Today’s comic was just simply too appropriate to pass by. This morning we’ve been next door to pick up a package, and have had another neighbor come by to give us some flowers which were misdelivered to Number Fifteen. The flowers sat for a couple of days until they got around to letting us know, and the package from next door had been there for a week!
You see, we live on the “first floor,” but the flat numbers don’t correspond to the buzzer by the front door. So, in order to get us, you must press buzzer #3. That means that we’re routinely told that nobody was home, despite the fact that we’ve posted a handy little guide next to the buzzers which explains which flat goes with which buzzer.
D. has spoken with the route supervisor about our troubles, and the supervisor’s response was to curse up a storm about how illiterate his postmen are. It would be funny, except it’s not, really. Not at all.
In our next flat, we’ll be looking for someplace which is sensible enough 1) to have the buzzers match up to the flat numbers, and 2) which doesn’t have a “street,” “crescent,” and “place” all within several blocks! Not only will that make getting our mail easier, but we’ll have hopes of having the cab drivers know where we live when we call a cab: we’ve had several drivers sit around for 15 minutes or so on the “place” version of our “crescent” and finally telephone us. It’s gets a bit old, that.
Technically, it’s not the RM’s fault at all nor is it the cab company’s – after all, they’re not the ones who named the streets. But it is a bit alarming that they have to take exams in order to drive the routes and deliver. Maybe the crescent is new enough (Georgian times weren’t that long ago, right?) that it wasn’t on any test.
Of course, we are counting our blessings. It could be worse, as always. Just up the way from us are the “Park” streets:
- Park Avenue
- Park Circus
- Park Circus Lane
- Park Circus Place
- Park Drive
- Park Gardens
- Park Gate
- Park Quadrant
- Park Street South
- Park Terrace
- Park Terrace East Lane
- Park Terrace Lane
Hope you get the mail today.
-D & T
😆 I had to laugh at this. I understand it is difficult and annoying. (And I can’t believe that your neighbors keep packages for a week!!) It boggles the mind that they don’t have better maps of these streets that have been around for *ahem* years!
“Park” is bad. But try looking up “Peachtree” in Atlanta. You will laugh and be a smidge happier.
Oh goodness, I definitely cracked up over this–and I’m with Lori on the Peachtrees. Being from Atlanta, it took me awhile to get any of them straight. Especially since Peachtree Street changes to Peachtree Road to Peachtree Industrial (no turns or anything, the road just changes names every few miles). Gotta love it.
Gotta love “illiterate” postpeople too. Oh god. So so so wrong.
Om my and I thought Santa Fe mail was the worst. Yep, you guys have us beat.
Here, they only STEAL the mail. But on the bright side – anything that isn’t worth having – we get delivered in record time!
This made me laugh. I live in Memorial Parkway on Park Willow Dr. between Park Valley near Park Bluff and between Park Brush and Park Meadow. Every single street in this subdivision starts with…Park. The elementary school is on Park Wind and I exit the neighborhood on Park York. I warn people to note my street name and not just hope to recognize it by remembering it is “Park something.”