The Mail Must Go Through
N/AOUTCOME: When, with the assistance of the current mail carrier and route supervisor, I convinced the Postmaster that the "menace" had been absent from the home for years and that no dog currently resided there, he ordered that mail delivery resume.
A gentleman sought assistance when the Post Office refused to deliver his mail, causing him to pick it up at the local branch office. Within days the Post Office informed him that this inconvenient arr ... angement was to be modified so that he could not receive his mail at all; it would not be held for him but returned. The difficulty had arisen years earlier when the client's daughter was occupying the house in his absence. A renter she had taken in had a Chihuahua. When the dog got outside one day and frightened the letter carrier, the carrier reported the dog as a menace. The client’s daughter was instructed to move the mailbox from near the front door to curbside and complied. Within a few months, the tenant relocated, taking her dog with her. Two years later, the client moved into the house with his daughter and his developmentally disabled son. One day he observed the carrier who filled in on the regular carrier's day off passing the house without making a delivery. He asked the carrier about this and was told that the house was on a black list, with delivery suspended because of the menace—the dog that had been gone for years.
