Somerville postal service is the worst. When I first moved there, I thought, hey, I'll get mail at home.
Big mistake.
I lived in a building with three apartments. Mail got left on the (unenclosed) porch in a bundle for all three tenants in any sort of weather. Mail addressed to other houses at 51 or 53 whatever street ended up in our bundle. Sometimes, the elastic band was omitted, so the mail got scattered all over the porch.
When mail was actually put into our three boxes, it was jammed in so badly that you couldn't get mail out without ripping it. And it didn't seem to matter which name was on which box; mail got shoved into whichever box was handy.
Oh, I complained. Many, many times. It did no good.
Finally, after about a year of this nonsense. I got a PO Box downtown at Fort Point Station. Problem solved.
I lived in Somerville 9 years. When I moved, I was still getting mail addressed to the previous tenants (and the tenants before them).
Once, I got my neighbour's credit card statement. Good thing I'm not interested in identity theft. It sat in my box because I had the PO Box at this time so I didn't check it every day; I never found out if the person whose bill it was got a late payment fee.
I've lived in three states and one province, in cities and suburban locations. Somerville is the worst mail service I've encountered (and I had to deal with Canada Post!)
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Date: 2009-12-16 03:06 pm (UTC)Big mistake.
I lived in a building with three apartments. Mail got left on the (unenclosed) porch in a bundle for all three tenants in any sort of weather. Mail addressed to other houses at 51 or 53 whatever street ended up in our bundle. Sometimes, the elastic band was omitted, so the mail got scattered all over the porch.
When mail was actually put into our three boxes, it was jammed in so badly that you couldn't get mail out without ripping it. And it didn't seem to matter which name was on which box; mail got shoved into whichever box was handy.
Oh, I complained. Many, many times. It did no good.
Finally, after about a year of this nonsense. I got a PO Box downtown at Fort Point Station. Problem solved.
I lived in Somerville 9 years. When I moved, I was still getting mail addressed to the previous tenants (and the tenants before them).
Once, I got my neighbour's credit card statement. Good thing I'm not interested in identity theft. It sat in my box because I had the PO Box at this time so I didn't check it every day; I never found out if the person whose bill it was got a late payment fee.
I've lived in three states and one province, in cities and suburban locations. Somerville is the worst mail service I've encountered (and I had to deal with Canada Post!)