Does your mailman pick up your mail?

[sungold123.livejournal.com]

Okay I'm going to sound like a country bumpkin here... but before I lived in Somerville, I lived in the middle-of-nowhere New Hampshire, where if we had outgoing mail, we'd put it in our mailbox and put up the red flag. The mailman would then take said mail and put the flag down. So, I figured if I left my outgoing mail on the little hook below my now-attached-to-the-house mailbox in Ball Square, the mailman would take it. However, I've tried this a number of times now and the mailperson has just left the mail there.

According to the USPS FAQs:

Outgoing mail is picked up:
* For curbside delivery if the flag is up or if there is mail to deliver.
* For door delivery if there is mail to deliver.
* From the outgoing mail slot in a Cluster Box.

Since I receive mail literally every day, it seems like my mail should be picked up. I'm curious to find out what other people's experience with this is...?

Comments

[sungold123.livejournal.com]

Yeah there are mailboxes around me too of course, but I just started working from home and I send mail every single day so it would just be a whole lot easier if I didn't have to trek to the mailbox. I suppose I'll try calling the post office and file a complaint and then see if it improves... if not, I don't really have much of a choice!

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can understand why people do such a thing, it was just a completely alien practice to me, that's all. I thought my friend was putting me on. :)

I recommend a clip of some sort, anyway. I don't think my guy would pick up if I left it in the "newspaper hook", either.