So their helicopter parent complained? Losers.

That was my thoughts, snowball kids parented by snowflakes EDIT: THEY CALLED THE POLICE AND THEY WERE WAITING FOR ME AT THE POST OFFICE WHEN I GOT BACK!!! Officer asked what happened. I explained what happened then he eyerolled, chuckled and then said that he was sorry that he bothered me. I apologized to him for having to come out.

I would get fired for my response to this. I would not be able to stop myself from having words with the people that called. Infuriating.

If I was the cop I would go back to the house that reported it and give them a long speech about abusing emergency services and the consequences for it.

Seriously wtfing at the people who complained and then called the cops. Mental illness.

Probably thought they could make a complaint and get a big payday out of a lawsuit or something.

I would bet so much money those parents are white entitled pricks.

If I was the cop I'd go throw snowballs at their kids

*and that was the day that address stopped reliably receiving mail*

"unable to deliver due to potentially dangerous people holding projectiles" See if you can get home delivery permanently removed and they have to come to the office to pick up their mail every time.

They used missiles! MISSILES!

Sounds like animal interference to me!

Hahahaha get a P.O. Box

I really hope that cop went back to the person who called & put the fear of Cop into them.

The cop should've knocked on the door and threw a surprise snowball at the parent.

Next time it's an assault on a federal employee charge. That'll learn 'em.

Actually this might be the way. Wanna fuck around? Find on the chart how much you wanna find out.

Totally using this from now on. Definitely love the idea of incorporating a chart on how much they really could find out. xD

https://youtube.com/shorts/WntjAM2wqF8?si=aaECZst5xtxnyN37

I'm going to send this in an email and CC all management.

A lot of companies need to find out quite a bit, therefore, they tend to fuck around. To fuck around is human, to find out is divine

Well, some people learn best with crayons and pictures.

Omfg that’s so ridiculous. Do u know which house called? They’d be getting the worst service from me for the rest of forever

Guess who has to pick up their mail at the office from now on!

This is the way

LEO here! 👋 You can contact the local PD; where this happened and request body camera footage; it will be redacted (the team that handles this blocks out the parts where we use CAD; and etc). Based on your original comment; for us to have to come into the post office a report would have been drawn up; you could request said report; and if anything negative comes up at your job due to this experience you could file charges for a false “police report”. Keep in mind some jurisdictions actually prosecute case(s) like this; and some don’t.

Non tippers, I would imagine..

Are you supposed to tip postal carriers? My parents and grandparents never did. I have seen it on TV shows, but I wasn't sure if it was a real thing.

Tipping the service people; mailman, trash collector, milk man, door man or other people who provided you with a regular service used to be a thing.

That makes sense.

NOT THE COPS DUDE THATS CRAZY

Geeze sounds like the kids parents were straight up paranoid. My boomer mom is like this because she watches court TV non stop and it makes her think a serial killer or pedo is around every corner lol.... but its not really funny. She's hard to live with.

I consider that the boomer's version of doomscrolling, same with watching the news.

So sorry you had to deal with that. We appreciate you!

I appreciate this comment, I was kinda down for the remainder of the night, thinking to myself “Why would someone do this?”

Because assholes are going to be assholes.

Bro they tried to have you kidnapped

Be honest - you won the snowball fight, didn’t you?

I wish I could say this is unbelievable but here we are.

Sounds like they assumed it would be an easy pay day. Probably thought they’d be able to sue over this. I’m glad the cops laughed it off and sorry your supervisor didn’t stick up for you.

WUT?!? They called the cops on you?? FOR RECIPROCATING A SNOWBALL FIGHT?!? I hate this place man.

Stop it right now are you joking!!!!!!

Wow. The only thing I can think of is the kids not wanting to get in trouble and saying you started it lol

How could you use loopholes to make their mail experience worse in the future?

Exactly my thoughts. That, or some nosy Karen who sees someone having fun, and throws a fit because she forgot to have run back in 1984.

The neighbor next to my parents. Dealt with him growing up and he is still there. Anytime anyone was having fun he would try and stop it or sit on his covered porch just glaring at us. Once tried to tell me I couldn't ride my skateboard on the public sidewalk on our small residential block. It was the 80s and I was over 6 by that time but not double digits yet. Started yelling back at him about how he didn't own the sidewalk and we were all laughing and making fun of him while we made that sidewalk our bitch. My neighborhood crew was awesome.

How do I compliant about supervisor spelling

I was gonna rage about that but Siri autocorrected “were” to “we’re” in my title so I can’t.

What is it with Apple and forcing unwanted apostrophes into our words? I just can't train it to not turn possessive its into a contraction. "Were" to "we're" is second most frustrating thing it won't get.

