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**gortusbig** · 11-09-2011, 03:58 AM

Did you know that? That box, that is your property, can only be used by the private company the USPS. If someone wants to leave you a note, or invitation or handbill or anything, and they put it in your mailbox, that you own, the postal service can confiscate that item from inside your property and charge you applicable postage to get it back. While I can understand (though still be against) such a rule when the Postal Service was part of the government, absolutely no private company should have complete control over something that you own.

There few things that can make me as angry as receiving a nasty letter from the douche bag mailman that talks on his cell phone at blisteringly loud levels while delivering mail, saying that a note from my lawn guy is being held hostage for $0.90 cents because he had the audacity to leave it in that box that I own for me to find. I cannot wait until the USPS doesn't even exist. There is a reason they are so maligned and hated... and rules like the one above play a major part.

Sadly, it's up to specific USPS locations to and/or postal employees to choose which rules to enforce or not. I do a fairly large volume of business with my local USPS branch, and they've been nothing but helpful, courteous and upstanding in almost every way.

However, a few counties over a friend of mine runs my other separate business and we do almost the same amount of volume. He got a letter from his postman about a few packages that were under weight (probably 7 out of 200 or more, equaling to a few dollars of un-paid postage ), and was literally verbally abused by the postmaster when he went to pick them up.

I'll give you a little hint though. Throw your postman a $20 bill a few times a year and they'll do anything for you.

11-09-2011, 03:58 AM	#38
gortusbig Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 476 Senior Member	Did you know that? That box, that is your property, can only be used by the private company the USPS. If someone wants to leave you a note, or invitation or handbill or anything, and they put it in your mailbox, that you own, the postal service can confiscate that item from inside your property and charge you applicable postage to get it back. While I can understand (though still be against) such a rule when the Postal Service was part of the government, absolutely no private company should have complete control over something that you own. There few things that can make me as angry as receiving a nasty letter from the douche bag mailman that talks on his cell phone at blisteringly loud levels while delivering mail, saying that a note from my lawn guy is being held hostage for $0.90 cents because he had the audacity to leave it in that box that I own for me to find. I cannot wait until the USPS doesn't even exist. There is a reason they are so maligned and hated... and rules like the one above play a major part. Sadly, it's up to specific USPS locations to and/or postal employees to choose which rules to enforce or not. I do a fairly large volume of business with my local USPS branch, and they've been nothing but helpful, courteous and upstanding in almost every way. However, a few counties over a friend of mine runs my other separate business and we do almost the same amount of volume. He got a letter from his postman about a few packages that were under weight (probably 7 out of 200 or more, equaling to a few dollars of un-paid postage ), and was literally verbally abused by the postmaster when he went to pick them up. I'll give you a little hint though. Throw your postman a $20 bill a few times a year and they'll do anything for you.
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