March 14, 2008 | | Rants

I finally got my Scarlett fiestaware today. For the record, I like the color, but as with the rest it’s not what it looked like on Amazon. It’s a much more subdued red instead of the crazy bright color it was on the website. But that’s not what this post is about. This post is about the fact that the mail carrier hates me. I know this because I’m pretty sure he broke my feistaware on purpose. Yep, that’s right, I opened my package to a broken red plate. The really crappy thing is Amazon is saying they don’t have the color in stock anymore, so I can’t even get a replacement. Total suckage.

But here are the reasons why I think the postman hates me:

1. He NEVER takes my Netflix DVDs until they’ve been sitting in the mailbox for at least two days. At first, I thought he was just stupid. Like he couldn’t remember whether he had put them in the day before or not? I don’t think that’s the case anymore.

But let me digress for a moment and talk about how stupid the mailboxes at this apartment complex are set up. My old apartment had many things against it, but one good thing was a mail station. All the mailboxes were in a central place, a room that only the mailman had access to and which he could go do his business. It also had a dropbox for people to put their letters to be sent. Just like at the post office. What a freaking concept! My new apartment complex just has a set of extremely old, rusted over (and hard to open) metal boxes in front of each building. There is no dropbox anywhere. So you just have to put your letters in the box and hope that they get found. What if you don’t get that much mail or what if you don’t check your mail every single day and the guy can’t tell what he needs to take and what he already put in there. The whole thing just doesn’t work at all.

So anyway, the first few times I noticed this Netflix occurrence, I thought it was due to the crappy mail system, but I tested it to make sure there was no other mail in the box and still the DVDs would be sitting there under the new mail. I always check now when I put DVDs in there and not once has he taken them the same day. That’s not a coincidence anymore, he’s specifically choosing not to take my DVDs.

2. Whenever I get a package (which is fairly regularly) he ALWAYS puts it in the worst box available. The one that’s so rusted over it takes 20 minutes to open. The other day, Brandon was trying to get a package and the key completely broke off in the lock. My package is STILL stuck in that box. It’s been three days and no one has bothered to get my package or give me a new key. I’ve already learned from the iPod incident that the apartment complex can do absolutely nothing about this. So I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do now.

3. The reason I think he broke my plate was because I wrote a nasty note and put it in my mailbox (and it’s gone, so he obviously took it). Maybe I shouldn’t have been such as asshole, but after dealing with the iPod incident and his netflix aversion, learning that he AGAIN put my package in the broke ass box and that the key (which had been bending every time I used it before) finally broke, well I was pissed the hell off. And besides, I was told to put a note in my box when I reported this issue before, so I was really just following protocol this time.

Obviously I can’t report him for breaking my plate. I have no proof, could’ve broken in shipment, blah blah blah (though none of my other 4 sets, shipped through UPS, arrived broken). But the Netflix thing smacks of…something. Like Netflix is paying him not to take them, so they wind up sending less DVDs per month. I don’t know, but something’s not right. And the package thing? That’s definitely an issue. He’s pretty much holding my package hostage right now! How long does it take to get a locksmith to come out and fix a stupid mailbox? Not three freaking days! And how do I know he’s even reported it? I’ve gotten no acknowledgment about the situation at all.

I think it’s just ridiculous that my apartment complex says they can’t help with these kinds of issues. The boxes are on their property, so I don’t see how they can say it’s the responsibility of the USPS to maintain them. People who own their own houses have mailboxes don’t they? They don’t expect the USPS to buy them a new mailbox if theirs gets old or broken. Apparently the complex doesn’t have extra keys for the larger mail boxes, but they obviously have keys to the regular mail boxes or else they wouldn’t have been able to give them to us when we moved in. They’re all the same kind of boxes, so why can you have keys for one and not for the other? The whole thing just seems like pure laziness to me.

I guess it’s off to the USPS website to find someone to contact.

Tags: conspiracy, mail, mailman, package, post office, USPS

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