MailmanDave
17 Years Experience
Long Island, NY
Male, 43
I am a City Letter Carrier for the US Postal Service in NY. I've been a city letter carrier for over 17 years and it is the best job I've ever had. I mostly work 5 days per week (sometimes includes a Saturday) and often have the opportunity for overtime, which is usually voluntary. The route I deliver has about 350 homes and I walk to each of their doors to deliver the mail. Please keep in mind that I don't have authority to speak for the USPS, so all opinions are solely mine, not my employer.
How do you know he is trying to change your address? Are you receiving notification of such info. I would say it is illegal for a mailman to change anybody's address without proper authorization from the person who the mail is addressed to. If you can't get any resolve from your local small PO, I'd recommend calling the district office or maybe even the postal inspectors if you feel it is criminal what is being done. Call 1-800-ASK-USPS. Good luck as I don't have any real insight into this issue.
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I can't see why the carrier doesn't come to your door if the items to be delivered can't fit in your mailbox. If the house is a certain distance from the road, they aren't required to come to your house. I don't know what that distance is. I'm sorry for your dilemma, but am nOT Sure what to do.
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To follow on to your previous Q, I don't know anything about forcing someone to move a box to the street from the house. I know it is more efficient for the USPS to have curbside delivery. Could you call the PO to see what they say? I have a feeling you'll get some bureaucratic runaround as to why you need to purchase a box for street delivery. If you live on a rural delivery route, you would definitely need a curbside box, but I suspect you live on a city route due to the fact that a mailbox was near your front door when you purchased the house.
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Congratulations on your house purchase. What has the letter carrier been doing until now and did your house have a mailbox to begin with? I have no information on the time frame that a mailbox has to be put up. I do, however know that the letter carrier doesn't need to deliver the mail if there is no proper mail receptacle available. I don't know the limit, but at our office, we'll usually hold the mail for 10 days if we know a new resident is coming but not moved in yet. After that, it is possible that the mail can be returNed to sender as "No Mail Receptacle".
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I don't get done any earlier on Saturday's. the mail volume is sometimes lighter but it doesn't often make a huge difference. For carriers who deliver to offices that are open only M-F, they might finish earlier but are then given additional tasks to make up for that "down time". Good Question!
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You definitely didn't commit a crime based on the question you wrote. If I see a letter to go from one house to a future house on my delivery route, I usually won't deliver it. I put it through the mail processing system to be delivered the next day. I don't know what your mailman did was wrong since I don't know the rule about this. You can show this post to your neighbor to maybe convince her that it was the letter carrier and not you who deliverec the letter to them.
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It is possible that the package was delivered to the wrong address if it shows as delivered. I don't know what can be done. The tracking just proves that the item was delivered (somewhere). Most reputable shippers would take your wORD for it that you didnt't rcv the item And refund your money.
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