After a year, our mail carrier decides our trash can needs to move

[SunnyD]

We've been living at our current residence for about a year now. We've had absolutely no problems with our mail delivery until a few weeks ago. Our carrier seems to have decided now, after nearly an entire year, that our trash can needs to not be where we put it on trash pickup days. She left a little note a few weeks ago that we were now all of a sudden blocking our neighbor's mailbox, and we needed to move our trash can elsewhere.

So we did... I drew up this little illustration because I know you guys get raging hard-ons when people do such things:

Fast forward to today. It's not like these mail trucks are LTDs or Crown Vics. Come on... my wife goes out to find that our trash can has been moved about an additional 15 feet downhill from the illustrated location. Mind you, pretty much everybody in the neighborhood puts their trash cans in the same general positions as we do. Some of those are even closer to their mailboxes than ours are, yet the carrier doesn't seem to care. But instead, all of a sudden I'm expected to put my trash out in the middle of a hill where it can and likely will get knocked over and spill onto the road? I think not.

I should mention that our trash pickup also got reduced from twice a week to once a week a few months ago, thereby reducing our carrier's "inconvenience".

 

[PepePeru]

Maybe there's a new sheriff in town, SunnyD, and by sheriff I, of course, mean mail carrier.

Furthermore, that diagram is way too refined. Crudely drawn MS Paint, pls.

 

[bignateyk]

You put your trash can in the street? I put mine right beside my mailbox, but it sits on the curb, not out in the street. (i.e. mine would sit in the green area on your diagram just to the left of the mailbox)

 

[SunnyD]

Maybe there's a new sheriff in town, SunnyD, and by sheriff I, of course, mean mail carrier.

Furthermore, that diagram is way too refined. Crudely drawn MS Paint, pls.

Sorry, I use Paint.NET.

You put your trash can in the street? I put mine right beside my mailbox, but it sits on the curb, not out in the street. (i.e. mine would sit in the green area on your diagram right next to the mailbox)

Has to be on the street. They have trucks with... THE CLAW!!!!!!! that come by and scoop up the can and dump it.

 

[Newbian]

So wait, were you placing the trash can on your neighbors property like it looks by the way to good drawing?

 

[sdifox]

ask the mailman if he would prefer you move the mailbox to the side of your house.

 

[bignateyk]

Sorry, I use Paint.NET.



Has to be on the street. They have trucks with... THE CLAW!!!!!!! that come by and scoop up the can and dump it.

Ah. Our garbage guys have to get out of the truck and dump our cans into the big bucket. Then the recycling truck comes through and actually sorts through our box of recycling and separates plastics, glass, etc... into the right bins on their truck.

 

[mugs]

Is it possible it was blown by wind?

Like bignateyk, I don't put my trash can on the street. I put it right at the end of my driveway where it meets the street. The garbage men have never complained, the mail lady has never complained, and it encourages my wife to bring the garbage can in before she leaves for work.

 

[SunnyD]

So wait, were you placing the trash can on your neighbors property like it looks by the way to good drawing?

Yes.. er.... no. I was putting it in the road in front of the neighbor's...

Actually, that strip of property between my driveway and my neighbor's driveway I believe is split between the two properties. I was literally putting the can right at the corner of my driveway at the curb.

 

[rh71]

- our mailboxes are beside our front doors... your mailmen are lucky it's all out on the curb

- putting it out on the street doesn't make sense to me other than the fact that it's convenient for the truck that comes. I mean you're putting personal property that's not a vehicle out on the road. It can get knocked over by a moving car, blown around, roll away, trash everywhere, etc.

Around here, it goes on the curb grass and 2 men on a truck actually perform physical activity.

 

[AMDMaddness]

Call your local Post office and speak to the Post Master and let him know your concerns and he in turn can talk to your postal worker and get it figured out... worked for me at least.

Pete

 

[SunnyD]

Call your local Post office and speak to the Post Master and let him know your concerns and he in turn can talk to your postal worker and get it figured out... worked for me at least.

Pete

We've been trying to do that. Unfortunately the number we were given for our delivery hub unsurprisingly rings... and rings... and rings.

 

[hanoverphist]

So wait, were you placing the trash can on your neighbors property like it looks by the way to good drawing?

sidewalk is public domain, not his neighbors property

 

[Newbian]

sidewalk is public domain, not his neighbors property

There was no sidewalk mentioned.

 

[DrPizza]

There was no sidewalk mentioned.

But some of us are smart enough to figure out that green means grass, and that since the driveway color extends horizontally from left to right, it means "sidewalk."

I suppose you thought it meant dead grass?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Where I live, the garbage trucks use "the claw" and EVERYONE leaves their bins up on the curb, not in the street. At any rate, if you can't get anyone on the phone, write! The post master will respond.

 

[techs]

After a year I decided it was time for a new mail carrier.

I didn't win either.

 

[Parasitic]

What if all of the houses on the same street pooled together and got one of those big shared mailboxes instead (with individual slots per house), so the mailman would only have to make one stop instead of like 10?

That's how it is with us. That way you also have an excuse of not having to tip the man around holidays since he never has to stop at your house.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

What if all of the houses on the same street pooled together and got one of those big shared mailboxes instead (with individual slots per house), so the mailman would only have to make one stop instead of like 10?

That's how it is with us. That way you also have an excuse of not having to tip the man around holidays since he never has to stop at your house.

Oooh! Where can I sign up to get even less service than I get now?

 

[Newbian]

But some of us are smart enough to figure out that green means grass, and that since the driveway color extends horizontally from left to right, it means "sidewalk."

I suppose you thought it meant dead grass?

It looks like road and he had it looked like he placed his garbage in front of his neighbors house so it looked just plain weird.

 

[Parasitic]

Oooh! Where can I sign up to get even less service than I get now?

How much mail do you get and it's not like the common mailbox is in a place that you have to walk 10 miles uphill in a snowstorm and another 10 miles uphill back to your place.

 

[Newbian]

How much mail do you get and it's not like the common mailbox is in a place that you have to walk 10 miles uphill in a snowstorm and another 10 miles uphill back to your place.

Don't forget against the wind both ways.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Maybe it's time to inform them of your status on AT.




You were right about getting a raging hard on. You said you did it with paint... fap, fap, fap...

 

[Squisher]

I drew up this little illustration because I know you guys get raging hard-ons when people do such things:

Mission accomplished.

 

[Terabyte]

Quote:
Originally Posted by SunnyD View Post
I drew up this little illustration because I know you guys get raging hard-ons when people do such things:
Mission accomplished.

*Fap fap fap*

edit - how does this muilti quoting thing work...? :confused;