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Rant: Spent 2 hours trying to clear a mail jam in a cluster box unit
I had a cluster box unit that kept jamming on the same slot yesterday. Turns out someone shoved a flyer in crooked and it wedged behind the divider, took me way too long to spot it. Has anyone else dealt with those finicky neighborhood mailbox setups?
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blair_allen23d ago
Haha, "took me way too long to spot it" is exactly how I felt the last time I wrestled with one of those cluster boxes. I spent a good 45 minutes feeling like a detective trying to figure out why the thing kept spitting mail back at me. Turns out I was just too stubborn to admit the problem was a single crumpled envelope.
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wood.john23d agoTop Commenter
45 minutes is basically a speedrun for those things honestly. I had one where the door mechanism just straight up refused to close and I'm standing there like some kind of mail ninja trying to slide the envelope in sideways while holding the door shut with my knee. The worst part is when you finally fix it and realize it was something stupid like a single piece of tape that got stuck in the hinge. Then you feel like a genius and an idiot at the exact same time lol.
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