Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2018-09-18 6:54 PM, graham wrote:
>
>>>> Varies by location. I get very good service. The Smart Post can
>>>> add a day if the shipper uses it. Deliveries do come later here
>>>> though, about 4PM.
>>>
>>>
>>> Canadian mail service depends on location too. When my son lived in
>>> Montreal cards and letters often took as much as 10 days to be
>>> delivered, and we were only about 500 miles apart. Around the same
>>> time, cards I sent from Denmark arrived within 2-3 days.
>>
>> I have nothing good to say about the lousy service given by Canada Post.
>
> I have had some interesting dealings with them. In one case, someone
> came around doing some sort of safety inspection and notified me that
> there was a low hanging branch that represented some sort of threat to
> the person who delivers my male. My male box is across the street from
> my house and the tree is on town property. There is nothing I can do
> about it. Moreover, trucks go up and down this road all day long. The
> branch posed no danger to them so I doubt that it was much of a threat
> to the person in a car that delivers by mail.
>
> The stranger incident was the time I moved my mail box back 6". It had
> been struck and knocked down several times, so when I put it back up I
> moved it back 6". Then I didn't get any mail. I always get a bunch of
> stuff on Wednesdays, so when Wednesday rolled around and I didn't get
> the town's weekly paper and the usual flyers I called the local post
> office. Apparently my mail delivery had been suspended because the mail
> box was too far from the road.
>
> My next question was where it had to be. She couldn't really tell me.
> She said that it had to be in the line of traffic. I argued that one
> because in my head, that means on the road. There had to be an standard
> height and distance from the road, but she did not know what it was. It
> was curious that they could suspend my delivery because they mail box
> was in the wrong place, but they could not tell me that proper place. It
> should be noted that they actually had a brochure with that information
> at the post office, and, as it turned out mine was within the designated
> height and distance.
>
> My next question was why they had not notified me. She said they had.
> They sent me a letter. WTF????? They sent me a letter to tell me that
> my mail delivery had been suspended. Sure enough, when I went into town
> and picked up my mail there was a letter telling me that my delivery had
> been suspended. The sad part was that they did not see the humour in
> their having sent me a letter telling me that they were not delivering
> the letter then sent me.
>
>
> I had a little fun with them last month when they left a notice warning
> me that I had to have my name and street number clearly posted on my
> mail box. The form had my name and street address and was left in my
> mail box, so if they could not read my name and number, how in hell did
> they know it was my box they put their letter in?

It sounds like they have it in for you. Have you possibly caused them
troubles in the past or otherwise got their angst up?