Mailbox numbers...
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OrioN
double tap o da horn dooshbag
Or numbers hiding behind an overgrown bush or tree
Or numbers at ground level that are buried in with leaves, or by snow in the next few months...
Sheesh
Love those who are two cheap to only have one side of the mailbox with numbers, that should only be done on one way streets.
I personally have 4 sets of numbers on my home: front porch, above the garage, both sides of the mailbox Post
Or numbers at ground level that are buried in with leaves, or by snow in the next few months...
Sheesh
Love those who are two cheap to only have one side of the mailbox with numbers, that should only be done on one way streets.
I personally have 4 sets of numbers on my home: front porch, above the garage, both sides of the mailbox Post
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Or numbers hiding behind an overgrown bush or tree
Or numbers at ground level that are buried in with leaves, or by snow in the next few months...
Sheesh
Love those who are two cheap to only have one side of the mailbox with numbers, that should only be done on one way streets.
I personally have 4 sets of numbers on my home: front porch, above the garage, both sides of the mailbox Post
The Post Office requires that they be on the side that their carrier sees while delivering.
McFeely
Huge Member
Seriously. It's 2016! Trim that overgrown bush!
Don't forget the places out in BFE. No names no numbers nothing. Their response. "Well we don't want people to know where we're at".. My response...."Does that include, police ambulance fire and rescue?" I simply point out to them that 911 legislation requires a corresponding physical address number be posted that can be readily seen from the road and rest assured the United Nations will NOT come and their your guns away.
OrioN
double tap o da horn dooshbag
Well those customers are doing it wrong since they forget that their postal vehicles are right hand drive
Ya, with those with no numbers at all, I cheat by looking inside some mailboxes to find a sharpie marker number on the inside.
Plus, if I have a small & has a USPS barcode, it's getting crammed into it. FedEx barcodes are prohibited, so it may be a gray area to be driver releasing in a mailbox
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Depends on the rural carrier.
Most are cool but there are those who will remove the package and bring it back to PO.
Most are cool but there are those who will remove the package and bring it back to PO.
dudebro
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If you're a tinfoil hat person, the trick is to put a pink flamingo ground decoration or other thing out there when you're expecting someone/something, leave directions to "look for the pink flamingo", and then take it back in after you get it so no one can retrace their steps and find it...
Purplepackage
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Mail box numbers? How about street or road signs. I used to cover an area that literally had 1 road sign and you just had to "know" where all the other roads came in.
dudebro
Well-Known Member
They take those down in the 'hood too. I remember figuring out areas with a map because all the street signs seemed to have been "vandalized".
Then you get to play "Is it a driveway or a side street?" all day long...
Purplepackage
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This is a massive rural area, a couple times I've gotten halfway down a drifted over "road" and decided it might just be a field so I turned around.
Map books say roads connect to other roads but they actually don't lol
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Even if you know where the house is?
Oldfart
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If you have never delivered to that house before, how do you know it is the correct house? Even if you use the house on each side as a hint, you could still have an incorrect address. I once left a package at a house with no numbers because I THOUGHT I was at the correct house based on the neighbors numbers. Come to find out, it was a bad address on the package and the house I left it at was the wrong house. My manager asked me "was there a house on that block with the street numbers that was on the package?" I said no but I thought I was at the correct house based on the houses on each side. He told me that he got a good butt chewing from the customer because I thought I had left it at the correct house. He said that defined a bad address and I never forgot that conversation. You delay the delivery a few times before you know you have the correct house and they most likely will get some street numbers.
Purplepackage
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Except in my old station if you code 3 something dispatch will google map it, insist that the house is there (even thought it isn't). That will lead to fight with our dick head dispatcher. Or my favorite you code 3 something, find out its 50 miles away (but in the stations service area) and they actually think you should deliver it that day.
Bad address= code 8 just easier
Oldfart
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I will always knock, then code it an 03 because I am not sure I am at the correct house. If dispatch insists it is correct, then an 08 will follow. I will not release a package at a house with no numbers if I have never delivered there before just because I think I am at the correct house.
