Legal Question in Constitutional Law in Florida

Hello,

In June a package was delivered to my post office. The package was placed in locker 12. I didn't know about the package until a note was placed in my po box. The note says that my mail is in locker 21 and I can retrieve it when I return the key. I never got the key or I would have gotten the package that has been there for 5 months. They would not give my wife our mail or tha package until we return the key. Isn't this illegal? Holding my mail hostage for a ransom of the key that they lost? Don't I have some kind of a right to private communications being with held? Is there some federal law involved here that prevents them from misdirecting mail?


Asked on 11/17/09, 10:31 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Alan Wagner Wagner, McLaughlin & Whittemore P.A.

When you say "your post office," it is not clear whether you mean the US post office or a private company that receives your mail. If private, check your contract. If this is the US post office, I would speak to a supervisor. They cannot hold you mail as you have described it.

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Answered on 11/22/09, 2:36 pm


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