At work today I found a piece of returned mail to the bank I work for with a pretty ammusing note written on the envelope.
It was a monthly bank statement that must have came back because the person it was addressed to had moved.
Obviously this statement must have been going to the wrong place for at least a few months, because there was a pretty strongly worded note written on the envelope, by I’d assume the new tennant of wherever this person used to live.
The note written on the envelope basicaly was saying that this shouldn’t happen again, and threatened a call to the police if it did happen again.
I acutally found the whole situation pretty funny, considering that the note was like I said very strongly worded. Basically, I could tell the person who received the statement in error was for some reason very pissed about it. A bit of an overreaction I think.
My question: Could this person actually involve the police in this situation? Basically from what I can see, this statement has been going to the wrong address for a little while, probably the bank’s fault for being a little slow updating their records. Why would the police care about this? What would the police do if they did receive a call about misdirected mail?
He could call the police. One can call the police for any silly old reason. The police might take a dim view of such trivial use of their time, though.
As for what the police would do, US mail is a federal matter. The legitimate primary investigative authority for the mails are the postal inspectors. So they’d tell the sap to call the Pest Orifice.
I’d imagine it would theoretically fall under harassment, if they continued sending it despite efforts to get it stopped. Here’s part of the CT definition of 2nd degree harassment:
I think it might be difficult to demonstrate “intent to harass, annoy or alarm” on the bank’s part. Bureaucratic sloth would, I’d guess, be understood by most jurors.
Taking care of this situation isn’t part of my job at all. I may think its funny, but that’s partly because it doesn’t have anything to do with me. If it were my job, I’d make sure to take care of this. (I thought the OP kind of made me sound like I was laughing off my job responsibilites. Not the case.)
From what I can see, the bank does usually solve these problems quickly. I know for a fact that they take mail going to the wrong place very seriously and to have it continue for any length of time is probably rare. I have no idea how long this mail was going to the wrong place (I’d guess at least a few months considering the note), and I have no idea whose fault this situation even is. For all I know, the customer never left a forwarding address or change of addres. I also have no idea how long the new tennant has been sending this stuff back, or even if this was the first time. Maybe he’d been getting mail, and getting pissed about it, but never did anything about it until this last time?