Neighbors in a Jacksonville subdivision are angry after surveillance video showed a mail carrier throwing a package on a neighbor's walk way.
“She walked up to right where the path starts and plopped the box down,” neighbor Chris Meick said.
Medick and his family posted the video to Facebook over the weekend and other neighbors said they have had similar problems.
“We were flabbergasted and taken aback by the number of people who responded saying this had happened to (them),” Medick said.
Another neighbor, Angela Agarwal, said she found her packages at the end of her driveway.
“My husband actually has just read it on Facebook and was showing me video of someone else's package that got tossed, and here we pull up by our driveway and ours is down by our street,” Agarwal said.
Neighbors posted pictures of their packages left near a pathway and some left by the street.
They said it would take someone only a few more steps to put it down near their porch, where they believe there would be less chance of theft.
“Our front door's not that far from the street,” Argawal said.
Medick said he hopes the behavior stops. He said he didn’t have anything fragile in the package, but next time he might and doesn’t want his deliveries ruined.
Action News Jax contacted the U.S. Postal Service to ask what its protocol is for delivering packages.
They sent us a statement that reads:
The Postal Service is committed to providing outstanding service to its customers and postal employees take great pride in their work delivering for the American public. The vast majority of the more than four billion packages shipped using the U.S. Postal Service each year arrive swiftly, safely and intact. However, even one mishandled package is unacceptable and does not reflect the careful efforts of the thousands of professional, dedicated carriers and clerks in our workforce. The Postal Service takes the concerns of these customers very seriously and local management is researching the matter. We apologize to the customers in the North Creek Subdivision and will take appropriate measures to ensure this isolated incident does not occur again."
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