Mail Carrier Just Kind of Hits First Buzzer They See to Get in Apartment Building
UNITED STATES — Brenda Mansfield, 27, was confused why the buzzer for her apartment would ring every day even though she was not expecting mail or company. “I always just hit the button to open the door, because I assume it’s the mail carrier bringing me mail,” Mansfield explained in a post online, “but there are never any packages for me, and I realized the mail person is just kind of hitting the first buzzer they see to get in the building.” In most major cities that include a high number of apartment buildings with locked outer doors, mail carriers have the difficult task of getting inside buildings on their route without keys. Because they are unable to enter the building on their own, a lot of mail carriers have to rely on the recipient being home to buzz them in and receive the package. However, some mail carriers just hit the first buzzer they see. “I just kind of hit the first buzzer I see,” Danny Bordeaux, 33, a mail carrier in Chicago commented on Mansfield’s post, “I don’t even think about the apartment number of the person I’m delivering to. If your name is at the top of the buzzers, guess what, I’m ringing your buzzer first.” Although the phenomenon has become increasingly more prevalent over the last decade, experts agree that it will not end any time soon since everyone is home anyway and being a mail carrier sucks so people can get over it.
