Post office worker takes a shortcut
12-May-2008
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I bought a ranch style home for myself and my two daughters nearly six years ago. Unfortunately, two of the bedrooms face the front of the home and the neighbourhood Post Office is seem to think that it's okay to drop past the windows with the mail instead of using the sidewalk. I have asked the Postal Carrier(s) nicely to refrain from walking on the lawn in the front of our home and to use the sidewalk instead, but so far my words appear to have fallen on deaf ears.

As if I need to explain this simple request, I had a spinal fusion surgery and was laid up in bed for months in one of the rooms at the front of the house. My ignorant Postal Carrier walks right in front of my bedroom window each day because he is presumably too lazy to take any other route! I explained to him when I was a child, I was taught there was a public side and a private side of a sidewalk. I learned what "private property" meant. For some reason or other the people working in my local Post Office have no clue what this means!

I have personally asked the postal carriers to stay off my lawn for the simple fact they are making a path and ruining the lawn, let alone depriving me of the privacy that I am entitled to in my home! After numerous calls to the Post Office and notes on my mailbox or around my property, do you think anyone over at the Post Office actually understands? No, it would appear they do not!

After yet another phone call today, I am told "This is the first I have heard about it... and sometimes the carrier needs to take shortcuts to be able to deliver all the mail in one day..."

Foot on a lawn

Excuses and more excuses, they can't even understand why I am upset by this! This has been going on for six years. I do have multiple sclerosis! and I am being as calm as I can be. I even went so far as to send my mail somewhere else because the situation is so ridiculous!

Does anyone have a solution to this? How can I get it through to them that that taking a shortcut through my property is depriving me of my privacy?!

By: Bluesformail


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Bluesformail, you're obviously from that great nation the USofA so why don't you just buy a gun and shoot the postie ? I here that's OK in the greatest nation on Earth as he is trespassing anyway.
*Nick  03-Mar-2008 18:59

 
First of all it is a letter carriers duty to take the shortest path possible. That means he is required to walk your lawn. to say that he is ignorant is an insult and maybe that is why he is not doing what you have asked him. I suggest putting this in writing and taking it to your post office and ask them if they could use your sidewalk and if not you might have a better understanding what is going on.
*hacker  02-Mar-2008 21:26

 
I am a letter carrier to. I must say that it isa very hard job but one that is considered customer service 95% of the time. It is our job to keep t he customers happy and we do get paid $17 a hour so we are getting paid to make a slight detour to protect your yard. I have a route that is primarily driven but some of my customers ask for me to stay in a certaain area to protect the grass from being run over. And as they request I do that just for there box. Her privacy is her privacy and her carrier should understand that if she is the only one asking it should be done. They can cut accros others yards untill they say something to. I am terribly sorry that the post office in your area has treated you in this way. I wish I was your carrier. But if this wont stop I have a idea, Take 4 peices of wood and put them in all corners and put string around them and put a great big sign that says stay off grass. Hazard to your health if stepped on. Maybe then they might stop.
*Postal Carrier of 19939  30-Sep-2007 21:46

 
fm-usa

Sad, very sad.I thought in the USA they had mailboxes ON the sidewalks, so the postal service don't even go up to the house.
*Nik  15-Aug-2007 06:48

 
Postal carriers are required to use sidewalks "IF" they are provides for pedestrian traffic. Pretty much the same rule in all countries.

Ummm, why not drive your car on carriers lawn?

Postal carriers who bite back on this issue NEED to be fired. Such igno-ray-muses you are, not respecting the rights of others.

Ummm, why not drive your car on the carriers lawn!

How about tethering a (sharp fanged) doggie in there path? (:

Ummm, Oh go ahead & drive your car on his lawn.
*fm-usa  13-Aug-2007 14:54

 
alaneroberts

I did read it all the way through.

Yes I read he had spinal surgery, so what. That was ages ago, and you can still walk. If he's THAT engrossed in privacy, why not build a fence with barbed wire on top, and post guards at both ends.

There's even NET curtains, you can put up, they don't stop you looking out, but it stop people looking in.

If he wants his mail delivered, then he should be such a stuck up person.
*roger  24-Jul-2007 04:49

 
roger,

It is you that is the sad person. If you had read all of Bluesformail's posting, you perhaps wouldn't be so cruel. You disgust me!
*alaneroberts  23-Jul-2007 10:24

 
Bluesformail,
"Does anyone have a solution to this? How can I get it through to them that that taking a shortcut through my property is depriving me of my privacy?!"

YES I have a SOLUTION. Build a little shed at the end of your property, so the delivery services can put ALL your mail in there, SO your privacy isn't deprived.

What a SAD person you are.
*roger  23-Jul-2007 04:15

 
How would you feel if the members of the royal mail, or whoever delivers mail and parcels DIRECT to your door, suddenly stopped doing just that.

The government( no matter which is in power ) in their ever money grabbing wisdom, decides that EVERYBODY COLLECTS their own mail from a depot. NO more letters through your letter box, NO more parcels, NOTHING.

YOU have to go and collect day in day out, no matter what the weather is doing, hail, rain, snow, etc.

A delivery persons job, no matter who he/she is, has a very difficult job, walks, drives miles everyday, in ALL kinds of weather, just so you lot can have your mail put through your letterbox.

It doesn't BREAK anything, the GRASS grows constantly, so WHY stop delivery people taking shortcuts.

If people have BEDROOMS on the front of houses, (as I do ) CLOSE the BLOO*Y curtains, and let these people do a VERY DIFFICULT job, and STOP moaning.
*Alan  23-Jul-2007 04:10

 
MissedaPoint

Well said! Your posting made me laugh - I couldn't agree more with what you have said.
*alaneroberts  18-Jul-2007 16:54

 
"As a letter carrier, we're required to use the straight line method of delivery."
Don't be a dick, trying to sound like there's a technique to this; you're a delivery boy, for God's sake.
"Door to door delivery means across your lawn."
Only in an imbecile's head. To those who have learnt basic manners it means: down the path, a few steps along and up another path.
"Otherwise we would be out there delivering until the late late hours of the night."
Liar, liar, pants on fire, etc.
"We would prefer not to go across your unkept lawn........ "
We would prefer you not to go across our lawn as well, unkept or otherwise. So don't.
"Help us to provide better service by moving your mail box closer to the sidewalk."
How about if we move our mailbox to the sorting office? Would that keep you happy, lazy sod?
"We'll save wear and tear on our ankles and you'll get the peace of mind of a great unkept lawn."
You useless, jobsworth, pathetic, self-important idiot.
*MissedaPoint  18-Jul-2007 14:48

 
We deliver for you,

The person who has given this gripe has special circumstances. Are you and your fellow postal delivery colleagues incapable of responding to those circumstances? It seems that you are - keep to your straight line and remain arrogant! Bring on the competition to Royal Mail asap! It may make you and your colleagues a bit more sympathetic to a person whose bedroom is on the ground floor, crippled by multiple sclerosis and who, quite naturally, wants some privacy. Workers like you are so 'set in their ways' that they become unresponsive, "stuck in a rut" of doing things, unable to adapt. Competition will sort you out mate!
*alaneroberts  17-Jul-2007 23:22


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