My mail gets mixed up all the time. It happens on a weekly basis and sometimes larger items, like orders from Amazon, get mixed up as well.
I live on a college campus so students are out of town during holidays or at a significant other's homes for longer periods of time.
Recently, I ordered some soap from Amazon and it didn't arrive. I suspect it was mixed up again and it's sitting in someone else's mailbox. This is during a holiday and the students are all out of town.
I called my landlord and asked if they could open the other mailboxes for me to check and see if the package was in another mailbox. The landlord responded telling me they get Amazon packages all the time but are never delivered by USPS and that he didn't have the keys. Both statements in that last sentence are not true because I receive Amazon stuff through USPS all the time and, on another occasion, one of the people who work at the real estate office, came over and checked all the mailboxes (fortunately, the first checked was a bingo).
The third thing mentioned by the landlord was that he couldn't because checking other mailboxes is a federal crime. I know going through mailboxes is a crime but is this reasonable? Can a landlord check other mailboxes for a package and not be fined/arrested for tampering with mailboxes? Does the landlord have an obligation to the tenant to ensure they receive their mail? The landlord admitted to the frequency of mailbox mix ups here.
Thanks.