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On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 20:41:41 -0000, Frank "frank wrote:
On 2/14/2017 2:05 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 18:42:34 -0000, Mike Duffy wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 18:04:17 +0000, Bod wrote: Where I live I [...] have even left the front door wide open on hot summer days many times whilst we went shopping for an hour or so. Are you not worried at least about animals? (Cats, dogs, mice, rats, raccoons, skunks, pigeons, snakes, mosquitos, wasps, crickets, ants, etc.) Cats are harmless, dogs don't tend to wander off form their owners, the smaller ones could go through windows anyway. Years ago neighbor had a cat door and his son came down one morning to see a raccoon eating cat food. Rabies is endemic here and he was lucky it was not rabid. I had an open garage door and neighbors dog chewed up one of my boots. Birds would often try to nest in the garage and a few times I shut to door to find a bird trapped in the garage. We don't have a rabies problem, and I certainly wouldn't mind birds nesting. Some birds like swallows particularly like doing that sort of thing. -- What are the "Man's Three Rules When Getting Old?" Never pass a bathroom, don't waste a hard-on, and never trust a fart. |
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Bod wrote:
On 14/02/2017 16:54, Joe Jones wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 11:01:33 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote in Per James Wilkinson Sword: I was just watching an American film and thought, "Why don't kids steal everyone's mail?" Theft from mailboxes happens but, here in the suburbs of Philadelphia, it's rare. When I visited relatives in the UK about 10 years ago, I was surprised at the high level of perceived residential theft risk: bars on windows, my cousin's husband felt the need to chain his bike even when it was inside of their locked garage, and so-on-and-so-forth. Ditto Germany. That's whey Muslims love to go to the UK and KrautLand. The fit right in. Most of the UK is *not* like that. Where I live I don't even bother to lock the car up and have even left the front door wide open on hot summer days many times whilst we went shopping for an hour or so. Would you tell an insurance company that? Thought not. Pillock. |
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On 2/14/2017 4:23 PM, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
Most of the UK is *not* like that. Where I live I don't even bother to lock the car up and have even left the front door wide open on hot summer days many times whilst we went shopping for an hour or so. Would you tell an insurance company that? Thought not. Pillock. Locking your car keeps out the 12 yer olds. The pro will drive it off in seconds no matter what locks and alarms you have. |
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On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 21:23:31 -0000, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
Bod wrote: On 14/02/2017 16:54, Joe Jones wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 11:01:33 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote in Per James Wilkinson Sword: I was just watching an American film and thought, "Why don't kids steal everyone's mail?" Theft from mailboxes happens but, here in the suburbs of Philadelphia, it's rare. When I visited relatives in the UK about 10 years ago, I was surprised at the high level of perceived residential theft risk: bars on windows, my cousin's husband felt the need to chain his bike even when it was inside of their locked garage, and so-on-and-so-forth. Ditto Germany. That's whey Muslims love to go to the UK and KrautLand. The fit right in. Most of the UK is *not* like that. Where I live I don't even bother to lock the car up and have even left the front door wide open on hot summer days many times whilst we went shopping for an hour or so. Would you tell an insurance company that? Thought not. Pillock. Insurance companies are rip off merchants. They deserve a taste of their own medicine. I've lied to them countless times. -- What animal has genitals on its back? A police horse. |
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On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 18:59:05 -0000, Frank "frank wrote:
On 2/13/2017 8:24 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 01:07:55 -0000, Frank "frank wrote: On 2/13/2017 5:19 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: I was just watching an American film and thought, "Why don't kids steal everyone's mail?" In the UK, most people have the mailbox INSIDE the house (or simply a letterbox opening in the front door). Surely kids are tempted to nick American mail, especially as it's right on the street. There are mailboxes on doors here too but single family homes on larger lots will have their mailbox outside on the street. Mail-carriers drive vehicles with steering wheels on the right (since we drive on the right, normal are on the left) and drop off mail without leaving vehicle. Yes I can see it being more efficient for the mail people, although bloody inconvenient for the home owners (people who have them here to stop dogs eating the letters never remember to check them and get letters a week late). And my original point, doesn't mail get stolen? Mail might get stolen. It does not happen often. The mail carrier will also take outgoing mail and boxes have a flag on them to put up if there is outgoing mail. I thought the flag went up with the weight of incoming mail? We don't leave outgoing mail out overnight. Your postmen don't appear at the crack of dawn? Theft problem is more serious for packages too big for the box and left on the porch. They don't do that here. They leave min e in a shed, but only because I've asked them to do so. Mail carrier as others point out will drive/carry packages to house. Packages are also delivered by other services like Fedex. If you don't have to sign for delivery they will just drop on porch or driveway. Mine leave with a neighbour (or they would if I didn't ask them to use the shed). More serious to our curb mailboxes is damage by vandals or getting struck by vehicles. Or baseball bats. Neighbor across the street has box situated such that it has probably been accidentally hit by everyone in the neighborhood. He's got it on a hinged post so if knocked over it can be set up-right. If I was him I'd have embedded some dynamite. -- Landing: A controlled mid-air collision with a planet. |
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On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 17:55:23 -0000, KenK wrote:
"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in news I was just watching an American film and thought, "Why don't kids steal everyone's mail?" In the UK, most people have the mailbox INSIDE the house (or simply a letterbox opening in the front door). Surely kids are tempted to nick American mail, especially as it's right on the street. That's always been a concern of mine. I try to only put mail in the box a few hours before delivery time and empty it soon after - hard to tell so need to guess, depends on carrier and day of week. So far, so good, AFAIK. Also, isn't the US Post Office a federal agency so wouldn't mail theft be a federal crime? If so, maybe helps prevents it, or at least reduce it? If you could stand by your mailbox without anyone seeing you, so could a little runt who's ****ing about. -- Imagine you are a child in your mother's womb, can you detect light? Only during ballet practice. |
