USPS - Someone Else's Mail

Nancy of Westwood NJ (10/11/04):
My name appears on my mailbox, yet for the past 4 years I have been receiving mail for a certain "Edward Thomas", the previous tenant.

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Tell me, don't employees at the post office need to take a literacy test before they are hired? They have told me sometimes a different mailman might take over the route. Well, what if I'm there for 10 years ... do I have to keep getting this guy's mail? I'm sorry, but that's absurd. Don't the mailmen know how to read a name on the mailbox? I'm sick and tired of complaining about this.

Mary of Columbus OH (10/2/04):
For the past few months, at least once a week, I would get a piece of mail in my box for a Shelissa McC. I would stick that on top of the box and the next day, it would be gone. Yesterday, the same thing happened with a catalog. I stuck it back in the mailbox. Today, Oct 2nd, not only was the catalog not taken but 8 other pieces of mail, all addressed to Ms McC, were left in my mailbox. None of the mail delivered was for me.

I have complained before about the service but did not receive a satisfactory reply. Since the carrier at the time said "Sorry about that" the Main Post Office here considered that was all that could be done. I would like MY mail delivered to MY address and I'm sure Ms McC would like the same courtesy.

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