A mother of two in New Jersey is having quite the kerfuffle with a USPS worker, and things have gotten to the point where she believes the driver must be “crazy.” Going by the Reddit username Chemical-Degree-5378, the mom posted to r/usps_complaints, explaining her situation: “The mail carrier is seemingly holding my mail hostage because I won’t let her park blocking my driveway.”
According to Chemical-Degree-5378, this USPS driver had been parking in front of her driveway on a regular basis, but she hadn’t noticed until mid-June when she had a doctor’s appointment. OP claims the worker was “completely blocking our driveway so I couldn’t leave.” The reason was that the driver was using that parking spot while she allegedly delivered mail for the entire street, even on the opposite side.
When confronted about how she shouldn’t be blocking their driveway for 20 minutes a day, “She said, “I can park wherever I want,’” Chemical-Degree-5378 wrote. After reporting the matter to a manager, OP thought the issue was resolved, but lo and behold, it wasn’t. “We thought great until we caught her doing it again July 3rd,” the mother recalled.
The New Jersey Mom Believes the USPS Worker Is ‘Holding Her Mail Hostage’
After making a second report, the representative this time said that “there was nowhere else safe for her to park on our street to deliver the mail,” Chemical-Degree-5378 explained. That said, the USPS worker recently failed to deliver a package to the mother’s home because she allegedly had “no access to delivery location.” The mother now believes things have gotten personal.
Among the dozens who tuned in to Chemical-Degree-5378’s post, many were baffled as to why the USPS worker couldn’t have chosen somewhere else to stop. “She can’t park 10 feet in front of where she is?” questioned a user. “They told her parking in our grass is fine, idk what her problem is,” OP said in response.
“I do feel like this person is either cartoonishly evil or there is context op is withholding,” remarked another commenter. “They probably think they are avoiding parking illegally by parking illegally in the driveway lol,” laughed a third.
While plenty of people offered suggestions for the mom to escalate the issue to resolve it with this allegedly troublesome USPS driver, she claims to be living in New Jersey military base housing, making things slightly different. Nevertheless, the main problem is the worker’s behavior, which, as Chemical-Degree-5378 put it, acted “rude and entitled, as it is definitely illegal to block me in.”
Though she says she’s hopeful that reporting a third complaint to USPS over this driveway blockage drama will be what finishes this tiresome saga.
