Decemblog! 04/31 – Mail Madness

For the first two months that Max and I lived in Fairview we were under the impression that our mail was delivered to our door. Not only because there was a mail slot in our door, but we were also never given a mail key. We even asked the front desk, and originally they said yes, our mail would be delivered to our door. Well two months went by, and no mail. We would get packages, but not paper mail. It wasn’t until election day came with no absentee ballot for me that I freaked out.

We went to the front desk and asked again. This time we got a different answer. Turns out we had a mailbox the whole time. Once we located it and opened it up we discovered that my absentee ballot had been here all along, but it was too late to vote. I felt kind of bitter, but my guy won, so it was okay. I was just happy to be able to recieve mail again.

About a month went by and I realized that I still wasn’t recieving all the things expected. It was right around this time that I looked closer at the mailboxes around ours. What I discovered was shocking. Not only did we have one mailbox, but TWO! That’s right, there were two mailboxes marked exactly the same with our house number. I figured half of our mail was making it into that other box. I wrote a note to the postperson asking them to please move the mail from that box to ours, but it went unoticed. We took our claim to the front desk.

After explaining the situation and showing the front desk woman the identical mailboxes, she promised to get it worked out.

So tonight, I ran to the mailbox after getting home from work to discover that our mailbox is now COMPLETELY PACKED with mail. Max got a book from his mom, I got a long letter from a friend, and we both got a lot of bank statements. The duplicate mailbox has been put to rest and the number has been peeled from the front. I can only hope that our mail troubles have come to an end.
So, if anybody wants to send me a letter, I can now recieve it! (I do love having pen pals.)