AN outraged couple has sued the United States Postal Services for refusing to deliver to their home.

Nicholas and Gail Evanchan filed a complaint against the service after a little-known rule made them travel ten minutes to pick up their mail.

They joined CTW Development Corporation in the suit, as they claim their rights are being violated, NBC affiliate WFMJ reported.

The suit alleges that the postal service refuses to drop mail in curbside boxes outside about eight homes in Canfield, Ohio, which is about an hour and a half outside Cleveland.

Instead, all of the mail is sent to a centralized delivery unit at a post office, which is 10 minutes away from their home.

The USPS approved curbside mail in their neighborhood in 2004, but the service swapped the rules in 2012 and decided that mail should be sent to the post office, the suit claims.

Despite this, about 47 homes in the area still got curbside service, leading others in the community to believe they would get the same treatment.

Two years ago, the Evanchans bought a lot in the neighborhood and built their current home.

They were horrified when they realized they would have to travel every day to get their mail.

Nicholas claimed that they didn’t know about the bizarre rule, so he missed some bills after he moved in.

The developer joined the suit because they believed the homeowners should have been excluded from the annoying USPS rule.

“It’s all an attempt by the post office to strong arm us to conform to their policy which again makes no sense to put in a unit curbside for those nine homes,” Chris Gagin, general counsel for CTW, said.

The USPS has not yet responded to the complaint.

When approached for comment, the service told The U.S. Sun it couldn’t comment on ongoing litigation.

MAIL DRAMA

The Evanchans aren’t the only ones who have sparred with the USPS over mail drama.

For the last three months of 2024, a neighborhood in south Lakeland, Florida, east of Tampa, didn’t get any mail sent to their subdivision.

This is because brazen vandals broke into their metal community post box, which is federal property.

Sixteen residents waited in vain for their mail to be delivered to their neighborhood, but the USPS refused to drop anything in the box until it was fixed.

The residents were at a standoff with the service until someone repaired the box.

In the meantime, they were forced to drive 15 minutes to their nearest post office to pick up their deliveries.

Once the USPS was approached by local NBC affiliate station WFLA, they arranged for a repairman to visit the box.

He was able to make the repairs the following day in just a few minutes.