Community Chat

[Lali1]

Ours is a at the end of the street. We don't check the mail daily anymore only when we're expecting something. I don't mind it it's not a long walk and if I needed to for rain or illness I could drive down there. 

[Spurt]

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@september wrote:

@Spurt   I see your point now. I'm temporarily renting a PO box until my home is finished.  If I have a package, they put a key in the box and I get my package out of a locker.  I've only had to get in line when I've had something delivered that needed a signature.  

I didn't learn about the cluster boxes until I went for my final site visit a few days ago.  As I was leaving, I asked the builder " when does my mail box go in?"  

Lol!   😂.  Mailboxes are a thing of the past! 

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@september 

I see what you mean...we used to have those lockers for packages but they were by our cluster mailboxes....they did away with those lockers because they were very easy to break into....we were lucky because the COA decided to set up a Mail Center for packages, if they hadn't we would have had to go to the Post Office locker system...

[DiAnne]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

I think it's been many, many years since the post office allowed end-of-driveway mailboxes.  My entire town is less than 30 years old and only the oldest houses have that arrangement. 

The carrier never exerts himself to the point of bringing anything to the door even he he sees you and knows you're home.  It's easier to make you drive 4 miles to the post office, park and wait in a long line to pick it up.

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@Kachina624 

I have large mailbox across the street (my house is 70 years old) but my mailman always brings packages which don't fit to my front door and if my car is there he brings the regular mail with the package so I don't have to walk across the street to get it.  I thought all carriers did this.  

[Kachina624]

@DiAnne    No, they sure don't all do that.

[Blahblahvampemer]

This nonsense started with HOAs that didn't want to hound people about their mailboxes.  What is or isn't acceptable doesn't matter.  You couldn't get me to live anywhere with this kind of scenario.  I just couldn't.

[SandySparkles]

Just this morning, the news reported an over 100% increase in mailbox theft in the single, unlocked  mailboxes since the pandemic began!😲 With identity theft on the rise, I LOVE, and much prefer our locked, cluster mailboxes. They are not 100% theft-proof, but because of the time and effort it takes to actually break into one, and high visibility, the statistics are low-at least in our area.😊

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

[haddon9]

When we first moved into the neighborhood 28 years ago it was brand new...so new that many of the streets had not yet been paved and were still dirt.  For the first 8 months we had to go to the post office (a 10 minute drive) and wait in line to pick up the mail.  I didn't go everyday but several times a week.

Once the street was paved we got our mail delivered to our boxes at the end of each driveway.  The mail carrier drives his little truck around stopping at each box.

  I get a lot of deliveries as well as ship a lot of boxes (because of my Etsy business).  The shipping boxes are too large to fit into the mailbox so if I schedule a mail pick up the night before my mail carrier will stop and come up to my porch to either deliver or pick up.

[Spurt]

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@SandySparkles wrote:

Just this morning, the news reported an over 100% increase in mailbox theft in the single, unlocked  mailboxes since the pandemic began! With identity theft on the rise, I LOVE, and much prefer our locked, cluster mailboxes. They are not 100% theft-proof, but because of the time and effort it takes to actually break into one, and high visibility, the statistics are low-at least in our area.😊

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

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@SandySparkles 

The cluster mailboxes are a tiny bit more secure than the mailboxes at the door of the home....BUT it was interesting because when someone broke into our cluster mailboxes there were people there from other subdivisions in the area that had the same problem....Some HOAS/COAS have installed security cameras now....

And you are right, thieves like to steal information for identity theft or some people still get their checks through the mail...and then there's some stimulus checks being mailed as well.....I wish companies would stop sending all this junk mail....  There is a special number I called to opt out to prevent credit card or bank offers from being mailed...which is tempting to these identity theft thieves....

[DiAnne]

I don't have a locked box but I make sure to pick up my mail everyday.  

[willdob3]

@september 

It isn’t about being fair. You have the boxes in a specific location because it is faster and more economical for the USPS that way.

I was talking to someone who works at a community recently and they have a new section of home being built right now. We noticed that the new section has a wall of boxes in a central location while older sections of the community have individual mail boxes st the end of their driveways. The USPS won’t do them anymore. It is faster for them with a wall. 

I would not like to have to pick up my mail at a wall of boxes. That said. I normally have my mail delivered to a private post office because I work full time and don’t want things delivered to my home where they would sit in the hot sun all day or possible be stolen. I have to drive somewhere to pick up my mail. And that was my own decision.