Thanks guys! It's dumb not to know how to deal with returning mail, but I had no idea if you could do that anymore.
Nah. Not dumb. I don't live in a big city, but I don't have that rural (or what I think of as rural) sort of mail service where I can raise a flag on the box, and have the mail carrier take my outgoing mail.
When I've gotten the wrong person's mail, I've just written on the envelope and left it sticking out of my mail box, and either my mail carrier or the letter fairies have taken it away. That's at a single family house, though. I'm imagining you live in a big apartment building with those little locked boxes, and I don't know what you'd do either (save hauling your cookies to the post office) except stick it a U.S. mailbox. It's tricksy.
Nah. Not dumb. I don't live in a big city, but I don't have that rural (or what I think of as rural) sort of mail service where I can raise a flag on the box, and have the mail carrier take my outgoing mail.
You can do that just by sticking the mail half in the box or slot. They'll take it when they drop off.
Do you think I have to make major changes to my cover letter, if it got me an interview the first time, or will the HR people look at it and say, "It's the same letter! How lazy!"
I wouldn't make major changes. Odds are they won't compare the letters. Just make sure you say something specific about this job that's different from the other one.
And I've had mail carriers not take the returned mail I've left either in my mailbox or on top of the mailboxes, but then I just toss it in a mailbox.
OK, now to get dressed and go out for a much more reasonable time.
Kat, there's a place like that in Nashville (I think.) My brother was quite taken with it. It had streams inside!
I wasn't kidding about too much posole. I'm one person. I have 25 cups (=200 oz!) of posole! Really: [link]
Um.
my back is aching from the house chores I did today - more than usual amounts of hunchedoverness.
I'd like to do about 2 more hours of chore-type things, but I think I am going to bed instead.
happy happy joy joy, a PO near where I will be tomorrow has an automated postage machine open on Sundays. WHEE! 2 boxes will be mailed tomorrow and maybe tax stuff too.
ok, sara, can you please bring it by tomorrow? we'll be home after 2.
When I've gotten the wrong person's mail, I've just written on the envelope and left it sticking out of my mail box, and either my mail carrier or the letter fairies have taken it away. That's at a single family house, though. I'm imagining you live in a big apartment building with those little locked boxes, and I don't know what you'd do either (save hauling your cookies to the post office) except stick it a U.S. mailbox. It's tricksy.
This is true. It's actually been a very long time since I've lived somewhere with outgoing mail. Maybe over a decade-- I didn't even know if postal workers picked up mail anymore.
