Originally Posted By: Kruse
Even if you are completely in the right, never screw-over your mail man. If he wants to, he can cause you a lot of problems with your mail and you really could never prove that he did it.
The mail that you use to make your monthly credit card? Eh...funny how it will get there late. That package marked "fragile" that contains a family heirloom? It will be in a thousand pieces. Birthday cards that get sent to some of your family members that have a high chance of having money inside....will mysteriously never make it. I talked to my local postmaster about filing a damage claim once (at the insistence of the sender) and my postmaster just laughed.
True story: When I was in high school, my buddy's dad worked for the postal service. I visited his house one time and there were at least a dozen magazines sitting on the coffee table. Each of the magazines had a different name and address on the mailing label. At first, I had forgotten that he worked for the postal service and I asked my buddy why all the different names and addressed on each one? There was a look of terror on his face and suddenly I knew why. I never mentioned it again.
My memory of this movie eludes me right now, but wasn't there a Tom Hanks movie where the mail man just drives by and throws the mail out the window and laughs?
BTW, I give my mail carrier a gift certificate every Christmas.
Happened in the town I grew up in. You NEVER mailed anything from that post office ... we would always go to the neighboring city to mail.
We knew someone who had to leave the post office because she couldn't stand all of what was happening there. They took 90% of the magazines and went through a lot of birthday cards.
A few really important things, my father had delivered to his mother's house 20 miles away.
