Reporter, I would tell the post office that THEY can pay your bills when you get them late and then owe late fees! I would be flaming mad! Perhaps we need to get a CW posse together!
Michelle, just go up the chain. Talk to the local postmaster. Then you can go regional, district, state, and national. Offer options. Perhaps if you install a mailbox at the entrance of the neighborhood they will deliver mail there.
Do they walk to deliver your mail?
Do they walk to deliver your mail?
You can try the above but wouldn't hold your breath took us 6+ years to get rid of our bad mail person. Another option, that might sound drastic, is get your House of Representatives office involved that's what finally worked after a year or 2. Maybe suggest that they buy him some boots as an "accommodation" for his "inability" to walk on snow or 2 inches of water. :snort:
They do walk to deliver all the mail in the area. The walkway to get to our home from the street is a sidewalk that is technically half owned by each of the two homeowners whose homes face the street. It is 30-40 feet from the street to our townhome area, and the patch of ice/snow is about 5 feet long. Those homeowners never walk on the sidewalk, so even if there wasn't water they never shovel it. We do sometimes, such as the year there was a blizzard.
There would be nowhere to put a set of mailboxes near the street without being on one person or the other's property.
The mail is apparently being delivered to other townhome groups on our block, which is more than 10 groups of 12 homes, that are identical to ours.
I will call at around 9 if I can get caught up with stuff for my job. Not like the weather conditions are going to be getting better over the next several days. How long do they think is acceptable to not deliver mail?
There is another way into our townhome area, from the parking lot, which is also often icy but is presently in better condition than the front, where the mail carrier usually walks
I just can't see how postal standards would permit not delivering mail for 4+ mail days due to ice/water on sidewalk.
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Ennui, so sorry. Dh and I had a black cloud hanging over us for about 4 years with lots of bad stuff happening. It will pass, but it's difficult times until it does. Hang in there.
Reporter, I would get on the phone and start rattling cages. That is ridiculous. I would ask that they explain what has changed after all these years. Complain to the Postal Inspection Service, they seem to respond.
Dd's dream school is DePaul. I told her to plan to do her graduate work there and do undergrad where we can get a good chunk of change. I just don't think they will offer enough $$$. WIU is about half of all the other schools and Millikin has offered scholarship money that equals about half the tuition so the cost is about the same with WIU. We just have to wait to see what major/minors they will let her pursue.
There is a mom on the Today Show who is an organization expert. She is cracking me up. She just said to throw away kids trophies...when the whole group gets a trophy, they didn't earn the trophy, they got it for breathing. :snort:
I'm probably cracking up because I told DD8 the other day when she was having an entire day of "Mommy, look at me, I got dressed! (etc.)" "DD, I am not going to celebrate the fact that you are breathing." :lol: (I'm not a total ****. I do praise school work, good school behavior and kindness.
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I'm probably cracking up because I told DD8 the other day when she was having an entire day of "Mommy, look at me, I got dressed! (etc.)" "DD, I am not going to celebrate the fact that you are breathing." :lol: (I'm not a total ****. I do praise school work, good school behavior and kindness.
)DS15's Bio-Dad is an idiot. He lives in AZ and was supposed to fly DS out there for Spring Break. Gave him the dates way back in early December. He calls this morning complaining about the cost of tickets and that he can't use the voucher bc of black out dates, blah, blah, blah. UMMM, no ****, it's 4 weeks away and it's Spring Break, Of course tickets are going to be $800. Not my problem. Looks like I'll have a crabby 15 year old staying home for Spring Break and I get to explain why.
We had that problem for a while at our old house Reporter, you are fighting a losing battle. You can pick your mail up at 4 usually that's the bottom line in most cases. They just won't deliver. That sucks :huggy:
This is one of my peeves. We (primary parents) HAVE TO make the kids available to the other parent, but they DO NOT have to take them. It's such ridiculousness. I cannot tell you the last time DD14 went to her dad's for the weekend. Could you imagine not seeing your kid regularly? I could not. I still don't plan stuff on "his weekends," even though she doesn't go.
