Mail problems very fustrated

Could remove the mail box.

We lived in CA now in WY. Haven't found a mailman that could get it right yet. I live rural. I have all my mail going to a PMB in town. Seems to have solved my problem.

The US Post Office. Good luck with complaints. :(

When the neighbors near our cottage forward their mail for the winter, either they or the carrier wrap a rubber band around the mail box door catch. I've seen the same thing on other area mail boxes when the summer residents leave and cancel their forwarding.

All my mail goes to St. Brendan's Isle Private Message Box. They are a mail forwarding company. I started using them right after we sold our house and really, really love this service. I think I'd continue to use them even if I bought another house. I like having one permanent address and not worrying about receiving mail.

What makes it great is that they scan every envelope and throw out the junk mail without me even getting involved. They can scan the contents if I need it and they can even deposit checks for me.

My experience with the US Mail has been awesome! My carrier is friendly, helpful, and efficient. The ladies at the Post Office are equally friendly, helpful, and efficient. I could not ask for better service.

We do a mail stop when we travel. The PO just keeps it and we get it when we get home. All important stuff is done electronically. If you ordered an item from Amazon and you knew you would be gone why have it shipped to your house? Just have it shipped to your sons house...

We had same problem. Post master gave us a red card to put in mail box that says or means do not put mail in box. Goes back to post office and as far as we know it then gets delivered to our post office box or held whichever as we planned. If it goes to our postal box we then have someone pick it up and forward it to us.

With all the problems we have had from the post office, I would not trust them with anything important. How can the USPS mess up so much when UPS Ground and Fed-X ground can get it right and faster.

Ken

My mother was in a rehibilitation center for about 3 months after a bad fall. We had all her mail forwarded to my sister's house (different town, different county even). The mail carrier put a red tag in her mail box with a note "abandoned". I checked her box occasionally over that 3 months, and never was anything left. Everything got sent to my sisters.

We've had mail stopped at home when we've been gone (camping) for extended periods. Never had a problem with that.

When we moved from one house to another a few years ago, to a different county, we had all our mail forwarded to our new address. Because the old house did not sell immediately, we had to keep taking care of it. We often got mail at the old house.

I went to the post office and asked why mail was being delivered there. This was now, almost a year after we moved. They told me at the post office that any mail without our name on it was put in the box. Ours was being forwarded. They were correct. Looking back, everything in the box had someone elses name on it. (The address was definitely that house, but those people never lived there. It finally dawned on us that someone must have been using that address with bogus names (either stolen credit or someone purchasing items on credit and giving a bogus address as their residence. We found out, people actually do this. The use address for houses that are for sale. It's quite a racket actually.

We finally went back to the post office and told them we wanted ALL mail stopped at tha address. Filled out the form again, and that stopped that! We left specific instructions that the new owner (when it finally sold), had to go to the post office to get mail activated at that address or they'd probably never get it. Don't know what happened, but we never heard from the new owner.

Don't know if this helps anything or not, but maybe you could just put a "hold" on all your mail and have your son pick it up from the Post Office occasionally. I did this for my mother when she visited my other sister in Texas a few years ago. She was in Texas for about 5 months, about 5 years in a row. Post office was more than accommodating. This worked. Something to think about.