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On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 11:48:51 -0000, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Monday, February 13, 2017 at 10:51:29 PM UTC-5, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 02:30:58 -0000, Dean Hoffman wrote: On 2/13/17 4:19 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: I was just watching an American film and thought, "Why don't kids steal everyone's mail?" In the UK, most people have the mailbox INSIDE the house (or simply a letterbox opening in the front door). Surely kids are tempted to nick American mail, especially as it's right on the street. Probably just because they see what's in their mailboxes and social pressure. It is common in parts of rural Nebraska to have several mailboxes grouped on their own posts. It will be up to the ranchers to get their mail from there. There isn't delivery to individual houses. There might also be a post there with signs pointing to the individual ranches. Each sign would be a single board cut to make an arrow. It might say something like Too Poor Ranch 12 miles. What happens if you get a parcel delivered that's quite large? I have a mailbox at the street. I've never (as far as I know) had mail stolen from it. If I get a package that's too big for the mailbox, the carrier leaves it on the porch. I don't live in a crime-ridden hive, as apparently you do. The houses on my street are generally about 40 meters apart, although some are more like 80 meters. It would be a lot of legwork for kids to come around messing with mailboxes (which is a federal offense worth up to a $5000 fine and/or 5 years in prison--although I doubt they'd sentence dumb kids to more than a token penalty). Not much crime here, but kids are kids. -- Q: What's the difference between an Irish funeral and an Irish wedding? A: One less drunk. |
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On 2/13/17 9:51 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 02:30:58 -0000, Dean Hoffman wrote: It is common in parts of rural Nebraska to have several mailboxes grouped on their own posts. It will be up to the ranchers to get their mail from there. There isn't delivery to individual houses. There might also be a post there with signs pointing to the individual ranches. Each sign would be a single board cut to make an arrow. It might say something like Too Poor Ranch 12 miles. If I lived in one of those ranches, I'd have a lock on the box! My parents farmed in the south central part of the state. People owned a lot less ground in the farming areas than in ranch country. Houses would typically be only a few hundred feet from the road, if that. People also knew about when the mail carriers stopped by. They and the mail carriers would recognize each other if they met in town or some social event. Single mailboxes were at the entrances to the individual driveways. Nobody had locked mailboxes in this area either. The carriers would take the packages to the house. Sometimes they'd leave a card in the box saying the patron needed go to the post office in town. A person could leave money with a card to order stamps from the carrier. There was one time that I remember the mailboxes posed a problem. Some fool was planting bombs in them. Postal carriers asked everyone to leave the boxes open. A bit here about the bombs: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/15/mailbox-bomb-suspect/2164129/ |
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On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 23:26:59 -0000, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 2/13/17 9:51 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 02:30:58 -0000, Dean Hoffman wrote: It is common in parts of rural Nebraska to have several mailboxes grouped on their own posts. It will be up to the ranchers to get their mail from there. There isn't delivery to individual houses. There might also be a post there with signs pointing to the individual ranches. Each sign would be a single board cut to make an arrow. It might say something like Too Poor Ranch 12 miles. If I lived in one of those ranches, I'd have a lock on the box! My parents farmed in the south central part of the state. People owned a lot less ground in the farming areas than in ranch country. Houses would typically be only a few hundred feet from the road, if that. People also knew about when the mail carriers stopped by. They and the mail carriers would recognize each other if they met in town or some social event. Single mailboxes were at the entrances to the individual driveways. Nobody had locked mailboxes in this area either. The carriers would take the packages to the house. Sometimes they'd leave a card in the box saying the patron needed go to the post office in town. A person could leave money with a card to order stamps from the carrier. There was one time that I remember the mailboxes posed a problem. Some fool was planting bombs in them. Postal carriers asked everyone to leave the boxes open. A bit here about the bombs: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/15/mailbox-bomb-suspect/2164129/ That happens every so often in the UK with public post boxes (where you place letters outgoing). -- Did you know that dolphins are so intelligent that within only a few weeks of captivity, they can train humans to stand at the edge of the pool and throw them fish? |
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On 2/14/2017 5:16 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 18:59:05 -0000, Frank "frank wrote: On 2/13/2017 8:24 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 01:07:55 -0000, Frank "frank wrote: On 2/13/2017 5:19 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: I was just watching an American film and thought, "Why don't kids steal everyone's mail?" In the UK, most people have the mailbox INSIDE the house (or simply a letterbox opening in the front door). Surely kids are tempted to nick American mail, especially as it's right on the street. There are mailboxes on doors here too but single family homes on larger lots will have their mailbox outside on the street. Mail-carriers drive vehicles with steering wheels on the right (since we drive on the right, normal are on the left) and drop off mail without leaving vehicle. Yes I can see it being more efficient for the mail people, although bloody inconvenient for the home owners (people who have them here to stop dogs eating the letters never remember to check them and get letters a week late). And my original point, doesn't mail get stolen? Mail might get stolen. It does not happen often. The mail carrier will also take outgoing mail and boxes have a flag on them to put up if there is outgoing mail. I thought the flag went up with the weight of incoming mail? We don't leave outgoing mail out overnight. Your postmen don't appear at the crack of dawn? Theft problem is more serious for packages too big for the box and left on the porch. They don't do that here. They leave min e in a shed, but only because I've asked them to do so. Mail carrier as others point out will drive/carry packages to house. Packages are also delivered by other services like Fedex. If you don't have to sign for delivery they will just drop on porch or driveway. Mine leave with a neighbour (or they would if