The kids mom also picks and chooses when she wants the kids. And she doesn't live far from here. Yet she won't change the schedule. I think she just likes the power of it - power over the kids, power over our time.
Yet another in the long list of ways that she's a ****...
I need to needlepoint a sampler listing all the ways...
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Yet another in the long list of ways that she's a ****...
I need to needlepoint a sampler listing all the ways...
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It's amazing how regular eating kind of kids can be transformed into fairly nonpicky eat whatever types. We have had so many new foods in the past month and the kids have been eating them. The key really is to not make it an option. It's this or nothing today, tomorrow, the next day, etc.... They really will eat whatever you give them when they are hungry. Yesterday they had chickpeas (put thru a food processor) made into humus put on a corn tortilla with cucumbers and tomatoes. "Dessert" was apples with peanut butter. Today lunch is tuna (in water, drained), mashed chickpeas, olive oil, garlic powder, and diced onion mixed up and spread on bread then topped with lettuce and tomatoes. They used to hate "real" tomatoes. On the side they are getting celery topped with peanut butter. They're eating it up. I think one key thing is that the whole family is eating like this.
I think one key thing is that the whole family is eating like this.It's amazing how regular eating kind of kids can be transformed into fairly nonpicky eat whatever types. We have had so many new foods in the past month and the kids have been eating them. The key really is to not make it an option. It's this or nothing today, tomorrow, the next day, etc.... They really will eat whatever you give them when they are hungry. Yesterday they had chickpeas (put thru a food processor) made into humus put on a corn tortilla with cucumbers and tomatoes. "Dessert" was apples with peanut butter. Today lunch is tuna (in water, drained), mashed chickpeas, olive oil, garlic powder, and diced onion mixed up and spread on bread then topped with lettuce and tomatoes. They used to hate "real" tomatoes. On the side they are getting celery topped with peanut butter. They're eating it up.
I totally agree. I wish I'd never started catering to my original kids, the new ones eat (pretty much) whatever I make. It's awesome. The boy might not eat a heaping plate full of veggies, but he will eat some. He even falls hook, line & sinker for the old "you can finish it tonight, or have it for breakfast tomorrow" routine. Gobble, gobble. :lol:
Our neighbor called earlier wondering if he could take DS15 out plowing with him later because his normal shoveler isn't available. Of course I said "Sure, he wants money, this is perfect." DS just got home from school and is all pissed that I agreed to that without consulting him first. I don't get the mind of teens. I want to buy a car but I don't want to earn the money to buy the car. Grrrrr.
Years ago there were always kids walking around with shovels during or after a storm looking to make some money by shoveling steps, walkways, driveways. I can't remember the last time that happened.
Lazy ****s.
I think 13-15 is the worst age. It's worse than the "terrible two's" because at least when they are two, they are TWO.
Enjoy the peace & quiet while he's out shoveling, Val. :snicker:
PS...I am KICKING myself because I forgot to get cash back at the grocery store to pay the first kid who comes by with a shovel. **** it!
PSS...if anyone in the Mokena area has a teenager who wants to earn some $$, please PM me.
Enjoy the peace & quiet while he's out shoveling, Val. :snicker:
PS...I am KICKING myself because I forgot to get cash back at the grocery store to pay the first kid who comes by with a shovel. **** it!
PSS...if anyone in the Mokena area has a teenager who wants to earn some $$, please PM me.
TRIPLE ****! This day is sucking. DH went for his physical to start a temp job and his ECG was abnormal...so not only are they reporting it to the temp company but he had to go get a release from the PCP. The PCP didn't think it was a big deal but still we don't need issues like this right now...now DH fears he won't get the temp job. Praying that everything works out in the end!
Borrow from your DD? :lol:
He told me he didn't want to go with the neighbor because he & a buddy were going to go walk around the neighborhood and ask to shovel driveways. Mind you, he did that last week when it snowed and came home with empty pockets. Going with the neighbor is guaranteed $$$$$. SMH.
