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…