I didn't ask them to use the shed). More serious to our curb mailboxes is damage by vandals or getting struck by vehicles. Or baseball bats. Neighbor across the street has box situated such that it has probably been accidentally hit by everyone in the neighborhood. He's got it on a hinged post so if knocked over it can be set up-right. If I was him I'd have embedded some dynamite. Mail carriers are not out at rush hour and generally spend that time collecting and loading their mail. More than half our mail is junk mail, circulars and the like and has to be sorted into each box. Vandals probably use baseball bats. Boxes along main roads are most at threat. I've nearly tripped over packages left right in front of my front door and almost ran over one near the garage. Thread reminds me that a few months ago I needed a new mail box as metal post had rusted out and new box was needed anyway. Could not find what I liked at local store and clerk advised looking on line which I did and got free shipping. Comical because besides new mail box and post, Home Depot also sent me a toilet seat and barbecue grill mat. I should have kept them but got them to come back for them. |
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On 2/14/2017 5:00 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 21:23:31 -0000, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: Bod wrote: On 14/02/2017 16:54, Joe Jones wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 11:01:33 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote in Per James Wilkinson Sword: I was just watching an American film and thought, "Why don't kids steal everyone's mail?" Theft from mailboxes happens but, here in the suburbs of Philadelphia, it's rare. When I visited relatives in the UK about 10 years ago, I was surprised at the high level of perceived residential theft risk: bars on windows, my cousin's husband felt the need to chain his bike even when it was inside of their locked garage, and so-on-and-so-forth. Ditto Germany. That's whey Muslims love to go to the UK and KrautLand. The fit right in. Most of the UK is *not* like that. Where I live I don't even bother to lock the car up and have even left the front door wide open on hot summer days many times whilst we went shopping for an hour or so. Would you tell an insurance company that? Thought not. Pillock. Insurance companies are rip off merchants. They deserve a taste of their own medicine. I've lied to them countless times. Insurance companies could be a whole other thread. I have a son that is an insurance company lawyer and hear all kinds of stories from both sides. |
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 00:13:03 -0000, Frank "frank wrote:
On 2/14/2017 5:00 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 21:23:31 -0000, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: Bod wrote: On 14/02/2017 16:54, Joe Jones wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 11:01:33 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote in Per James Wilkinson Sword: I was just watching an American film and thought, "Why don't kids steal everyone's mail?" Theft from mailboxes happens but, here in the suburbs of Philadelphia, it's rare. When I visited relatives in the UK about 10 years ago, I was surprised at the high level of perceived residential theft risk: bars on windows, my cousin's husband felt the need to chain his bike even when it was inside of their locked garage, and so-on-and-so-forth. Ditto Germany. That's whey Muslims love to go to the UK and KrautLand. The fit right in. Most of the UK is *not* like that. Where I live I don't even bother to lock the car up and have even left the front door wide open on hot summer days many times whilst we went shopping for an hour or so. Would you tell an insurance company that? Thought not. Pillock. Insurance companies are rip off merchants. They deserve a taste of their own medicine. I've lied to them countless times. Insurance companies could be a whole other thread. I have a son that is an insurance company lawyer and hear all kinds of stories from both sides. People who take out insurance fall into two categories: 1) Idiots 2) People buying the minimum required by law. -- User has insufficient intelligence to complete this task, please insert a new user. |
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 00:01:25 -0000, Frank "frank wrote:
On 2/14/2017 5:16 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 18:59:05 -0000, Frank "frank wrote: On 2/13/2017 8:24 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 01:07:55 -0000, Frank "frank wrote: On 2/13/2017 5:19 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: I was just watching an American film and thought, "Why don't kids steal everyone's mail?" In the UK, most people have the mailbox INSIDE the house (or simply a letterbox opening in the front door). Surely kids are tempted to nick American mail, especially as it's right on the street. There are mailboxes on doors here too but single family homes on larger lots will have their mailbox outside on the street. Mail-carriers drive vehicles with steering wheels on the right (since we drive on the right, normal are on the left) and drop off mail without leaving vehicle. Yes I can see it being more efficient for the mail people, although bloody inconvenient for the home owners (people who have them here to stop dogs eating the letters never remember to check them and get letters a week late). And my original point, doesn't mail get stolen? Mail might get stolen. It does not happen often. The mail carrier will also take outgoing mail and boxes have a flag on them to put up if there is outgoing mail. I thought the flag went up with the weight of incoming mail? We don't leave outgoing mail out overnight. Your postmen don't appear at the crack of dawn? Theft problem is more serious for packages too big for the box and left on the porch. They don't do that here. They leave min e in a shed, but only because I've asked them to do so. Mail carrier as others point out will drive/carry packages to house. Packages are also delivered by other services like Fedex. If you don't have to sign for delivery they will just drop on porch or driveway. Mine leave with a neighbour (or they would if I didn't ask them to use the shed). More serious to our curb mailboxes is damage by vandals or getting struck by vehicles. Or baseball bats. Neighbor across the street has box situated such that it has probably been accidentally hit by everyone in the neighborhood. He's got it on a hinged post so if knocked over it can be set up-right. If I was him I'd have embedded some dynamite. Mail carriers are not out at rush hour and generally spend that time collecting and loading their mail. More than half our mail is junk mail, circulars and the like and has to be sorted into each box. Vandals probably use baseball bats. Boxes along main roads are most at threat. I've nearly tripped over packages left right in front of my front door and almost ran over one near the garage. Thread reminds me that a few months ago I needed a new mail box as metal post had rusted out and new box was needed anyway. Could not find what I liked at local store and clerk advised looking on line which I did and got free shipping. Comical because besides new mail box and post, Home Depot also sent me a toilet seat and barbecue grill mat. I should have kept them but got them to come back for them. So much easier in the UK where couriers and postmen deliver to the door. -- I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. |
