Deleting a mailbox

Hi, I've set up a mailbox for my hotmail account to put my sons emails in. I want to rename it or delete it but it won't let me. It says 'server is unable to delete mailbox'. I named the mailbox his email address rather than his name because I was hoping that any emails from him would go straight into this new mailbox if his email address was on it, rather than into my main inbox and then me having to move it into the named mailbox. I was experimenting really. Well, his emails didn't go straight into it, so I wanted to rename it as his name, but it says I can't, and I also can't delete it either, so I'm stuck with a mailbox named after his email. Plus, he's now changed his email anyway, so it's more annoying I can't get rid of it. Do I make sense?
Any clues anyone please?
Thanks

Hotmail is having issues right now, that's most likely why you can't do what you want.
https://status.live.com/detail/outlook

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