A reader wrote us about some mail problems (or rather, mailperson problems) on Hancock.
I am writing to you today because my husband and I have HUGE mail problems for the past few months. We had very important documents lost and paychecks that never made it. I cannot even start to tell you how inconvenient it is to lose documents or wait so much time to get paid. I even saw one of the postwomen putting our mail on a wet floor. I asked why she did that, she looked at me and said that’s how it is. She didn’t even sort the mail from the 3 different apts in the brownstone! I am VERY annoyed and not sure what to do about it. If I make a complaint to the USPS, they won’t really take it into consideration but if it becomes a community problem, then it’s different. We could even involve the media in this. It would be nice if you could put a post on your blog about this and see people’s reaction. If they react then we could probably organize a general complaint, if not, it means we are the only ones suffering from it.
I’ve been lucky enough to have a wonderful mail carriers here in Brooklyn, so I don’t know how to address this problem. So is this reader the only one suffering with bad mail service? Have any other readers around Hancock Street and Stuyvesant Avenue had similar problems? What’s the best recourse in a situation like this?
