So the fucking MAILMAN chewed me out today for not answering the doorbell! He was like, “You’re telling me you were home when I rang the bell yesterday” and was just … out of his truck, at my door, telling me “next time I come it’s going back to the P.O.”.
Y’know, I despise vendors that make you sign, because otherwise you have to go to the P.O. before Noon on a Saturday to pick up your package. But I need to mail stuff too, so it’s no skin off my back if I have to go to the P.O. on a day I don’t have to work!
What I don’t need is some blue-collar postal schmuck getting on MY case because I can’t hear the doorbell in the newly constructed wing of the house. And I listen to loud music all the time.
Anyway, nice of the U.S. government to deliver christmas cheer when delivering christmas presents to my house.
I know my way around the postal bureaucracy a bit. I think I’m gonna call in a complaint. He’s basically upset that he has to attempt delivery 3 times, but that’s their job. That’s what they are frickin’ paid for.
Oh, and I found a wireless doorbell in a box in the attic just recently. We set it the indoor component yesterday. What’s been keeping me from setting up the outdoor component? Lack of heat makes me not want to go out there!
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December 4, 2007 at 4:32 PM
Damn, dude, that’s harsh. You should complain, because you shouldn’t have to listen to him yell at you. That’s just rude.
December 4, 2007 at 4:35 PM
He didn’t yell at me per se, but he was agitated. I would have had some choice words for him had the heating repairman not been right there. Then again, I probably wouldn’t have heard the door if the heating repairman had not been coming.
December 5, 2007 at 7:36 AM
WTF? How did he know you were even ABLE to answer the door? Just because someone is home doesn’t mean they can always drop everything and run to answer the door (for instance, if you’d been in the shower and simply hadn’t heard the doorbell…or had been in the middle of repairing something…etc).
December 5, 2007 at 8:42 AM
Well, they had a “signature required” package, which I HATE. Like 50% of the time, if I sign it and post my signature out there, they will break the rules and leave it. This time I actually wrote “I am home, call [my phone #] and i’ll come to the door”. I didn’t expect him to do that, but apparently this was offensive to say I was home when I might not be?
Uh, my tax dollars pay your salary, bitch! (Actually not true, because postal is not a real government organization.)
December 5, 2007 at 6:02 PM
Oh I see now, it was certified mail. Fuck Genesco / ZAP! Don’t order their gift cards!
But anyway, mailman BARELY caught me, I was sticking my head out the downstairs door to call for the kitty as he was walking up.
I thought of the funny picture of a mailman driving up on someone’s sidewalk and pushing their trashcan just to not have to get out of the truck, and asked him about it. He said some stuff that I couldn’t quite follow.
We didn’t talk about yesterday.
December 7, 2007 at 4:58 PM
And today, my two packages are left propped in the door. Which means they were basically sitting in a puddle of water, because it collects there.
Maybe I *DO* need to file a complaint…
December 22, 2007 at 4:13 PM
My mailman is a lunatic.
Flat out.
And a fruitcake, but not just because it is almost Christmas, either. Just found out the guy was cutting through our yard, because he left note demanding that we shovel a path for him to cut across! What????? I don’t think so! We don’t want a worn footpath and secondly, why should we shovel it?? So I nicely wrote that we did not want a worn path, to which another note arrived from him demanding that we move our mailbox closer to the road or our mail will be suspended. What?? Other mailboxes in our neighborhood are just as far or farther from the road. Turns out that in not wanting a cut through, we “changed his route”!! So what?????
That’s his job. It is in limbo at the moment until I contact his superior’s superior’s superior’s superior’s superior to find out where this dude comes off harassing us this way? Is there some federal law that states we are required to let mailmen cut through our yards?
Anyone ever have this problem, and what did you do?
December 22, 2007 at 4:19 PM
Where do these mailmen come from?
April 20, 2008 at 4:27 PM
Hell.
December 8, 2010 at 6:48 PM
So today the exact same mailman delivers my package to the house next door! He gets up to the driveway, forgets which of the 2 houses [technically we share a driveway even though it’s really obvious to me who’s is who’s], so he leaves it at my neighbors. Or in between our two houses.
I should have complained in the past. I think I am now. And I’m going to bring up this past issue too.
December 8, 2010 at 6:48 PM
Plus, 3 in a row of my Netflix dvds have been cracked. I don’t know what his problem is.
December 8, 2010 at 6:49 PM
Ironically, my dad used to deliver mail to my exact same house. I have a feeling he wouldn’t be so incompetent.