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Thread Number: 75226
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Mailboxes and newspaper boxes |
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Post# 990482 , Reply# 1 4/12/2018 at 20:31 (2,198 days old) by wayupnorth  (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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Around here, you have to go 1/2 mile to the main road to get your mail in a big trailer park cluster of metal boxes. Newspapers may be delivered but after bad weather are stuffed 3 days worth in your box after you already read it on line, needless to say I dont subscribe. I have Informed Delivery thru USPS and get an e/mail every morning to let me know what is in my box or no e/mail and I wont bother to check it. When mail is on hold here, the mail carrier just puts an elastic band over the catch and knows to forward anything or hold it at the Post Office. Dots on paper boxes tell the carrier if it is an everyday delivery or just weekend.
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Post# 990504 , Reply# 2 4/13/2018 at 03:52 (2,198 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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 I have a heavy plastic "rock-look" mailbox with the back door too. It also has a vacation drop inside it. When we leave, I take the bottom out of the box and the mail falls down inside. When we return, I take the key, unlock it and remove all the mail. One year we came home to find a note inside from the mailman saying he was afraid to drop the mail in since the bottom was missing! Had never had any problem prior to that. Ever since then I tape a note inside the box hanging from the ceiling that says "please drop mail down into box". | ||
| Post# 990547 , Reply# 3 4/13/2018 at 09:15 (2,198 days old) by cadman (Cedar Falls, IA) | ||
Finding an attractive, good quality mailbox is tough these days. There are some 'retro' creations now I could see myself springing for if I lived in the city and didn't have to deal with county plows and kids with baseball bats. I know our mail carrier isn't real happy trying to stuff small packages into our standard sized box, but those huge steel farm ones look awful to me.
Honestly, I've contemplated building one out of plate steel with some jaunty lines, but that's a project for another day. As a kid, the neighbors up the street had a regular mailbox with a magnetic switch fitted inside and apparently wiring buried in the yard up to the house. Whether this rang a bell or tripped a relay, I don't know. Kind of a neat idea until some part of it fails and the owners say to hell with it. | ||
| Post# 990562 , Reply# 5 4/13/2018 at 11:39 (2,198 days old) by golittlesport (California) | ||
Same thing here
We are in the OC too and have the same cluster boxes as Passatdoc. Gated community with 40 homes. There are two banks of boxes, one at each end of the community and each set serving 20 homes. Love this system. Secure and convenient, and as stated it is safe and easy to receive packages and deposit outgoing mail. There is a red curb in front of the boxes so no one can park and block access. Easy to walk or drive up to the boxes and collect your mail. I usually pick it up while out walking the dogs.
Originally, we had rural-type boxes on posts on the sidewalks when they built these homes. Nothing but trouble. Folks would park and block the boxes and mail would not be delivered. Sometimes packages stolen off front porches. They were obtrusive on the sidewalks and I thought they looked junky. USPS offered to install the new boxes if we agreed to go to centralized delivery. A few people objected as they didn't walk to walk 15 feet to pick their mail. (Can you believe that? As if we have inclement weather here.) The pros outweighed the cons and the lazy people were outvoted. Now even the lazy bones like the new system and our sidewalks are cleared of those old eyesore boxes. | ||
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Post# 990854 , Reply# 8 4/15/2018 at 16:32 (2,195 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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Those cluster type mailboxes are called or were called Super mailboxes in Canada when they debuted maybe 20 or so years ago.. At that time any new subdivisions would not get to the door delivery and would rely on those things. Over the years the govt has been trying to get rid of all home delivery to the front door. The previous govt had already started the process of cancelling it and putting those cluster boxes in older neighborhoods when it was stopped by the current govt.. But those that lost it are not getting it back and are stuck with them.. Fortunately our neighborhood was spared for now.. What really pissed a lot of people off was a comment made by one of the poohbahs of the post-office when he said "many seniors will appreciate being able to go for a little walk to the corner to pick up their mail" something along those lines almost verbatim. Yes.. granma really wants to walk down to the corner in sub freezing weather in a foot or more of ice and snow where she'll probably break her hip. This aint California.
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Post# 990872 , Reply# 10 4/15/2018 at 19:32 (2,195 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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Ironically I meet my mail lady delivering every so often and she loves Max when I go to get the mail. She always leaves 2 Milk Bones for him in the box with my mail. She showed me how to get USPS informed delivery so I dont have to go 1/4 mile to the box when nothing is coming. Max always gets a special delivery.
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| Post# 990883 , Reply# 11 4/15/2018 at 20:08 (2,195 days old) by cadman (Cedar Falls, IA) | ||
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One thing I found surprising was a comment made by a German colleague when visiting the US. He was curious what the little red flags were on our mailboxes. Apparently mail delivery to the box is common in his part of Germany, but if you have outgoing mail you must take it to a central gathering point elsewhere. Talk about a pain in the butt.
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Post# 990924 , Reply# 13 4/16/2018 at 03:14 (2,195 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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