NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Residents of a Bronx building say they haven’t been getting their mail lately, and they say were told it is all because the postal carrier is too short to reach the mailboxes.

As CBS2’s Dave Carlin reported, the mail has been missing for every tenant in the building on Aldus Street. One resident, Lynette Hargrove, came to the local Post Office to find out why and said she was shocked by the supervisor’s answer.

“The mail carrier is too short to deliver,” Hargrove said.

Hargrove knows the carrier, who several tenants said has been delivering their mail for a year. For some reason two weeks ago, that changed.

Hargrove estimates that she and the mail carrier are the same height — 5 foot 2 — and does not understand why the carrier can’t reach.

“I suggested a step stool,” she said. “They said it was too dangerous for her.”

CBS2 found the letter carrier, and Carlin asked her if she could not reach. She declined to comment.

“The Post Office will give you all that information,” she said.

The carrier was on the block, but she skipped Hargrove’s building. When asked if the tenants there were going to get their mail, she again said, “You’re going to have to speak to the Post Office.” Read More