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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Neither_Half4776 on 2023-08-10 16:53:33.
I just moved to the United States from Canada for work. My dad was from the States so I have dual citizenship. However, other than vacations and family visits I have always lived in Canada.
I am renting a house in a nice neighborhood. My dogs and I like it here. Except for my neighbor. He is odd. I guess he was friends with the previous tenant. And he keeps taking my mail.
I have caught him on my security camera. He will come and grab all the mail and then come back later and put my mail back. I went over to ask him about it and he said that the previous tenant had asked him to please grab his mail for him. I said that was nice of him but that I would appreciate if he could please leave my mail alone. I wasn’t rude or anything I don’t think. He said that he was friends with the guy and that he made a promise. I had a solution. I said that I would bring in all my mail from the mailbox and then put his friend’s mail in his after I sorted it. For some reason this wasn’t acceptable. I was going to even offer to let him look through the mail on my step and take his friend’s stuff and leave my mail in my box without taking it with him. Until he said he didn’t want a stranger putting stuff in his mailbox. The lack of self awareness was sickening. I told him to stay off my property or I would be upset. Then I left.
He did it again. I went to the post office to see if I could get his friend’s mail forwarded to his address or to see if the change of address form was not processed. I just didn’t want this guy taking my mail.
And that is when I found out that stealing mail is a serious crime down here. The USPS actually has their own cops. And that stealing mail is a serious crime.
My neighbor came over again yesterday to apologize and to promise that he would not take my mail again and to ask me to talk to his lawyer and explain that he never kept any of my mail.
I said that I would. I was talking to my dad bout it all and he said I was kind of mean to get this guy in trouble for doing his friend s favour. I said that I thought the guy was rude and I didn’t know if he was giving me back everything he took. What if he took my credit cards or official records or medical stuff or something.
My mom is Canadian so she thinks I should have been nicer. I thought I had been.
The previous people in our house never bothered to forward any of their crap so it kept showing up for more than a year. I started getting past due bills for one of the people. I wrote “Moved” on envelopes and they would still show up. I knew where they moved so I wrote the person’s new address on the mail so they could start getting their past due unpaid parking ticket bills.
