tragic. Be glad you weren't the one walking around ALL DAY LONG in a downpour to make sure people got their mini Boden catalogs.

It's better her got your mail wet than getting your wife wet...

It's not your mailperson's job to make sure your box closes properly. It sounds as if it's either not big enough or cumbersome. It's on you to get a new mailbox or fix it. I think your mailperson is probably more concerned with meeting his or her daily requirements of filling a gazillion mailboxes than s/he is with getting yours perfect. Special you and your special mail need to get over it.

Thanks to an incompetent Congress who (poorly) micromanage the USPS the USPS cannot increase the postage rates to actually have enough staff. The postal carriers now have double or triple routes to handle. Many of them work 12-15 hour days at the same pay scale (no raises) that they used to get paid for 8-10 hour days. They are forced to deliver mail as quickly as possible and no longer really have the luxury of even those few seconds it takes to adjust your mail a second time because over the course of a day, that would add another hour or two to their day.

If you really want better mail service, try lobbying your Congress representative and Senator to get them to allow USPS management to set postage rates so that they can actually pay the carriers a reasonable rate, and hire enough carriers to adequately deliver the over 600 million pieces of mail to over 142 million locations it handles daily.

And, no, I am not a postal employees, I just happen to have a couple of friends who are postal employees. I know one that barely sees his kids anymore because he leaves for work before they get up and gets home after they get home. And he's a mailman for crying out loud making middle class wages, not an overpaid lawyer.

Anonymous wrote:Who gets mail nowadays? Sorry your pizza menu got wet.

The New Yorker is the highlight of my mail week!

Pffft. Your mail actually shows up?

Agree it's annoying.

Call your post office and report it rather than complaining here (if you really want it to stop).

I feel like a lot of problems can be solved with a label maker. Just make a "please keep lid closed" would solve this.

My mail was nice and dry. Door slot bitches!!!

When it rains everyone gets wet mail because the mailman's bag is open. Mine's always wet and I have a mail slot so it goes directly into the foyer.
Sorry, you're just going to have to suck it up and blame Mother Nature. Not the mailman.

I have the same vent. The lid is open even when it's not being blocked -- I suspect they do it as a sign that 'there's mail in there". My box is always open, and I don't have the same mail carrier every day. On rainy days like today everything gets trashed.

Who gets mail nowadays? Sorry your pizza menu got wet.

get larger mailbox

Once again my fuckwad mailman has put the mail in my spacious-enough *covered* mailbox in a way that prevents the lid from closing, so that my mail has yet again gotten wet. I get that it must suck to deliver mail in the rain. I am always friendly to this guy. But I'm tired of having my mail get soaked. It's not rocket science: lift the lid, put the mail in, close the lid. If you put the mail in the wrong way, the lid won't close, so put it in the right way.

OK, thank you for listening to my vent!