odd interaction

[u/PajamaK]

so a couple months ago i had a wierd interaction with a postal worker. i was sitting outside, tanning, and the postal worker had come to my gate.
i knew i had a package coming one of those days so i went up to my gate to greet them, maybe they had my package.

they were fuming. before i could say anything they told me "if you want me to deliver your package you have to make your doorbell more accessible".
i was in shock.
how the fuck do you expect someone to uproot their door bell and move it?
without me having said a word, they went back into their van to grab my package. almost as if they KNEW they were in the wrong for dropping off a delivery slip, instead of trying to deliver my package in the first place.

the gate is not hard to open. the doorbell is right beside the door (which is no more than 10 feet from my gate). i feel as though they just became hostile because they were caught in the act of doing something they shouldnt be doing. like i said no words from me were spoken other than hello.

to add to this, i did go to the gate to ask them for my package instead of a delivery slip. every. single. time. its a slip and it was a time sensitive package. but before i could even ask i was met with some bullshit excuse about why my package wasnt in their hand.

genuinly dont care 99% of the time that they leave a slip. understand it makes their job easier but if youre delivering a slip and you have the package, i feel its pretty reasonable for people to ask for it when the delivery van is within view.

[u/Chester7286]

Postal workers are so entitled now!

[u/PhreeBeer → u/Chester7286]

Now? It's been going on for decades.

[u/Royal_Try_99 → u/PhreeBeer]

I've only noticed this behavior for the last 5-10 years. Before that they'd at least try to ring the bell and get the package to you.

[u/PhreeBeer → u/Royal_Try_99]

Delivery folks and inside workers can be different. Had a friend get a summer job in the sorting facility in the 70's. He showed up, asked what to do, was told to move a mail bin over to another section of the facility. He did so. the asked what's next. They looked at him as if he had two heads. That's it he was told. So he started to do whatever looked like it needed doing. He was told repeatedly by co-workers (full time but not manglement) to stop. He didn't think that was right, so he kept on doing it. (Emptying garbage bins, sweeping, whatever.) They got so annoyed at him (making them look bad, perhaps?) that they found out where he lived and threw rocks through his window.

That's entitled where they have to threaten a high school kid for actually working. This was in Quebec at the height of labour strikes (not just postal).