Neighbor gets even after entitled future bride blames her own wedding invitation mailing mistake on him

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  • A resident speaks to his female neighbor in the mail room of their apartment complex.
  • Neighbors accusing me of trying to ruin their wedding because of their error

    I live in a large courtyard building which includes multiple numbered addresses inside the courtyard, let's say the address range is 119-135 Main St.
  • I also rarely receive mail, so I don't check my mailbox unless Informed Delivery notifies me and I normally don't even go into the courtyard / use the front door because the back is closer to everything.
  • Last Fall, I opened my mailbox and found a stack of "return to sender" stickered envelopes with the return address of 121 Main St.
  • The envelopes were dark e plant with dark gold writing in a very small fancy font, so I could see how it could be mistaken for 131 Main, but it was very hard to read.
  • I brought the envelopes over to the other address & buzzed them to deliver. The neighbors are an engaged couple, the envelopes were their "save the date" cards, & the future groom (FG) even admitted that some of their family members were complaining that theirs were misdelivered because of the color/font combination.
  • Future bride (FB) said that I'd have to check more often once their wedding invites went out, I gave her a look & said "yeah, that won't be happening, you should probably get those fixed." and FG made some "oh yeah, we'll do that" noises, so I thought it was all taken care of.
  • Fast forward to last week, I checked my mailbox and there was a huge stack of wedding invitations that were "return to sender" because these dingbats decided to keep their e_plant & gold color palette, along with the world's smallest swirly font and the mail carriers apparently could not deliver a lot of them.
  • I brought them over, FB smirked at me & said "I knew you'd bring them over" like I'm her personal mail carrier.
  • I told her that I'm not available to do that & she started overreacting very dramatically about how I'm jealous (?) and she won't let me ruin her wedding (also ???).
  • I am anticipating a flood of response cards in the coming weeks & I may decide not to open my mailbox until June.
  • Updated to add: to be clear, I am not annoyed because I would need to walk 20 yards to their door to drop off their mail (it would have to be outside their door because mailboxes are inside and I do not have access to that door) or leave them in a box inside my (locked) vestibule by our mailboxes.
  • What is irritating is that this couple was presented with a problem of their own making for an event THEY are planning, are concerned about, & has nothing to do with me.
  • When notified of this problem, well in advance of the second mailings of wedding invitations, and that I am quite often not around to continue to bring over any misdirected mail in a timely manner, FB's initial response was that \I\ should change my routines and become more available to them to fix THEIR problem.
  • After several months when they could have come up with a solution (for example, in keeping with their color scheme, they could have found gold address labels and had the addresses legibly printed using a non- ridiculous and more readable font to put over the previous addresses on the envelopes, if they were pre-printed and couldn't be updated).
  • But their "solution" was to simply do absolutely nothing other than to expect me to cater to them.
  • An illegible wedding invitation sits atop a table.
  • And the r de & condescending attitude from FB the second time I went over there was completely inappropriate.
  • This is not how you treat someone when you're asking them to do a favor, no matter how small.
  • A guy opens his mailbox in the mailroom, only to find a ton of wedding invitations inside.
  • WTH_JFG If this was posted in that other subreddit, my response would be NTA. /g
  • Houston970 Original Poster's Reply Honestly, I thought about posting it there, but I really don't feel like I'm the A.
  • Simple-Dig-3116 That "I knew you'd bring them over" line would've had me returning them straight to the post office, ngl. If your guests can't even read the address, that is 100 percent a them problem, not a "neighbor becomes unpaid USPS" situation.
  • QuiteBearish I'd drop them right back in outgoing and let them circle the post office a few more times.
  • trshtehdsh Take them to the post office and have them try to deliver them to the original sender again. Another six weeks in the mail process, wee! ETA: Yea they're already marked RTS and could/would probably just end up back with Op again, but it would take up more time while being entirely legal to do so.
  • Satsuki7104 This is why they make address labels that are printed on easy to read stickers.
  • Then Idea_9813 Return them to the post office. Say you can't read the address but they were delivered to your address and they are not for you. Send em back thru the loop a few times.
  • Emergency_Jacket_296 Please please please under no circumstances do anything to help them again! This is practically enabling. If your mailbox gets full, bring them inside and throw them in a back corner somewhere, and after you're sure the wedding is over, bring them over then and say "Oops!" I only say this cause throwing out someone else's mail is illegal and I wouldn't want you to get in trouble, and also cause them you wouldn't be able to see their reaction.
  • _rotary_pilot ".... I may decide not to open my mailbox until June." This is the way.

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