I may be spending a little too much time reading lolcats, maybe 
But I got assigned this task to talk about mailboxes, which got me thinking that I have never owned a “traditional” mailbox. I’ve lived in apartments with the banks of mailboxes set into the wall, then the first house we owned was built in 1928, and the mailbox was a metal flap covering a slot cut into the wall next to the front door, the mail dropped down onto the floor of our coat closet! We hated it the whole time we lived there.
The house we live in now was built in 1959, and we have a box attached to the wall next to the front door. If I want the mail carrier to pick up a letter, I have to set it in so that half of it is sticking out of the cover to the box, otherwise he doesn’t know it’s there. But then I started thinking about it, and I realized that no one in my entire neighborhood has the traditional mailbox at the end of their driveway! We all have mailboxes attached to our houses. Why? We don’t have a neighborhood association, so as far as I know it’s not a neighborhood rule, but I suppose the township itself might require it. The mail carrier still drives the same truck, but he parks it and then walks up one side of the street and down the other. Whatever happened to the mail carrier delivering the mail by pulling up to the mailbox in the truck? Maybe it’s a fitness thing, the walking is better exercise?
So now my curiosity is getting the better of me, and I want to know what you have. Do you have a traditional mailbox with a red flag at the end of your driveway? A box attached to the house? Or something else? Do you think we will ever get rid of paper mail entirely? OH, and don’t forget, if you live in a daylight savings time state, Sunday morning is when we SPRING FORWARD. Which means one less hour of sleep. Junk.
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I have a mailbox attached to the wall of our house next to the front door. It’s kind of small, but it works okay for the most part.
I’d love it if we eventually got rid of paper mail completely. I’ve started requesting that all of my bills be sent via e-mail and I’ve subscribed to GreenDimes.com to rid myself of other junk mail. Those efforts have helped a lot, but I still end up with big piles of mail sitting on the kitchen counter at the end of each month.
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Funny you should ask because I wrote a posttoday about our mail box in the Bahamas. We live for our email accounts
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I’ve got a kind of wooden box is within the porch that is outside our house. Letters go through a brass slip. I would love a lrge metallic box that stood in the ground.
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Right now at the moment I have a post office box. My itty bitty town is just way too small to have a mail man deliver the mail to us. Though if we did have a mail man something tells me he would hate to walk the length of my front porch just to bring me my mail. It’s actually pretty easy to just walk the porch to the post office to get my mail!
One day I am to have a mailbox at the end of my driveway! That is a dream of mine! And it sure is junk that we just lost an hour of sleep! The good news is though the kids slept in today! So I guess that means I lost my right to whine.
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Now we have a little box attached to the wall by the front door…until 4 months ago, we had the traditional mailbox with red flag at the end of our road…1/2 mile away from the house.
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I have an old fashioned mailbox with a red flag at the end of our driveway. And the mailtruck has muffler “issues” so we hear him coming!
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We have a traditional mail box across the street with red flag. First time I’ve *ever* had it was when we moved into this place. It is just a little row of mailboxes of us, a few of the neighbors, and the folks that live in a gravel cul-de-sac across from our driveway. All the mailboxes in the neighborhood (not the McCrap mansions down the way though) are like that – 2+ boxes at a time so the mailwoman doesn’t have to stop at every single house.
Before that, my parents just had a PO box (security issues in the neighborhood) and then I lived in apartments. I like being able to walk out in my pajamas to gather the mail (yes, at 2pm, it happens).
We have a mailbox on a post at the end of our, somewhat long, driveway. It has been knocked down a few times by drivers who go in our ditch during snow storms. We will have to buy a new one this spring.
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