The Mailman is Having Issues
Nov 29th, 2006 by Alex
Mail delivery in my neighborhood isn’t the greatest. I never remember it being horrible. I don’t know if the regular guy is on vacation or he’s just having a hard time, but recently I’ve been getting a lot of other people’s mail in addition to the usual garbage. Take today for example. When I picked up the mail today, I found six items in the mailbox.
- Pennysaver and the usual accompanying advertisments
- a catalog for Bed Bath & Beyond
- a credit card offer from Citi
- a holiday letter from an actual human being
- another catalog from some brick and mortar furniture store
- an advertisement for Millennium Cable
Let’s throw out the Pennysaver. It’s bulk mail given to everyone with no address on it. So scratch that. So there were only five pieces of addressed mail. Guess how many of them were actually sent to me at my address.
One.
Guess which. If you guessed the holiday card or any catalog, you’d be wrong. Think cynically and you’ll get it. There’s only three other choices…
That’s right, the credit card offer.
The ad for Millennium was actually addressed to “TV Viewer” at my address. One catalog was addressed to a neighbor across the street. The other catalog and the holiday card were addressed to another neighbor across the street. So technically, three of the five pieces of mail were misdelivered by our mailman. Don’t get me started on the political correctness of the term “mailman” as opposed to the term “postal carrier.” The dude who delivers our mail is a dude. Although I suppose there’s room for cross-dressing postal workers these days, so I could be wrong. But I digress… three out of five? That’s a pretty crappy average, even if only for today.
Just yesterday there was a letter stuck in my front door, undoubtably placed there by a neighbor who had received it improperly. Who knows where the rest of the mail goes or the privacy implications of misdelivery.
Apparently credit card offers are delivered rain or shine. I suppose that makes sense if you consider how much the lenders spend on postage every year. So much for the rest of our First Class mail. If our mailman is on vacation, I look forward to his return. If he’s losing his mind, I do hope that he finds it soon.
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