Dear Mr. Postman - Can You Get Your Head Out of Your Ass?

Here's a little letter I wrote up for our local Poastmaster. It's self-explanitory. I liked it. I thought it made my point very well. However, Ashley being the kind hearted person that she is.ouldnt allow me to mail it off. But you tell mewas it really that bad? I mean considering!?

Dear Postmaster,

We have been, and continue to receive several pieces of mail every few days which does not belong to us. On several occasions we have marked each piece of mail with a note that the addressee is not at our box. We then place it into the misdirected mail slot. However, in most cases, that very same piece of mail is returned right back to our box the very next day.

I cannot for the life of me understand how this could continue to happen again and again. In fact, it makes little sense.

Just a little over a year ago, I added my fiance' to my box so that she could receive mail at the same address as myself. Her mail was held however, and not delivered. When I inquired about the held mail, I was told that the mail could not be delivered because I had not shown her picture ID when adding her to the box. To be honest, I found this a little odd, but thought it must have been due to increased security measures.

With that in mind, you can understand our extreme frustration at time and again receiving mail for people who should not be receiving mail at our box. Not only are we getting mail for people who are in no way related to us, do not have similar names as us, are most definitely NOT listed on our signature card, but also for several different businesses that we have absolutely no connection with.

It's bad enough having to wade through the pounds of wasted trees called advertising circulars every day, along with five or six new credit card offers a week. To also have to sort through our mail everyday to find those pieces which do not belong to us, then mark them and return them to the post office so that they can hopefully make it to whoever they belong to, only to have them returned right back to us againits completely unacceptable.

We have a few months still left on our current box rent term, but we will likely not be renewing. I would much rather pay five or six times as much for actual professional service with a box at MBE, than to continue dealing with the rampant incompetence which has apparently engulfed the Langley, SC post office in the last few months.

I would ask however, that until such time as our mail stops being delivered to your post office, you ensure that only mail actually addressed to us be placed in our box. Please use the following names to fill this request.

If the addressee does not have a last name of Spires or New, DO NOT PLACE IT IN OUR BOX.