How often do you check your mail?

[Deleted]

Obviously if you have a mailbox at your door, the answer is likely every day.

But if you have a mailbox somewhere you have to walk (ours are all at the entrance to our street), how often do you check your mail? We check ours daily. I have a number of friends who check their mailboxes closer to monthly! I can't imagine going more than a week.

If the uncollected mail fills up the your, then you either have to go to the post office to pick it up, or they put it in a parcel compartment (which forces people who have parcels to go to the post office to pick them up).

ETA: This post is prompted by a friend letting me know she just received the birthday card I mailed to her on November 4th.

[pugz]

dude, checking the mail is one of the highlights of my day.

[drloretta]

Nov 27, 2012 19:18:03 GMT -5 pugz said:

dude, checking the mail is one of the highlights of my day.

This

And I can't imagine letting bills sit for a month. That would make me nuts

[CloudBee]

The mailboxes for our cul-de-sac are at the entrance to our neighborhood. (Neighborhood is shaped like a lollipop with a short stick, most are on the "circle".) Once of us, usually whoever knows they are coming home first, pulls their car as closely to the mail "row" upon entering the neighborhood as possible, rolls down their window, and gets the mail.

I couldn't imagine now checking daily.

If we forget to get the mail on the drive in, one of us usually walks out to get it.

[AAM2012]

Nov 27, 2012 19:18:03 GMT -5 pugz said:

dude, checking the mail is one of the highlights of my day.

This. Hubby thinks it's the weirdest thing that I love checking the mail.

[Velvetshady]

We often let it go a few days, at most a week.

[rubytue]

Once a week at best. Usually its closer to 10 days. I actually got it twice in the past week, but only b/c I was expecting something.

[LoveTrains]

I love checking the mail. I check it every day!

Although at my new house, I have a mail slot in the door. It is kind of awesome that the mail ends up in my house without me having to do anything.

[Muddled]

Ours is by the door, but we still only check it every other day at most. It's all crap.

[Deleted]

MAIL IS THE BEST.

After the storm we had a mail delivery on a Sunday and it was a dream come true.

I will admit though, if I'm sick or hungover or whatever and don't leave my apartment that day, I don't make a special trip downstairs to check it.

[awick14]

Ours is at our door. I check it daily, DH checks it maybe once or twice in the 3 weeks I work OOT.

[ckinla]

Daily. I LOVE getting the mail! BF would check it like once a week. He thinks I'm nuts.

[Deleted]

Nov 27, 2012 19:22:11 GMT -5 AAM2012 said:

Nov 27, 2012 19:18:03 GMT -5 pugz said:

dude, checking the mail is one of the highlights of my day.

This. Hubby thinks it's the weirdest thing that I love checking the mail.

My H and I may or may not 'fight' over who gets to check the mail.

[rubytue]

What do you all get in the mail that makes to so exciting? Ours is just ads and catalogs. Occasionally a bill that doesn't go straight to BOA (like my medical bills lately). And.... ummm.... that's it.

[Deleted]

Nov 27, 2012 19:45:08 GMT -5 rubytue said:

What do you all get in the mail that makes to so exciting? Ours is just ads and catalogs. Occasionally a bill that doesn't go straight to BOA (like my medical bills lately). And.... ummm.... that's it.

I don't get bills by mail, and we get maybe one catalog a week (I unsubscribe to everything) so really it is just magazines ( :heart: ) and the occasional check or card or invitation. And lots of pleas for donations from our alma maters. Many days we don't get anything. Still fun to look.

[applesandoranges]

Once a week maybe. Our mailwoman must hate us.

[rubytue]

Nov 27, 2012 19:47:36 GMT -5 v said:

Nov 27, 2012 19:45:08 GMT -5 rubytue said:

What do you all get in the mail that makes to so exciting? Ours is just ads and catalogs. Occasionally a bill that doesn't go straight to BOA (like my medical bills lately). And.... ummm.... that's it.

