My faith in humanity just dimmed a little...

[Left Is Write]

A short while ago, my family and I left the house to pick up my daughter from lacrosse and then grab a cup of coffee. Before we left, I set out the food bags for the mail carrier. I also put some mail into the mailbox and put the flag up.

When we returned about half an hour later, the flag was still up and the mail still in the box. The food bags were gone.

I can think of only two possible explanations.

1. The mail carrier is a dipshit.

2. Someone stole the bags of food.

[TheProphetess]

1. I'm hoping it's #1

but it still sucks. :(

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Well, if they needed the food, so be it

I'm sure the homeless, indigient, and anyone else who needs food knows that households the country over are putting food out on their steps today.

I understand your ire, though. It is rude.

But on the other hand, you may very well have directly and immediately helped someone who needed food RIGHT NOW, and couldn't wait for whatever food bank got the food to decide how much, if any, they should get.

[Left Is Write]

7. If indeed the food was stolen, I can only hope

that it was by someone who really needed it, rather than someone just being a jerk and thus possibly depriving someone who really needed it.

[sushi]

13. Somehow it's hard to believe

that people need to steal food in the country that has the most billionnaires on earth, and spends billions on invading and occupying another country!

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. It is hard to believe. But it is, sadly, the truth.

And this from a so-called Christian nation, too. Makes it even more sad. Yeah, run by Christians who believe in the authority of the sword and the necessity of killing to protect made-up borders, but who think that feeding the hungry and clothing the naked and providing for the sick is "communist".

[KitchenWitch]

21. sad, isn't it

The gap between rich and poor is only widening here.

[Nikia]

23. Could be that

In the town where I grew up, there was a growing number of poor people due to factory closings and such. Whenever the city had a bulk trash pickup (appliances, furniture, and other large items.) A lot of the furniture amd even appliances got taken before the city picked them up. I realize that these things were going to be thrown away anyway and the food was going elsewhere. I'm just saying though that people might need things.

[Behind the Aegis]

3. #3

Maybe someone who really needed it took it. It may not be right, but considering our economy, maybe, just maybe, some poor soul will eat tonight. :)

[fluffernutter]

4. i hope

that it was someone who really needed the food if it truly was stolen. i have my food bag waiting to go to the mailman today as well. at least your intentions were good :hug:

[Javaman]

5. Or #3...

The food you left was actually needed by someone that didn't have enough for own family and they took it. .

Personally, I take my back of food to my local post office.

[KitchenWitch]

6. A third option

The post office may be sending an extra truck around just to pick up the food, since your regular letter carrier's truck may not be able to handle the extra cargo.

[Left Is Write]

8. That thought did occur to me moments after writing the thread.

And that could easily be the case.

[Lars39]

9. I think that's what happened here.

It would save the mail carrier having to make trips to unload.

[xmas74]

10. That could very well be the case.

[lenidog]

11. That my thought too

I would think that there is probably employees of the postal service driving the routes with one of their vans. Because depending on the size and the generosity of a mailpersons customers there would be no way that a mail jeep would be able to handle it all.

[cleofus1]

12. it was the princess

nt

[neweurope]

14. As we see there are several possibilities. I just want to say:

Never, ever put faith in humanity. Put faith in some people but never in humanity ;)

I'm German and don't understand why you leave food out for the mail carrier. I understand it's for the needy but how does it work?

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[Left Is Write]

15. The mail carriers bring the food back to the Post Office, and

from there it gets delivered to local food banks.

[neweurope]

16. Thanks for the prompt answer :)

I love that idea. In Germany that wouldn't be possible, though, I'm quite sure of it. I've heard that not even hotels can give the food that's not been eaten to the needy... for hygienic reasons, they say :(. German bureaucracy is terrible at times.

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[Left Is Write]

17. Do you mean prepared food or packaged food?

We can't donate prepared food either. We can only give packaged, non-perishable foods like dry pasta, canned goods, cereal, rice, dry mixes, and that sort of thing.

[neweurope]

18. Well, with the hotels it was prepared food. Which I could

never understand: When I eat at the hotel everything's fine, if some beggar gets to eat what hasn't been sold its not hygienic... I don't see the logic in it.

As to what you're doing I can understand that it's only packaged food, but I'm quite sure somebody here would find a reason to forbid it. I certainly think it's a good idea, though. We don't have mail carriers (whatever they do - sounds like they pick up your mail?) but people could deliver their donations to some central place or other.


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[Left Is Write]

22. Yes, the mail carriers pick up and deliver mail.

[neweurope]

25. Sounds like a little heaven to me :)

I'm one of those people who write 20-page-letters and have them lying around for a month because somehow my day's plan just never takes me near the post office *g* In Germany we only get the mail delivered but nobody picks our mail up :(


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[leftofthedial]

19. this is canned food and the like, not leftover food

[Donailin]

24. Believe

that some mother living in a car with her child picked it up.

Envision it and believe.

Whatever actually happened doesn't even matter. You did the good thing.

[Left Is Write]

26. Faith restored.

We happened to drive past the post office late this afternoon, and it certainly did appear as though there had been separate trucks collecting the food.