Dear people hand-delivering* letters...

[davidgillon]

If you're going to post something marked 'Urgent, please do not ignore' through a letterbox, maybe spend 5 seconds to make sure you have the right house?

And they weren't even close, I live at 41, the letter was addressed to number 49, which is literally the first house in the street...

I just tottered down the road in the freezing rain to put it in the right letterbox. (So of course the rain has now stopped).

*I know it was hand delivered, because a) no stamp and b) I heard them knock and them put it in the letterbox about 6PM last night, but given at that point I'd already gone to bed because of the whole sinus bug thing and was asleep not long after I wasn't about to get up to answer the door and didn't actually see it until this morning.

Comments

[lilysea]

Wow. (at the people who mis-delivered it.)

I... would not have gone out in freezing rain with a sinus bug to redeliver it.

I probably would have waited until the next convenient time to re-deliver it, which might have been 3, 4 or 7 days hence...

[davidgillon]

I did debate waiting, but it got around to lunchtime, had been raining since breakfast, and there was the chance it could be something that genuinely was urgent for the resident to know.

Plus it's only 7* houses down the street and I wanted to see if I'd definitely shaken off the dizziness. Answer, looks like I have, but even just a couple of minutes of the freezing rain rattling on my skull triggered a sinus headache that has only just worn off four hours later, so it looks like the bug is still in residence.

* 7 not 8 as 48/49 is split into two flats.

[jesse_the_k]

Placing unstamped mail into a letter box is a Federal crime in the USA: many people attach a clip to the box so neighborhood flyers etc won't blow away.

(Of course if you have a mail slot there's nothing the USPS can do.)

[davidgillon]

Anyone can stick anything through your letter box over here, mostly what comes through is junk mail, but occasionally you do get something significant.