So today, I emailed my Congressman (an idiot by the way)

[FakeNoose]

11. I live in the city of Pittsburgh and my mailman is here pretty much every day (not Sunday)

Since the UPS, Fedex and Amazon trucks go down my street regularly there's no need for the mailman to deliver Amazon packages.

But here's what I wanted to mention: it's about the USPS barcode label that's stuck on my mailbox. Every day the mailman came to my door and scanned the barcode label on the mailbox to prove that he was there. Even when there's no letters to pick up or deliver, he still scanned that barcode.

But this past summer I noticed that he wasn't doing that any more. He skips my house when there's nothing to deliver, and therefore my letters don't get picked up. (It's not a problem for me because I rarely mail anything.) I asked my mailman, don't you have to scan the barcode? and he answered, "Oh we don't do that anymore. That program is over."

So now I watch for his truck parked down the street, and I go out and hand him my letters. Otherwise they might sit in my mailbox for days. The only reason I can do this is that I'm retired and home during the day. If I were still working, I'd never know why the mail wasn't picked up.