Kill 'em with kindness.
Starting giving small gifts (very small) once or twice a week and that whole thing will turn around.
I betcha!
JR
I know I could look back and confirm this, but weren't you taking a vacation and considering a vacation mail hold?
Could this deluge of mail be associated with that, along with the confusion of a new carrier on your route?
I'm neither trying to defend nor condemn the mail carrier, but I've occasionally had problems getting the flow of mail correctly resumed after lifting a residential mail hold. (I'm making a distinction with a PO box mail hold, where it was easy to start and stop it, with no snafus.)
I don't recall posting anything about doing a mail hold. The changed mail flow began abruptly the first of last week and coincided with when she took over.
I used to post on 'Next Door' a neighborhood discussion forum and remember seeing posts on there complaining about an older woman carrier and all the issues people were having with her. so I guess it was our turn to get lucky.
Oh yes, she mis delivered an Ebay purchase yesterday to the people across the street. They brought it over this morning. It's going to be a long Summer.
We have a new mail carrier, apparently a5 0-60 year old lady, not a newbie. She's been delivering on another route nearby and they moved her to this one. It is not starting out well.
She took over last week and right away we noticed our delivery volume was way down. Day after day of pizza coupons etc. No magazine deliveries in all that time. She did leave notes to go to miles to the PO to pick up registered mail. Both times she made no effort to ring our bell or walk to our door. So I called the carrier office and they said they'd talk to her about ringing our bell for deliveries and ask if she was postponing some mail delivery.
Last evening we were a distance away from the front door when our bell began ringing abut six times and someone pounded loudly and by the time I got there she'd left a package on the porch, she didn't stick around for me to sign for it, not sure what happened. Anyway when I went to our box it was jammed full. She'd been playing games with our delivery, just as I suspected.
Our last carrier couldn't have been nicer. I got him 'trained' to bring stuff up to the door and knock. Looks like we now have one with 'attitude'.
re: Fun and Games with new Mail Carrier
Kill 'em with kindness.
Starting giving small gifts (very small) once or twice a week and that whole thing will turn around.
I betcha!
JR
re: Fun and Games with new Mail Carrier
I know I could look back and confirm this, but weren't you taking a vacation and considering a vacation mail hold?
Could this deluge of mail be associated with that, along with the confusion of a new carrier on your route?
I'm neither trying to defend nor condemn the mail carrier, but I've occasionally had problems getting the flow of mail correctly resumed after lifting a residential mail hold. (I'm making a distinction with a PO box mail hold, where it was easy to start and stop it, with no snafus.)
re: Fun and Games with new Mail Carrier
I don't recall posting anything about doing a mail hold. The changed mail flow began abruptly the first of last week and coincided with when she took over.
I used to post on 'Next Door' a neighborhood discussion forum and remember seeing posts on there complaining about an older woman carrier and all the issues people were having with her. so I guess it was our turn to get lucky.
Oh yes, she mis delivered an Ebay purchase yesterday to the people across the street. They brought it over this morning. It's going to be a long Summer.