Jonathan Kamens 86 47Feb 24
I just found out USPS has been putting most of Uncle's mail in his mailbox rather than forwarding it to me like they're supposed to, for months, forwarding just enough items to make me believe the forwarding was working.
Important notices, checks that needed to be deposited, everything, just sitting in his mailbox for months.
😡
Power of attorney doesn't work if I don't get the mail and therefore can't deal with it.
#USPS #elderCare #sandwichGeneration
Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47Feb 26
I was feeling pretty frustrated and hopeless on Tuesday, but since then, progress has been made.
âž• A friend of Uncle agreed to take his accumulated mail to a shipping place and ship it to me to deal with.
âž• The ticket I filed with the postal service elicited a phone call from a supervisor who said there was a "replacement mail carrier" who did not know there was a forwarding order for Uncle. This is being fixed.
âž– Unaddressed: is this going to recur the next time the letter carrier changes?
Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47Feb 26
Worth mentioning: the other reason why it's so important for Uncle's mail to be forwarded to me rather than going into his mailbox, is because his usual m.o. is to occasionally check for mail in his mailbox, bring any he finds up to his apartment, and then ignore it.
Before I set up mail forwarding I had to periodically travel from Boston to NYC just to go through his apartment and search for piles of mail that needed to be dealt with that he'd done nothing about.
Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47Feb 26
Uncle is also an unreliable reporter, so I can't ask him, "Do you have mail in your apartment that needs to be dealt with?" because he's likely to say no even when that's not true.
Yesterday when I spoke to his personal care aide she said she'd found not only a ton of mail in the mailbox, but also mail, including undeposited checks, sitting around in his apartment.
Mail forwarding is the obvious solution but it NEEDS TO WORK. *sigh*
Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47
The problem with Uncle's mail forwarding, which a postal supervisor told me a month ago would be fixed, has not been.
Uncle's mail continues to be put into his mailbox at his apartment instead of being forwarded to me.
I just filed a new complaint with the USPS about this.
While doing that their app asked for my old case number so they could "take another look" instead of creating a new case, but when I gave the app the case number it said it couldn't find it. 🤦
#TechIsShitDispatch #USPS
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Show threadFlying Donny for Democracy22h ago
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Show threadCromley22h ago

@jik What kind of mailbox is it? If the mailperson has to open the front of it to deposit mail, you could securely fasten a cardboard-or-wood-reinforced note across the opening from the inside, blocking access to the box, reminding them of the forward.

#lowtech

Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 4710h ago
@VoiceofDuum mail carrier puts mail in from the back, so I can't do that, but the funny thing is that I know at one point the main carrier had blocked off the _back_ if the mailbox—because I accidentally pulled out the piece of junk mail they used to do it with "forward all" scrawled on it, and then I put it back in—but apparently even that wasn't good enough.