'The amount of mail received per day was insane': Homeowner overwhelmed by massive amounts of mail accumulating at their house, Post Master hangs up on them

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Sep 24, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

This person was having a major problem with their mail. 

It's almost the exact opposite problem of what many people deal with. A lot of folks get their mail stolen: whether it's packages or letters, some people will steal it. Other mail gets lost in transit somewhere, never to be seen again. But for this person, mail was piling up at their house, and almost all of it was for someone else! 

That probably happens to everyone from time to time: getting mail from a previous tenant or a letter for an entirely different address does happen. But if you're getting so many letters and worthless flyers that it's affecting your life, you've got to do something about it. This person had to contact their local post office official in order to get the problem to stop. I wonder if the woman whose mail they were getting has started the problem anew at her new home (since she enjoys getting endless mail, for some reason). 

After that, these people made some utterly bizzare choices while designing their dream homes, like one person who "spent $15,000 on this kitchen," then revealed that "It's been on the market for 415 days."

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    Compliance with the post master About 5 years ago I moved in to my house and I received an astonishing amount of junk mail for the previous owner. The elderly lady I bought the house from retired and moved south but spent most of her time here. Thus over half her life signing up to every conceivable amount of junk mail and magazine possible.
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    I've moved many times and it never was much of an issue. But the amount of mail received per day was insane. I live in a remote area, low pop (under 1000 people per town around here). I have a pretty large mailbox on the street. Thing is heavy duty thick steal, plow trucks can throw ice and snow on it all day and it doesn't care. But it's two to three times the size of a standard mailbox. In three days this mailbox would be full.
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    We get the mail once a week. Only thing that is coming in the mail in today's age is a statement that you've already seen online, or some form of nastagram which no one is in a hurry to read, so once a week in today's day in age is pretty reasonable, least for these parts of the world.
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    The amount of mail was so out of control we were loosing valuable garage can space and we couldn't always toss out all the mail received due to room in the can. So, I took a stand and used a black sharpie and wrote return to sender/individual no longer at this address. The postal worker didn't appreciate this extra work load and would leave everything in there untouched. As a result they
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    never checked the mail for new out going mail. Anything addressed to us that actually live here would be left at the post office for us to pickup out of spite. The post office was intentionally being lazy and not following the rules. I only know this because I was enough to actually look up the regulations and procedures for this which they weren't adhering too.
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    Anyway, when I called and complained to the Post Master. The Post Master said they would not remove the mail from the mailbox. I said "Understood. It's a federal offense for me to tamper with someone else's mail. You refuse to take ownership, I have no choice but to place the pile of mail each day on the ground by the mail box".
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    The Post master said what I was hoping for "But it would blow all over the place and become litter and you would be fined" My reply "I personally wouldn't be fined, it's not my mail. However any one that would inquire about the litter I would explain your personal position on it despite the responsibilities noted on sub section A paragraph B stating how to
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    handle this situation. How do you think that's going to go? Your call". The post master hung up on me. Couple days later after the mail piled up out there the postal worker stopped. At first they had one of those little hand claw grabber things but it just wasn't cutting it due to the amount. Also it rained it's off the night before. Each time they would
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    grab a bit of mail they have to carry it over their lap getting water all over there lap. They finally had enough and physically got out and shoveled every last bit of it in to a plastic bin and heaved it in to the jeep. That was 5 years ago, to date I've only received 2-3 items of mail that didn't belong to me. When I write return to sender that mail is collected immediately.
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    Never heard a peep from that Post Master again.
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    vaegren We've moved often enough that I got really tired of writing all the "return to sender" stuff out by hand. Ordered one of those self inking stamps and it's magic. My kids think it's magic too...I use it as an incentive to do small one-off chores or errands and then let them stamp away!
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    glensueand We lived in a small town that only had PO Boxes, so we had to go there to pick up our mail. The Postmistress was a nasty individual. Even though we had filled out address change cards when we moved, some businesses without updated databases would send mail to our old address and it would be forwarded. EVERY time this
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    happened, Brunhilda would cover the entire envelope with a stamped message to update our address. Literally, 50 or 60 times per envelope! One day I asked her why and she said, "I don't like you". Oh, well.
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    IsltSupposed To... I don't know that it's always been this way but in my almost 50 years in Australia we've never had the postman collect our outgoing mail from our mailbox. If we want to post something we had to put it in the public mailbox on the street or go to the post office.
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