Human apathy
2 December 2006 17:43![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
enismirdalThe apathy of human beings is sometimes astounding.
As this is a student residence, the occupancy changes every year. This means that about 50% of the post arriving here isn't actually for the current residents of the accommodation. Most of the flats just throw this post into a crate that's left next to the postboxes. Where it accumulates for months and months.
I've been getting the stuff for our flat that's not for any of the current occupants and writing, "NOT AT THIS ADDRESS. PLEASE RETURN TO SENDER," in large letters on the front, then popping it back in the postbox. You'd think some of these people might actually care that their bank statements weren't reaching them, wouldn't you?
In any case, there are also some people who throw any post into the crate, including that for people currently living here. It gets lost in this soup of mailshots, duplicate voter registration forms, TV license notices and local free papers, and probably a fair bit of important mail is lost completely this way.
I decided I'd had enough, so sat down with the crate and organised all the mail into piles by flat. Except two former residents, who had accumulated so much lost mail that I gave each of them their own pile! The crate now has roughly organised piles for each flat. Hopefully, someone might find something for them that they wouldn't otherwise had got.
Of course, I don't hold out much hope of this state of organisation persisting longer than a week. But it's nice while it lasts.
As this is a student residence, the occupancy changes every year. This means that about 50% of the post arriving here isn't actually for the current residents of the accommodation. Most of the flats just throw this post into a crate that's left next to the postboxes. Where it accumulates for months and months.
I've been getting the stuff for our flat that's not for any of the current occupants and writing, "NOT AT THIS ADDRESS. PLEASE RETURN TO SENDER," in large letters on the front, then popping it back in the postbox. You'd think some of these people might actually care that their bank statements weren't reaching them, wouldn't you?
In any case, there are also some people who throw any post into the crate, including that for people currently living here. It gets lost in this soup of mailshots, duplicate voter registration forms, TV license notices and local free papers, and probably a fair bit of important mail is lost completely this way.
I decided I'd had enough, so sat down with the crate and organised all the mail into piles by flat. Except two former residents, who had accumulated so much lost mail that I gave each of them their own pile! The crate now has roughly organised piles for each flat. Hopefully, someone might find something for them that they wouldn't otherwise had got.
Of course, I don't hold out much hope of this state of organisation persisting longer than a week. But it's nice while it lasts.
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Date: 2 Dec 2006 18:14 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2 Dec 2006 18:20 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2 Dec 2006 19:37 (UTC)I now think you should begin some sort of overlordy tactic to keep piles nice and neat!
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Date: 2 Dec 2006 22:48 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2 Dec 2006 23:29 (UTC)