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<p>[QUOTE="talerman, post: 4041523, member: 89314"]We receive a misdelivered letter 2 or 3 times a month, often for the neighbour or a house with the same number on a nearby street but occasionally for someone miles away or even in another state. I think the problem is that in most cities the mail is now sorted by machines without a human hand or eye and the machines are not infallible; sometimes they grip 2 letters together and send them both to the address on the top one. We get a lot of mail and our postmen/ladies just deliver the package of mail to the address given to them without giving it a glance. </p><p><br /></p><p>Logically, a similar percentage of our mail is being delivered to another address. We religiously drop the stuff that comes to us into our neighbour's box or put them in our box to be redelivered. I just hope people who receive our mail do the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>I use a PO Box for all coin stuff which should reduce the chance of error. However, I still have had two cases where a package never made it to me but disappeared en route.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="talerman, post: 4041523, member: 89314"]We receive a misdelivered letter 2 or 3 times a month, often for the neighbour or a house with the same number on a nearby street but occasionally for someone miles away or even in another state. I think the problem is that in most cities the mail is now sorted by machines without a human hand or eye and the machines are not infallible; sometimes they grip 2 letters together and send them both to the address on the top one. We get a lot of mail and our postmen/ladies just deliver the package of mail to the address given to them without giving it a glance. Logically, a similar percentage of our mail is being delivered to another address. We religiously drop the stuff that comes to us into our neighbour's box or put them in our box to be redelivered. I just hope people who receive our mail do the same. I use a PO Box for all coin stuff which should reduce the chance of error. However, I still have had two cases where a package never made it to me but disappeared en route.[/QUOTE]
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