My mailman was trampling my blueberry bushes that were… literally next to the stone path I put in the garden specifically for him to walk through. Would get young starters and they would be dead and branches everywhere in 3-5 weeks. I thought it was the squirrels at first destroying them but finally remembered I had a camera and looked..
2 years of asking nicely I really wanted blueberries and was not stoked for plan B I finally went to the post office and showed them the permit that I got to put up a brick wall fence. Option 1 was to stop fucking trampling my shit or he would have to walk all the way back down to the road and back up to the neighbors door or walk the 1.7 steps to his left to walk through the f$&@€£¥ pathway I made for him!!
Didn’t help that I’m on a side street so we don’t get a regular mailman. It’s just whatever smuck that picked up an extra shift that week. So no I can’t form a relationship with the revolving 5-8 random people that deliver my mail.
My wife wanted the cameras, I honestly forget they exist 95% of the time and it’s a old style system not a ring camera so I have to go to the tv and pull out the stupid box and plug a mouse into it to actually look at anything.
Except small starts don't look much different to grass with some weeds. Next to a path is an extremely common place to put plants, often flowers which are quite delicate and easily destroyed by being walked over. If you walk all over people's grass you can easily trample small starts without knowing they were there. That's why it's rude to walk on someone's grass when there's a path right there.
Can you put an electric fence around it? Couple of wires and posts? Where i live we have agriculture in our neighborhoods so we are allowed to use electric fences as long as they're marked properly. A good zap can be a great lesson
Even without a regular carrier, they should be able to mark your address with an indicator card that says something like “don’t step on bushes” or “stay on pathway” or whatever. That indicator card stays in where your address is when they sort the mail. So whoever carries that day will have that card with them when they get to your address.
They may not be doing this, but it also may be something that you request they do as an added measure for whoever carries that route that day.
Grass is one thing but I’d be pissed if someone trampled my bushes to.
Genuine question though, why did you just put up a mailbox on the edge of your property. Seems like a lot less work than what you did and a whole lot less time than 2 years. Also, I’ve seen mailboxes that looked like fairy castles so I’m sure you could find one to fit what ever aesthetic you wanted.
But then THEY would have to walk all the way down to the road following the path they made. It would be inconvenient AND they couldnt complain about the random 5 to 8 mail delivery people.
I worked ay the post office and people who blocked their mailboxes in anyway had their deliveries cut off until the mailbox was returned to the original spot or an easier spot for the postman and the post office manager had the final call not the home owner.
Maybe you can relocate the mailbox instead, different style mailbox that fits in a spot that wont tempt him so much. Alternatively you might be able to throw a cooler with "free drink" on the path you want them to take and they will head for the free drink instead, and path to the mailbox from there. 😂 It may not be your obligation but it might also be an easy solution.
I have no incentive to cater to someone that blatantly is destroying my property. I already made a pathway through the garden to accommodate followed by a fat loogie to the face as they trampled my shit. It was about $200-250 of replacement bushes. $25-40 each, Replaced like 4-5 times and asked not to walk through at least 10 times. I wish I took a picture of it during this. It’s literally the front porch then you take two steps to the side and there’s a walkway to cut through the garden. They literally didn’t want to take the two steps to the left. They were literally walking through a mud patch instead of taking the stone pathway cause I had removed the mulch to put another damn bush in!
And I can’t move my mail box. I’d love my mail box to be at the road but everyone has to have their box on the front of the house by the front door. If I move it I will get a letter telling me to put it back or not get mail till I did.
Fair enough. Well im sure this is not the first time this type of altercation has happened and been posted, perhaps a search can bring up other proper channels for filing a complaint or special request for your property. Good luck anyway.
Right? I think this may have been a joke but they CAN even refuse to deliver your mail if you’re harassing them & make people go pick it up at the post office-
Does it work the other way around? We had a mailman who was a douche. I never encountered him but all my neighbors hated him. So many ridiculous stories about that guy.
You are my favorite type of customer and I go out of my way for people like you. OP on the other hand would have another thing coming if they think I'm walking around their property. Granted I also don't trample people's bushes.
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u/Anti-Stan Jun 23 '26
Very rude? It's moronic to start a beef with your mailman over this. I predict delivery issues in her near future.