Apartment routes taught me to slow down before the lobby

Apartment routes can look easy on paper, but they can eat a whole morning if you walk in without a plan. The part that slowed me down most was not the walking. It was the little stuff before I even got upstairs: broken call boxes, parcel lockers already full, customers using nicknames instead of the name on the mailbox, and buildings where the mailroom key works one week and sticks the next. Afte…