Mail annoyance

I wasn't too surprised to hear this morning the news about Royal Mail losing 14.4 million letters each year. While I don't think I've lost any letters (although how would I know if I never receive them? at least I know I haven't lost any letters I have been waiting for), I see several mis-delivered letters daily coming to our house.

We live in a house where postman can't get to our apartments directly, so he drops the mail trough the hall letterbox, and all the residents (four altogether) collect their mail from downstairs. It was pretty good when we moved in - almost all the mail coming in was for someone in the house. This all changed maybe six months ago, and we started receiving lots of mail where the address resembles our address - sometimes the address is on our street, sometimes not. Sometimes the people are real, sometimes not - for example I refuse to belive that A. Hallway is a real person.

But there are not just four apartments in our particular street address, there are actually five. The fifth one is a basement flat, and it has a separate entrance from the street and a separate mail box - in fact they don't even have access to our entrance at all. Despite of this, most of their mail seems to get delivered with our mail - which mostly then sits in the hall for weeks before some generous soul (sometimes me) takes it downstairs.

So far I've been with the other 90% of Royal Mail customers who never complain. But this news inspires me to do something about it.

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