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[ludimagist.livejournal.com]

Has anyone else had issues with their mail service recently?

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[somertricky.livejournal.com]

Our carrier seems to have a habitual problem with not picking up mail we leave out for delivery; don't know whether to file a complaint (which may encourage retribution) or to just keep bringing mail into the office and mailing it from here.

The weekend carrier is happy to just dump mail for both units into whichever mailbox he feels compelled to leave it in.

[latvianchick.livejournal.com]

Me too!

I mentioned it once when I brought the stuff to the post office (at Davis), and was told that they actually don't HAVE to pick it up. =(

[geekpixie.livejournal.com]

Our weekend carrier does the same, just dumps it through our front door "mail" slot, not into our individual boxes, I sometimes wonder if they're given the set of keys that the week person has, or are just generally uninformed.

[witzwurst.livejournal.com]

At least he uses the mail slot. The regular carrier at my old place in Teele refused to use ours -- he just dumped the mail in between the screen door and the door, with varying rates of success. I loved coming home to find my credit card statements sitting on the porch floor.

[laryu.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you should clarify with postal authorities whether letter carriers should be picking up outgoing mail around here in the first place. My guess is that they aren't expected to do so, as they are on foot and don't have the means of collecting, carrying and sorting outgoing mail that a car-based letter carrier in the suburbs would have.

[avjudge]

I actually asked my mail carrier whether it was OK to leave things to pick up, and he had no problem with it. We've changed carriers since and have lots of substitutes, but they all pick up fine.

They never look in the box, though; I clothespin outgoing mail to the outside of the box so it's really obvious. Maybe this is normal. I learned it after asking my sister-in-law why the clothespin on her mailbox!

(I'd always had truck-delivered mail to mailboxes with flags to indicated outgoing mail before, except when I lived here during grad school & had a big blue mailbox within a block of me, so this is my first experience with mailing from this sort of home mailbox.)

As for mail, mine delivery seems fine, except when the water department doubled a letter in my street name and I didn't get any bills for a year. Thank goodness I had a big credit from correction of estimated bills to the previous owner! When I saw the problem and called them, the next bill reached me. But seriously, a glance and you should have been able to tell the correct street.

My other gripe is that when you have them hold mail for vacation and check "deliver mail when hold expires" they never do - I have to go to Union Square and stand in line to get it every time.