Mail call...

[lozenger8]

OMFG.

The house behind me has the same number as me, but is number+A.

My neighbours just came round to tell me that they've been receiving some of my mail (not all of it, because I got the gas bill the other day, haaaah. Odd that a bill would make it to me. I did wonder why I didn't get an update from World Vision, though.) They've called by a

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[jillwise]

I'm glad you got it!! That used to happen to me occasionally at my parents' house, as they live at 6 Fairlane Road, but mail was occasionally delivered to 6 Fairlane Cresent (we could never get a taxi either, they always went to the crescent).

Good luck sorting out the post situation! If your postal service is anything like Canada Post here in Canada, you may have your work cut out for you.....

[lozenger8]

So annoying!

[chamekke]

I'm glad your mail mystery is solved, even if the problem isn't. Is there any chance you can waylay your postie? No, that's unrealistic, isn't it, given your work schedule. Maybe a Notice to Postal Delivery Person posted prominently on your front door, to draw the mix-up to their attention? I doubt they'd mind, as long as it's politely worded.

And... oh damn. I meant to sign up to send you a housewarming letter, but missed out. And now your house is all warm, I suppose? Still, if you're hankering for a really cheesy RCMP postcard, or one with bears or moose, or both, I am your woman.

[lozenger8]

Hee, thank you for the offer.

[theficklepickle]

Couldn't you maybe just come to an agreement with your neighbours at +A that if either one of you receives mail for the other you'll just repost it in the relevant mailbox? That would seem to be the simplest solution.

We've had an annoying spate of stuff being mis-delivered too; our house number is 2, but we frequently find things being delivered either to number 1 or number 21. The logic of this (if there is any) escapes us completely.

[solanpolarn]

Couldn't you maybe just come to an agreement with your neighbours at +A that if either one of you receives mail for the other you'll just repost it in the relevant mailbox?

I second this suggestion! I live at Flat 5 at House Name on Street Name, and frequently get post for 5 Street Name or for Flat 5 Different House Name among other things. It is quite annoying because I constantly worry that some of my mail will be going elsewhere an possibly nobody bothers to either put it through our letter box or give it back to the postie. I usually make sure to do either of those, when mail for other places arrive.

[lozenger8]

Yep, we did that!

[lozenger8]

Yep, we did that :)

[fern_tree]

AGGHHHH You know what, I have a letter I wrote you sat on my desk, and it's been there ever since you posted the first mail call entry XD I've just been so busy I haven't managed to get it to you yet.

But I will, when I can get down the post office! It'll be horribly out of date, but it'll get there eventually!!!

[lozenger8]

Hee, thank you <3

[jasper_su]

Contact the postal service and point out the mistake. I have that kind of problem because my address has an E for east and there is another house with the same number plus a W for west about a mile down the road. Whenever we get a new or substitute postal carrier, there tend to be mix-ups, and whenever the letter carrier isn't paying attention, we get our next door neighbor's mail. A wake-up call or e-mail usually helps with postal carrier attentiveness for a while.

That might help with the previous occupant stuff too. Or not. 12 years on, we still get a few addressed to the previous occupant. I stopped her catalogs with phone calls, but a couple of organizations she supported with donations haven't given up yet.

And hopefully the folks in +A have figured out who you are now and won't assume they are getting a prior occupants mail. Is it possible for them to stick the mail in your box or does it take a key or something? Sounds like not, if you are able to look in their box. . . just agree to redeliver mix-ups?

[lozenger8]

Done and done. And I mean done.