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Another letter from father!-- not opening this one!
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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 622024" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>If he does it again, rather than "return to sender", write "refused" on it and put it back in the mailbox. It's better on two grounds. One is that "return to sender" sounds like maybe you just don't want this one, and "refused" is quite the statement. </p><p></p><p>The other, and more importantly is that "return to sender" to a letter carrier can mean many things, including that it got mis-sorted somewhere along the line and went to the wrong house and the Post Office might keep trying to send it back to you without even trying him. "Refused" in USPS speak is "This got to the intended receiver and the intended receiver <em>will not accept it no matter what".</em></p><p></p><p>I honestly don't know if I'd open another letter from my family. It's a bridge that I may have to cross some day. If I did I think I'd handle it internally better than I did the last one. Of course, the last one I wrote a sweet one sentence note back. </p><p></p><p>I'm sorry you have to go through this. We'd hoped that my family would never find our address. If we move again we'll get a PO Box in a nearby city - researching property tax records is too easy - and be done with it. <em>No one</em> gets to know where I live anymore. After all, the only reason I know where my father and mother live is that they live in the same house we grew up in. I haven't a clue where the rest of my family are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 622024, member: 99"] If he does it again, rather than "return to sender", write "refused" on it and put it back in the mailbox. It's better on two grounds. One is that "return to sender" sounds like maybe you just don't want this one, and "refused" is quite the statement. The other, and more importantly is that "return to sender" to a letter carrier can mean many things, including that it got mis-sorted somewhere along the line and went to the wrong house and the Post Office might keep trying to send it back to you without even trying him. "Refused" in USPS speak is "This got to the intended receiver and the intended receiver [I]will not accept it no matter what".[/I] I honestly don't know if I'd open another letter from my family. It's a bridge that I may have to cross some day. If I did I think I'd handle it internally better than I did the last one. Of course, the last one I wrote a sweet one sentence note back. I'm sorry you have to go through this. We'd hoped that my family would never find our address. If we move again we'll get a PO Box in a nearby city - researching property tax records is too easy - and be done with it. [I]No one[/I] gets to know where I live anymore. After all, the only reason I know where my father and mother live is that they live in the same house we grew up in. I haven't a clue where the rest of my family are. [/QUOTE]
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