Yeah, the mail service here is definitely *quirky*.
I keep getting mail for strange people who allegedly live at this address. What makes it strange is that the dozen or so pieces we've received all seem to have different names on them--and no one lived in this house for nearly a year before we moved in!
So, the first piece I got, I wrote 'no such addressee' on it and put it in my mailbox. Of course, it was still there, along with my mail, the next day. So I threw it away, since it costs money for mail to be forwarded in NZ, I figured that's what NZ Post would do with it anyway.
But my wife has more of a conscience than I do, so the last piece that obviously wasn't just fancy junk mail she took to the post office and asked them what to do with it. By their reaction, you would have thought she had two heads.
I do like the fact, though, that the junk mail is delivered by hand. The 'Bulk Mail Postal Permit' is one of the worst--and most evil--pieces of corporate welfare ever devised. When we were back in the US, you and I paid for all those credit card come-ons and Wal-Mart fliers ... argh!
I wonder, though, do the post carriers have to buy their own bicycles?