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My mailman keeps moving my trash can

26,631 2,340 August 13, 2012 at 08:21 AM
I live at the dead end of a narrow lane. The garbage truck has to back down to get to me b/c there's no room for them to turn around.

I leave my trash out on Mondays. The can sits about six feet in front of my mailbox. There aren't a lot of other places to put it where I can still get into/out of my driveway + the garbagemen can still see the can. Any further up the lane and it blocks my neighbor's driveway. The other side of the lane is overgrown & the two times I've tried leaving it there, they either didn't see it or ignored it (either way it wasn't emptied).

My mailman is very lazy & doesn't like to get out of his truck. On multiple occasions he's rammed my trash can, knocking it over, dragging it around my driveway, etc. I know it's him but had no concrete proof until today.

I pointed my home security cameras out the window and watched as he rammed the trash can, shoving it back several feet. I'd left him a note in my mailbox asking him to stop doing this and informing him that I'd set up my cameras to record such incidents.

He jumped around angrily for a while, then moved his truck and put my trash can back close to where it had been. Then he took pictures of it from four angles and wrote me what I assume is a very nasty note.

This guy has on past occasions left me other notes. Once when I parked too close to my own mailbox in my own driveway he wrote me a long-winded screed about how federal law mandates I leave so much space in front of the box, etc. I can't wait to see what this note says.

Anyway I didn't get good clips of him doing all of this b/c I'm new to recording stuff on these cameras. I have him taking his pictures and I have his mail truck in front of my mailbox with the trash can not there. Next week for sure I'll have figured out the procedure and get the entire thing but... I'm wondering if there are other ways to approach this.

The asshole in me says to get rid of the mailbox altogether & put a mail slot in my front door. That way he'd have to get out of his truck every damned day instead of just on Mondays. I can't really move the mailbox right now but I'll have a fence built eventually and may move it then.

More info about this guy: one Saturday when I was working in my garden & had a pile of yard waste set out for a scheduled pickup, he came by to deliver my mail and I guess the bags were in his way (honestly - I could've driven around them to line up with the mailbox but I guess he couldn't/didn't want to). So he got out and kicked the bags of several times. He didn't know I was in the garden. I wish I'd confronted him then but all I could do was stare at him throwing this tantrum like a little kid. He also drives like a maniac, coming down the lane at like 40mph and taking a really wide turn to come up to my mailbox. He backs up so fast he throws gravel everywhere most of the time, in addition to the other asshole stuff he does like moving my trash can around (one time he hauled it all the way into the middle of my front yard).

I'd like to complain to his supervisors too but I'm not sure it would do any good? I hardly get any important mail but I'd hate to jeopardize anything. Plus some shippers only send USPS... part of me says "get a PO box and be done with it" but part of me also wants to WIN this war.

What to do?
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emelvee
08-13-2012 at 08:26 AM.
08-13-2012 at 08:26 AM.
Quote from veritableqndry :
My mailman is very lazy & doesn't like to get out of his truck.
A lazy postal carrier? I'm shocked! Roll Eyes (Sarcastic)
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chevvy
08-13-2012 at 08:38 AM.
08-13-2012 at 08:38 AM.
move to the woods. you don't have to worry about moving your trashcan to avoid the neighbors. I don't even have trash service. I just take it to the dump on my way out.
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08-13-2012 at 08:43 AM.
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emelvee
08-13-2012 at 08:44 AM.
08-13-2012 at 08:44 AM.
Quote from chewspam :
move to the woods. you don't have to worry about moving your trashcan to avoid the neighbors. I don't even have trash service. I just take it to the dump on my way out.
I don't want him to do that. He'd just post rants about not having FIOS.
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PaintTheSkyGrey
08-13-2012 at 08:45 AM.
08-13-2012 at 08:45 AM.
Give him bottled water. I bet you don't, and that's why this happens.
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emelvee
08-13-2012 at 08:46 AM.
08-13-2012 at 08:46 AM.
wow. laugh out loud

Quote from PaintTheSkyGrey :
Give him bottled water. I bet you don't, and that's why this happens.
Iagree
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SnakePlisken
08-13-2012 at 08:52 AM.
08-13-2012 at 08:52 AM.
Have you tried contactin the Postmaster General? Post Office Complaint Dept & Free PO Boxes
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BostonGirl
08-13-2012 at 09:00 AM.
08-13-2012 at 09:00 AM.
We had an issue with my moms mailman, I called his supervisor on him and no issues since. The guy freaked out and was yelling/swearing at her. He's lucky I wasn't there when it happened. Annoyed

I'd call the post office and talk to someone.
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08-13-2012 at 09:02 AM.
08-13-2012 at 09:02 AM.
Quote from BostonGirl :
We had an issue with my moms mailman, I called his supervisor on him and no issues since. The guy freaked out and was yelling/swearing at her. He's lucky I wasn't there when it happened. Annoyed

I'd call the post office and talk to someone.
yellin back is a federal offense
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08-13-2012 at 09:04 AM.
08-13-2012 at 09:04 AM.
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yellin back is a federal offense
the guy is Crazy, my mom was a little nervous. Frown
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08-13-2012 at 09:07 AM.
08-13-2012 at 09:07 AM.
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the guy is Crazy, my mom was a little nervous. Frown
i'd be worried about not gettin bills too
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BuffaloBillius
08-13-2012 at 09:09 AM.
08-13-2012 at 09:09 AM.
Fill that puppy with sand or cement

OR, coat the can with a strong adhesive, so it sticks to the mail truck.

BTW, is this you? [funtechtalk.com]
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just8
08-13-2012 at 09:10 AM.
08-13-2012 at 09:10 AM.
Some girl from the end of our circle parked 7 ft from the edge of our 5 house mailbox (not her box). Mailman wouldn't deliver. He sat in front of one of the mailbox "owners"house until she came out. He told her he was "sitting there to teach you a lesson" This mailman is creepy scary. If I left him water I feel like he would throw it at my house.
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08-13-2012 at 09:11 AM.
08-13-2012 at 09:11 AM.
Quote from BuffaloBillius :
Fill that puppy with sand or cement
I second this. Go buy a new trash can and fill the old one with something that will damage his truck. Make sure to have the video running too.

If he rams a huge block of cement at 40mph - he'll have a fun time explaining the truck he totaled while doing it.
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