{"id":479936,"date":"2026-10-29T02:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479936\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T02:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:34:10","slug":"community-mailbox-in-ne-harris-co-has-not-received-mail-for-nearly-half-a-year-neighbor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479936\/","title":{"rendered":"Community mailbox in NE Harris Co. has not received mail for nearly half a year, neighbor says"},"content":{"rendered":"

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — For half a year, some residents in a northeast Harris County neighborhood say they haven’t been receiving their mail. It all comes down to the mailbox itself and who’s responsible for it.<\/p>\n

Cristal San Miguel said her community mailbox hasn’t been receiving mail since April.<\/p>\n

“I tried to go and check for the mail, and there’s no mail at all, and then a week goes by, and I went to go check again and again, no mail,” San Miguel said.<\/p>\n

What should be a short walk for San Miguel to her mailbox in the Sunrise Pines neighborhood is now a 20- to 25-minute drive to her nearest post office.<\/p>\n

San Miguel said she reached out to the post office and her local homeowners association for answers.<\/p>\n

She said she was told repairs were needed, but she got mixed signals about who was responsible for doing them.<\/p>\n

“They point fingers at each other, and we’re just like basically stuck in the middle, and we don’t know what to do,” San Miguel said.<\/p>\n

ABC13 reached out to the USPS and the Sunrise Pine HOA.<\/p>\n

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While the HOA has not responded yet, USPS said the current condition of the mail receptacle does not allow for secure mail delivery.<\/p>\n

USPS said more than a dozen homes were affected, and local postal management is working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. However, they didn’t provide a timeframe for when those repairs would be complete.<\/p>\n

USPS only said it “can depend on the current supply of replacement parts.”<\/p>\n

But the delay ultimately costs San Miguel, who said she’s still waiting for insurance checks she was supposed to receive months ago to pay her dentist.<\/p>\n

“If you don’t bring the checks, you have to pay out of pocket,” San Miguel said. “I want to say almost $4,000, and I don’t have that. I just have two checks right now. So it’s just frustrating.”<\/p>\n

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