Mis-delivered mail
On this, the busiest week of the year for Canada Post, I’ve decided to ponder the following question on my blog: how many pieces of mis-delivered mail do you receive (from CP) per day? per week? — or month?
In our humble basement suite, complete with it’s own address, we receive at least a couple pieces of mis-delivered mail per week. If not more. Sometimes we go without any mail for days, and then it comes in a big clump, obviously having been delivered to someone else and then redirected to us. I’m not talking about receiving mail from former residents at our address, neighbours one or two doors down, but blocks away. We might get mail with the same house number on a different street; same house number on a different block (off by 100); or just completely wrong altogether. In fact, I’ve started to recognise the names of some of the people we consistently incorrectly receive mail for.
Thankfully we don’t get mail from East 7th Avenue.
This has been going on for some years — certainly as long as I’ve lived at this address. I find it hard to believe that we have a reliably dyslexic delivery person. I have no idea what the problem is or who to complain to without having our mail “accidentally” lost entirely.
Kalev Hunt said,
December 20, 2005 @ 5:26 pm
Wow that sounds bad. When I’ve lived in a house, I haven’t had a separate address so I don’t know how often it happens. It happened very rarely when I lived at the Savoy.