REQUEST FOR MAIL CARRIER TO DELIVER MAIL TO A HOME OF
SUBJECT WHO IS NO LONGER ABLE TO WALK TO THE MAIL BOX
TO GET MAIL DUE TO SEVERE ARTHRITIS IN LEGS. DOCTOR SENT REQUEST TO POST MASTER, BUT SHE DENIED THE MAIL BOX BE MOVED, REASON GIVEN ( IT IS NOT DANGEROUS FOR THE CARRIER TO PULL INTO MY DRIVE AND TURN AROUND, BUT IT IS DANGEROUS FOR CARRIER TO PULL BACK ONTO THE ROADWAY) .THIS DOES NOT MAKE SENSE AS THE CARRIER HAS TO TURN LEFT AND CROSS THE ON COMING TRAFFIC LANE THE SAME AS HE WOULD HAVE TO DO WHEN LEAVING MY DRIVE. I DO NOT KNOIW HOW TO TAKE THIS FURTHER IN ORDER TO GET THE HELP I NEED. IN ORDER FOR ME TO GET MY MAIL I HAVE TO PULL MY TRUCK UP TO THE MAIL BOX ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD IN THE ON COMING TRAFFIC LANE. THIS SCARES ME BECAUSE THERE IS A CURVE ON ONE END AND A HILL ON THE OTHER END. IT IS ALSO MORE DANGEROUS FOR THE MAIL CARRIER TO SIT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD THAN TO PULL INTO MY DRIVE AND TURN AROUND...TO TOP OFF MATTERS JUST TODAY 02-13-2009 THE MAIL CARRIER PULLED INTO MY DRIVE TO BRING A REGISTERED LETTER NEXT DOOR AND THEN HE HAD TO PULL BACK OUT ONTO THE ROADWAY, THE SAME ONE THAT THE POST MASTER SO STATED OF HOW DANGEROUS IT WAS TO PULL OUT OF MY DRIVE DUE TO THE HILL, BUT THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR IS A WHOLE LOT CLOSER TO THAT HILL...I THINK IF THIS CARRIER IS A QUALIFIED DRIVER HE WOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM PULLING IN AND OUT OF MY DRIVE...I THINK THERE IS ANOTHER REASON I WAS TURNED DOWN...PREJUDICE
THE POST MASTER IS BLACK AND I AM WHITE AND SHE TOOK ON AN ATTITUDE WHEN I FIRST PRESENTED MY LETTER FROM MY DOCTOR...I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT MY NEXT STEP SHOULD BE IN ORDER TO RESOLVE THIS MATTER...