Once a friend of mine sent me a Christmas gift but it never came, until 6-9 months later! It was a homemade fruitcake. I was swapping with Kiwi who's in New Zealand and my package never got to her. Weeks later it showed up back at my house, pretty mangled. I had to resend it to her. I've had a few Netflix movies disappear when I mailed them back. I was putting them in my mailbox and putting the flag up but I only did it very rarely, usually I drop them in the drive thru mail drop in front of our post office. So, I got kinda suspicious that everytime I left them in our mailbox here at the house they would turn up missing. I quit doing that, in fact I only put mail that doesn't belong to me out there anymore. Then about two months ago I was leaving work and dropped my Netflix movies in a curbside box in Lexington and one turned up missing again. I hate getting the ex's mail. He's never lived in my house and I just find it really annoying that they are sending his crap to me.

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Nope, I do not open my wife's mail unless instructed to do so, Once in awhile, we do open each other car isurance notices if the wrong name is on top of the address list. We both own cars and have the ownerships registered in both our names as HIS or HERS (Not "and"). This way, in case something happens to either of us, the other spouse can take ownership without a fuss and sell the car if need be without probating through the court. On occassion, the insurance company gets the wrong name at the top of the address. Its no big deal - We merely hand over the piece as soon as the mistake is discovered. I tell her that if she opens one of my bills, its ok to pay it - hasn't happened yet, her paying it, that is.

Our post office is not at all reliable about forwarding (or anything anymore, really), even if the forward order is still active. Those of you who find the USPS reliable are lucky! Three weeks ago, I had a piece of mail delivered to me, addressed to my former next door neighbor, at his NEW address which is 10 miles away. Really, I am not making that up. I can't understand how that happened. I follow the golden rule here. It is "not my problem" but it doesn't cost me but a few seconds to write the new address, or "return to sender", or whatever is needed. Sometimes it is not the fault of the previous owner -- sometimes businesses are extremely bad about changing addresses in their records even after proper and repeated notification. Example -- I live in a house that was owned 2 previous owners ago by someone that I happened to know. For at least 7 years I would sporadically get mail regarding a specific account for them. I know they tried repeatedly to get that fixed, and finally did. SEVEN YEARS it took, not counting the years before I bought the house!