Not Again?

Well, I just heard on TV, the post office will be raising the cost of stamps, again. Starting next week the cost goes up one penny.
Maybe they would be able to save money and not raise costs if they became more efficient.

I live in a small town, make that very small. I moved here several years ago. At that time I rented a post office box to expedite my mail.

Before I moved here I lived in a large city and there I also rented a box. Not once in the twenty years I lived there did I receive other peoples mail in my box. The post office was very scrupulous abou the way it sorted the mail. Well except for the time they lost one of my monthly checks! That time two checks got stuck together and the postman simply put both in the other person's mailbox. I made a personal visit to the post office to complain about not receiving my check, they told me they could do nothing about it and to fill out a form. I filled out the form and that was the last I heard about it.

Strange as it may seem, I was working at a resort at that time and one day a person who lived there came up to me with my check! Said he received it in his mail and knew that I worked at the resort so he made a special point of bringing it to me. What luck! Meant a lot to me.

Well to get back to this little town... Since I moved here, at least several times a month I get mail in the box with strange names. The box number is correct but the name is not.

I spoke to the postmaster about it. He said the box must have been assigned to some of these people throughout the years and the mail still kept coming to it.
I told him he should correct the situation as it was getting to be a problem. He assured me he would... Well if I held my breath that long I'd be long gone.

Here it is four years later and the same people's mail is being delivered to my box.
I've complained, I've threatened to throw the mail away, I've also told the poastmaster that this could get me arrested as involved in identity theft and he would be the one that caused it.

Nothing...no changes made after all these years, simply promises.
Maybe I should contact the head postmaster in Washington and report the problem?
It seems no matter what name is on the envelope, the sorters simply sort by box number and could care less about anything else.

This mail comes from Social Security, it comes from insurance companies, it comes from banks, just think what an unscrupulous person could do with all that personal information.

I often stop to wonder if it is happening to me where is some of my mail ending up?

I even advised the postmaster on how to make changes so that doesn't keep happening!

Now the post office dares to raise the price of stamps again! I have another suggestion, take the hike out of the wages of the sorters, and well see how fast they make changes in the sorting proccess...