Mailbox Issue
I have a three family brownstone, I live in the bottom apartment and rent out the top two. The mail for all three units is dropped in my downstairs gate by the mailman and I put the mail for the two tenants out in the secure hallway in unlocked boxes. My new tenant has an…
I have a three family brownstone, I live in the bottom apartment and rent out the top two. The mail for all three units is dropped in my downstairs gate by the mailman and I put the mail for the two tenants out in the secure hallway in unlocked boxes. My new tenant has an issue with not having his own locked mailbox and with me touching his mail. Am I legally obligated to install and give him his own locked mailbox? I think there are maybe two 3-family buildings on my block with those ugly silver units with separate locks, everyone else does it the way we do. Anyone?
I get quite a lot w/ the street number one digit off – an added one or a one left off for instance. Usually I can find it in the phone book & I forward it – esp. if it looks like a bday card or something. We also have days when the entire delivery is one house off so everyone gets his nextdoor neighbor’s mail & there’re times I’ve opened something w/out looking because it’s a bill I get too. So much for the privacy issue.
I was actually thinking of posting on the topic of mail today– I live in a 4 unit building and about 5 times in the last 3 weeks the mailman has just thrown the unsorted mail on the floor of the vestibule instead of putting it in the apartments’ mail boxes. Anyone else have this issue?
Also, before you throw out your junk mail, make sure there aren’t any bills stuck inside. I find this happens all the time.
Hey DIBS… that boiler thread, while very informative and useful, is snoozeville. Pretty murals in the basement is just a preference. I wouldn’t complain to my landlord if the basement wasn’t cheery enough. Nope I wouldn’t.
Oh MM — my house gets a crap load of mail for people that have NEVER lived there. And I mean a crap load. It’s sort of an interesting phenomenon. Properly addressed… they just don’t exist.
I used this service to stop previous tenants junk mail from clogging my boxes. I know it as Green Dimes but it looks like they are going through a rebranding and also changed their service a bit. I’d say it’s about 85% effective, which is better than nothing. http://mailstopper.tonic.com/
Plus with the carelessness of some mail carriers, you inevitably get someone else’s mail a few times. My old apartment, a brownstone, we all were subscribed to the New Yorker. Did I get the one with the “infinitejester” label on it all the time? Hardly. I also got my neighbor’s Carnegie Hall calendars.
We should also have private booths in grocery stores, so when I buy Spam I don’t have to get disapproving looks.
Recently it has to’ve been 95% political fliers.
Bills, bills, junk, junk, magazine, junk, junk, bills, junk, junk. That’s the entirety of the mail delivered to this address. I also still get mail for people who haven’t lived here in years, so file that under junk, too. That’s about it, Dave. 😉
“Just because he’s a jerk doesn’t mean you don’t have to provide a mailbox.”
Oh, but it does mean exactly that.