I don't get bills by mail, and we get maybe one catalog a week (I unsubscribe to everything) so really it is just magazines ( ) and the occasional check or card or invitation. And lots of pleas for donations from our alma maters. Many days we don't get anything. Still fun to look.

I've tried unsubscribing. We moved 18 months ago and now I get all the previous owners crap. *sigh*

OMG, there is this one motorcycle catalog that has been following me for 15 years! Ordered something for an exbf 15 years ago. I've called to stop it. I move, and it comes back! How the hell does that happen?!

[Deleted]

Ours is in the mailroom and I'll skip it if I get to the lobby and the elevator is about to leave but H always checks it everyday when he works from home.

[explorer2001]

Minimum weekly unless I'm out of town. Usually not more than every few days. I pretty much only get bills and junk mail. My mail box is down the street and halfway down the next block. I rarely go that way in and out of the subdivision and its a lock metal box.

[Deleted]

Nov 27, 2012 19:52:43 GMT -5 rubytue said:

I've tried unsubscribing. We moved 18 months ago and now I get all the previous owners crap. *sigh*

OMG, there is this one motorcycle catalog that has been following me for 15 years! Ordered something for an exbf 15 years ago. I've called to stop it. I move, and it comes back! How the hell does that happen?!

Have you tried opting out of the Direct Mail list and using Catalog Choice? I was religious about Catalog Choice (including for prior tenants) and now we very rarely get catalogs at all.

[cjeanette]

Ours is at our door so daily. My kids practically attack the mailman. I know his name is John, he has a dog, is 46, and does think his shoes are comfy.

[rubytue]

Nov 27, 2012 19:58:38 GMT -5 v said:

Nov 27, 2012 19:52:43 GMT -5 rubytue said:

I've tried unsubscribing. We moved 18 months ago and now I get all the previous owners crap. *sigh*

OMG, there is this one motorcycle catalog that has been following me for 15 years! Ordered something for an exbf 15 years ago. I've called to stop it. I move, and it comes back! How the hell does that happen?!

Have you tried opting out of the Direct Mail list and using Catalog Choice? I was religious about Catalog Choice (including for prior tenants) and now we very rarely get catalogs at all.

I think I need to find religion again. lol

I did it at my last address. I don't think I've tried too hard at this one. I just bitch about it.

[M]

Our home mail box about once every other day. The PO box probably once a week or two unless we're waiting on something to come in.

[KaraOrNot]

Our mail is literally delivered inside our house (well front porch - our mailbox is a converted milk drop off) and I still don't check it daily!

[pugz]

I love all mail even junk

[SJ]

Every single day. DH owns his business and checks come in the mail!

[pitterwoo]

I'm almost like Kramer when he tried to stop receiving mail. I just really don't like the clutter and H never opens any mail so it sits in a pile until I open it our until I throw it out.

[Deleted]

Nov 28, 2012 0:01:23 GMT -5 pugz said:

I love all mail even junk

I love the mail so much and practically break down in tears at the thought of the post office ever going out of business. I got a $50 check the other day,from overpaying insurance. And the magazines! and my SIL and I mail random things to each other.

[pitterwoo]

Nov 28, 2012 0:45:46 GMT -5 @88mangoes said:

Nov 28, 2012 0:16:51 GMT -5 pitterwoo said:

I'm almost like Kramer when he tried to stop receiving mail. I just really don't like the clutter and H never opens any mail so it sits in a pile until I open it our until I throw it out.

This is us. In fact, H has been gone, and I've been working crazy hours, so I have an enormous pile of CRAP on my kitchen table.

I check the mail far less often once the temps drop below 0*F...which it is now. It's dark outside in my off hours now, and walking to the mailbox is cold and dark. I should get a flashlight and stop my bitching, huh?

nooos! totally keep bitching about it. gathering the mail is such a hardship. lol, I don't even know why it bothers me so much. my box isn't even that far away.

[gibbinator]

Daily. We have an actual single box with a flag by the road at the end of the private drive we live on. Dh usually picks the mail up on his way home from work when he notices the flag.