Mailbox

Mailbox

“You’ve got mail...” acted by Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. I like this movie very much especially one of the scenes Tom Hanks with a small kid visited Meg Ryan’s book shop. The small kid kept on spell out his surname “F ... O... X... FOX”. It has been almost one month, I don’t have access to my mailbox (letter box) not the email mailbox since I moved into this apartment. This morning the university accommodation maintainer rang my door bell. He came by yesterday evening but I was still at the ECIT research centre. We talked about the mailbox which I don’t have the key to access the mailbox. He was not able to solve it right away and need to buy part.

For the past one month, every time I noticed letter in the mailbox I just pull it out from the mailbox by through the covered flap. This approach only works for big envelopes type of letter so small envelope certainly will not work, it already went too deep into the mailbox.

In the afternoon, I was on the way going out to the ECIT research centre. The maintainer was fixing a new mailbox on the wall. Oh my god he changed the whole mailbox with a new mailbox just because I do not have the key to access the mailbox. I thought he will just buy a new lock to replace the old lock. May be he was not able to get a mailbox lock or may be this area does not sell just a mailbox lock.

He passed me all the old letters including the letters for the previous tenant. From the whole stack of letters, seems to me there are letters for two different previous tenants. It is obviously the previous tenants also did not able to retrieve their letters from the mailbox. I don’t know how come they allow their mail to rest there without bother about it. May be they just don’t bother to complain to the university accommodation. May be they have just moved away before the maintainer come to fix the problem. May be they were fed up with the situation. (The box next to the apartment main door is my previous mailbox)