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On 2/14/2017 7:36 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 00:01:25 -0000, Frank "frank wrote: On 2/14/2017 5:16 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 18:59:05 -0000, Frank "frank wrote: On 2/13/2017 8:24 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 01:07:55 -0000, Frank "frank wrote: On 2/13/2017 5:19 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: I was just watching an American film and thought, "Why don't kids steal everyone's mail?" In the UK, most people have the mailbox INSIDE the house (or simply a letterbox opening in the front door). Surely kids are tempted to nick American mail, especially as it's right on the street. There are mailboxes on doors here too but single family homes on larger lots will have their mailbox outside on the street. Mail-carriers drive vehicles with steering wheels on the right (since we drive on the right, normal are on the left) and drop off mail without leaving vehicle. Yes I can see it being more efficient for the mail people, although bloody inconvenient for the home owners (people who have them here to stop dogs eating the letters never remember to check them and get letters a week late). And my original point, doesn't mail get stolen? Mail might get stolen. It does not happen often. The mail carrier will also take outgoing mail and boxes have a flag on them to put up if there is outgoing mail. I thought the flag went up with the weight of incoming mail? We don't leave outgoing mail out overnight. Your postmen don't appear at the crack of dawn? Theft problem is more serious for packages too big for the box and left on the porch. They don't do that here. They leave min e in a shed, but only because I've asked them to do so. Mail carrier as others point out will drive/carry packages to house. Packages are also delivered by other services like Fedex. If you don't have to sign for delivery they will just drop on porch or driveway. Mine leave with a neighbour (or they would if I didn't ask them to use the shed). More serious to our curb mailboxes is damage by vandals or getting struck by vehicles. Or baseball bats. Neighbor across the street has box situated such that it has probably been accidentally hit by everyone in the neighborhood. He's got it on a hinged post so if knocked over it can be set up-right. If I was him I'd have embedded some dynamite. Mail carriers are not out at rush hour and generally spend that time collecting and loading their mail. More than half our mail is junk mail, circulars and the like and has to be sorted into each box. Vandals probably use baseball bats. Boxes along main roads are most at threat. I've nearly tripped over packages left right in front of my front door and almost ran over one near the garage. Thread reminds me that a few months ago I needed a new mail box as metal post had rusted out and new box was needed anyway. Could not find what I liked at local store and clerk advised looking on line which I did and got free shipping. Comical because besides new mail box and post, Home Depot also sent me a toilet seat and barbecue grill mat. I should have kept them but got them to come back for them. So much easier in the UK where couriers and postmen deliver to the door. My driveway is only 100 ft. but neighbor in back has 700 ft. drive and neighbor not far has 0.4 mile drive. No way would they get delivery to house. |
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On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 11:16:46 AM UTC-5, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 04:49:45 -0000, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote: On Monday, February 13, 2017 at 10:10:36 PM UTC-6, DerbyDad03 wrote: On Monday, February 13, 2017 at 10:53:23 PM UTC-5, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 01:35:24 -0000, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote: Are you saying people don't check their mail boxes if it's at the end of their driveway but perhaps once a week where you live? In the UK, people sometimes (only 1 in 100) have boxes attached to the outside of their house (not at the street), just to avoid stuff being put into the house (because the dog might eat it). They often forget to check it (as would I if I had one), because the mail doesn't appear inside your home on the carpet so you notice it, you actually have to remember to keep checking the box. 1 - How do you know that these 1 in 100 people "often" forget to check their mail? Do you know them all? Do they publish their forgetfulness in the local paper? It does kinda silly and made up, doesn't it? I'd venture a guess that most people get some sort of mail each day. That might be junk mail, a letter, catalog, or a bill. He's trying to make us believe that everybody that doesn't get their mail through a slot in the door has Alzhiemers and completely forget to check their outside mail boxes. Most people do not bother checking mail every day if it's in a box. But if it's flopped into your hallway, you'll see it. Frigging idiot. How the hell do you know what "most people" do? Prove your claim. I don't need to see my mail to remember to check it. My mailbox at work isn't a slot in my door either. I somehow remember to check that mailbox also. Do you immediately forget everything you don't actually see? Besides, why would I want to spend good money on a quality, insulted door and then cut a hole in it? 2 - How stupid would one have to be to see a mailbox on the outside of their house and forget to check it? And *often* forget to check it? Now that's really stupid. Yep! Not too bright when it comes to getting their mail, are they? Why bother checking it every day if you don't get important mail every day? Frigging idiot. How do you know if you got something important if you don't check it? Do you pick your mail up off of your cruddy floor every day? If so, why? Why don't you just wait until you get something important? We've had a mailbox on the outside of our house for over 35 years. We check it every day except for Sunday. It's really not that hard to remember. See if you can understand this process: Step 1: See Mailbox Step 2: Think: "Did you check for mail today?" Step 3: If no, check it. If yes, don't bother. My house is 90 years old and so are the surrounding houses. Every single one has a mail box on the outside, just a step or two outside the front door. It ain't rocket science to remember to check to see if you have mail that day. It's unnecessary. My letters appear inside my house, I see them if they're there. I don't have to go outside, unlock the box, and check to find just junk mail. Frigging idiot. I guess if they ever let you out of your slimy house, you'd realize that you you can actually check the mail on the way back in, like maybe when you come home from work. Wait. Work? You? Ha! Maybe when you come home from buying booze with your food stamps. If you didn't live in a slum, you'd realize that not everyone has to lock their mail box. Heck, I don't even have to step outside to grab my mail. I just open that nice insulated door and reach into the box. |
