Postal Customers Gain Right to Sue for Tripping Over Mail

February 23, 2006

  • February 23, 2006 at 8:31 am
    DD says:
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    Hey Kidding, get a scumbag trial lawyer like Trent Lott\’s Billy Bob laywer in Mississippi to file your suit in Madison County, IL. We got a bunch of Judges there who are just dumb enough to grant class action status.

  • February 23, 2006 at 1:19 am
    Unbelievable says:
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    Another fine example of the total lack of personal responsibility that is ruining this country !!!!!

  • February 23, 2006 at 1:22 am
    Clone Clarence Thomas says:
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    Unbelievable. How would the USPS not prove the mail was not there? Anyone can say it was and get a wad of money? Where in the heck were the brains of everyone else on the court? It appears the only one not sleeping was Mr. Thomas and Bravo to him for using common sense. How companies will stop delivering to your door and I do not blame them.

  • February 23, 2006 at 1:24 am
    Big Mike in CALI says:
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    This is so wrong on so many levels, I don\’t know where to begin! For one, let\’s assume this woman was on vacation. Without a hold order at the local post office, her mail would obviously accumulate in the mailbox, so if there was a pile of \”letters, packages and periodicals\” laying there in plain sight, she would have seen it; don\’t give me the \”what if she\’s blind\” bit either, because that would even more support the contention that it was her responsibility to arrange for holding or alternate delivery during her absence; if she wasn\’t on vacation and just didn\’t feel like emptying her mailbox so the mail carrier COULD place new mail in it, again she bears the responsibility–I know that whenever I walk out my apartment door I always cast an eye downward to make sure my doormat is not going to trip me up! I\’m sorry, but I\’m not buying this baloney at all. I believe this is one time when the Supreme Court missed the boat!

  • February 23, 2006 at 1:29 am
    Drewboy says:
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    Does this set precedent for me to sue my paperboy for always putting the paper right in front of my front door, thus resulting in my tripping on it occasionally?

  • February 23, 2006 at 1:30 am
    HAPPY with the decision! says:
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    As someone with an idiot postal carrier, I can say that my dumb-a$$ mail carrier often is too lazy to walk up the 2 steps to my mailslot and dumps my mail on my front porch, open to the elements. She\’s also beel know to avoid the 2 steps to tromp through my flowerbed to deliver my mail. I also often get mail for neighbors, people 3 streets over, and the junk-mail flyers for 3-4 neighbors at a time.
    I am pleased with this legal decision – maybe this will make the FEW lazy or idiot postal carriers change their ways!!

  • February 23, 2006 at 1:30 am
    Kidding says:
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    I got a papercut getting the mail out of my box this morning. Probably was due to the way the mail was put in my box. If wonder…….

  • February 23, 2006 at 1:31 am
    debbie says:
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    If it works, be sure and post the results; I am forever doing the same thing !!!!

  • February 23, 2006 at 1:41 am
    ClaimsGuy says:
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    All this Supreme Court decision does is give some the RIGHT to sue. The Supremes are not saying that this individual has a valid complaint or not. Like any slip and fall case, it has to be proved. Perhaps, there was a mail carrier who left a bunch of mail in front of her door placing some negligence on USPS. Perhaps, she was on vacation and never put a hold on her mail. This is why there are claims investigations and trials – to prove the facts (as best as possible).
    And I firmly believe that this is not the first time, the Supremes have got something wrong.

  • February 23, 2006 at 1:48 am
    Observer says:
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    I attended this oral argument before the US Supreme Court in November. It was interesting in that Justice Thomas was the only Justice who did not ask one question. As a matter of fact, it did appear as if he was asleep!

    The issue argued was soverign immunity. In this situation, could the US Postal Service be sued or were they immune under soverign immunity. Obviously, the Court agreed that the US Postal Service was not immune and therefore could be sued. The case will now go back to the lower court for a trial on the issues of negligence and damages. The plaintiff still has to prove the Postal Service was negligent and that her damages were the proximate cause of that negligence.



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