A Modicum of Common Sense

Okay, so I've had a box sitting in my mailbox all week.... my mailbox being the 16-in-1 variety typical of apartment complexes. The mail-person opens one big door on one side to deliver the mail, and the individual boxes open with 16 little doors on the other side.

Well, evidently, the box can go in just fine from the big door, but there's a li'l lip (presumably to keep out rain?) all around MY door just big enough that I can't get the damn box out. So I took the rest of the mail and left the box for the mail-person to remove and simply deliver to my door. Fairly straightforward, right?

Evidently not. It was still there the next day, with that day's mail stuffed on top of it. So I left a little sticky note on the box spelling out the obvious. And it was again still there with more mail stuffed in with it. This was yesterday. I tried to squeeze my hand around to the back end of the box so I could apply the note where it would be right where the mail-person can see it when they open their door, but I couldn't get it all the way back and around. The best I could do was tack it on the top as near to the back of the box as I could get, then press the rest of the note down over the back edge.

Hopefully they'll see it today. This is getting rather old. You'd think that common sense would have SOMEBODY wondering why this box fails to disappear. If it's still there when I check this evening, I think I'm simply going to call the post office before I attempt to mutilate the box in order to get it out. *snort*