u/liboteeme

This is kind of a long story but I'll try to keep it short.

I live in a historic home turned into apartments. One of the tenants had their dog off leash while walking it to their car, also while the mail carrier was near. The dog bit the carrier.

I absolutely ABHOR people with their dogs off leash and have been bitten 6 times myself by dogs off leash so I completely understand the seriousness of the situation.

Firstly, I was upset that the postal service did not report the bit to the county animal control. If there's a dangerous dog in my neighborhood, I would want anyone to report it so if it continues to be a danger, proper actions can be taken. When I talked to the post master they said since the injury was basically minor and the carrier didn't receive care, they didn't think it was necessary...ok🙄

So the post office decides to hold all our mail (it was originally delivered to boxes by our doors) until a box was posted away from the doors because they now consider this dog a risk. The dog is Chihuahua mix and is most of the time behind a fence, but I understand.

So all of our boxes are moved. Problem solved...but not. I live on the back side of the house that has an sperate entrance on the other side of the house, we live on a corner so it's fully on a different street. There is two different fences in-between the dog unit and ours. We share this fenced courtyard with another house that my Dad lives. The post office has said they will continue to deliver to my Dad's place, as well as the other two units above him(it's also a converted small apartments).

The problem: There is one carrier in particular who continues to refuse to deliver packages to me AND my Dad, although the post office has said his spot was fine.

It's annoying but I could deal IF he would leave the freaking green slip so we knew where the package even was!! My Dad is a disabled veteran who is housebound and relying on mail for his medications along with other things since even a trip to the post office would have him on his back for weeks in pain. He gets most of his packages but some he doesn't and there's never any slip.

I also have had packages marked as delivered by door and no slip was received. Last weekend I finally tracked down a UPS package that was "delivered" but never received an attempted delivery slip for.

I went up to pick it up and said "This is the 4th package I have had to spend days contacting companies to try and find when the carrier could have left a slip. I'm really not trying to be an asshole and understand the dog thing but I feel like a simple slip would be the obvious solution"

Oh also the person with the dog just moved out so I told them and the man at the counter said he'd 'let them know'

To note: The first time I went to talk to the post master or whoever she was she told me a certain carrier is the one fussing over my Dad's location. She said "he's about to retire and his knees are going so I'm trying to work all this out" I felt like this was an over share but the conversation got pretty serious as I was really troubled about my Dad's meds and him being disabled...the tone of the conversation changed because I think she thought I was just mad about the dog thing at first, which I'm not.

So anyways, today I got to check my mail and the store flyers and my mail is all crumpled up in a ball and shoved into the back of the mail box.

Also another package for my Dad is missing 😩They told me I couldn't pick up his mail unless I was his power of attorney because we don't actually share the same address....I just don't know what to do and I feel like everytime I try to get a solution no matter how kind and patient I talk to them I end up missing mail or now getting it all smashed

What should I do?!?

Edits: spelling