</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Actually it is now "was", because last evening, after talking with the neighbor, he told me that she is gone. )</font>
Gee, I wonder if she was the "Postal Person" that I had trouble with when I first moved into our house.
We took occupancy in January, so the ground was good and frozen. I had called the post office to check to see what they recommneded that I do for my mailbox until the spring when I could sink it into the ground. As I expected, I was told to just stick it in a 5 gallon bucket or similar container and weight it down enough to hold it in place.
So the next day I did excatly that. The day after, I noticed the carrier pull up to the mailbox, kind of reach toward it, and then drive away. I figured I missed something, so I walked out to check and the box was empty. The same thing happened the next day. On the third day, I was waiting for her. I politely asked her what the problem was. She explained that the box was not the proper height above the curb nor the correct distance set back from the curb, and therefore she could not deliver the mail. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
I explained that I had mounted the box based on the instructions given to me by her post office supervisor. She said that she didn't care about that. If the box didn't meet standards, she wouldn't deliver to it. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
So after she drives away, I go in and call the post office to discuss this problem. The carrier's supervisor agreed that technically she was correct and was not required to deliver to an improperly installed box. But he did go on to explain that he thought her response was a "bit" extreme, and he would have a talk with her.
Well, the talk never worked. She continued to refuse to put the mail in the mailbox, even after I went out 2 or 3 more times to try to adjust it so that it met the standards. So we kept having to pick up the mail at the post office (she wouldn't bring it up to the door because we were ignoring postal regulations), and complaining every time we went there. It was funny, because whenever she was off, the mail got delivered just fine by the sub that was covering her route.
Finally when the ground thawed, I went out and installed the mailbox in the ground. Once I had it in, I took pictures of a yard stick laying alongside of it and standing up against it to show that it met regulations exactly. When she showed the next day, I showed her the pictures and asked if it met her standards. She glared at me and stuck the mail in the box.
I made one final complaint to the post office about her, but then decided that I'd had enough and just ignored her. A week or so later, I noticed a new fellow making the deliveries. I asked him where the regular carrier was, and he just kind of said something about her getting sent to some other post office. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Never had anymore problems. Sorry to hear she moved out east! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
I wonder where she'll go and who she'll hassle now? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
