U.S. Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS) handles cards, letters, and packages sent from sea to shining sea. The USPS delivers more than 213 billion pieces of mail a year to some 146 million addresses in the US and its territories. The independent government agency relies on postage and fees to fund operations. Though it has a monopoly on delivering the mail, the USPS faces competition for services such as package delivery. The US president appoints nine of the 11 members of the board that oversee the USPS. The presidential appointees select the postmaster general, who, along with the deputy postmaster general, is a board member. When you have a problem with your mail service, complete a Consumer Service Card that is available from letter carriers and at post offices. This will help your postmaster respond to your problem. If you wish to telephone a complaint, a postal employee will fill out the card for you. The Consumer Advocate represents consumers at the top management level in the Postal Service. If your postal problems cannot be solved by your local post office, then write to the Consumer Advocate. His staff stands ready to serve you. Write to: The Consumer Advocate, U.S. Postal Service, Washington, D.C. 20260-6320. Or phone: 1-202-268-2284.

Living with roommates in apartments

I am a resident of denver apartments and decided to share my apartment with roommates. But when I discussed this matter with my friends they gave me some guidelines to accept the roommates. And I would like to share some of those guidelines with you that would help you to decide before staying with the roommates. Firstly, you should decide with how many people you would like to share the room with and then you need to draw a written agreement that should contain all the obligations and responsibilities to stay with the roommates and get it signed by each of the roommates individually. You need to set some limits and those limits should not be crossed by any of the roommates. To prevent problems, set some limits for the common area of your apartment, and leave a little flexibility so the guilty party doesn’t feel oppressed.  If done so the owner will have the right to cancel the agreement. Some of the guidelines are as follows:

• Roommates should keep their apartment neat and clean. Cleanliness involves in vacuuming the messy carpets, cleaning the toilets, taking out the trash etc. make sure that every work is done.
• One should have the limit with the over night visits of their other friends.
• Visitors should not spend much time in at your place if so they are bound to pay the cost incurred.
• Any sort of damages caused by the roommates to the materials in the room, the concerned person should get them repaired.
• Every body has different way of leading their lives but nobody have a right to disturb the other person.
• One should not violate the house rules.
• Should pay the rent on time
• Dirty clothes on the floor, dirty dishes in the kitchen should be cleaned.

If you consider all the above said guide lines before signing an agreement then it would be better and you can lead a happy life with your roommates with out any disturbances.