This letter was delivered to Casa de Umlaut last week:
It was delivered to the wrong PERSON, the wrong ADDRESS, the wrong ZIP CODE, and the wrong CITY. For the newbies: Santa Barbara is roughly 300 MILES south of Casa de Umlaut. The only thing the letter has in common with Casa de Umlaut is the address number (130) and the state (California).The next morning Umlaut left the letter for Mr. Postman with a post-it attached saying it had been delivered to the wrong address. I even highlighted the city name with a highlighter for easy confirmation of the mistake.
Two days later Mr. Postman delivered the same letter to Casa de Umlaut.
It was delivered to the wrong PERSON, the wrong ADDRESS, the wrong ZIP CODE, and the wrong CITY. For the newbies: Santa Barbara is roughly 300 MILES south of Casa de Umlaut. The only thing the letter has in common with Casa de Umlaut is the address number (130) and the state (California).
Skychick ran out the front door and caught Mr. Postman, handed him the letter and TOLD HIM and SHOWED HIM that it had been delivered to the wrong address again... for the second time. She told him in perfect English and absolutely no slang or local colloquialisms were used by her to convey this message to Mr. Postman.
Yesterday, Umlaut arrived home from work and guess what was in the mailbox?
The same fucking letter.
It was delivered to the wrong PERSON, the wrong ADDRESS, the wrong ZIP CODE, and the wrong CITY. For the newbies: Santa Barbara is roughly 300 MILES south of Casa de Umlaut. The only thing the letter has in common with Casa de Umlaut is the address number (130) and the state (California).
Once again, Umlaut has attached a note to this letter informing Mr. Postman that this letter was incorrectly delivered to Casa de Umlaut again... for the THIRD time.
Stay tuned. If this letter is delivered to Casa de Umlaut AGAIN I am prepared to take this as far as I have to in order to expose what a disgrace Mr. Postman is to both his profession and to his country! This country is at war for dog's sake! The Romulans are cunning and ruthless and will take advantage of these types of mistakes!
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ADDENDUM
Umlaut readers sound off about their love and respect for the USPS!
Micki (New York City): Mrs. Postman (who completely destroys one out of every seven Netflix DVDs without fail) delivered last week a letter here - WRONG NUMBER (two out of four right), WRONG STREET (two blocks down) and WRONG NAME (What name? Burt Reynolds, I kid you not!).
Jim (San Francisco): We get other people's mail all the time. Usually they're other people on our street or a couple blocks away with the same street number, but we've had letters that bear no resemblance to our name or address whatsoever (except maybe the zip). It always makes me wonder who the fuck is getting OUR mail. I get sick up and fed about once a year and call and bitch to the postal service. They come out and put a little sticker on our mailbox to remind the carrier to check the address closely when delivering mail, and things get better for maybe a month. But generally there's no change.
Drunk Ted (San Diego): I'm filing a complaint with my post office today regarding my mailman. He's cramming packages into my box where there's no room (I can't even get them out of my box). Yesterday, I got the new Pat Todd & The Rank Outsiders CD (2 copies). Cases were smashed in half because of this! It was like this guy was trying to force a square peg into a round hole. Miraculously the disks were ok, but this was completely uncalled for.
