Anonymous wrote:1) move your mailbox so it's attached to the wall by your front door so it will be covered by the awning and stay dry. Unfortunately the mailman will have to walk farther but that's the breaks.

2) I live in Los Angeles now, and our house is on a corner lot. The "backyard"--meaning, the lawn, the swings--is on the corner part facing the street, and we have a 15 foot high hedge. I've had the mailman throw the mail over the hedge into our yard, where the sprinklers get it. Amazon boxes, too. I just want to say, "how much of an idiot ARE you? Do you think we jump over this 15 foot high hedge every time we want to get in and out of our house? Have you looked around the corner and noticed our driveway, front door, and MAILBOX?

yeesh

and to 14:25, hello, that's THEIR JOB--they get paid from our taxpayer money to walk around all day long. C'mon.

Anonymous wrote:Hey, at least they didn't leave your checks that you reordered out on your porch!

Anonymous wrote: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.

Anonymous wrote: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:I wish the mailman stopped delivering junk. I think I'd pay $50 a year just to stop the junk mail from coming to my house. USPS is just as bad as telemarketers IMO.