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Anonymous — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:38:00 -0000

Happy:

The Post Service is NOT A FEDERAL AGENCY! It is controlled highly by the feds, but it is not a part of government.

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Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:33:00 -0000

What do you think of this?

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Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:16:00 -0000

The homeowner is the one with the entitlement mentality. I say get off your lazy butt and clean the curb. Shovel, pick ax, and salt that shit.

Or move somewhere warmer.

Rules are there for a reason.

I can see how a mail truck can slip and plow over his mailbox, and then he'd whine and SUE over it.

Worse case scenario, the mailman could slip on foot and end up on workman's comp (and MY tax dollars) for life.

This isn't a government issue because FedEx, a PRIVATE for profit company, has run into the same issues THOUSANDS of times. They no longer go up driveways because it probably costed them MILLIONS.

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Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:52:00 -0000

the question is, can you sue your mailman for millions?

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Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:16:00 -0000

In response to the first anonymous:

I'm sorry Dr ER, I have 5 patients waiting to be admitted. I'm not going to "go out of my way" to see your patient with hypotensive shock. I "will never be able to get" to everyone because your patient is too complicated and will take me too long. I just won't come down to see your patient. Sorry Dr ER. It's not my problem.

Now doesn't that attitude sound ridiculous. As a physician, I come to expect the unexpected and deal with it and move on. I do the job I am trained for knowing very well what I signed up for. You have to be flexible and work around the daily unexpected. Not everything will be handed to you on a platter. Have pride in your work.

If you look at the picture, there are tire tracks leading right up to the mailbox. Doesn't look like the ice is a deal breaker to me. And since the mail personal don't get out of their car, it shouldn't be an issue, unless the tires are bald.

Sheesh, must have been a slow news day.

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michele — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:54:00 -0000

I bet Kevin Costner could deliver that mail.

But I don't blame that particular postman. According to his creed he only had to deliver through snow, rain, heat, and/or night gloom. Ice is optional and left to the discrection of the individual mail carrier.

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Anonymous — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:52:00 -0000

"this is an ice block 4 inches thick from the recent snow and plow activity. I would need a chisel to get rid of it."

Ice can be clear, and I'd say is more dangerous than snow. Your reader made it sound as if he cleared the snow but knowingly didn't clear the ice.

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kris — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:50:00 -0000

that's one helluva mailbox...looks like it could survive a nuclear holocaust.

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The Happy Hospitalist — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:38:00 -0000

you'll have to explain to me what you are seeing that I am not. There is nothing being blocked here. Unless of course you think you need to scoop the snow off the grass in front of the mailbox. As far as I can tell, a one legged mailman on a unicycle could deliver this mailbox. It seems to me there is still snow on the street. Are you saying that the mailman should not deliver if there is snow on the street? I see no blockage in front of the mailbox here.

Common sense has left the building.

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Anonymous — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:31:00 -0000

There’s no incentive to go “out of your way” because if nearly every person didn't clear the path to the mailbox, the mailman would never be able to get the mail to everyone, even the few who had cleared the way.

I think your reader is being unreasonable to expect the mail to be delivered when he was clearly told what is expected of the path and not clearing it.

If the delivery is so bad purchase a PO box, or don't use their services and utilize FedEx. You talk about personal responsibility a lot. This is when it should be used. Just as you aren't your patients' babysitter, the mailman isn't your reader's snowplowman or ice chipper.