I don’t know what’s going on with our mail delivery service this summer. We’ve lived in this neighborhood for almost ten years and for most of that time we had the same mailman.
Actually our mailman ended up being a friend of ours as he was seeing (and living with) a close friend of mine from work (they even helped us put in our skylight) so it was always nice when I’d see him delivering our mail.
I haven’t talked to him lately, and I haven’t seen him delivering our mail either. Perhaps he got a better route or a big promotion? It seems that over the last few months we’ve had a series of temporary mail carriers.
The lady that’s been delivering the mail the last couple of weeks is the worst. I hope she doesn’t turn out to be our permanent carrier! I think she’s afraid of our dog barking. Yes, even when the door is closed and there’s no way our dog can even see her or you know … get to her. Of course if our dog could make contact with the mail carrier it would only be to say hi and probably give her a lick since she’s the absolutely friendliest dog in the world. She just likes to bark when she hears someone at the door.
It doesn’t help that this woman who delivers the mail has big heavy mail bags on both sides of her body and she bangs into our screen door every time she enters our front porch.
Anyway I guess she’s afraid of the sound of a barking dog because she certainly never even sees our dog. So now, when she hears Midnight barking she just drops the mail and runs!
The mail doesn’t even get into our mailbox. It’s often left scattered all over our inner front porch and sometimes it doesn’t even make it to the inner front porch – sometimes it’s outside on the steps! That’s not good.
I’m picturing soggy, ruined mail in the winter if this keeps up.
Oh and yesterday I found not only our mail but our elderly neighbors mail in my rose bush! It was our neighbors social security disability check! Imagine if I hadn’t found that mail or if it had blown away? Then my neighbor wouldn’t have received the money she probably needs to make it through the month.
I think on Monday I’d better remember to call the Post Office and make a complaint about this letter carrier. I hate to do it, but this kind of poor mail delivery has been going on for weeks. It’s not right.
My mail carrier is reliable, thankfully, but in the apartment where I used to live the mailman was really bad. The worst part was that I used to receive my checks from work via USPS 🙁
The mail service seems to go only in one direction…downwards.
I’d have a little chat with the lady first and reassure her that your dog is ok. She may have had a bad experience in the past and is a little scared. Who knows, after you chat with her she could turn out to be a friend like your last mailman too.
I have to admit that this is not a nice thing to do, but still everyone should try to do his job in the most professional manner.
If they’re that afraid of dogs that they cant’ even see, it sounds like they should considered another career.
If I was you I would report this mailman to their boss,they have a job to do like everyone else and if their not doing it properly then someone should be pulling them up on it.