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On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 11:16:46 AM UTC-5, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 04:49:45 -0000, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote: On Monday, February 13, 2017 at 10:10:36 PM UTC-6, DerbyDad03 wrote: On Monday, February 13, 2017 at 10:53:23 PM UTC-5, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 01:35:24 -0000, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote: Are you saying people don't check their mail boxes if it's at the end of their driveway but perhaps once a week where you live? In the UK, people sometimes (only 1 in 100) have boxes attached to the outside of their house (not at the street), just to avoid stuff being put into the house (because the dog might eat it). They often forget to check it (as would I if I had one), because the mail doesn't appear inside your home on the carpet so you notice it, you actually have to remember to keep checking the box. 1 - How do you know that these 1 in 100 people "often" forget to check their mail? Do you know them all? Do they publish their forgetfulness in the local paper? It does kinda silly and made up, doesn't it? I'd venture a guess that most people get some sort of mail each day. That might be junk mail, a letter, catalog, or a bill. He's trying to make us believe that everybody that doesn't get their mail through a slot in the door has Alzhiemers and completely forget to check their outside mail boxes. Most people do not bother checking mail every day if it's in a box. But if it's flopped into your hallway, you'll see it. Frigging idiot. How the hell do you know what "most people" do? Prove your claim. I don't need to see my mail to remember to check it. My mailbox at work isn't a slot in my door either. I somehow remember to check that mailbox also. Do you immediately forget everything you don't actually see? Besides, why would I want to spend good money on a quality, insulted door and then cut a hole in it? 2 - How stupid would one have to be to see a mailbox on the outside of their house and forget to check it? And *often* forget to check it? Now that's really stupid. Yep! Not too bright when it comes to getting their mail, are they? Why bother checking it every day if you don't get important mail every day? Frigging idiot. How do you know if you got something important if you don't check it? Do you pick your mail up off of your cruddy floor every day? If so, why? Why don't you just wait until you get something important? We've had a mailbox on the outside of our house for over 35 years. We check it every day except for Sunday. It's really not that hard to remember. See if you can understand this process: Step 1: See Mailbox Step 2: Think: "Did you check for mail today?" Step 3: If no, check it. If yes, don't bother. My house is 90 years old and so are the surrounding houses. Every single one has a mail box on the outside, just a step or two outside the front door. It ain't rocket science to remember to check to see if you have mail that day. It's unnecessary. My letters appear inside my house, I see them if they're there. I don't have to go outside, unlock the box, and check to find just junk mail. Frigging idiot. I guess if they ever let you out of your slimy house, you'd realize that you you can actually check the mail on the way back in, like maybe when you come home from work. Wait. Work? You? Ha! Maybe when you come home from buying booze with your food stamps. If you didn't live in a slum, you'd realize that not everyone has to lock their mail box. Heck, I don't even have to step outside to grab my mail. I just open that nice insulated door and reach into the box. One of the high points of the dog's day is to walk up the driveway with me to check the mailbox . Especially if we happen to arrive just as Aaron gets there with the mail . He gives good ear scratch . -- Snag |
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On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 10:16:46 AM UTC-6, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 04:49:45 -0000, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote: He's trying to make us believe that everybody that doesn't get their mail through a slot in the door has Alzhiemers and completely forget to check their outside mail boxes. Most people do not bother checking mail every day if it's in a box. But if it's flopped into your hallway, you'll see it. And you know everyone doesn't check for mail if they have outside mail boxes how? Are people sending you e-mails saying they don't check outside boxes? You are walking the streets spying on people who have outside mail boxes to see if and when they look inside? 2 - How stupid would one have to be to see a mailbox on the outside of their house and forget to check it? And *often* forget to check it? Now that's really stupid. Yep! Not too bright when it comes to getting their mail, are they? Why bother checking it every day if you don't get important mail every day? Ooooooooh, you KNOW what day(s)you'll be receiving *important* mail? We've had a mailbox on the outside of our house for over 35 years. My house is 90 years old and so are the surrounding houses. Every single one has a mail box on the outside, just a step or two outside the front door. It ain't rocket science to remember to check to see if you have mail that day. It's unnecessary. My letters appear inside my house, I see them if they're there. I don't have to go outside, unlock the box, and check to find just junk mail. Who said anything about a locked box? I guess folks across the pond don't have screened, security, or storm doors. I have security storm doors on my house and no way would they be able to get any mail through those doors. Give it up James, you're looking more and more silly with your continued whines about how things are done in the USA. |
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On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 20:57:32 -0600, "Terry Coombs"
wrote: One of the high points of the dog's day is to walk up the driveway with me to check the mailbox . Especially if we happen to arrive just as Aaron gets there with the mail . He gives good ear scratch . Two of our late cats (RIP) would walk to the mail box when we checked the mail. I miss 'em. |
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On 02/14/2017 02:41 PM, Frank wrote:
[snip] Years ago neighbor had a cat door and his son came down one morning to see a raccoon eating cat food. Rabies is endemic here and he was lucky it was not rabid. I started leaving my cat door unlocked all the time, but changed to locking it at night. Raccoons were coming in and making messes. I had an open garage door and neighbors dog chewed up one of my boots. Birds would often try to nest in the garage and a few times I shut to door to find a bird trapped in the garage. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist." [Lucretius, Roman poet] |
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[snip] I've nearly tripped over packages left right in front of my front door and almost ran over one near the garage. I've been home when packages are delivered. The mail carrier here usually doesn't ring the doorbell unless something requires a signature. [snip] -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist." [Lucretius, Roman poet] |
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On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 19:01:38 -0800 (PST), ItsJoanNotJoann
wrote: Give it up James, you're looking more and more silly with your continued whines about how things are done in the USA. Now you are catching on. The Brits have penis envy of Americans. Drives them crazy and they just can't stand it. |
