|
Thread Number: 81466
/ Tag: Other Home Products or Autos
Mailboxes vs slots |
[Down to Last] |  |
|
Post# 1055039 , Reply# 1 12/21/2019 at 14:40 (1,578 days old) by wayupnorth  (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
||
When I was a kid, we had a mail slot in our wooden porch outside door and the carrier put everything through on the floor. After that door was replaced they installed a regular mailbox next to the door. Where I live now, it is a half mile round trip to the main road where mine and my neighbors boxes are. Since my road is considered a dirt camp road by them, the PO will not deliver here. Only other alternative is to PAY for a PO box, which I refuse to.
| ||
|
Post# 1055044 , Reply# 2 12/21/2019 at 16:26 (1,577 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
||
Here in Canada traditionally has been a mailbox or slot at your front door if you live in a town/city etc. There maybe some places with the mailbox at the end of the driveway, not sure. When we lived in the country we had a mailbox at the end of the road. But some 20 odd years ago any new subdivisions no longer got to the door delivery and they put what they call super mailboxes on the corners where nearby residents would have to collect their mail. Then about 2 years ago they started discontinuing to the door mail in select areas first with plans to get rid of it nationwide but the furor put an end to that for now.. however the people that lost their traditional service still will not get it back
| ||
|
Post# 1055058 , Reply# 4 12/21/2019 at 18:54 (1,577 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
||
|
Kate1, I do have to say my regular carrier is wonderful as I know her usual time she wants to try to get everyone delivered. I do have Informed Delivery so I know what is coming along with a Milk Bone for my dog, which she loves. Last year the city PO where she has to go to get our mail now swapped routes around so the intown routes get their mail early morning and us our of the city are lucky to get it before dark now.
| ||
| Post# 1055062 , Reply# 6 12/21/2019 at 19:04 (1,577 days old) by HotWater (New York ) | ||
|
Here in Manhattan... we still have foot service, and some friends of mine actually get their mail through a mailslot in their home. As silly as it sounds, the whole concept was mind-blowing to me, for reasons you mentioned. You see it in TV Shows, but never in person. | ||
|
Post# 1055064 , Reply# 7 12/21/2019 at 19:41 (1,577 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
||
 | ||
| Post# 1055076 , Reply# 8 12/21/2019 at 23:11 (1,577 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room) | ||
 | ||
|
Post# 1055096 , Reply# 9 12/22/2019 at 03:58 (1,577 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR) |
||
My best friend had a slot in the door for his mail. At one time he had a Schnauzer that would rip apart the mail but only some times. Some days he would come home from work and the mail was on the floor untouched and other days it was ripped to shreds. He never figured out if the dog didn't like a certain carrier or mail from a certain individual. He put a box outside and closed up the mail slot.
It's amazing what we all do to accommodate our pets. | ||
|
Post# 1055149 , Reply# 10 12/22/2019 at 14:25 (1,577 days old) by philcobendixduo (San Jose) |
||
Mail Slot Fear
With all the craziness in the world today, I would be VERY afraid to have a mail slot in my front door.
Some "yahoo" could drop in a match, a firecracker, a hose and turn on the water, etc. etc. Most all the homes in my area either have house-mounted mailboxes or street-side mailboxes. A few have installed mail slots - most on a garage wall adjacent to the garage door. | ||
|
Post# 1055164 , Reply# 12 12/22/2019 at 17:01 (1,576 days old) by philcobendixduo (San Jose) |
||
|
Then there is the issue..... | ||
| Post# 1055170 , Reply# 13 12/22/2019 at 18:29 (1,576 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod) | ||
 | ||
| Post# 1055243 , Reply# 14 12/23/2019 at 14:34 (1,576 days old) by cadman (Cedar Falls, IA) | ||
 | ||
|
Post# 1055341 , Reply# 15 12/24/2019 at 05:31 (1,575 days old) by JustJunque (Western MA) |
||
Reply #12
We have the curbside mailboxes here.
Although I knew some people who engaged in "mailbox baseball" when they were young and foolish, I've never been a victim of it personally. However, the mailman has damaged two of them with his truck in the roughly ten years that we've lived here. The first time was shortly after we moved in. He knocked it completely off the post. He came to the door and was going to file some sort of report or something. Since it had slight damage before he hit it, I gave him a break and said not to worry about it. A few years later, the replacement mailbox got hit again. Not as bad, and we have no way of knowing if it was the same mailman. But now, it's difficult, if not impossible to get the door to close properly. One of these days, I'll get around to replacing it again. We need a whole new post now, so I'll probably wait and do it all at the same time. Barry | ||
|
Post# 1055350 , Reply# 17 12/24/2019 at 08:46 (1,575 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
||
In the Netherlands the Dutch Mail required an external letterbox when your house was a certain distance from the road. So my parents got one that was provided by the mail company. It was one just like the one in the picture. Theirs was in the hedge as well. My father cut a bit out of the hedge. When one of us emptied the mailbox there was a thin piece of rope with a knot and at the end a piece of wood for gravity. When there was mail delivered the rope fell down partly as a signal there was something in the mailbox, we could see that from the livingroom window. No extra handling done by the postman. Signals on letterboxes were indeed unknown here.
View Full Size
| ||
| Forum Index: |
| Other Forums: |
|
|
|
|
|
Comes to the Rescue!
