Most people do not bother checking mail every day if it's in a box. But if it's flopped into your hallway, you'll see it.
Why bother checking it every day if you don't get important mail every day?
It's unnecessary. My letters appear inside my house, I see them if they're there. I don't have to go outside, unlock the box, and check to find just junk mail.
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 11:01:33 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote in
That's whey Muslims love to go to the UK and KrautLand. The fit right in.
A few years ago, I was following behind a snow plow on a rural state route. Everyone on the road had a rural mailbox mounted near the road. Many of them were plastic boxes that fit over a 4x4 that is cemented into the soil. The show plow was shooting a significant amount of snow up and to the right. When it came to one particular mailbox, the whole plastic thing was lifted off the 4x4 and shot about
20 feet into the air. The box opened and the next thing I saw was about a dozen letters floating down into the ditch like confetti. I couldn't stop thinking about what the home onwner would think after finding his mailbox in the ditch with his mail scattered all over the place. Vandals? Theft? I doubt a department of transportation snow plow driver would be the first suspect."James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@red.lan:
That's always been a concern of mine. I try to only put mail in the box a few hours before delivery time and empty it soon after - hard to tell so need to guess, depends on carrier and day of week. So far, so good, AFAIK. Also, isn't the US Post Office a federal agency so wouldn't mail theft be a federal crime? If so, maybe helps prevents it, or at least reduce it?
Mail might get stolen. It does not happen often. The mail carrier will also take outgoing mail and boxes have a flag on them to put up if there is outgoing mail. We don't leave outgoing mail out overnight.
Theft problem is more serious for packages too big for the box and left on the porch. Mail carrier as others point out will drive/carry packages to house. Packages are also delivered by other services like Fedex. If you don't have to sign for delivery they will just drop on porch or driveway.
More serious to our curb mailboxes is damage by vandals or getting struck by vehicles. Neighbor across the street has box situated such that it has probably been accidentally hit by everyone in the neighborhood. He's got it on a hinged post so if knocked over it can be set up-right.
James Wilkinson Sword posted for all of us...
The carrier delivers it to the door. Also the delivery services have a deal with the USPS to deliver non urgent stuff.
I thought the flag went up with the weight of incoming mail?
Your postmen don't appear at the crack of dawn?
They don't do that here. They leave min e in a shed, but only because I've asked them to do so.
Mine leave with a neighbour (or they would if I didn't ask them to use the shed).
Or baseball bats.
If I was him I'd have embedded some dynamite.
Not much crime here, but kids are kids.
My parents farmed in the south central part of the state. People owned a lot less ground in the farming areas than in ranch country. Houses would typically be only a few hundred feet from the road, if that. People also knew about when the mail carriers stopped by. They and the mail carriers would recognize each other if they met in town or some social event. Single mailboxes were at the entrances to the individual driveways. Nobody had locked mailboxes in this area either. The carriers would take the packages to the house. Sometimes they'd leave a card in the box saying the patron needed go to the post office in town. A person could leave money with a card to order stamps from the carrier. There was one time that I remember the mailboxes posed a problem. Some fool was planting bombs in them. Postal carriers asked everyone to leave the boxes open. A bit here about the bombs:
That happens every so often in the UK with public post boxes (where you place letters outgoing).
Mail carriers are not out at rush hour and generally spend that time collecting and loading their mail. More than half our mail is junk mail, circulars and the like and has to be sorted into each box.
Vandals probably use baseball bats. Boxes along main roads are most at threat.
I've nearly tripped over packages left right in front of my front door and almost ran over one near the garage.
Thread reminds me that a few months ago I needed a new mail box as metal post had rusted out and new box was needed anyway. Could not find what I liked at local store and clerk advised looking on line which I did and got free shipping. Comical because besides new mail box and post, Home Depot also sent me a toilet seat and barbecue grill mat. I should have kept them but got them to come back for them.
So much easier in the UK where couriers and postmen deliver to the door.
My driveway is only 100 ft. but neighbor in back has 700 ft. drive and neighbor not far has 0.4 mile drive. No way would they get delivery to house.
he outside of their house (not at the street), just to avoid stuff being pu t into the house (because the dog might eat it). They often forget to chec k it (as would I if I had one), because the mail doesn't appear inside your home on the carpet so you notice it, you actually have to remember to keep checking the box.
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if it's flopped into your hallway, you'll see it.
Frigging idiot. How the hell do you know what "most people" do? Prove your claim.
I don't need to see my mail to remember to check it. My mailbox at work isn 't a slot in my door either. I somehow remember to check that mailbox also. Do you im mediately forget everything you don't actually see?
Besides, why would I want to spend good money on a quality, insulted door a nd then cut a hole in it?
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Frigging idiot. How do you know if you got something important if you don't check it?
Do you pick your mail up off of your cruddy floor every day? If so, why? Wh y don't you just wait until you get something important?
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re there. I don't have to go outside, unlock the box, and check to find ju st junk mail.
Frigging idiot. I guess if they ever let you out of your slimy house, you'd realize that you you can actually check the mail on the way back in, like maybe when you com e home from work. Wait. Work? You? Ha! Maybe when you come home from buying booze with your food stamps.
If you didn't live in a slum, you'd realize that not everyone has to lock t heir mail box.
Heck, I don't even have to step outside to grab my mail. I just open that n ice insulated door and reach into the box.
One of the high points of the dog's day is to walk up the driveway with me to check the mailbox . Especially if we happen to arrive just as Aaron gets there with the mail . He gives good ear scratch .
And you know everyone doesn't check for mail if they have outside mail boxes how? Are people sending you e-mails saying they don't check outside boxes? You are walking the streets spying on people who have outside mail boxes to see if and when they look inside?
Ooooooooh, you KNOW what day(s)you'll be receiving *important* mail?
Who said anything about a locked box? I guess folks across the pond don't have screened, security, or storm doors. I have security storm doors on my house and no way would they be able to get any mail through those doors.
Give it up James, you're looking more and more silly with your continued whines about how things are done in the USA.
I've been home when packages are delivered. The mail carrier here usually doesn't ring the doorbell unless something requires a signature.
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My mail is delivered to a cluster box and it's very seldom I meet anyone when checking the mail. However I sometimes get to talk to the neighbors when the low-bid contractor uses his random sorting technique.
I almost paid my neighbor's gas bill one month until I glanced at the addressee. People here are honest; they don't watch the Netflix DVD's before bringing them to the proper person.
Knock on wood but one of the few problems I've had over the years was when an Airborne Express driver left a box on the neighbor's woodpile. His kid found it a couple of days later an brought it over. It was laptop RAM back when it was going for about $350. I think Airborne is out of business. If so, good riddance.
One fill-in UPS driver got creative. When I stopped by the warehouse the super called him up and asked what the hell he did with it. When he explained what the UPS rulebook said about deliveries she explained that he better brush up his resume.
The USPS Sunday delivery folks are a special breed of stupid.
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