Parking blocking mail delivery.

I know parking is a hot topic. The curb outside my house has mine and my mailboxes on them. Mail is delivered between 10-2pm. There is a sign that says do not park there during those times. Of course, at least 3 times a week someone parks there and I do not get my mail. It's different cars all the time, so I can't knock on someone's door to find out who it belongs to. I leave polite notes, but that doesn't work if it's different people.

Where it's not the same person, but different people all the time, do you have solutions that have worked for you? It's privately owned roads. I've already sent out little flyers reminding everyone and I've repainted my sign.

Just how lazy is your mail carrier? Why can he/she not stop in the street like they do everywhere else and walk all six feet over to the boxes? You should start with a complaint to your local postmaster.

Larry,

Postal codes say that if the area is Continually blocked the carrier is not required to deliver the mail. However, they should deliver if it is only occasionally blocked. Note: Continually and occasionally are not defined, therefore it becomes the opinion of the carrier.

Here is a link with more info on the topic from the national association of letter carriers:

http://www.nalcbranch2689.com/2689newsletter/blockedmailbox.pdf

here is a link to the regulation cited in that article:

623.2
Blocked Mail Receptacles

It's now considered a continuous problem and where the last was fired, I'm sure he's not willing to take the risk.

The HO will not tow or even answer an email, so that's not my solution right now either. I'm working on that, but I need to get paid in the meantime. There is not a single rentable mailbox near me and I'm currently disabled, so I couldn't get to it anyways.

I will call the police and see if they have any solutions.

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying.

The aggression on this site is thick.

Is most everyone here on their board?

as a homeowner and member of the association YOU have a right to enforce covenants

you may (depending on local law) try these as a 'deterent'

imo: photograph the violation as c/y/a

https://www.fetpak.com/index.php/parking-violation-stickers-parking-violation-stickers-permanent-c-274_303_309

should the receiver contact you or threaten you, point out that the sticker was affixed as a warning in lieu of your bringing the appropriate action in a court

I mentioned the police because it was suggested in a post above.

Ohhhhhhh, I remember those darn stickers!! I cussed every second of it I spent in the Texas heat scratching it off. I like it!

It's time to put some thick chains on the door as the main offender is crazy. I left a polite note on the window of this car I didn't recognize, after I never got mail for 3 days in a row. Simply "Please don't park here between 10am - 2pm because it blocks my mailbox and I do not receive my mail. Thank you." My neighbor was outdoors in her front yard and watched me run after the mailman, which I missed, and said nothing. I leave the note on the car and the next thing she is ripping across the street and calling me a F....ing B... I didn't even get what was going on for a bit because I didn't think it was her car. Anyways, when her husband came home, he came over to my house, bypassed the doorbell and banged on my door like a mad man. With the note in my face he asked if I put that on his car. "Yes". After he went off, I said "Did you read my polite note"? No. "Read it then", I said. Then I asked if he felt like a big man banging on the door of a small girl over a polite note? He actually fumbled around a bit and said he was sorry. I told him he was crazy and closed the door on his face as he was repeating "Sorry". I could have been the bigger person.... didn't feel like it.

Legal or not, the cops came in here one time and gave a man a ticket. He was parking his car behind other cars, crossing the sidewalk and into the street. I remember my husband and I looking it up online to see if that was legal. We couldn't find anything to say it was, but they did it anyways. He didn't park like that again.

I've heard of paying for the city cops to come in and write tickets. Do you know if your HOA had to pay for the service?

Perhaps it's just frustration on the part of people trying to help you, when we do post help, we get more and more conflicting responses from you. You say your honestly afraid of them in your first post, but then you reply, it's not them it's the property value diving, and then when some "mad man" comes knocking on your door, you answer it? And when he "goes off" you simply say, didn't you read my polite note?

There's something going on in this thread and it's not aggression in my opinion.

Please tell me where I have had conflicting information! There is so much going on at once, I may have made a mistake and can clear it up. As far as the confusion of being afraid, ya, if I put a sticker on the neighbors vehicle that was hard to come off..... that's a little different than what we were talking about before. If I'm just on the board trying to get things right, I don't think they would be quite as pissed off. They are car people. She washes them everyday.... and they have 8 parked around their house. You don't think the response before was a a little rude (sorry John) in light of it was their error in reading? That's my fault somehow? Come on now......

I'm sorry if you do not believe my response to him. In my line of work I have people screaming in my face every single day. I have to respond nicely and fix their issue, every single time. Controlling myself with a mad neighbor over a note is not going to make me get my hackles up and fight back. It was to my advantage to be calm. That makes him the bully and wrong. I never respond to bullies. In the end, it will always serve me better.

But please, show me where I have conflicting information besides my fear.

Checks from workers comp do not have the ability to be direct deposited. I'd be first in line for that.

get a PO BOX at the local post office

problem solved

sorry to hear........

perhaps you and I both have too much time on our hands

Does your HOA have a management company? If our board was not responding, I would escalate it and see if I got any assistance there. You definitely want an HOA board that enforces rules, and you don't want to feel unsafe in your own community.

I would be the squeaky wheel until someone helped me, remembering that you get more flies with honey than vinegar.

Have you spoken to your postmaster to find out if there is anything he/she can do? Are cars blocking mailboxes illegal? I would check with a USPS official for suggestions. We have a mailbox that is not within USPS standards for height and the mail carrier said she has left one notice, and was going to leave a second one, for that homeowner.