Mail delivery issues
Morganna said:
I regularly get other people's mail so I write in bold Wrong Address. It a nuisance but then it hit me. Are other people getting my mail and just tossing it?
Last month, I got a letter that had been misdelivered to someone else. That person wrote “Delivered to wrong address” on the envelope and remailed it.
The system worked!
Morganna said:
I regularly get other people's mail so I write in bold Wrong Address. It a nuisance but then it hit me. Are other people getting my mail and just tossing it?
I've gotten misdeliveries with the wrong number correct street and I usually just go for a stroll and drop it off. I have rental unit attached to my property and I will sometimes get mail for tenants who moved 13 years ago and are no longer listed on the mailbox smh.
Received a Christmas card from my neighbor on January 8th. It was posted December 24th. Maplewood mail is terrible.
the_18th_letter said:
I've gotten misdeliveries with the wrong number correct street and I usually just go for a stroll and drop it off. I have rental unit attached to my property and I will sometimes get mail for tenants who moved 13 years ago and are no longer listed on the mailbox smh.
I don't think it matters what name is on the mailbox. If something is addressed to H. Rumph at 74 Skylark Boulevard in Mapleton, NT, it gets delivered to that address even if H. Rumph moved 10 years prior and now G. Pers lives there.
Morganna said:
I regularly get other people's mail so I write in bold Wrong Address. It a nuisance but then it hit me. Are other people getting my mail and just tossing it?
I have had not just mail, but parcels dropped off at my house that belonged elsewhere. We just drop them by our neighbors. But here are some really extreme things that have happened over the years:
- We've had parcels arrive at our house that belonged somewhere in Maplewood, but nowhere near our neighborhood. Dropping them off required consulting a map and driving there.
- I've had a parcel delivered to my house when we were on vacation. The cat sitter took it in. When we got back some weeks later, we tried to deliver it to our neighbor who was himself on vacation. Eventually, like a month after it was delivered, he got it.
- The reverse also happened, or I think that is what happened. I had a big expensive parcel that was shown as delivered but I didn't get it. it was one of those clothes-shopper deals where you get charged for whatever you keep but can return what you don't like for free within a set time period. I begged and pleaded with the company and they didn't charge me. Almost two months later the parcel finally showed up, with "wrong address please redeliver" scrawled on it. I suspect the people who got it were away when it arrived. The clothes in it smelled musty, so I think it had sat outside or on a porch or something. Of course I told the company and they said just keep it - a good wash and some of it was salvageable.
In self defense, my street has a Facebook group where participants regularly post that they have received the wrong mail/package and are quickly able to identify the intended recipient and arrange to get the item(s) to him/her.
I have noticed that from time to time, a letter addressed to a different street address is listed as being in my mail. Most of the time, that mail is not delivered to me so I assume that we have a good letter carrier who catches those sorting errors before the mail is misdelivered.
One thing that always arrives are my orders from Chewy. Which reminds me.
Amazon delivery sucks. I live in a rural area, so it isn’t profitable for them to come out here. I ordered treats for my chickens and they never arrived and the money was put back into my account. Amazon had marked my package as “undeliverable” WHILE 25 FREAKING MILES AWAY. Apparently the nearest Amazon delivery hub to me is in PA. The driver likely didn’t feel like going this far out for one package, so while still in Langhorne they marked it as undeliverable, they literally didn’t even try.
The company I bought the treats from was great, after confirming that I did not live in a gated community, or apartment complex with a locked door, they agreed that it was a delivery issue and they resent the package via USPS and didn’t even charge me for it (the money had already been returned to me). They now have a notation in my account that all deliveries to me must be via USPS, UPS, or FedEx.
People in suburban areas won’t have that issue, but for anyone in rural areas, and especially out in the Midwest, the thought of losing the post office is frightening. The post office is the ONLY delivery service that will not skip your address because it isn’t profitable. I’m not saying the post office doesn’t have its issues. It does. But I think it needs to be fixed, not privatized
the_18th_letter said:
Morganna said:
I regularly get other people's mail so I write in bold Wrong Address. It a nuisance but then it hit me. Are other people getting my mail and just tossing it?
I've gotten misdeliveries with the wrong number correct street and I usually just go for a stroll and drop it off. I have rental unit attached to my property and I will sometimes get mail for tenants who moved 13 years ago and are no longer listed on the mailbox smh.
Check the postage. If it says presorted standard, or some variation of that, then it is basically junk mail, and you will continue to receive mail addressed to that person long after they, their children, and even their grandchildren have died from old age
I once received a card in the mail that had a name, house number, no street, Maplewood, zip code on it. I looked in the phone book, filled in the street name, and then made the mistake of asking the clerk at Maplewood post office if it needed a new stamp to be remailed, because that corner of the envelope was torn and the stamp was half gone, or should I just drop it off at the right address myself. She went off on a rant about how writing on the envelope was mail tampering, nobody but a postal employee can deliver mail to anyone, those are federal offenses and I could go to jail for that. I was just trying to be helpful.
She also said they would mark it undeliverable and send it back to the person who originally mailed it, when I had already given them the complete correct address which was less than two blocks from the post office. That seems like unnecessarily poor service.
Nowadays if I get misdelivered mail, I just chuck it in the nearest mailbox with no comment at all.
spontaneous said:
Check the postage. If it says presorted standard, or some variation of that, then it is basically junk mail, and you will continue to receive mail addressed to that person long after they, their children, and even their grandchildren have died from old age
Yes I get those types but I get stuff from say, the IRS and pension administrator that I will mark and send back as it seems like sensitive info.
mulemom said:
I once received a card in the mail that had a name, house number, no street, Maplewood, zip code on it. I looked in the phone book, filled in the street name, and then made the mistake of asking the clerk at Maplewood post office if it needed a new stamp to be remailed, because that corner of the envelope was torn and the stamp was half gone, or should I just drop it off at the right address myself. She went off on a rant about how writing on the envelope was mail tampering, nobody but a postal employee can deliver mail to anyone, those are federal offenses and I could go to jail for that. I was just trying to be helpful.
She also said they would mark it undeliverable and send it back to the person who originally mailed it, when I had already given them the complete correct address which was less than two blocks from the post office. That seems like unnecessarily poor service.
Nowadays if I get misdelivered mail, I just chuck it in the nearest mailbox with no comment at all.
A letter carrier once advised me to mark the envelop of any miss-delivered mail accordingly, "delivered to wrong address," "addressee unknown," etc., and return it to my mailbox so the letter carrier would know of the sorting mistake. I was also advised to remove or cross out any bar code on the envelope or that piece of mail it would likely come back to me regardless.
I regularly get other people's mail so I write in bold Wrong Address. It a nuisance but then it hit me. Are other people getting my mail and just tossing it?