scenes called for a declaration coming from the King, delivered to the townsfolk. We decided to have it delivered by FedX. One of the men in the group asked who we could get to play the FedX man, and in unison all three women in the group said “our FedX guy” of course! He was really handsome and wore shorts all year long, and every woman in the village knew him. We asked, and he kindly agreed to play the role.
            It was superb, when he walked down the aisle to the stage, every woman in the audience clapped and wolf whistled to him. After he delivered the charter, he turned to the audience and bowed, and the whole house roared!

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    1. There’s no excuse for that. Unfortunately since the PO became a federal agency the service and the attitude of many have gone downhill. There are still some who take pride in their job; those are the ones who deserve our thanks every day. It’s not an easy job. 📬

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      1. Oh my gosh! That is unacceptable. And, I wonder – you throw the mail on a doorstep, the wind carries it away – what if it’s something important? The PO in Canada is also federal. And I would be interested to see just what would happen if mail was not delivered properly!

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