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My mailman keeps moving my trash can

26,675 2,340 August 13, 2012 at 08:21 AM in Help
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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jj.12321
08-20-2012 at 03:06 PM.
08-20-2012 at 03:06 PM.
Quote from veritableqndry :
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.
Well, on the bright side, at least he delivers your mail.
I've had jerk mailman that simply don't deliver mail if it is the least bit inconvient for them..
like if a neighbor parks in front of the mailbox, etc.

Complaining to his supervisor is probably just going to make him be a bigger jerk..

Just move the mailbox.. I don't understand why you can't do that now.. it's like a weekend project, not very expensive.

I agree the mailman is a jerk, but if moving the mailbox ends the war, it's worth it.
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08-28-2012 at 11:14 AM.
08-28-2012 at 11:14 AM.
Wait... this thread died?? What happened yesterday???
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08-28-2012 at 01:30 PM.
08-28-2012 at 01:30 PM.
Sadwalk This thread does not deliver.
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08-28-2012 at 02:33 PM.
08-28-2012 at 02:33 PM.
Quote from AggieMom :
Sadwalk This thread does not deliver.
Yeah, and I even stickied it! Nono2
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08-28-2012 at 02:34 PM.
08-28-2012 at 02:34 PM.
Give it homegrown tomatoes and maybe it will. Dontknow
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Iaaaiws
08-28-2012 at 02:37 PM.
08-28-2012 at 02:37 PM.
The action will pick back up again when the garden stops producing fresh vegetables this fall.
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08-28-2012 at 02:49 PM.
08-28-2012 at 02:49 PM.
I've been patiently awaiting news on what happens next on this. So disappointed.
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08-28-2012 at 03:22 PM.
08-28-2012 at 03:22 PM.
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veritablequandary
08-28-2012 at 04:37 PM.
08-28-2012 at 04:37 PM.
Sorry to disappoint everyone. I put out the trash can and recycling container yesterday and they were undisturbed (and empty) when I got home. Dontknow Looks like homegrown tomatoes were the answer.
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08-28-2012 at 04:52 PM.
08-28-2012 at 04:52 PM.
Quote from veritableqndry :
Sorry to disappoint everyone. I put out the trash can and recycling container yesterday and they were undisturbed (and empty) when I got home. Dontknow Looks like homegrown tomatoes laced with cyanide were the answer.
fixed Whee
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