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| After returning from a recent trip out of the country, I found letters addressed to five (5) different persons in my accumulated stack of mail----So I delivered them all yesterday----- before the Super Bowl....... |
Former NBA Basketball great Karl Malone had a nickname. They called him "The Mailman" because he "delivered." Many residents out in Beulah have felt a lot like delivery persons as we get mail that belongs to others and we re-deliver it. We all want to be good neighbors--but why are we in a position where we have to be the "delivery" service for incorrectly delivered US Mail pieces?
I have received important looking bills destined for others, and I have brought such pieces of mail over to my neighbors directly.
But this sort of issue makes one naturally wonder--are other residents doing the same? Are important pieces of mail not getting to me? Or other citizens?
But over the last several years, lots of what I get is NOT my mail. Nope, it goes to other folks in my
neighborhood and sometimes in other subdivisions.
In my neighborhood of 77 houses--for the most part---we all get along and it is congenial.
The gentleman around the corner from me who's address starts with the same four numbers (but different street name) ----yeah, he and I constantly get each others' mail, and subsequently bring it over to one another.
On one recent day I went through a stack of mail that had accumulated as I was recently out of town.
5 pieces of mail were in the stack that were addressed to other residents.
Four were addressed to person(s) in the neighborhood, and one was in the Keystone subdivision about a mile down the road. That particular package had the same first four digits in their address as mine does--albeit with a different street name.
So on Sunday, yesterday, I pulled a Karl Malone and"delivered" the wrong mail directly to the front doors of the residents to whom the mail actually belonged. Except for one. I couldn't get into Keyston's locked gate. By sheer happenstance---- as I came back into my neighborhood from attempting to deliver the mail to Keystone-- I saw a USPS truck delivering on a Sunday to a neighbor in my subdivision. I flagged him down, explained the situation, and he took that package and said "I got you, I know that neighborhood and I'll take it by there."
Ironically, I had a conversation with our new Postmaster General of the Pensacola Area, Christina Walker, just last week. She has been here since April of 2021 but took over officially in October of
