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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 24553894, member: 100459&quot;]I live in the country, about 15 miles from town and 1 mile from our home to our mailbox.&nbsp; All packages are held at the post office.&nbsp; I take my coins that I sold and show them to the Post Mistress.&nbsp; I use their packaging material to mail my packages.&nbsp; I take a few pictures as I prepare the package to mail.&nbsp; The Post Mistress&nbsp; watches as I prepare the package to mail with her in the background. I always send them registered and insured.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never lost a package.&nbsp; The Post Mistress is about 40ish and looks 30.&nbsp; I enjoy my trips to the post office.&nbsp; Any packages that are mailed to me, is held at the post mistress.&nbsp; I get a little slip of paper telling me I have a package.&nbsp; As i said, I enjoy my trips to the post office.</p><p><br /></p><p>I used to live in the city.&nbsp; The mail is hand delivered by a &quot;letter carrier&quot; to our mail box that is by the front door.&nbsp; It is a common occurrence to find our mail on the floor of the porch.&nbsp; I guess he/she doesn&#039;t like to walk up 5 stairs to put our mail in the mailbox.&nbsp; Another problem we have/had (we have two homes) is that the letter carrier doesn&#039;t look at the address on the mailbox or the number of our home on the side of the door.&nbsp; Our home is at 209 North Wayne Avenue.&nbsp; Our mail is delivered to 209 North Watauga Street at least twice a month.&nbsp; Mail for 209 North Watauga Avenue is frequently delivered to our home.&nbsp; We&#039;re a block away.&nbsp; I&#039;ve complained to the Postmaster and the letter carrier.&nbsp; Their &quot;excuse&quot; is that their post office does not package mail to be carried to the homes.&nbsp; They said that there is a central receiving in a city about 25 miles away and it is done by a computer.&nbsp; We have owned that home since 1996.&nbsp; The owner of the other residence has been there for about 20 years.</p><p>When my wife&#039;s mother passed, we moved to her home because she had 5 dogs and a large country yard for her dogs.&nbsp; Our dogs love it too.&nbsp; We&#039;re still getting her mail.&nbsp; Due to the trouble with the mail in the city, we now have all of our mail delivered to our home in the country with packages being held at the post office.</p><p>Sorry for my longevity, but I want you to know that I have great empathy for you and thanks for all of your stories.</p><p>Best of luck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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