JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Residents of a neighborhood on Jacksonville’s Westside are experiencing mail supply disruptions after their neighborhood mailbox was vandalized final month.
Because the incident, neighbors have been making an attempt to contact the submit workplace for help in repairing the mailbox, however their efforts have been unsuccessful.
News4JAC visited the neighborhood mailbox on Somerset Grove Lane. It appears to be like regular from the entrance the place folks seize their mail, however the again was broken.
A neighbor who wished to stay nameless shared surveillance footage of the particular person damaging the mailbox on Dec. 8.
She expressed frustration, saying, “The present drawback we’re having is, no one will talk with us. We file a ticket. The ticket’s gone. Go to the 800 quantity. They refer us again. We’ve been informed, ‘Oh. So sadly for you, if any individual vandalizes you, everyone’s received to pay the results.’”
She has been calling her native submit workplace with out receiving any solutions. Makes an attempt to contact the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Workplace have additionally been unproductive.
In consequence, she now has to journey to her native submit workplace to choose up her mail, which is a big inconvenience for some neighborhood members.
“That could be a massive inconvenience for me, and I’m not talking only for myself,” she stated. “There are seniors right here. It’s possibly 17, 21 homes, one thing like that. We’re one road, and they’re so impolite to us. They grasp up on us, they put us on maintain, after which disconnect us.”
Residents should now drive to a submit workplace on Blanding Boulevard, which is about 19 minutes away, additional than their closest submit workplace which is about quarter-hour away.
The nameless girl is disenchanted with the shortage of progress in resolving the difficulty. She says she obtained mail this week that was post-dated from November.
“It’s over a month and 36 hours of my private time. I work very, very onerous, and I’m additionally disabled. So after I miss work, and I’m additionally accountable to finish that work. I’ve received pupil loans on the market. Like I stated, I’m disabled. That impacts my drugs,” the lady stated.
News4JAX reached out to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Workplace and the media contact for the Jacksonville Postmaster Common. We have now not heard again at the moment.
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