On 4/16/2011 9:23 PM, Evan wrote:
On Apr 16, 6:22 pm, "Robert wrote:
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People who are bat-**** crazy about protecting their mailboxes
from being batted away by passing carloads of vandals should
locate those mailboxes far enough away from the side of the
road so that they can not be reached with a baseball bat out
of a vehicle's window -- problem solved...

If a vandal with a bat can't reach it, I'm guessing the mailman
would have a hard time getting to it as well.

Bobby G.

Ah, but you see, the letter carrier can get out of the truck,
walk a few feet to the box and deliver the mail -- teenagers
in a car driving at high speeds can't do that and in fact
might crash the car if they drove off the surface of the road
to try and "reach" the relocated mailbox...

~~ Evan

Do you wanna pay $1 per stamp to hire all the additional carriers that
would take in rural and semi-rural areas? Walking routes work in
neighborhoods of lots 40-60 feet wide. With the two-to-five-acre
minimums common for modern rural build-outs, not so much.

Around here, most of the rural routes with boxes out by the streets, are
delivered by contract carriers. Many areas, even dense apartment
projects, they are forcing people to live with cluster mailboxes. Many
attached condo projects are set up that way. The rich rural clusters of
fancy houses with private roads, all have the mailboxes up by the public
road.

They even tried to force a few in-town blocks to switch to curbside
mailboxes- they even came out and planted them. But the residents
bitched so much the local postmaster backed off.

IOW, front door delivery is not an inalienable right, but more a matter
of local tradition and custom.

--
aem sends...