Yes, you have to deliver the mail

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

Mail arrived today. Not the normal person, who is a very nice older lady. This guy comes in and hands me one of those big containers full of mail.

Me: Myself
MG: Mail Guy

Me: This isn't all ours. There are multiple suites.
MG: You mean I have to deliver to ALL of them.
Me: Well... yeah.

Because I'm so nice (and this guy is an idiot), I dig through all the mail to pull out the few pieces for MY company, return the rest, and direct him to Suite B.

[Trayol]

MG: You mean I have to deliver to ALL of them.

What an audacious* thought, completing one's job correctly.

*This 2-dollar word brought to you from an essay taxed brain.

[Sheldonrs]

Well, to be fair, they only have to deliver despite rain, sleet, snow or dark of night.

Ain't nothin' in there about stupid or lazy.

[PepperElf]

MG: You mean I have to deliver to ALL of them.

WTF?

I would say call the post office and talk to the post master general about that.

The only people who are legally allowed to handle/deliver mail like that have to be certified.

It's one thing to just hand someone a letter and say, "Yeah I know you know joe-shmo, give this to him"... it's not legal but it sometimes happens.

But when it's in BULK like that... um. ... yeah that's not very secure.

I've been certified twice through the Navy. Granted we have slightly different rules (you have to be command sponsored & your division officer signs your mail card). But yes we had to go through the long boring lecture/class on how to properly handle mail.

O_o what a lazy prat

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

I thought about calling, but Mondays are so freaking busy that I had stuff to do even before he left. I'll probably mention it to the awesome lady who usually delivers our mail. She's even learned which companies aren't at this address but still get mail for it, sorts those out, and lets me go through our mail to make sure we don't have anything that doesn't belong.

I let her take all the candy she wants.

[Kiwi]

we used to get a mail bag for the shipping company (that was my first task in the morning) and out of a full mail bag I got 50-100 pieces of mis-sorted mail.

The first few days I called the different offices in our building (totally different companies) and the receptionists got snooty about having to ride the elevator to come and collect it... they wanted me to wander all over the building to hand it out.... not going to happen. So after a few snotty replies I asked the mail man who did a pick up for out going (again usually a full bag), he just shrugged and said "throw it in with the outgoing, it will get there eventually".

I would have some pieces come back 5-10 times before they would stop, I felt bad because most of the other offices in our building were lawyers and you would think that they would have important stuff being mailed. If they did, the receptionists couldn't give a shit.

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

Difference between one company and several in the same building, though. Mine isn't affiliated with the others at ALL. I won't deliver their mail because I don't work for them.

[Kiwi]

Difference between one company and several in the same building, though. Mine isn't affiliated with the others at ALL. I won't deliver their mail because I don't work for them.

um thats the exact same situation then

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

Oh, I thought they were all part of the same firm. Sorry.

... so, why did you have to sort the mail?

[Kiwi]

Oh, I thought they were all part of the same firm. Sorry.

... so, why did you have to sort the mail?

I didn't have to sort it (for the other company's at least) I did have to sort the mail for my company. however the mail was sorted at the post office must have been screwed up, I would literally get a massive sack (up to my hip) of mail every day (cargo contracts/ invoices/ship schedules etc) and we had a huge office of almost 300. The mail man just brought up the big sack.... and then he would walk around to the other companies and deliver mail from his bag to the other offices. Then at 4pm he could come and collect our outgoing mail bag.

But somehow we still got the mail from other firms in our building, a lawyers office, a government department, a travel agent etc Their mail would end up in our bag I guess because it all ended in XYZ Building 123 Street.

The first few days I did mail alone I was confused so I tried to be polite and rang the receptionists for each individual company only to get snotty answers about "why cant you just bring it down yourself?".... because I'm not your freaking mailman.
So I ended walking to our outgoing mail sack and dumping stuff in, it took up way less of my time and effort.
We usually had half a sack of mail going out each day as a minimum.

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

Now that's an incompetent mailcarrier.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I would have some pieces come back 5-10 times before they would stop, I felt bad because most of the other offices in our building were lawyers and you would think that they would have important stuff being mailed. If they did, the receptionists couldn't give a shit.

I know for some legal mail there are deadlines based on the mailing date of the letter, not the receipt date. Letting it circulate though the post office for several extra days does not reflect well on the lawyer's receptionists.

[wagegoth]

I know for some legal mail there are deadlines based on the mailing date of the letter, not the receipt date. Letting it circulate though the post office for several extra days does not reflect well on the lawyer's receptionists.

It's usually the responsibility of the secretary or paralegal, not the receptionist. We almost never mail anything because of this kind of behavior, but so far our mail delivery has been pretty reliable.



Now, my home delivery is another story. My neighbor came over Saturday with some of our mail that was dropped in his box, not just any mail, but my replacement credit card and our IRA statements. Thank goodness the neighbor's a decent guy.

[Kogarashi]

I'm still trying to figure out what happened one time when I was still single and living in an apartment with three of my friends.

Two of my roommates were freelance translators for Tokyopop, and had been expecting the next manga they were to translate for a few weeks at this point. Other Roommate (Anki) and I were also waiting for some mail, which I think included a replacement debit card. None of it had showed up in our mailbox for a while, though the usual spam flyers and junk mail had, as well as the occasional other legit letter. We were confused, but had no clue which post office in town to contact about the issue.

Then I, who had the mail key for the apartment, started noticing that our mailbox was getting difficult to open. The lock's latch kept catching on the neighboring mailbox, which belonged to a completely vacant apartment. I could see flyers peeking out around the corners at this point, and figured the mailman kept putting flyers in the box despite the apartment's vacancy and lack of real mail, and finally went to complain to the apartment manager. The manager took the vacant apartment's mail key and we went and unlocked it.

Not only did we find a veritable deluge of flyers and junk mail, we also found our missing mail, rather mangled, shoved in every which way the mailman could possibly get it to fit. Luckily the manga for translation was mostly unscathed, though it's a wonder considering how torn up its envelope was since the mailman had to half-roll it up and shove it in past the lock. We were quite irritated, as it should've been obvious from the overstuffed nature of the mailbox that the apartment was empty (and the manager assured me that the post office had been notified of the vacancy as well), and the mailman misread the apartment number and thus delayed some important mail for the better part of a month.

We'd had this happen before, but always when the apartment our mail mistakenly went to was actually occupied so someone could return our mail to us.

[mariamousie1]

Who was this guy, Newman?