On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 5:32:57 PM UTC-5, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
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.

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So you can't tell if something is in it for you?

I can tell if something is in it for me. The yellow flag goes
up when the postman puts something in the box. I put the flag
down when I remove the mail. On weekdays I pick up the mail
when I come home from work, but on weekends I can look out my
window and see whether the flag is up.

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.

We pretty much have just one delivery. I have no idea what our postman
looks like.

Cindy Hamilton