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Strange Saturday mail delivery

songbird — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 16:36:05 GMT

On Saturday, our mail delivery is earlier then the weekdays. Usually around 3 instead of 6:00 to 7:00pm delivery. This past Saturday was strange. I received a bunch of other people's mail. It was in order with a package (that was left on my porch). They were all odd numbered addresses. So I picked them up and put them in my neighbor's mail box and the others. A total of 3 houses after mine. They were only a couple of pieces of mail each, and mostly open ads plus one package. But I'm puzzled how it happened. It was as if the mailman sorted them and forgot about them. It's never happened before. I wonder if it was new person. Should I say anything to our local post office?

Re: Strange Saturday mail delivery

RedTop — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 16:38:10 GMT

@songbird

Yes, it should be reported to your local postmaster.

Re: Strange Saturday mail delivery

icezeus — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 16:38:43 GMT

I would let it go. Perhaps the mailman did forget about it. It's their job, but mistakes happen,

If it happens again I would then report it.

Re: Strange Saturday mail delivery

songbird — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 16:46:49 GMT

@icezeus wrote:
I would let it go. Perhaps the mailman did forget about it. It's their job, but mistakes happen,

If it happens again I would then report it.

I think I will too. I really think the carrier forgot about them. They were all sorted on the odd address side in order. Only one was a letter. The rest ad cards and that one soft package.

Re: Strange Saturday mail delivery

Sooner — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 16:44:51 GMT

Sub standard substitute. Yes, report them. I have done it more than once. A mistake is excusable. This seems to be way more than just a mistake--someone who could care less. Somebody who will try deserves the job.

Re: Strange Saturday mail delivery

ManyMeows — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 16:46:11 GMT

💌💌💌 Our mailman told us that they were using temps as fill ins, and weren't even requiring people to pass a civil service exams because they had so many unfilled positions.

Remember when people would give their eye teeth for a government job ?

Re: Strange Saturday mail delivery

songbird — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 16:55:07 GMT

@ManyMeows I bet it too. The machine sorts them in order in packs. When they finish on one side, they do the other. What happens more frequently is getting your next door neighbor's mail (mostly open cards) That gets slipped in at the end.

Re: Strange Saturday mail delivery

sunshine45 — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 17:07:27 GMT

i get neighbors mail every week......not even the same street address!

i just take it all to a blue official mailbox and put it in there.

i dont want people to see me and think i am tampering with their mailbox in some way.

Re: Strange Saturday mail delivery

Krimpette — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 17:20:37 GMT

If I get the wrong mail, I usually just put it back in the mailbox for the letter carrier to deliver.....hopefully to the correct addressee!

Re: Strange Saturday mail delivery

drizzellla — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 17:24:27 GMT

We still have our mail delivered to our mailbox on our house. Frequently, we get other peoples mail. I think it is just a mistake and so I deliver it to the proper address.

I have done it for years. No one wants our route because they have to walk from house to house. So we are always getting "the new guy" delivering the mail. So I don't mind delivering the mail. Besides I might run into a neighbor along the walk.

Re: Strange Saturday mail delivery

SusieQ_2 — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 17:44:36 GMT

It's comforting to know that Dr. Rick will be waiting by the phone to take the call.

Re: Strange Saturday mail delivery

bikerbabe — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 17:47:51 GMT

I’d never report someone unless this happens again. Reporting seems really harsh.

Re: Strange Saturday mail delivery

Icegoddess — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 17:51:41 GMT

@sunshine45 wrote:
i get neighbors mail every week......not even the same street address!
i just take it all to a blue official mailbox and put it in there.
i dont want people to see me and think i am tampering with their mailbox in some way.

@sunshine45 those may be going away soon. According to my Nextdoor group, ours got shut down recently, had yellow tape around it. Apparently, someone was stealing mail out of them. They'll either have to get a more secure one or I guess everyone will have to go inside.

Re: Strange Saturday mail delivery

Venezia — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 18:03:24 GMT

In the past we've had other people's mail put in our box.

The worse was a day I found my mailbox literally packed - rubber bands all around the contents. I took it out and realized I had the mail for at least 9 other households.

We're rural and I was not about to go along delivering it all (and you're not legally allowed to touch anyone else's mailbox). The local post office was still open and only 5 miles away, so I drove there and handed it over.

The postmistress looked at me and said "You got this in your mailbox?!" "Yep!" I left it up to her what to do about it, but it was a sub. Our regular guy was brilliant.

Another time I got a packet of mail (rubber band again) all for someone nearby across the road and I could tell it was important mail, so I waited till they were home and took it across. He said "I wondered why we didn't get any mail!"

Sometimes mistakes happen. I decide how to handle it at the time.

Re: Strange Saturday mail delivery

sunshine45 — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 19:11:56 GMT

@Icegoddess wrote:
@sunshine45 wrote:
i get neighbors mail every week......not even the same street address!
i just take it all to a blue official mailbox and put it in there.
i dont want people to see me and think i am tampering with their mailbox in some way.
@sunshine45 those may be going away soon. According to my Nextdoor group, ours got shut down recently, had yellow tape around it. Apparently, someone was stealing mail out of them. They'll either have to get a more secure one or I guess everyone will have to go inside.

@Icegoddess

so far in my area we have plenty of blue mailboxes attached to shopping centers/office complexes and in local neighborhoods on corners. we have not had any being removed or roped off. if that happens to occur here i can go to one of the local post offices and drop off the mail there.

Re: Strange Saturday mail delivery

Icegoddess — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 19:41:09 GMT

@sunshine45 We ONLY have them at the Post Office.

Re: Strange Saturday mail delivery

CelticCrafter — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 20:14:55 GMT

I had it happen once. It was like he or she didn't feel like walking the rest of the block and just dumped the rest of the block in our mail box.

Sorry not sorry but I left it all there for the carrier to pick it all back up the next day. I wasn't doing their job.

Re: Strange Saturday mail delivery

chrystaltree — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 21:51:38 GMT

I would just let it go. Other than asking the mail carrier about it, there's no way of knowing. Sounds like maybe he or she was adjusting or sorting the mail in the bag and forgot to pick up a bundle. Accidentally left it on your porch. You did a very good thing by delivering the mail to the correct homes. I see no point in trying to get the mail carrier in trouble by reporting. N

Re: Strange Saturday mail delivery

Danky2 — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 22:09:39 GMT

We don't even get Saturday delivery and haven't for a year !

Re: Strange Saturday mail delivery

songbird — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 11:22:43 GMT

@Danky2 wrote:
We don't even get Saturday delivery and haven't for a year !

We get mail. It's just very late. Especially toward the end of the year. Our usual time is between 6:00pm and 7:00. By November, the mail carrier carries a flashlight and we get our daily mail about 9:00pm.