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House Delivery Starts Switching To Corner Box Delivery Today

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Posted 06/26/2015   5:06 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tlmcca to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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(1) home delivery is an obsolete extravagance


That still happens to be offered by UPS, Fedex and other private carriers.


Sure, for package delivery but not your electric bill, etc.

Other than those lovely stamp purchases almost everything delivered to our mailbox at the end of our driveway goes directly to the recycle bin. I may be part of the problem since I opt to get bills sent electronically to me whenever possible.

Terry
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Posted 11/12/2015   7:37 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Leejb1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
About 10-12 years ago the USPS contacted the manufactoring companies of corner delivery boxes, to provide a sample unit which the USPS set up in the southwest where the highest crime rate of breaking into mail boxes. The only one that the bad guys could not get into was the Florance unit. Then the usps set the future guidelines around that box.
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Posted 11/12/2015   9:12 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jim6092252 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I like having this type of mailbox now, much more secure.
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Posted 12/21/2015   10:52 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jeffyl00b to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I wonder about complaints and lawsuits if I were the house where the new cluster box is located. I can imagine the amount of idling traffic in front of the box, and consequently, your yard. I'm sure that's not good for property values.
I've been in several places where people will drive for five feet and never walk(in the USA), like "LA Story".
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Posted 12/21/2015   6:24 pm  Show Profile Check GeoffHa's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add GeoffHa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Fortunately, Royal Mail hasn't (I think) discovered this concept yet, so human contact remains. A couple of weeks ago, I gave the charming Rumanian postman who works for Parcel Force a bottle of claret to thank him for lugging huge boxes to my front door all year. Today, entirely unnecessarily, but very generously, he reciprocated with a Rumanian dessert wine.
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Posted 12/21/2015   6:58 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Hoxsie454 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
We and our towns people walked or drove to the local post office. My mother did not drive, so we often walked a mile each way and I could say "Moo" to the cows in the fields along the way. The mail boxes had small combination locks. The Hoxsie, Rhode Island post office closed June 20, 1949 after exactly 50 years of operation. Then all the houses had to have a mail box on post stuck in the ground which continues to this day. If we get a too big box, our carrier obligingly runs up and places it on our porch.

The mailbox is supposed to be set so that when opened the opening is right over the sidewalk line so the property owners rarely if ever get sued.
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Posted 12/21/2015   11:55 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add TheArtfulHinger to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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we have never had door to door delivery. We all go to the post office where we have boxes they put our mail in. Each person has their own box with a key. Works well kind of a social event for local gossip and news.

The small town in Iowa that I grew up in is exactly the same way, although their post office is only open about 4 hours per day now, which is likely sufficient.
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