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I didn't receive mail since Tuesday last week. Prior to Tuesday, I didn't get mail for a few days either. I figured it was odd, but there have been 2 days in a row in which I didn't get mail before, so I didn't think too much of it.... until Saturday.

You see, DirecTV is sending new access cards out to all customers to fight piracy. My DirecTV receivers know that I should have gotten the new access cards and were starting to warn me. I called DirecTV on Saturday and they said they sent my cards out the 15th, so obviously my mail was getting screwed up.

I went down to the PO today to complain. After waiting in line and hearing the teller explain to everybody in front of me that she was harassed at Shop Rite this weekend, I asked where my mail was. It turns out that my postman (the guy that drops my mail in my mailbox) decided that I was no longer living in my appartment. I'm glad he did that, and I'm glad there is no protocol for checking to see if I had actually abandoned that place. The teller asked me for ID to cancel the hold on my mail. Isn't that assinine? My postman, someone I have never met, can tell them that I moved, but I can't tell them that I still live there without showing my driver's license?!?!?!

Now, the other interesting part of the story is that I got mail on Tuesday (Oct 22). So, this illustrates that if I had moved they can't even hold mail properly! And Tuesday's mail was mostly credit card statements! I'm sorry if you work for the post office, but your organization is a bunch of morons.

By the way, this is Pomona, NY 10970's PO. My sister is dating the postmaster's son, so maybe I can talk to him about this.

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