Re: USPS Food Drive 5/10/2025

On 2025-05-03 11:02 a.m., Jill McQuown wrote:

On 5/3/2025 9:05 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

 

IIRC "She Who Must Not Be Named" had some problem with her cluster
box and we had an extended discussion of the subject some years back.
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I'm not afraid to say her name; Gary is the one who thought we'd all keep talking about her after she left.  That didn't happen.

  There was a little more to it than that.  He would occasionally mention her in an obvious attempt to get people talking about her. When I pointed that out he tried to make it look like I was talking about her when I was quite clearly talking about him and his tactics.
 You probably know he lurks here and is likely to have responded to that.
 

I live in an older neighborhood, which developed gradually over
several decades.  The mailboxes are all on my side of the street,
which is convenient for me.  The street isn't so busy that it's
a hazard for my neighbors to cross the street -- unlike the first
house I owned, which I bought on a two-lane road that was converted
to a four-lane road a couple years after we moved in.

  I hope you postal service is more rational that ours.  My mail box used to get knocked over once in a while. I thought maybe it was too close to the road so after having to replace it for the 4th time I moved it back a bit, less than 8".  Then I didn't get any mail for close to a week. There was always mail on Wednesdays. That was the day flyers came.  When I still didn't get any I called the post office in town to see if there was a problem.
 There was indeed a problem.  My mail box had been moved and was too far from the road. Really?  8" and it is too far from the spot which had apparently been too close to the road because people kept hitting it? I asked how far it hat to be. The answer was "in the line of traffic" That was BS because line of traffic would mean on the road. They could not tell me how high or how far from the road it had to be.
 Then I asked why thy didn't notify me of the problem. They had. They sent me a letter. So then I had to ask if they were serious, that they had sent me a letter to tell me that they were not delivering my mail. Yep. That's what they did and when I went down there to pick it up there was the letter.  So I asked again about how high and how far from the road it had to be but no one seemed to know. However... sitting on the counter was a pamphlet with the information.  I had a look at it and got the figures. My new location was within the distances they require. Curiously, one of my neighbours has a mail box mounted about a foot and a half higher than their limit and is at least 3' from the road.
  A few years later I got a nasty gram after a safety inspection noted an over hanging branch and they wanted me to remove it.  No can do. It is my neighbour's tree and hanging over town property so not my responsibility.  Besides, it was too high for me to reach and high enough that full sized trucks going up and down the road don't hit it. I don't know why it would be a problem for the contractor's car.