We happen to be an unpopular route for carriers - it's longer than it should be, so anyone with the least seniority gets to avoid doing it, and so we're stuck with whichever lucky person happens to be in the bottom of the ladder that day. As a result, we've had all sorts of trouble, from at one point most of my letters being returned to sender (which I realized after my credit card called me to ask me where did I move to and how come I didn't tell them) to packages missing with no way to trace on whose watch they may have gone away. Because I'm in the suburbia where packages don't tend to get stolen by random passers-by, odds are it's the carriers who took them for a walk, too, although there's always a chance that one of the local kids might have gotten bored. The number of times that a slip (or a package) gets attached to the door without so much as a knock is staggering - I'm usually home in daytime, my computer room is positioned such that I can usually hear the screen being opened, so if I miss a delivery, odds are they didn't bother to knock nor even to stick the note where it would be more protected from the elements.
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