Rodents Ransacking Packages at Post Office

A trip to the post office just became even more dreadful than usual! NY1 reports that residents of Brevoort East in Greenwich Village are complaining about rodent bites in their packages coming from their local Cooper Station Post Office on 4th Avenue.

One woman had her Costa Rican coffee beans noshed on by the critters, and says "twice it’s happened that I’ve gotten a call from the front desk to say that the package has arrived and has been eaten by rodents, with the beans even spilling out." They even claim there are often rat droppings inside of the packages. And just imagine how packages being sent out may be arriving at their destinations!

So what does the USPS have to say? In person, one unhappy customer says she was laughed at and told: "This is nothing! Wait until the holidays. These guys love chocolate." In a statement to NY1, however, they took on a more serious tone, saying, "We have a contract with a licensed pest control service to inspect and treat Cooper Station and post offices throughout the city on a regular basis. Records indicate, Cooper Station was last serviced on November 18th and no rodent activity was reported." Except they have been reported! Once the heat was on, the network says the pest control company was called in again.

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By Jen Carlson in News on December 11, 2009 12:05 PM

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Dead Himmler

I'm going to send multiple packages of poison cheese to myself.

Bike Rider

i wish rats really looked like that

zodak

love the photoshop.

robingee

If it's Emil then I'm OK with it.

littlepinkknife

My mail at work goes through Cooper Station and a few years back a friend sent me a small pack of wafer cookies in the mail. When they arrived the corner of the envelope had been chewed open and part of the cookie had been eaten! Little serrated crescent shapes - teeth marks!

felixthecat2

Wait until the holidays. These guys love chocolate. sweet. Rats are cleaning our trash and now they inspecting the mail for contrabands. Sweet babies.

Chillinoncentral

I suppose they will now need to get a few cats... Great - another reason for postal

rat(e)s to multiply.

PTG in nyc

Per #1, good point. Next they'll start smoking crack and really be strung out! Although you keep ripping on Felix (I guess you're Valeriob?), it appears as though the USPS could really use a cat these days. However I'm sure Felix is against cats murdering rodents.

When I used to open up for the restaurant I worked at 5 years ago, the exterminator would come once every 2 weeks and be like "Why doesn't your boss have me come earlier in the morning before the lights are on and you first get here?"

Basically, any idiot will say there are no rodents and vermin because they scamper at the first sign of human activity, thus allowing those in charge to say there's nothing to worry about. The guy I worked for was actually responsible when it came to this stuff, but everybody seems to be willing to look the other way as though vermin don't thrive at night when no one is around.

felixthecat2

I'm ok with cats eating rodents. That's nature. What is sickening are those inhumane traps and poison. Plain Cruel. HUmans need to be Cleaner. "rats are only doing their jobs.

felixthecat0

Cats don't eat rodents silly bear. They kill them. They would die if they did.

felixthecatSUX

Rats eating coffee beans out straight out of the bag... This does not bode well

Charlie in Bridgewater, NJ

I found this thread of discussion after coming down into my main home level this morning to the sound of bottles clinking together. An investigation revealed that a mouse had been feasting on my Donut Shop k-cups (for my Keurig coffee machine). I know that coffee beans are sort of nuts but had not known of their allure for rodents. In any case, reading of the problems that others are having helped alleviate my dismay. Rather than think of the cruelty of various anti-rodent devices, I am more thinking of the cruelty of rodents eating our coffee. Also, now the decision of whether and how to inform my wife (who is afraid of ants) about this! By the bye, Bridgewater (where I am) is about 45 minutes out of the Holland Tunnel (halfway to Pennsylvania). Let me assure you though, I consider myself a native New Yorker (having arrived in Park East Hospital before it was made into an abortion clinic).