This is the kind of note we all wish we could leave an irritating neighbour
This person had a message left them by a neighbour who was fed up with the postman putting their mail in their letterbox.
“You either leave a note to the mailman telling him to stop fitting your mail in my mailbox or I will keep your mail.”
Absolutely charming neighbour, we’re sure. And it got exactly the response it deserved (it really does deserve reading in full).
Bravo!
The note was shared on Reddit by someone who said they were ‘now C.Fey from apartment 39’s biggest fan.’ Us too.
And if it’s slightly tricky to read, here are a few edited highlights…
‘To the thoughtful, but aggrieved, neighbour who left a note under my door written on the cover of my New Yorker magazine.
I have left a note to the mail carrier asking them to please put my mail in my mailbox. I hope this instruction will suffice, but as you did not include your name or apartment number, I was unable to ask the carrier to avoid putting my mail in your mailbox specifically.
If you would like me to include this information in my note, kindly write your name and apartment number on this paper and I will gladly pass it along to our carrier.
I am truly sorry for the grievous inconvenience this has caused you. (And, on a more selfish note, I would also like my own mail put in my own mailbox.) If the unthinkable should happen again and the mail carrier should inadvertently put my mail in your mailbox, perhaps, instead of troubling yourself with the onerous task of delivering it directly to my door, you could just leave it on the ledge above the mailboxes as the rest of our neighbours do for one another.
Thank you again for neighbourly thoughtfulness. It does, indeed, inspire reciprocity.
PS If this unfortunate event should re-occur, and you do feel compelled to keep my mail as you intimate in your note, I understand from my brother in law (who is in the FBI) that tampering knowingly with another’s mail might constitute a federal offence (I share this information with you in the same neighbourly spirit implicit in your own missive).
Of course, pressing such a charge could prove problematic, as you have diffidently kept your identity anonymous. Therefore, my brother in law has offered to dust the mail you left under my door for fingerprints should it become necessary. I do hope it won’t. I told my brother in law I thought that would be over reacting.’