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On 02/14/2017 09:04 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per bob haller: the central mailbox.... there are some big boxes for oversized stuff, the carrier puts a key to the over sized box in the recipents usual box. Surprisingly (to me....) that idea has some appeal: people get to talk to each other a little bit when they meet while checking mail... My mail is delivered to a cluster box and it's very seldom I meet anyone when checking the mail. However I sometimes get to talk to the neighbors when the low-bid contractor uses his random sorting technique. I almost paid my neighbor's gas bill one month until I glanced at the addressee. People here are honest; they don't watch the Netflix DVD's before bringing them to the proper person. |
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On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 7:04:34 PM UTC-6, Frank wrote:
On 2/14/2017 7:36 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 00:01:25 -0000, Frank "frank wrote: On 2/14/2017 5:16 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 18:59:05 -0000, Frank "frank wrote: On 2/13/2017 8:24 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 01:07:55 -0000, Frank "frank wrote: On 2/13/2017 5:19 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: I was just watching an American film and thought, "Why don't kids steal everyone's mail?" In the UK, most people have the mailbox INSIDE the house (or simply a letterbox opening in the front door). Surely kids are tempted to nick American mail, especially as it's right on the street. There are mailboxes on doors here too but single family homes on larger lots will have their mailbox outside on the street. Mail-carriers drive vehicles with steering wheels on the right (since we drive on the right, normal are on the left) and drop off mail without leaving vehicle. Yes I can see it being more efficient for the mail people, although bloody inconvenient for the home owners (people who have them here to stop dogs eating the letters never remember to check them and get letters a week late). And my original point, doesn't mail get stolen? Mail might get stolen. It does not happen often. The mail carrier will also take outgoing mail and boxes have a flag on them to put up if there is outgoing mail. I thought the flag went up with the weight of incoming mail? We don't leave outgoing mail out overnight. Your postmen don't appear at the crack of dawn? Theft problem is more serious for packages too big for the box and left on the porch. They don't do that here. They leave min e in a shed, but only because I've asked them to do so. Mail carrier as others point out will drive/carry packages to house. Packages are also delivered by other services like Fedex. If you don't have to sign for delivery they will just drop on porch or driveway. Mine leave with a neighbour (or they would if I didn't ask them to use the shed). More serious to our curb mailboxes is damage by vandals or getting struck by vehicles. Or baseball bats. Neighbor across the street has box situated such that it has probably been accidentally hit by everyone in the neighborhood. He's got it on a hinged post so if knocked over it can be set up-right. If I was him I'd have embedded some dynamite. Mail carriers are not out at rush hour and generally spend that time collecting and loading their mail. More than half our mail is junk mail, circulars and the like and has to be sorted into each box. Vandals probably use baseball bats. Boxes along main roads are most at threat. I've nearly tripped over packages left right in front of my front door and almost ran over one near the garage. Thread reminds me that a few months ago I needed a new mail box as metal post had rusted out and new box was needed anyway. Could not find what I liked at local store and clerk advised looking on line which I did and got free shipping. Comical because besides new mail box and post, Home Depot also sent me a toilet seat and barbecue grill mat. I should have kept them but got them to come back for them. So much easier in the UK where couriers and postmen deliver to the door.. My driveway is only 100 ft. but neighbor in back has 700 ft. drive and neighbor not far has 0.4 mile drive. No way would they get delivery to house. Our family farm has a 1/4 mile long driveway and the mailbox is down on the main road at the driveway entrance. Back in the late 1960's my dad ordered an electric sander from Sears and the mail carrier left it by the mailbox. Someone stole it. It wasn't someone from our community, it was someone passing through. In those days everyone left their doors unlocked and we didn't worry about our neighbors. In the late 1960's and early 1970's, human vermin started invading our community. Someone backed a truck up to a neighbor's home and cleaned it out. We had a theft at our home because my siblings were at school and my parents were at work. Everyone in our community started locking everything up and installing alarm systems. My father installed a gate across the entrance to our driveway to keep the human vermin from driving on to our property. It's a shame that human vermin from the cities have invaded rural America. The only way to control them is the way you would deal with any vermin or dangerous predator and that's target practice. ( -_ï½¥) ︻デ•ä¸€ –¸ ヽ(à²*_à²*)ノ [8~{} Uncle Armed Monster |
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On 02/14/2017 11:59 AM, Frank wrote:
Theft problem is more serious for packages too big for the box and left on the porch. Mail carrier as others point out will drive/carry packages to house. Packages are also delivered by other services like Fedex. If you don't have to sign for delivery they will just drop on porch or driveway. Knock on wood but one of the few problems I've had over the years was when an Airborne Express driver left a box on the neighbor's woodpile. His kid found it a couple of days later an brought it over. It was laptop RAM back when it was going for about $350. I think Airborne is out of business. If so, good riddance. One fill-in UPS driver got creative. When I stopped by the warehouse the super called him up and asked what the hell he did with it. When he explained what the UPS rulebook said about deliveries she explained that he better brush up his resume. |
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On 02/14/2017 10:34 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 02/14/2017 09:04 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote: Per bob haller: the central mailbox.... there are some big boxes for oversized stuff, the carrier puts a key to the over sized box in the recipents usual box. Surprisingly (to me....) that idea has some appeal: people get to talk to each other a little bit when they meet while checking mail... My mail is delivered to a cluster box and it's very seldom I meet anyone when checking the mail. However I sometimes get to talk to the neighbors when the low-bid contractor uses his random sorting technique. I almost paid my neighbor's gas bill one month until I glanced at the addressee. People here are honest; they don't watch the Netflix DVD's before bringing them to the proper person. The USPS Sunday delivery folks are a special breed of stupid. |
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On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 5:16:27 PM UTC-5, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