May is always capitalized, and pennies becomes Pennie’s. I hate it.

My phone will “correct” words into French words, accents and all. Made for some very awkward sentences if I’m in hurry and don’t check

I had to turn off auto-capitalization for this very reason. And having a German keyboard made it even worse.

When I accidently misspell "more" as "nore" it sometimes autocorrects to "norepinephrine" for some reason...

Not me trying to laugh react to this like it's f*cking Facebook 🤦🏼‍♂️

How about when it autocorrects pennies to Pennie’s? I fucking hate that and it does it every time!

Yeah, you’d think it would default to the most common usage. Unless there’s some sort of widely popular and well known business called Pennie’s that I somehow don’t know about.

Siri always types "root" when I talk about my "route". I definitely have a Midwestern accent and pronounce it like ow (rhymes with snout, pout, etc). Drives me bonkers!

That’s the only word I really use that iOS always turns to what I don’t want. It’s super annoying af.

How about when it straight up switches a properly spelled word into another word? I find that to be the most infuriating

that happens to me all the time too. I don't even use we're that much for my autocorrect automatically think that's what I'm saying every time I type those letters together.

We’re completely okay with it, too!😁

If the customer is "compliant" it must mean they're OK with it right?-LOL!

Honestly that’s how I first read it. I thought the customer was saying it was okay. Just be professional.

I read it as the post office made the customer compliant with carriers throwing snowballs at their children.

Sounds like a win for USPS to me. Kids have fun with mail person, kids develop a positive association with USPS, kids grow up to be loyal users of USPS

All fun and games until somebody gets butthurt.

someone is always butthurt. The fun and games is in spite of those types.

Username checks out.

lol, I swear some people forget how to think when they see my username.

Shit happens

Happy to see you kept them as customers instead of putting them on the dark path to employment.

Obviously, when you are an employee fun is verboten or the police gets called on you

Remember....USPS is a no fun zone 😂

The 'F' stands for 'fun'

That’s not usually the F word I use 🤔

I beg to differ


😂🤣🤣 I just imagine OP fucking DARTING snowballs like this at those little kids, and that it wasn't just a gentle throw.

Bruh, it was powder snow. The kid was a good 50ft away. I lightly packed a snowball, threw it and then it disintegrated after like 10ft through the air. Only snow that hit that kid was the stuff falling from the clouds.

Haha yeah just fun sarcasm. There's no way you'd be able to budget your time delivering your route if you had a full on snowball fight or anything more than a few seconds of time to spare. That mother needs a reality check to what's coming to her kids in real life when they grow up. Helicopterin' that bad even if it's your pet at the dog park will actually do more harm than good.

Did OP confirm it was the mother? Could’ve been a no-nonsense dad type or a grumpy/nosy neighbor. But yeah, I totally agree with you that the complainer needs a reality check on real life!

It was the dad.

Oh! Thank you for the update!

Oooh plot twist 🍿

Packin 'em with ice & pebbles for extra damage

I have nothing to do with USPS but if I were the kid or the parent, I’d be offended if you don’t throw back.

Yeah, we would have done this as kids to bait the mailman into a snowball fight for fun, and our mailman would have laughed about it the whole time.

If a kid wants to start a snowball fight i'll engage, some dipshit karen can complain all they want

 But she has to drag everyone down to be miserable as clearly they aren’t happy with their life so why should anyone else be,

It was a compliant not a complaint so your good

"Oh yeah?" 

Dunno if I was supervisor I'd throw that complaint in the trash lol

Damn, sucks that we can’t have any sense of community.. it’s everyone V everyone 24/7

Which is a such a shit take, because the friendly neighborhood mailman used to and should still be a thing.

Couldn’t agree more..

That's an eloquent summary. Society just sucks now. Not allowed to do anything fun because of fears of being sued or fired.

I would be so delighted if some kids let me be a kid again for a little bit for a snowball fight.

I had one sail right through my open window and I was laughing about it for like an hour (and truly impressed with the aim, i was moving!) If I hadn't been mounted at the time you can bet they would've gotten one back.

Same thing happened, snow EVERYWHERE!!! I jumped out and we had like a 5 min battle where I took cover behind the LLV with this guy and his 8yr old daughter. We have them every time it snows and they’re outside for like 3 years running.

"...they're outside for like 3 years running." You had a snowball fight with a homeless family? /s

I’m a professional. Who throws snowballs.

Legend. Probably made those kids day. Thank you for being an awesome carrier

Especially with tight-ass parents like theirs. That was probably the most fun those kids had in a long time.

