I like my current mailman—he’s a good guy. The previous one was kinda nasty and I suspect he was a leftist of sorts. My mail requested deliveries often were screwed up with him. I suspect he was messing with me since I get a lot of conservative type mail but I cant prove it. Just a hunch.
My previous mailman/postmaster/whoever was involved was awful. About half the time they just read house number and called it a day. Street or city didn’t matter.
I would frequently get mail for houses 5-15 miles away. Forget abut stopping mail for vacations. Never happened or the mail just disappeared. If someone went on vacation, it was easier to ask and pay a neighbor to empty the mail box each day and hold it until you got back.