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lseltzer
Citizen
Username: Lseltzer
Post Number: 1873
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2003 - 11:09 pm: | 
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Ever since I moved to Maplewood I've gotten other people's mail. Once every week or two I'll get a piece or two meant for someone else, usually one specific house one street over with the same street number. Today I got a piece for someone several streets over, and a few weeks ago I got a piece of mail for someone in Madison.
It's clear to me the sorting people aren't very careful. Does anyone else have similar problems? |
cody
Citizen
Username: Cody
Post Number: 423
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2003 - 11:46 pm: |
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Yes - it comes and goes. For a while, I got a good amount of mail for people the next street over at the same house number as ours. Their last name started with same letter as ours, so I got used to walking over and dropping it in their mailbox. Maybe once a month I will get a piece of mail for my next door neighbors.
What bugs me, though, is getting mail for a relative of someone who lived here before 1980 (when we bought the house). This man apparently used our current address for some investment transactions when his sister lived here and he still gets mail a few times a year from them. I have called the investment place and they tell me they have no later address, just to mark it 'return to sender' - the problem is, it triggers other junk mail to him at this address as well.
I have called the post office, notified them in writing that this is a private home and this person DOES NOT live here, but they keep delivering this mail anyway. I've tried to find the man in question via different web search techniques, but he doesn't come up, nor is he on the SSI death database. The couple we bought the house from are both deceased. It's not a big thing, but it's been a nitpicking annoyance for 23 years!
So, yes, it happens to me, too. |
Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5613
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 12:18 am: |
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I have to thank whomever is responsible for our mail.
Regardless of how poorly a piece of mail is addressed, I get it. As long as my name and "South Orange" is on a piece of mail it gets to me regardless of a mangled street address. I think my letter carrier and UPS guy are superb and practically clairvoyant at times. |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 3781
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 4:14 am: |
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This happens to us also. Usually when there is a substitute mail carrier on our route. I think this is a universal problem. At work anything you really want to get to somebody has to go FedEx or Express Mail.
My best story on this subject happened on a spring day a few years ago. It also tells something about how Millburn views Maplewood. We live on the border and our street continues into Millburn, where the numbers begin over again. It was college acceptance time and we had a nice thick envelope delivered to us from Tufts University for the corresponding house number in Millburn.
Contrary to my usual nature I decided to be a nice guy and run the envelope up the street. I was dirty and sweaty from working in the yard when I delivered the mail. The women insisted on tipping me five dollars!!!
and yeah, I took the money. |
lseltzer
Citizen
Username: Lseltzer
Post Number: 1874
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 6:23 am: |
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$5! If I had a nickel for every piece of wrong mail I've received...
I have spoken to the letter carrier many times, and once I went into the office and spoke to the supervisor. She used to be one of the letter carriers on my route, so I'm not all that confident.
I've really never had this problem living anywhere else. |
duncanrogers
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 1010
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 7:44 am: |
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This has happened everywhere I have lived. Hell we still get mail for the people who owned this house over 20 years ago. Not to mention the fact that the first four letters of my street and the same as the only four letters of a street on my carrier's route, so somtimes I get their mail. Larry...Celeste was the best carrier this route had. She took exceptional care of our mailings and packages and I miss her everyday. The guy we have now is....how to put this politely....MELANCHOLY.
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lseltzer
Citizen
Username: Lseltzer
Post Number: 1876
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 9:27 am: |
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Duncan,
You and I have different carriers. I don't think it's Celeste. I think getting mail for previous owners of your house is one thing, and arguably the correct outcome. Getting mail intended for someone else on the sama carrier's route is another. |
algebra2
Citizen
Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 1402
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 9:46 am: |
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lseltzer -- me too! I get mail from other #17s and a few days ago I got a piece addressed to someone in Madison. |
algebra2
Citizen
Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 1403
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 9:47 am: |
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Cody -- me too. E. Dornbush -- they lived in our house pre-1990 and I still get registered letters addressed to him. Weird. |
spw784
Citizen
Username: Spw784
Post Number: 391
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 10:05 am: |
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I'm in West Orange, and I once got a wedding invitation addressed to someone in North Carolina! -- it wasn't even SENT from anywhere near here ( I think it was sent from Wisconsin)... both sender & recipient's addresses were TYPED OUT, and zip codes were not in the 07xxx range. House number or street name weren't close either. Go Figure. Apparently our block has had so manyproblems with our carrier, he has been reassigned to the Orange PO (West Orange's main branch), yet he still delivers our mail... but it goes through the Orange PO. <sigh> |
Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 833
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 10:25 am: |
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We sometimes get mail addressed to the folks at the same house number on Maplewood Ave. instead of Maple Ave. One day I was reading an alumni newsletter and saw a small snippet about a person who was in my same fraternity and had graduated 20-25 years before I did...the contact address was the Maplewood Ave. address. So I wrote him a note introducing myself and got to meet him when presents and cards meant for my daughter's birth went to their address and he walked them over and introduced himself. I was happy for the "inconvenience" and chance to meet him because he's a great guy, very involved in the town too.
When FedEx has dropped off things on two occasions at the same street and address as mine but in Millburn, those folks weren't as warm or understanding (and no, that is not an indictment of Millburn residents in general). |
jgberkeley
Supporter
Username: Jgberkeley
Post Number: 3282
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 10:28 am: |
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Funny, I just dropped 4 letters into a train statiion mail box that were delivered to my home by mistake.
I'm over that.
What does bother me is, How much of my mail has been delivered to you, and do you drop it back into a mail box? |
algebra2
Citizen
Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 1404
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 10:43 am: |
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I stick it out the door slot -- they took my mailbox away! |
brusin
Citizen
Username: Brusin
Post Number: 59
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 1:56 pm: |
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We get wrong deliveries all the time -- previous owners and wrong addresses. My main problem with the Post Office is that every time we have our mail held when we are out of town, they never resume delivery on the date specified. One of us has to go down to the Post Office and rescue the mail and ask them to start delivery again. When we ask why the guy always says our regular carrier was off. One summer we didn't get mail for about 7 days because someone, somewhere in Maplewood had left a handwritten note saying they were out until August 22 -- so the carrier wrote our address on the note and they held our mail. We thought we had it fixed, but then they started holding it again the next week -- the carrier thought it should be held and the note got lost. All in all we didn't get mail for about 2 weeks. |
shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 725
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 2:21 pm: |
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We ALWAYS get mail for a business address in Madison that's similar to our address (not the same). I have a few friends who have my address wrong by one number. I wonder if my neighbor across the street has been getting all the invitations we don't receive?  |
jet
Citizen
Username: Jet
Post Number: 296
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 2:23 pm: |
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If it's important , it does not get mailed in Mwood. I like my mailman "Rosie" a lot, but the service in town is haphazard. My mail normally doesn't get delivered untill 4:00pm. The building is ugly , they have also removed mailboxes. |
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