redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)
( Oct. 11th, 2017 03:13 pm)
That was not the explanation I was expecting:

We ran into our letter carrier this afternoon, on our way out to go get apples and such. She had gotten my note. She had gotten a lot of notes, because nobody in the building had gotten their mail in weeks.

The building key that the postal service has stopped working a few weeks ago; they have made numerous calls to building management. We got lucky today because someone left the door propped open with a traffic cone, and when I talked to her the letter carrier was in the process of delivering a lot of mail. I told her that I'm often home during the day, and if she can't get in, she should buzz my apartment.

We have received, among other things, at least two bills; a check from one of my freelance clients, which I suspect may be too crumpled to deposit with the phone app; and a Rosh Hashanah card from my aunt Lea. I may have to look for a partner credit union that will actually let me deposit a check; when I tried last year, I found one ATM out of order and one that wouldn't actually take deposits from members of other credit unions.

(Also, I just ate a fine ripe tomato, and I have a bag of my favorite apples, and more grapes and raspberries.)
redbird: Edward Gorey picture of a bicyclist on a high wirer (gorey bicycle)
( Oct. 10th, 2017 08:32 pm)
We moved into this apartment about six weeks ago, and filed changes of address with the post office, credit card companies, etc.

For the first couple of weeks we were getting some mail, including my new state ID card and , oddly, "we got a request to change your address" notes from our banks and credit card companies, forwarded from the old address. Then it stopped. It took us a little while to notice the problem, because I wouldn't necessarily expect requests for donations to be forwarded: but there's been nothing in that box for two or three weeks, including the weekly magazine we subscribe to.

Last week, I checked with the landlady at our previous apartment; all they've gotten for us is a few catalogs. I called the post office this morning (yesterday was a holiday). It took a little while to get through to the right person, including busy signals in the morning and a long hold time after lunch, but when I did get to the "delivery supervisor for Somerville" she was friendly and helpful.

She asked whether our names were on the mailbox, and whether our apartment number was on the mail. Then she asked me for our names, and asked me to hold. The current state of affairs is that she was going to leave a note for our letter carrier, and I could call back tomorrow morning and see where things stood. (One weird thing, which I didn't think to mention, is that it took us a while to put the nametag on our mailbox, and we were getting mail without that when we first moved in.)

Being a cautious [personal profile] redbird, I called one of my credit card companies over the weekend and checked that nobody had filed a change of address on the card. Whatever else is going on, they still have me at the address I gave them in the middle of August.
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