Yesterday I received a postcard from the United States Postal Service, addressed to "Postal Customer" at the address of Laquedem Manor, telling me how to buy stamps online. Though the postcard didn’t say how USPS would deliver to me the stamps that I might buy online, I imagine that it would send the stamps through the mail, to the mailbox of "Postal Customer."
I’d be a lot more confident about the ability of USPS to deliver the stamps to me if I hadn’t received two other copies of the same postcard, one bearing the address of the Good Doctor next door and the other with an address five streets away. It astounds me that the Post Office delivers so much of the nation’s mail to the right address (though as with everyone else I’m irritated when it delivers mail to the wrong address), but in some schadenfreudish way I’m delighted to see that it misdelivers not just my mail, but its own mail too.
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The service here where I live is awful. We are constantly getting the mail of those around us, including credit card and bank statements. Packages as well.
At the same time, our mail is being delivered to just about every unit in this complex, plus the one across the street. Based on talking with others, we receive somewhere between 60-70% of our mail. That is a terrible percentage.
We’re regularly getting a large bag of mail from neighbors that they’ve saved up over the period of a week.
What’s even worse is that that missing mail has included paychecks, cards with money (thankfully never cash), and bills.
It’s extremely annoying.