Posted on 09/11/2014 6:10:09 PM PDT by logi_cal869
Some residents in Borough Park in New York City are irate with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) because their service has been halted due to their low-set mail slots, according to the New York Daily News. The postal service claims the slots are dangerous for their carriers and, as a result, the residents have to stand in lines an hour long at the 51st St. post office, many of them trying to pick up badly-needed medicines or their Social Security checks. The residents of 46th Street were alerted to the change in their service by a letter from a postal service customer service manager arriving on August 21. The manager wrote, “My carrier has brought to my attention of his safety and I can’t afford for him to get injured. We are not trying to cause any unnecessary expense but we need this corrected.”
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Where are you going with that? Never mind, that stuff applies everywhere. Anyway, where I grew up in SF, in the Mission District, our mail slot was about 6 inches off the ground in our front door entrance at sidewalk level, the door was almost all glass except the very bottom. (No security bars, no crime, doors unlocked during the day.) We and the neighbors never had problems with mail delivery. Guess those days are gone. Some postal carriers are plain lazy nowadays. I've seen them drive their little vehicles 25 feet from house to house delivering stuff, crazy. Others park at the end of a block and walk several blocks delivering, and walk back to their vehicle so it isn't all carriers.
The comments have not disappointed!
I thought it was bad getting my neighbor's mail, and he getting mine. Then I started getting mail for different streets. Lately I've been getting mail destined for another town. What the heck is going on? I was tracking a package I bought from China. I live in South SF in California. It arrived in SF after TWO days, then went to Southern California, back to Richmond in the SF Bay Area, then on to Kansas. I finally got it after three weeks of bouncing around the US. The label is clearly printed with my address in English using the eBay label system. Crazy.
Through rain and snow and... never mind
The mail slots in question are probably the ones in the bottom of your door. About four inches from the floor.
If you are asking workers to repeated bend over on a porch to slide mail through a slot on the floor while carrying a thirty pound bag of mail slung over their shoulder, you are just asking for trouble.
No do that sixty times every afternoon with snow and ice blocking the slots.
If you get you mail at a box or at the end of your driveway, you have no idea what I am talking about. Go into an old neighborhood in any large city, and you will see what I am talking about. It’s not crazy, or lazy.
I wonder how the USPS will acquire enough money to expand post offices to accommodate higher mounted post office boxes. Some of those boxes probably require pretty tall postal clerks or a step ladder to reach.
Hehehe....AGREED!
My MAILMAN is dyslexic. Worse, the neighbor that gets my mail never gets it to me. In our case we have one of those centrally located secure mailbox stands. He only comes to the house for the rare signature. But more and more they make me go down to the PO to sign/pickup in those cases.
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