I thought the flag went up with the weight of incoming mail? Mine has a flag that's connected to the mailbox door. When the door goes down, the flag goes up. https://www.amazon.com/Rubbermaid-Mb515b01-Durable-Plastic-Post-mount/dp/B00OOCBCWK We don't leave outgoing mail out overnight. Your postmen don't appear at the crack of dawn? Of course not. They have a route that takes them most of the day to traverse, so somebody's going to be first, and somebody else is going to be last. My mail arrives around noon, more or less. Cindy Hamilton |
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On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 22:16:14 -0000
"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote: I thought the flag went up with the weight of incoming mail? always running mouth about things you are clueless on. Typical of a male that wears a dress. |
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On 02/15/2017 02:53 AM, Bert wrote:
The USPS Sunday delivery folks are a special breed of stupid. They don't let the real stupid ones out... When I was driving OTR, I'd sometimes load Avon cosmetics. They used common carriers for the long haul and the USPS for the final mile delivery. Nothing like arriving at a USPS facility at 4 AM. Can you say 'sheltered workshop'. I mean that literally. |
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On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 19:38:25 -0800 (PST), ItsJoanNotJoann
wrote: On Monday, February 13, 2017 at 8:31:03 PM UTC-6, Dean Hoffman wrote: It is common in parts of rural Nebraska to have several mailboxes grouped on their own posts. It will be up to the ranchers to get their mail from there. There isn't delivery to individual houses. There might also be a post there with signs pointing to the individual ranches. Each sign would be a single board cut to make an arrow. It might say something like Too Poor Ranch 12 miles. Last time I was in Nevada and Utah driving we'd see signs that just said Ranch Road 30, etc. They didn't have addresses like 123 Main Street or RR 10, Box 1. For years here my postal address was RR2 box 109. They finally standardized it to the normal grid address. |
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 03:21:33 -0000, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 02/14/2017 02:41 PM, Frank wrote: [snip] Years ago neighbor had a cat door and his son came down one morning to see a raccoon eating cat food. Rabies is endemic here and he was lucky it was not rabid. I started leaving my cat door unlocked all the time, but changed to locking it at night. Raccoons were coming in and making messes. You can chip your cat so the raccoon can't get in. -- Do not adjust your mind - the fault is with reality. |
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 03:27:22 -0000, Mark Lloyd wrote:
[snip] I've nearly tripped over packages left right in front of my front door and almost ran over one near the garage. I've been home when packages are delivered. The mail carrier here usually doesn't ring the doorbell unless something requires a signature. Ok if your porch is sheltered from the rain. -- Do not adjust your mind - the fault is with reality. |
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 03:01:38 -0000, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote:
On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 10:16:46 AM UTC-6, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 04:49:45 -0000, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote: He's trying to make us believe that everybody that doesn't get their mail through a slot in the door has Alzhiemers and completely forget to check their outside mail boxes. Most people do not bother checking mail every day if it's in a box. But if it's flopped into your hallway, you'll see it. And you know everyone doesn't check for mail if they have outside mail boxes how? Are people sending you e-mails saying they don't check outside boxes? You are walking the streets spying on people who have outside mail boxes to see if and when they look inside? Because they've told me. 2 - How stupid would one have to be to see a mailbox on the outside of their house and forget to check it? And *often* forget to check it? Now that's really stupid. Yep! Not too bright when it comes to getting their mail, are they? Why bother checking it every day if you don't get important mail every day? Ooooooooh, you KNOW what day(s)you'll be receiving *important* mail? No. You misunderstood me completely. Nobody gets important mail every day, so they don't check it every day. We've had a mailbox on the outside of our house for over 35 years. My house is 90 years old and so are the surrounding houses. Every single one has a mail box on the outside, just a step or two outside the front door. It ain't rocket science to remember to check to see if you have mail that day. It's unnecessary. My letters appear inside my house, I see them if they're there. I don't have to go outside, unlock the box, and check to find just junk mail. Who said anything about a locked box? I guess folks across the pond don't have screened, security, or storm doors. I have security storm doors on my house and no way would they be able to get any mail through those doors. And your postman can? Give it up James, you're looking more and more silly with your continued whines about how things are done in the USA. I didn't whine, I asked how the system worked, but your stupid answers in this post have proved I should have done. -- Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block. -- Janine Benyus |
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 01:04:24 -0000, Frank "frank wrote:
On 2/14/2017 7:36 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 00:01:25 -0000, Frank "frank wrote: On 2/14/2017 5:16 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 18:59:05 -0000, Frank "frank wrote: On 2/13/2017 8:24 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 01:07:55 -0000, Frank "frank wrote: On 2/13/2017 5:19 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: I was just watching an American film and thought, "Why don't kids steal everyone's mail?" In the UK, most people have the mailbox INSIDE the house (or simply a letterbox opening in the front door). Surely kids are tempted to nick American mail, especially as it's right on the street. There are mailboxes on doors here too but single family homes on larger lots will have their mailbox outside on the street. Mail-carriers drive vehicles with steering wheels on the right (since we drive on the right, normal are on the left) and drop off mail without leaving vehicle. Yes I can see it being more efficient for the mail people, although bloody inconvenient for the home owners (people who have them here to stop dogs eating the letters never remember to check them and get letters a week late). And my original point, doesn't mail get stolen? Mail might get stolen. It does not happen often. The mail carrier will also take outgoing mail and boxes have a flag on them to put up if there is outgoing mail. I thought the flag went up with the weight of incoming mail? We don't leave outgoing mail out overnight. Your postmen don't appear at the crack of dawn? Theft problem is more serious for packages too big for the box and left on the porch. They don't do that here. They leave min e in a shed, but only because I've asked them to do so. Mail carrier as others point out will