Finally! After 7 Years I'm Getting A Mailbox!

[katlupe]

After 7 years of living here and haggling with the United States Postal System - we are being allowed to move our mailbox to in front of our house!!! Can you tell I am a little excited about this?

I wrote letters and did everything I could when we first moved here. But our local Post Master takes his powerful position very serious and said he drove out on our road and it was very dangerous! Dangerous? If I can drive it, believe me, it's not dangerous!!!!!! It's not a seasonal road or anything like that, but it does have hills on it and it is dirt. But it goes straight through the state forest, what do you expect?

Anyway, the other mailman retired some months back. Everyone on his route had a celebration, because nobody liked him. He drove very very fast on this dangerous road taking a short cut at times (but he could not deliver our mail) and he was very grumpy and not friendly to anyone.

Our new mailman got to know dh when he was walking the mile to our mailbox to deliver my ebay packages. So he did all the paperwork himself and told us what to put on it. And since my son has recently moved in up the road that probably helped. It put 3 mailboxes on this end of our road, even though my son's landlord does not live up there yet.

So next Saturday, we get to move the mailbox in front of my house!!!!! Can't help it I had to tell someone!

katlupe

[GranmaKay]

Big congrats one does not often win with the PO.... savor the win it may be the last one with those guys
GK

[MoonShine]

Great! I used to stay over at my Aunt's place and it was the daily chore for us kids to walk to the mailbox at the end of the hollow. Not fun day after day,especially during winter weather. But if you leave the mail in the box for long,you take a risk of someone stealing it!

[HilltopDaisy]

I'm happy for you! Your road is rough but the USPS ought to be able to handle it! Good for you for persevering.

[Shepherd]

Wow you lucky person! We have to drive to ours and... there are times when the mail sits and waits till the next time we're driving by it. LOL.

[texican]

I live too far out in the sticks to get rural mail delivery! They told me I needed to live closer to other people.... BWAhahahahahaaaa... No thank you! I'd rather drive the 4 miles out to the Boonies to pick up my netflix fixes!

[katlupe]

Well if you have to choose between no mail delivery and living around people - I agree, it's no contest!

Yes, we are fortunate that we got a new mailman, I think this one will get a little something for Christmas this year.



katlupe

[texican]

Sometimes it's a pain when you're old mail lady retires... My maillady retired at New Years... she knew where I got my mail, at my sisters house... The new mail lady didn't know, and tried delivering where I live, according to my 911 address, which ain't where I actually live, and therefore, all my mail got returned... seems as though the p.o. had actually moved my 911 address next to my sisters 911 box, but my box, next to my sisters, had the same 911 address as hers, instead of my 911 address, which was in the wrong place.......... confused? I was, They Were, and in the meantime I lost a couple dozen IRS 1099's, and my taxes were 'fun' figuring out how much to donate to the nice folks at the IRS (started to say disparaging remarks, but the folks at IRS are actually Quite Nice! {hows that for sidling up}?)