Posted by Jeff in ND on August 16, 2018 at 07:49:10 from (204.54.36.245):
I would not normally post about this but would like some thoughts on something since this group more likely to "get it" than urban folks....
Long winded story.
My elderly Mom still lives alone on the farm 6yrs after Dad passed. After some falls in 2015 and 2016 she no longer drives and has to use a walker. She is able to get outside in the yard to put out cat food and bird seed but otherwise she is pretty house bound.
The farm building site butts against the town and to get to the farm yard you go down a side street off the main drag to get to the driveway.
Forever (or at least as long as I have known) mail in this town is delivered to mail boxes placed along the main street in a row on a plank in a few places and some other folks have them at their driveway. The rest use PO boxes in the PO lobby.
Mom's mail gets put in the box group on the main drag leaving town. You can actually see if from the farm yard (or could before trees got larger). It was always the case that you had to walk or drive there to pick it up. This is well beyond her walker range though, especially in the winter.
So, since she quit driving, she cannot get her mail. What's happened the past 3 years is a cousin who lives in town would pick it up a couple times a week or the renter (or his wife) who is farming the land would get it. The cousin has bailed on doing this (reasons I won't get into) and I know this is added hassle for the tenant. I don't want them to be too put out as well.
I am going to call the PO and see if its possible to get the mailbox moved up to the farm yard where she can get to it but wondering if anyone here has had to deal with this and could this even happen? I could get the box on a post so that the carrier would not have to get out of their vehicle and could just turn around in the farm yard.
This whole thing with the mail is just more reasons that my sister and I think she should be in a senior living place but Mom is stubborn and ~she~ will have to realize it herself. Both of us live multiple hour drives away and have own own homes and full time jobs so running errands is not possible. Said errands and groceries are the other issue we need to solve.
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