drive/carry packages to house. Packages are also delivered by other services like Fedex. If you don't have to sign for delivery they will just drop on porch or driveway. Mine leave with a neighbour (or they would if I didn't ask them to use the shed). More serious to our curb mailboxes is damage by vandals or getting struck by vehicles. Or baseball bats. Neighbor across the street has box situated such that it has probably been accidentally hit by everyone in the neighborhood. He's got it on a hinged post so if knocked over it can be set up-right. If I was him I'd have embedded some dynamite. Mail carriers are not out at rush hour and generally spend that time collecting and loading their mail. More than half our mail is junk mail, circulars and the like and has to be sorted into each box. Vandals probably use baseball bats. Boxes along main roads are most at threat. I've nearly tripped over packages left right in front of my front door and almost ran over one near the garage. Thread reminds me that a few months ago I needed a new mail box as metal post had rusted out and new box was needed anyway. Could not find what I liked at local store and clerk advised looking on line which I did and got free shipping. Comical because besides new mail box and post, Home Depot also sent me a toilet seat and barbecue grill mat. I should have kept them but got them to come back for them. So much easier in the UK where couriers and postmen deliver to the door. My driveway is only 100 ft. but neighbor in back has 700 ft. drive and neighbor not far has 0.4 mile drive. No way would they get delivery to house. Even worse, he has to go 0.4 miles to check his own mail? -- Sat opposite an Indian lady on the train today, she shut her eyes and stopped breathing. I thought she was dead, until I saw the red spot on her forehead and realised she was just on standby. |
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 03:44:22 -0000, rbowman wrote:
On 02/14/2017 11:59 AM, Frank wrote: Theft problem is more serious for packages too big for the box and left on the porch. Mail carrier as others point out will drive/carry packages to house. Packages are also delivered by other services like Fedex. If you don't have to sign for delivery they will just drop on porch or driveway. Knock on wood but one of the few problems I've had over the years was when an Airborne Express driver left a box on the neighbor's woodpile. His kid found it a couple of days later an brought it over. It was laptop RAM back when it was going for about $350. I think Airborne is out of business. If so, good riddance. One fill-in UPS driver got creative. When I stopped by the warehouse the super called him up and asked what the hell he did with it. When he explained what the UPS rulebook said about deliveries she explained that he better brush up his resume. Some postmen here have been stupid enough to put things in the recycling wheelybin. If the bin is collected before the owner spots the package.... -- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. -- Seneca the Younger 4 b.c.- 65 a.d. |
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On 02/15/2017 02:42 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
You can chip your cat so the raccoon can't get in. And use a door that recognizes the chip? I've heard of locks like that. -- Do not adjust your mind - the fault is with reality. That reminds me of one of the shortest stories I've read. The title was "sign at the end of the universe" and the content was: This end up (the sign was upside down) -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us." [Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius] |
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On 02/15/2017 02:43 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 03:27:22 -0000, Mark Lloyd wrote: [snip] I've nearly tripped over packages left right in front of my front door and almost ran over one near the garage. I've been home when packages are delivered. The mail carrier here usually doesn't ring the doorbell unless something requires a signature. Ok if your porch is sheltered from the rain. It it well enough except when there's too much wind. Also there's a hedge so the package isn't visible from the street. I may want to set up some kind of switch that turns on a light if anyone steps on the porch. Preferably one that can tell the difference between delivery people and cats. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us." [Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius] |
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On 02/15/2017 03:51 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article , says... For years here my postal address was RR2 box 109. They finally standardized it to the normal grid address. Same here in North Carolina. For years mine was Rt. 3 box 242EE. This was on a country road. The road had a name and when the county went to the 911 phone system every one had to have a street address. Most started at the start of the road and the numbers went up about every tenth of a mile. The address was then changed to 2345 Saw Road . Being about 2.3 miles from where the road started. I grew up on "Emory Lloyd Road" (named after my great grandfather). Now it's CR231. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us." [Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius] |
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:50:54 -0000, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 5:16:27 PM UTC-5, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: I thought the flag went up with the weight of incoming mail? Mine has a flag that's connected to the mailbox door. When the door goes down, the flag goes up. https://www.amazon.com/Rubbermaid-Mb515b01-Durable-Plastic-Post-mount/dp/B00OOCBCWK So you can't tell if something is in it for you? We don't leave outgoing mail out overnight. Your postmen don't appear at the crack of dawn? Of course not. They have a route that takes them most of the day to traverse, so somebody's going to be first, and somebody else is going to be last. My mail arrives around noon, more or less. Mine varies, and I sometimes get three postmen (and sometimes a ****ing gorgeous postwoman) during the course of the day. Letters, small parcels, and large parcels are delivered seperately. -- Confucius say: "Foolish man give wife grand piano. Wise man give wife upright organ." |
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On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 13:57:36 -0000, bob haller wrote:
the post office wants to move to a big neighborhood box. each home gets its own locked box, as part of a large group of boxes. this saves tons of time for the carrier,' i suppose residents could pay to get their mail at their door. my dad in phoenix gets his mail this way. he is near 90 and enjoys taking his handicap scooter to the central mailbox.... there are some big boxes for oversized stuff, the carrier puts a key to the over sized box in the recipents usual box. dad seems satisfied I guess that's one of the disadvantages of living in a wider open space. But then you do get more land to yourself. -- A blonde was playing Trivial Pursuit one night. It was her turn. She rolled the dice and she Landed on Science & Nature. Her question was "If you are in a vacuum and someone calls your name, can you hear it?" She thought for a time and then asked, "Is it on or off?" |
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