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Has anyone else had issues with their mail service recently?

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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.