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I called the local P.O. on Wednesday (the 10th), and there wasn't even anyone at the P.O. to pick up the phone.
I called again on the following day (Thursday the 11th), and was told that if the postal carrier can't access the mailbox, I'll have to pick it up at the P.O.
On Friday (the 12th), I went to the P.O. on my lunch hour and told them I haven't had mail delivery in a week, so I wanted to pick up my mail. The guy looked haphazardly in random shelves, drawers, and cabinets, and then came back and told me the mail carrier must have taken my mail out in the truck with her. But when I got home that evening, STILL no mail in the mailbox.
So today (Saturday the 13th), I stayed out on my front driveway for 2 hours waiting for the mail truck to come down the street. When she pulled up to the mailbox (and yes, the mail truck was able to get within 24 to 30 inches from the mailbox), I walked up to her truck to collect my mail, and she said she didn't have any for me! She said she was a substitute, but the regular carrier must have put a hold on my mail!
I told her I just went up to the P.O. yesterday to collect my mail and was told it was on the mail truck.
Then she tried to tell me the problem was that the mailbox was inaccessible because of the snow. So I showed her that I was standing on clean, dry pavement and was able to open the mailbox simply by extending my arm; therefore, the mail carriers should be able to do the same.
She made some excuse that they can't be jumping out of their truck at every mailbox. My response was that the mail carriers are able to get out of the truck to walk 40 ft and set big packages under my lamppost, so they ought to be able to get out of the truck and take one step to deliver mail to my mailbox!
To her credit, the sub carrier called the P.O. on her cell phone, and said if I go to the P.O. before closing (in half an hour), they'd get me my mail.
So I immediately got into my truck, passing the mail carrier on my road, and went to the P.O., madder than blazes. I told them that I hadn't gotten mail in over a week, that I came in yesterday to pick it up and was told it was on the truck, and that I just talked to the carrier on the truck, who told my my mail was at the P.O.
The guy again hunted around the P.O. haphazardly (they must not have specified places to store mail "on hold") and after 15 minutes he finally found my mail in a heap on a counter, amongst staff members' purses and other personal belongings.
With my mail finally in my hands, I asked him what about next week? Is my mail going to the mailbox or do I go have to go to the P.O. to collect it? HE COULDN'T TELL ME!!! He said it was the regular mail carrier's decision, but since she was off, he couldn't say.
Obviously, this whole experience has me livid, and I'm still thinking I should write a letter to the regional Postmaster telling what a slipshod operation this P.O. is.
Seriously, I think it is a Maryland problem. I never had this problem in the midwest, where it's always snowy in winter, yet the mail always gets delivered because the carriers aren't too precious to walk a few steps to reach the mailbox.
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