Post office worker takes a shortcut

I am dealing with the same thing in Fremont, CA, USA. My mail carrier was nice enough to knock on the door after receiving my note requesting that she not walk across the grass. She told me that her supervisors are mandating that they take the shortest route and that they get written up if they don't. She also told me that somehow they have a "right" to walk across my lawn. I will be investigating this further, as it is total BS to me.

Enter the third world. I thought I was in some exotic bazaar in the far east, in the Punjab perhaps. What had I done? Had I rubbed some bottle up the wrong way? No, I was in my local high street's main post office. What a shabby institution that has become, a fine institution reduced by Thatcherist economics to total penury. No one who works in my local Post Office speaks the Queen's English. All of them are foreigners, recent arrivals in the land . Why? The discrimination again hiring local indigenous citizens seems to have probably destroyed the value of the job. No one wanting a real job would want to work there ever again, a career? forget it, 40 years work for a pension not worth the price of a toilet roll, you have got to be kidding.

You have to wait in line like as if you are expecting a hand out from Oxfam, 25 minutes to buy a stamp for Europe. 45 years ago you could have bought the necessary stamps from the machine outside the building. Not anymore.

I actually do have help for you. In the Postal Carriers union contract it allows for postal workers to cross your yard to aid in their delivery time. That being said, it is also in their contract that if you go to the post office and fill out a paper requesting they not cross your yard they must abide by it. Remind your carrier its in his/her contract. Good luck

Try ringing Royal Mail instead of talking to your local post office. The post office staff are not responsible for your mail delivery.
Or go along to your local Royal Mail delivery office and speak to the manager.

Our postal carrier walks down the street, leaps over our wall, tramples across the garden, knocks into the roses and then uses the letterbox at the front of the house. Have actually had to stand out in the garden to stop him.

I am a carrier. the problem is a lot of offices have different and beginning carriers on same route each day. call the post office and ask for carrier supervisor. they need to make a sign that is put everyday in mail case for your house that reminds carrier "stay off lawn at house #___". carriers can get in trouble for not obeying.

@Santino 22 Nov 2008
Thanks for that,not sure whether to take it as a compliment or not really. You are the reason why websites like this are such good fun. You obviously don't understand humour, a bit like most Americans really. BTW it's O.K to insult a whole nation but don't pick on my mother it wasn't her fault. Blame it on the crap I watch on the TV most of which comes from the USof A where I believe you can buy a gun in a supermarket with your groceries.

@Nick 3 Mar 2008

You sir are a misanthropist for no other reason than to create hate and discontent. What was the point of your ignorant comment? Do you really think the government of a country determines the caliber of the people in it? I personally am not enamored with the governments of many countries, but I have found that the people living in those countries are kind and respectful people which I would be proud to call my neighbors. You are the reason why websites, which you can post, on have made it possible for other users to delete or hide ignorant comments. I would say you should have your mother wash your mouth out with soap, but retrospect she is the one who probably taught you your small mindedness. I guess the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree

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.

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.

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.

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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.