posted on August 25, 2001 11:43:10 AM
...I found a large batch of mail, apparently delivered early this past week, in a door we don't regularly use. As far as we can tell, it included a package and the mailman stuck the whole pile in the door, not just the parcel. Of course the pile is FULL of checks that I have been waiting for. Good thing I've been too busy this week to send many reminder notices!
posted on August 25, 2001 12:23:52 PM
how many doors do you have?
i remember when i was living in new orleans,where there are many large houses and they divide it into apartments,mailman said they do not go around and around the house looking for more doors and seek out the recipient of mail,it is too dangerous for them to wander away from the main path,thats what they told us.
posted on August 25, 2001 01:45:44 PM
We go in and out of a kitchen door that leads to the parking area. We have a nice front door with overgrown garden [actually wonder how he beat a path to it!]. I know he uses that door sometimes, comes up and rings the bell. This is simply the only time I can ever recall that anyone left regular mail there, not just an oversize package.
I am glad my buyers are patient with me and not sending me irate email about where is their book. This reinforces my tendency to be patient with them...esp. if it's my fault I didn't get the checks! : - 0
posted on August 25, 2001 03:12:27 PM
hawhawhaw
what part of da city did you live dahlin???
nowwdays most of the multi unit houses like that hae a bank of wall mountedm boxes at the front door, or what was originally the front door......ya gotta love the city.....i am off tonight to listen to some music at the funky butt.
posted on August 25, 2001 10:39:13 PM
I remember one day that our carrier left our mail in a neighbor's box (apartment); the "good" neighbor just dropped them all on the ground in front of the mailboxes. Included, of course, were some payments.
posted on August 26, 2001 08:12:18 PM
Mail tag is a regular thing for us in this neighborhood. Carriers on vacation, take a day off-- the replacement doesn't seem to give a care whatsoever.
Drop it off 2 or 3 doors down, oh well. I've gotten to where I don't email till at least 2 weeks after, in case one of the neighbors is sitting on it.
Does wonders for my credit card bills, insurance, etc!
posted on August 26, 2001 08:40:47 PM
I used to deal with that all the time,
First with my bussiness, now with all
EBay stuff, then I got my self a mailbox
At the local mailboxes etc.
For $15.00 a month they hold my parcels,
(quite large when Pc shipment) the are insured business,and when I'm on the road I ask them to
Open the mail to see if my payments came in..
They do lots of stuff for me, I love it,
No more boxes from UPS piling up on my drive way (he might as well put a sign "steal me" on them...) and all the mail is one place,
Plus you get a key, so you can pick up your mail at 3 Am...
posted on August 28, 2001 10:27:16 AM
I don't see you anyone would actually use their home address for ebay selling. You would give people your address and tell them what kind of stuff you have in your house? With all of the stories of sicko buyers I have read since I started to read AW, I would never think of doing business without a mailbox.
posted on August 28, 2001 10:38:42 AM
I'm not that worried since I sell secondhand books, not rare antiques or jewelry; I may end up renting a box, however, because too many times I find payments hidden inside folded newspapers or generally run into snafus due to my business mail being mixed up with personal stuff.
posted on August 28, 2001 11:22:27 AM
During my busy time earlier this year, I was this close >< to getting a PO box for my payments - although I get more via Paypal than mail, I was getting kind of full in my mailbox. Things have WAY slowed down now though, and haven't had any problems. I come home for lunch from work so I get the mail myself 99% of the time - and sort the mail between the appropriate places (hubby, me, daughter junk mail, bills to be paid, and incoming payments).
