How do you get your mail?

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Brought to you by the fact that I didn't know mailmen still walked until we moved in with the in-laws.  

[The Foozzler]

My mail carrier walks! This was a totally forgein concept until i moved to a city. At my parents house we had a mailbox at the end of our driveway.

[imimahoney]

My mailman walks. He parks two streets away and walks to each house. If he has a lot to deliver or it is bad weather he will drive up to each house. All the mailboxes here are on the houses, not at the street.

But a few streets over the boxes are on the street so the mailman drives.

[dixeedeluxe]

Yup, ours walks. I think they walk in most cities and also in older townhome communities. I think in the past 10ish years, townhouse communities switched to those community boxes.

In Baltimore, the rowhomes have porches that are all connected and the mail people hop over the fences that divide them.

[sandj82110]

We have community mail boxes here but my parents get theirs delivered to their house.

[ashleydl83]

Mailbox at the end of the driveway. If a package won't fit, she walks it up to the door. She also gets out and brings us stuff if we're outside. She's a really nice lady!

[lauranicole91]

They drive mailbox to mailbox because they are at the road. Back in CA most houses had mailboxes at the front door, so the mail person walked. And some neighborhoods had apartment style mailboxes, so they would drive box to box(usually 2 per street).

[tennisgal]

At our current house, there is a box on the street - all the houses on the cul-du-sac have their boxes grouped together so the mailperson can knock out a few houses at a time. At our last house, the mailbox was on the house, so the mailperson walked to each house.

[Beener]

Mailbox at the end of the driveway. All my other places of residence had a walking mailman/mail woman

[rjamz]

He walks, pushing a little cart thing

[kandrze1]

Ours walks. Our mailbox is next to the front door. I think half of my dad's mail routes are driving and half walking. He's a reserve so he does different routes each day.

[katfco]

Special mailflake: our complex is large enough that there are several boxes clustered together at various points around the area.

The mailman where I grew up still walks. When we saw him across the street, we always knew mail would be at our place in 15 minutes.

[TrudyCampbell]

Walks

[Mashara]

I voted for box on the house, but we really have a mail slot in the door

[TrudyCampbell]

I just saw that this is a poll. You should post the options for the app people. I have a box in my lobby but the mailman walks in.

[Deleted]

Options are

Box by the road
Box on house
Box in lobby/entrance to complex
Special mailflake

[silverjm]

We have a box at the end of the driveway and she drives up, but all the houses before ours have a box on the house, so he walks. Yes, we have a different mail person than our next door neighbor because of this.

[eav2c]

They drive here. My mail lady is the meanest though. Ew.

[CrazyLucky]

We get ours in a box by the driveway. But where I grew up, it was and still is, delivered by a walking mailman. I didn't know there was any other way to get mail until I was a teenager.

[devonpow]

We have a slot in our front door - there is a special basket attached so the mail doesn't just fall on the floor.

The kids put leaves and Legos through all day, too.

[devonpow]

And our mailman walks

[steph196]

Our mailman walks. We have a box right next to our front door.

[skiesthelimit]

Our mailman drives and parks on our street then walks and hands out mail to our doors and gets back in his car to the next neighborhood.

[breezy8407]

Ours walks. One guy always asks us how the kids are doing if we are outside. I think it's cute.

[helicase]

Our box is by the street, but at our previous house, it was by the front door. I loved it by the door, because I could get my mail in my undies.

[bigapple]

Ours walks. There are little mail relay stations that look like olive colored mailboxes on the street that s/he refills the cart from.

S/he has a key to our building and comes in to fill the mailboxes.

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Jul 29, 2014 8:31:17 GMT -5 bigapple said:

Ours walks. There are little mail relay stations that look like olive colored mailboxes on the street that s/he refills the cart from.

S/he has a key to our building and comes in to fill the mailboxes.

I'm going to need you to explain "relay station" like I'm five.

[mumegs]

Ours is by the street but she still walks...some of the neighbors have boxes on their houses.

[bigapple]

Jul 29, 2014 8:42:38 GMT -5 @thadsrad said:

Jul 29, 2014 8:31:17 GMT -5 bigapple said:

Ours walks. There are little mail relay stations that look like olive colored mailboxes on the street that s/he refills the cart from.

S/he has a key to our building and comes in to fill the mailboxes.

I'm going to need you to explain "relay station" like I'm five.

So the mail that's ready to deliver gets dropped in these green boxes that appear on the curb throughout the city. From there the walking postal worker loads up his/her cart and delivers mail along the route. When s/he is empty, they load up again from the relay station.

ETA: the other picture is of a mailman loading up his cart.


And, if you want a full rundown of the NYC mail process, here you go: www.ny1.com/content/news/how_nyc_works/204780/how-nyc-works--a-letter-s-journey-is-as-complex-as-it-seems

[Deleted]

We have a community box that they deliver it in. There is one per maybe 20 houses.