wrong mail delivery

[DVC-Don]

Happens almost every day here. Wrong house number, wrong street. I'm not sure reading is on the post office civil service test. Just put it back in the box and the flag up.

 

[dreiwhit]

We got the power bill for one of our neighbors last week. Usually I just walk it over to their house, but they weren't there.

Not having any sticky notes handy, I wrote a note on the envelope "wrong address" and put it back in my mailbox with the flag up.

I got a nasty note from the mailman that said something along the lines of "you don't have to write on the envelope." I was thinking that the mailman probably didn't want my neighbors to know that the mail had been misdelivered and took longer to get there. I was also thinking that if you wouldn't deliver it to the wrong address, I wouldn't have to write a note on it!

 

[Stacy's a freak]

Wrong address/wrong party/whatever, goes back in the box with the flag up. There's probably some rule/law that you're not supposed to handle other people's mail so I'm not going to take it upon myself to deliver someone else's mail. If it's the neighbor I know, probably. Not long ago there was a letter in our box for someone we don't know at our address - it was our actual address but that person does not live there. It was obviously a bill from a hospital - we didn't open but could tell from the envelope. DH called the billing for that hospital and tried to tell them that it was the wrong address. We got another one just a few days ago. So apparently the hospital didn't fix it or care so we put it back in the box and wrote "wrong address" on it. I feel bad for that person because they probably aren't getting the bills and might end up in collections because the hospital billing people didn't take care of things.

 

[mom2rtk]

We got the power bill for one of our neighbors last week. Usually I just walk it over to their house, but they weren't there.

Not having any sticky notes handy, I wrote a note on the envelope "wrong address" and put it back in my mailbox with the flag up.

I got a nasty note from the mailman that said something along the lines of "you don't have to write on the envelope." I was thinking that the mailman probably didn't want my neighbors to know that the mail had been misdelivered and took longer to get there. I was also thinking that if you wouldn't deliver it to the wrong address, I wouldn't have to write a note on it!

That's ridiculous, but it sure sounds like you're right.

 

[tvguy]

Sometimes it's just a mishap. My wife got her union newsletter in the mail yesterday. A newsletter addressed to a co-worker was stuck to it. He lives in the same zip code, but a mile away, and on a different postal route. Stuff sometimes just happens.