Community Chat

[stevieb]

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@Sooner wrote:

Of course we don't do anything. Why jail any criminals?  I'm sure it's not their fault. . . 

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@Sooner  Niow come on... Be NICE... After all, he was feeling 'stressed'. Personally, I think they should give him a little trophy or something for trying...

[SharkE]

must be where my 3 Vera Bradley bags went to in that big ol' box I paid 14 to shp to Ind.

People to lazy to work any more they got better things to do like collect their checks.

[SharkE]

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@Annabellethecat66 wrote:

Well there was a time when doing anything illegal with the mail was a Felony and you'd be jailed.

I have sent birthday cards with gift cards in them and they've been stolen.  It has happened quite often.

The postal workers told me to put the cards in a brown envelope.

Which I now do.  I send most family members birthday, congradulation, etc, cards always with gift cards.

Now every single card goes into those brown envelopes.

Hummm??? The cards now make it to the people on the address.

It gets expensive having to mail them that way, but at least I know they'll make it.

As I've said before.  Break the law.  Slap on the wrist....

Betcha even if this guy gets put in jail he'll be out in a few months.

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Another tip is insure for like 50.00 and keep your receipt that's been working for me don't cost that much extra and it holds their feet to the fire. If don't get where it's suppose to you go online and file a claim. KEEP YOUR RECEIPT !

[stevieb]

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@DiAnne wrote:

I have been lucky so far and I don't have a locked mailbox.  When I lived in California I had a slot in my front door for the mail.  I wish they would go back to that system.  

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Where I live, and we're not talking out in the country but in highly populated suburbs, single family homes HAVE to have a roadside mailbox, so the letter carrier can drive house to house and deliver the mail. They do occasionally get out of the truck, but I don't think the in-door letter slots would be allowed anymore...

[SharkE]

@stevieb    not in my neighborhood, but, in all the new subdivisions going up around here in Tx. Now, they have all the mailboxes for the community in one spot, no home delivery. You walk or drive up to the community mail area and those little tiny boxes is all you can have I guess.

have to go to post office to get your QVC and other stuff.

[Mindy D]

There was an episode of Seinfeld in which Newman, the mail carrier, hoards the Mail,  just like the story the OP cited. It was Episode# 144, “The Andrea Doria.”

[stevieb]

Sort of sounds like Newman from Seinfeld...

[stevieb]

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@SharkE wrote:

@stevieb    not in my neighborhood, but, in all the new subdivisions going up around here in Tx. Now, they have all the mailboxes for the community in one spot, no home delivery. You walk or drive up to the community mail area and those little tiny boxes is all you can have I guess.

have to go to post office to get your QVC and other stuff.

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@SharkE  Those mail pods have become very common. The better ones have larger sections at the bottom and if you have a package, they leave a key that can't be copied in your personal mailbox so you can unlock the package section and then you leave the key back in your personal mailbox, but I don't think most of them are that nice. Probably not a very secure system anyway.

[SharkE]

@stevieb   over in kitchen I told a tale of my new baking pan that got delivered bummed up today and they had the wrong charge to boot.

I called up HSN and had them to get the charge back to 23 instead of 31

and the guy gave me 3 bucks off the 23 for the dented pan.

nobody knows or gives a **** what they're doing any more.

[Mindy D]

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@SharkE wrote:

@stevieb    not in my neighborhood, but, in all the new subdivisions going up around here in Tx. Now, they have all the mailboxes for the community in one spot, no home delivery. You walk or drive up to the community mail area and those little tiny boxes is all you can have I guess.

have to go to post office to get your QVC and other stuff.

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That’s horrible for elderly and disabled people. What about people with no car? I hope this isn’t going to be a national trend. How awful.