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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..."
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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I am in the process of having arborvitae trees planted on both sides of my yard and i am moving my mailbox to the sidewalk so if he walks in my yard he will have to walk back to the sidewalk. I am also planting bushes along the driveway and my trees need LOTS of water so i will also have a censored lawn watering system--I have a post office box too. All this is going up at the same time - you think he will get the hint? -probably not...even when i don't have mail he walks through my yard.
Maybe you do have to "cross yards" but not climb my pavers and loosen them..that costs ME money....
Our "letterboxes" are mostly slots in our front doors. Added to this, the fact is that most of us no longer have a Post Office within a sensible distance; so unfortunately your suggestion does not apply!
The item needs to be returned as I cancelled the purchasse
I chose to do this whithin the 7 days cooling of period
and need to know should I refuse the item and get Royal Mail to return the item or accept it and pay additional postage to send the product back
so was looking for info on my rights to refuse the item and get the Royal Mail to return it to sender without incurring additonal postage charges but I can find no information on this
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