Mail Stoppage!

[Guy Berger]

Oddly enough, I have not received any mail (aside from one bit of junk mail I addressed to residents of my apartment) since last Friday. This includes a magazine I usually get on Saturdays and a Netflix movie that was supposed to arrive on Saturday.

This has happened to me once before -- about a year and a half ago -- and it lasted for (I think) two weeks. At the time, unlike now, I was not living in a large apartment complex. Nor had I moved recently at the time.

Normally I would worry about identity theft, but none of my accounts (netflix, bank, magazine) are indicating a change of address. That said, I would like to resume deliveries of my mail.

Tomorrow I plan to call my complex's office to see whether anybody else is having the same problems. But assuming that the answer is "no", do I have any other recourse? I assume that if I call the post office they'll say "how the hell should we know?"

Anybody else ever experienced a mail stoppage? Your wisdom would be appreciated.

Guy

* Other possibilities:

1) While all of the relevant mail is addressed to my new/current abode, I did have mail forwarding set up. Perhaps the Post Office set up some crazy forwarding that sends correctly-addressed mail to my old address?

2) For a while (until the mail stopped) I was getting some of the previous resident's mail. (He has a different name than me.) Perhaps HE set up forwarding and for some reason it's capturing my mail as well?

[Guy Berger]

I just called the post office's "customer service" line, where they assured me "they take this kind of thing very seriously". I will supposedly get a call tomorrow.

This should be interesting...

Guy

[JSngry]

Are you sure you're living where you're supposed to be?

[paul secor]

A possiblity: your regular mail carrier might be on vacation and the substitute carrier doesn't know whose mail goes where.

[Chas]

You need to leave one of the car windows open a crack if you want home delivery

[MoGrubb]

Maybe you just need to do a disk/harddrive cleanup.

[BruceH]

A possiblity: your regular mail carrier might be on vacation and the substitute carrier doesn't know whose mail goes where.

I've heard that this happens quite a lot, actually.

[paul secor]

A possiblity: your regular mail carrier might be on vacation and the substitute carrier doesn't know whose mail goes where.

I've heard that this happens quite a lot, actually.

I used to work for the postal service, so I know it's a real possiblity.

[Van Basten II]

I've checked in my mailbox, it's not there

[Guy Berger]

A possiblity: your regular mail carrier might be on vacation and the substitute carrier doesn't know whose mail goes where.

It would be strange as the mailboxes are very clearly labeled with numbers, but I suppose anything can happen.

Guy

[Free For All]

A possiblity: your regular mail carrier might be on vacation and the substitute carrier doesn't know whose mail goes where.

Edited August 30, 2007 by Free For All

[JSngry]

Are you sure you're not living somewhere else & your mail is just trying to get you to come there before somebody gets hurt?

[marcello]

1) While all of the relevant mail is addressed to my new/current abode, I did have mail forwarding set up. Perhaps the Post Office set up some crazy forwarding that sends correctly-addressed mail to my old address?

Guy, this has happend to my Daughter last year. It was routed through the old address first, then sent to her new one.

[Guy Berger]

1) I actually spoke to my local post office. Their story is that the mailman was putting my mail in my mailbox, then someone (unknown, the post office is investigating) was putting it back out. So the post office stopped delivering my mail and labelled me as no longer living there.

2) My apartment complex claims that they have only one mailman, who has a name I will not reveal here, and that he is the only guy who has access to the mailboxes. So they don't understand what happened, but will talk to him tomorrow.

3) I actually got mail today, presumably due to calling the post office.

4) However, according to the post office, they have no clue what happened to the mail which was supposed to arrive in the interim. The best I can hope for is that someone returned to sender. Lost in the ether, I suppose.

Moral of the story: if you don't get mail for two days in a row, call the post office asap to get this shit resolved.

Guy