# USPO procedure question, answer urgently needed

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uspo-procedure-question-answer-urgently-needed/410239>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 2, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uspo-procedure-question-answer-urgently-needed/410239 "2007-07-02T16:22:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uspo-procedure-question-answer-urgently-needed/410239/1 "2007-07-02T16:22:25Z")

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I lost a cashier’s check by dropping it into the outgoing mail slot at my apartment building by mistake. It’s in an unstamped sealed envelope with my address and unit number on it.

If I meet the mail carrier there today and ask for it, will s/he give it to me or would that violate some rule that they have? This morning before I left I also put in a note to the carrier describing the envelope the check was in and asking them to put it in my mailbox when found.

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uspo-procedure-question-answer-urgently-needed/410239/2 "2007-07-02T17:46:34Z")

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Call the Post Office. The carrier might not even see the envelope, let alone your note.