Community Chat

[halfpint1]

Amazing for mistakes lately. My Valentine gift for my son from the Danbury Mint said delivered last week but I didn't get it. A package with medicine with my number but not avenue was left. Also packages that were empty boxes also delivered here. Never had mistakes like this. Course I called the post office.

[chrystaltree]

I love my local post office, even if they do make a mistake here and there. I'm outside Boston and you all know our troubles. Well, with all the weekend storms, I haven't been able to get down to the post office and I received several "final call" cards for packages they have been holding for pickup. Too much snow, no where to park. I was going to let them send the packages back to QVC. But, Tuesday evening, just as I got home at 7:30pm, my bell rang. It was a postal worker. He had all my packages. He took it upon hisself to drop them off on his way home from work. The all know how I like to shop! He joked that he didn't want me to lose out my shopping goodies! That was such a generous and kind thing for him to do. I once had a UPS driver who lived in my neighborhood and knowing that I work all day, he would drop packages off at my house on his way home too. Postal workers are JUST like the rest of us. They do the best job they can but they aren't perfect. As for poorly addressed mail that somehow gets delivered. That is a total mystery to me. It happened to my sister a couple of years ago after my dad passed away. She received letter of condolence from a distant relative of my dad, the relative mailed the letter from FL. My sister's name is Patricia and she never uses anything else. The letter was addressed to Pat but there was no surname. Just Pat. There was no house number and name of the street was totally mangled. You had to sound it out to figure out that the sender was trying to say Highland St. The city was Boston...but my sister does not live in Boston, she lives just outside the city. The zip code was only partially correct. The final two digits were incorrect. All that.....and.....that letter made it's way to my sisters mailbox! And delivery only took about three weeks! She framed the envelope and hung it in her kitchen. When she tells the story, no one can figure out how the letter made it's way to her.

[blueskies]

My mail lady got out of her jeep , walked up our long snowy, icy dirt driveway & up our 2 sets of stairs to our front door today . Although we have a larger rural mailbox at curbside , she had a package that wouldn't fit , along with letter mail . She said she didn't want us to wait till after the Monday holiday , to receive our package . The blizzard had begun snowing & she still had two more very long & steep hilly roads to deliver, before heading home . That's dedication and caring about people . It's very much appreciated .