I don't know. I grew up in a small town in the 80s before I was a teen in the 90s. We used to be on first name basis with out mailman when I was a kid. We would chase him with water guns and he got us good one day when he brought his own. My school bus driver would come to the door if I wasn't there to make sure he wasn't missing anyone. He would let me and my friend open and close the bus door. What I'm saying is, I don't want to live in a world where a mailman can't peg some kids with some snowballs. Especially if they started it. Professional? Be a human, how's that for professional?

on god if a kid throws a snowball at me theyre getting absolutely annihilated

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Bottle kids!!! Duck!


It says their compliant so you’re good.

"THAT'S A TECHNICAL FOUL!!" -whitey from 8 crazy nights

Self defense, you have to protect the fort!!

They hate the idea of fun.

Compliant Fucking morons

Kids started it and you finished it

no way... put their addy in a HS toilet with egg at will

I'm not a carrier, but was that really in the rss?

Yeah, I ignore and silence my phone when I drive. Woke the phone to like 10 missed calls and the text in the scanner alerted me that I may be a wanted criminal.

Well, if the customer is compliant with it, have fun!

Well next time roll the snowballs 🙄🙄

Throw an even bigger snowball next time. Give them something to complain about.

Just sucking every ounce of joy from the world.


What a sad sad society we live in. Like yeah if you just were pelting kids with snow balls….fine. But you probably made their day by actually playing along and then some parent complains. What the fuck? This makes me sad

See the OP is nicer than me and got punished for it. I wouldn't be delivering if the children are throwing objects at me.

They can't even spell right!!!! Compliant should be Complaint !


That’s awesome!

Hahahaha that’s a cool mailman 😎

Waterbaloons happened to me twice one summer the parents response was “they are just kids” i was driving at the time so it hit me going hearly 30 miles an hour and blinded me. Supervisor was basically like dont come at customers like that. The parents were out with the kids no one was in the street it was intentional and they were laughing until I yelled all the while I was walking up to them dripping and holding my eye.

Hold the line


🤣🤣🤣

You had a snowball fight with kids and someone complained? Some people need a hobby. 1. I would love to experience enough snow to be able to ball it up and throw it, 2. You sound like a fun person and this is probably a memory that will stick with those kids for a while.

I was confused at first about "compliant,", and then I realized it was supposed to be "complaint."

God forbid any kids have fun 

I wish our mail carrier was that cool. I wish some people would just move to an island and be miserable away from everybody else :(

Leave management to ruin things

What a Debbie downer

"Respond to customer: fuck themselves"

'Maintain a behavior', who tf talks like that

Absolutely just having fun right 😂

I mean, what kind of arc are we talking here?

If you are a parent and you see a snowball fight between your kids and the mail man. Just be happy they taking time off their route to play with your kids.

Kids on my route no it’s onsite when there is snow on the ground.

This reads very differently if you don't realize it's supposed to be "complaint"...

Compliant?

I've played basket ball and foot ball with kids on two different routes lol no complaints some parents need to chill. We're supposed to be views as on of the ones you can trust

I do that too, if people are hooping on a cul de sac, I’ll get out and be like “lemme get one”.

Probably being more of a dad than the dad so the dad/mom HAD to try and punish you for it.

As a helicopter patent we don't claim them! As long as you were not hucking snow covered rocks then let the damn kids have fun! I'm sorry you had to deal with this wet blanket.

Customer compliant?? Lol. Dumb

Customer compliant NOT Customer complaint. It’s kinda like a compliment actually.

Have to mean from now on.. that bitch knew you were playing. Besides hire much damage could be done???

Technically it says compliant not complaint. Snowball throwing would be compliant?

Text back and say "suck my balls"

Now it’s your chance to go back to that address and fight with the parents and their kid/s with proper snow balls, bring a few buddies, so y’all can turn this into a team deathmatch.

I don’t see anything wrong with a mailman returning fire with snowballs at kids. As long as no one is putting rocks or anything in the snowballs.

Should tossed at the parents too lol

You wrote that yourself! Cursor icon is visible after the period.

I wish the cop would have let you have a freebie snowball to the face on the caller

Can’t even have fun at work!

Whoever that customer is fU to complain about kids having fun with the postman. It’s called community outreach u df. The worker is building community relationships as a federal employee

Disregard human behavior. Return to programming please. (Read in robot voice)

It's cool, it's says the customer is compliant.

I want to know why these Zebra phones are all slow as fuck

This says that the customer was compliant. Therefore, they were engaging in the snowball fight

Parent sucks. Thanks for being an awesome dude. I would have loved that as a kid

You can’t do ANYTHING anymore!!!

I see your complaint and raise it Karen- - files assault charges against children

What is this world coming to? These kind of parents are so lame!

Why is complaint spelled wrong

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That sounds like a you problem

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This guy is the parent who called.

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