How often do you get other people's mail

remi_ch

Subject: How often do you get other people's mail

I've lived at various places in the city over the last 10+ years and can not recall receiving misdelivered mail. But in Clinton Hill I am getting other people's mail several times a month.
Sometimes its right number but wrong street, sometimes right street wrong number, and at times has no correllation with my address.

Just curious if we have a questionable postal area or is it just my address?

Just today I got a misdelivered postcard from someone thanking his neighbor for redelivering his missing mail :P

bifteck

We definitely have a questionable postal area.

boygabriel

Ohhhh do we ever.

See this thread and this one.

I've heard that Pratt Station is a 'training post office', which partially explains why the service is so bad. Bad managers help explain it too.

nathan

I'll be calling the Post Office and the area manager again on Monday.....because things have slipped again.

On Wednesday, we got 10 pieces of mail....9 for the next door neighbor.

Today, we didn't get any delivery....I don't think anyone on my block got delivery.

the changeling

I'm in 11206 and I'm not sure the employees at the Metro Bushwick Post Office can read. I always get other people's mail. To be fair, it is usually for someone in the same building, or it is a piece of mail without an apt. number. They've decided to make me the person who receives all mail lacking an apt. number in the address. I must admit that our problems may not be as bad as some of the problems I've heard Clinton Hill residents mentioning.

anonymous

I live on Clifton Place. I get mail for Clinton, Cumberland, Cambridge, you name it...anything with my house number + a street that starts with C. For about a month I was getting enormous mailbags of stuff tossed over my downstairs stoop door - for an office building with my address on Court St. Calling Adelphi Station got me nowhere. So I finally borrowed a neighbor's flatbed dolly and wheeled six mailbags' worth down to Fulton to show them the stuff that should have gone to Court St. Did anyone say thank you? Hell, no - I was threatened with arrest for having tampered with the US Mail! So I pointed out that my tax dollars were paying their salaries, and threatened a class action on behalf of Clinton Hill residents fed up with lazy, illiterate, obstructionist mail service. Then I rented a mailbox at a private service that accepts packages and mail and gives you access at any hour of the day or night, and I haven't dealt with Adelphi since - I just tell everyone trying to send me packages that they don't provide delivery slips and "lose" anything of value, and that you can send mail to me via the USPS at your own risk. You can't make this stuff up...

queencallipygos

Nathan,

When you call, please pass on two stories on behalf of my roommate:

1. We were expressly told that international packages are held for pickup for 30 days. But one such package for my roommate, who works 40 hours a week and has night and weekend classes, had one package from her fiance in Australia returned after only five.

2. She received a summons from the Supreme Court of Kings County for "failing to respond to the two jury summons we sent you." She actually had NOT received either of the two jury summons. She reported to court and showed them one piece of mail that had successfully arrived at our address, and another piece of mail with THE EXACT SAME ADDRESS PRINTED ON IT that was stamped "no such address -- return to sender." The Court waived her fine in under a minute.

nathan

Queen,

I already did my bitch and moan. We all need to call Ms. Robinson EVERY TIME WE HAVE THE LEAST LITTLE PROBLEM. She'll get sick of us and take it out on the carriers until they get it right.

guvna

changes afoot? http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/9/30_09postal.html

bifteck

Dana interviewed me for that article.

queencallipygos

Whee, so did my roomate!

boygabriel

While I really appreciate Dana's article, it doesn't seem that the mail delivery problems are really being dealt with. It's great that there will be a 'Brooklyn postal advisory council' but that and automated postage machines do nothing for the urgent delivery problems.

My friends moved out of the neighborhood months ago and never really got much mail forwarded. Our upstairs neighbors moved out, registered their change of address, and we still get tons of mail for them.

It's obvious that Pratt Station is run by lazy, incompetent workers who take no responsibility for their poor performance.