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Ll Trying To Enforce 3rd Party Mailing Service And Rejecting Any Mail That Is Sent To Physical Address

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Hi I'm not super familiar with tenant rights and wanted insight on the legality of my situation; for background I'm in Atlanta, Georgia. As the title says, my property manager is trying to implement a mailing service called fetch. This only affects packages as we have mailbox slots for letters. The way it works is you're given a new personal address that goes to their warehouse where they'll hold your mail and in the field where your last name goes, theres a unique code to identify your account. In the app you can schedule a delivery directly to your door. The property manager announced this early this month and gave us a month to sign up but said they will begin rejecting mail 1/10. My concern is if my employer or a family member ships something to my physical address I would have no way of knowing it was rejected. They stated that upon renewal of our lease we would have to start paying $15/mo and anyone who didn't want to use fetch was welcome to use a PO box. Not sure if that means I won't have to pay until I renew or that I don't get to use the service until I renew. My lease does include an appendum on how mail is handled which I'll paste below but I read somewhere access to mail is a right and I was wondering if they are allowed to just reject my mail without good reason. I'm not looking to sue or anything crazy but I just want to know my rights.

  1. As an accommodation to the Resident, Management will accept and hold packages, deliveries, mail, shipments, parcels, letters, and other items on Resident’s behalf that are delivered to the Management office. Acceptance and holding of such items for Resident is a gratuitous bailment and not a bailment for hire.

  2. Resident expressly authorizes Management to sign for and receive such items as are delivered to the Management office. Management shall have no obligation to deliver the items to Resident or Resident’s apartment. Management may refuse to accept any item from the delivery service that appears to be damaged or improperly delivered.

  3. Resident is responsible for tracking delivery of all such items and agrees to pick them up promptly from Management. Management will temporarily store such items in the management office or such other place as Management chooses.

  4. Resident releases Management of any liability for loss or damage of the item unless such loss or damage was solely due to or solely caused by Management’s gross negligence.

  5. Resident agrees to notify Management of any expected deliveries, including any special instructions for receiving and handling such items. However, Management is not liable for any damages or loss due to failure to follow such instructions, unless such damages or loss were directly caused by Management’s gross negligence.

  6. Resident shall not permit delivery of any hazardous, dangerous, or illegal items which could pose a threat to the health, safety, or welfare of Management’s employees or other Residents, occupants, guests, social visitors, invitees, or vendors in the management office or apartment community.

  7. In the event Resident fails to retrieve or pick-up any items Management has in its possession, Management shall have the right to dispose of such items by discarding them, delivering them to the Resident’s apartment, returning them to the shipper, giving them away, or any other method selected at Management’s sole discretion.

  8. Resident acknowledges that he or she shall be solely liable for any loss or damages due to Resident’s failure to pick-up the item delivered to or received by Management on Resident’s behalf. Resident agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Management and Management’s employees from any demands, claims, lawsuits, or liability to the shipper or delivery service for loss or damage to items received by Management on Resident’s behalf.

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