Chuckanut
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DD and SIL use a clothespin to clip outgoing mail on the inside of their mailbox; did it for years. Then new mailman enters the scene, takes the clothespin, leaves the mail. DD and SIL complain at post office. SIL wires clothes pin to mailbox, still clipping mail inside mailbox. Mailman still steals clothespin, but with more concerted effort, still leaves outgoing mail. DD and SIL complain again to Post Office Management. A couple of Saturdays ago, SIL confronts mailman and asks why he's not doing his job of delivering and taking outgoing mail. Mailman says he can't, not the way he was trained. Frustrated SIL tells him to just do his f-ing job. Now, the mailman doesn't even deliver the mail, he feels threatened! Now, DD and SIL have to go to Post Office to pick up mail, where they complain about lack of mail service every time. PS, their neighbors don't get their outgoing mail picked up either. WTH
Let me get this straight. These people would rather clip their outgoing mail to the inside of of the mailbox with a clothe spin than actually send and receive their mail? Is there something about these clothes pins we don't know? Then one of them hurls profanity at the mailman thinking that will fix the problem. IMO, it's a poor choice of a hill to die on.