Living with Legends

It has come to our attention that some residents of the Chelsea Hotel may not have been receiving their mail in a timely and appropriate manner, perhaps as a punitive measure for being late on their rent.  We had heard rumors to this effect before, but never anything definitive until now. 

In the case we know about, the Chelsea Hotel management – now under the direction of David Elder – had a apparently been intercepting the mail of a resident, and, instead of putting it in the residents box, giving it back to the mail man, and, we assume telling him that the resident no longer lived here.  This was in apparent retaliation to a dispute (we won’t go into details) that the resident was having with management. 

The way the resident found out that his or her mail was being intercepted, was that he or she asked a credit card company to send him or her a new card and when it was never received, the resident called and they said it had been returned to sender.  The resident subsequently called the postal inspector, explained the situation, and said, “I don’t want to make a big deal about it if it’s only this one time.”

The postal worker who the resident talked to replied, “One time is a felony,” and assured the resident the matter would be investigated fully. Anyone with a similar complaint – or anyone who suspects that their mail is being withheld or tampered with in anyway – should call the postal inspector at 877-876-2455 and select option 3.