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From: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Filing a Complaint
Message-ID: <1151@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 12:34:37 EST
Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.1151
Posted: Mon Jan 20 12:34:37 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 21-Jan-86 07:46:42 EST
References: <42400010@gypsy.UUCP> <1733@hammer.UUCP> <457@milano.UUCP> <1781@cbosgd.UUCP>
Reply-To: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman)
Organization: StrongPoint Systems, Inc. (guest of Ohio State U.)
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In article <1781@cbosgd.UUCP> mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) writes:
>Big deal.  Perhaps it's just Columbus, but we get the worst mail service
>I've ever seen here.
>
>[Various horror stories]

I also live in Columbus and have noticed two things that bug me:

1)	I have at least three different mail carrier delivering to my house,
	and they apparently follow different routes, so I almost never know
	when to expect my mail (I work at home -- imagine if your company
	could get it's daily mail delivery anytime between 10am and 4pm), so
	if I want to leave for lunch and there are things to sign for, I'm
	S.O.L.

2)	I get lots and lots of mail everyday.  My house has a rather standard,
	small residential type mailbox with two little arms underneath for
	magazines, etc.  They generally cram all the mail into the box and
	skewer my magazine covers on the little arms, puncturing and tearing
	the covers.  All the large envelopes are folded in half and stuffed in
	with the mail, not the magazines.  (Maybe I'm compulsive, but I find
	folded and wrinkled literature and so forth very annoying.)  

	I want to build a plywood box large enough to hold the largest mail
	I get, and deep enough to hold three or four days worth of the amount
	of mail I usually get.  Friends tell me that it is illegal to deliver
	to a mailbox not certified by theGrand PooBah General in DC, so if
	I put up my own box, I would have to pick up my mail at the PO.  
	Is this true?  If I were to submit blueprints to DC for approval, I
	would probably have retired by the time I got a response.

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Mark D. Freeman                     Guest account at The Ohio State University
StrongPoint Systems, Inc.				    mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP
209 Olentangy Street					  Mdf@Ohio-State.CSNET
Columbus, OH  43202-2340		       Mdf%Ohio-State@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA
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