Who’s in my mailbox?
Posted by admin on February 25th, 2010 . Filed under: Daily .When we first moved into the land of “what the frick the closest store is how far?!” we knew there were going to be a lot of changes to be made. First of all we don’t get trash service..yeah you heard me right. Good thing I recycle a bunch. Of course the closest store is a long dark, scary road that you could imagine a guy with a chainsaw running in the middle of after chopping someone up in the woods next to it. Uh yeah my imagination runs wild, since moving out here I’ve made sure not to watch too many scary movies. Next we didn’t have a mailbox we had to put one up and then inform the post office of it.
So one weekend we put up our mailbox, informed the post office & easy peasy. My outgoing mail would disappear anytime I would put it out & get to its final destination. But I never saw a mailtruck, as much as I’m home I would think I would have seen one. One day I saw a silver car puting something in my mailbox…wtf? That’s illegal right? My dad was with me as I started to rant & go to the mailbox to throw whatever it was away. Well…it was legit mail. Our city/town/smallsville doesn’t have mail trucks… the mail people have to use their own vehicles!
Is this weird to anyone but myself?
February 25th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
not weird at all. Thats how mail is delivered where I live…however with a twist. My house is on a S bend so we cant have a mail box, thankfully my grandmother lives down the road so her mail box also functions as mines. lol
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February 25th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
Not weird! Its the same here.. the odd time I see little mail trucks go and empty the big mail boxes around the corner but to delivery around my area they use their own cars too!
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February 25th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
We have that, too, but the vehicles have a light on top that say “CANADA POST”, sort of like a Taxi light.
February 25th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
I think generally in America they mostly use USPS vehicles inside city limits. When they get really outside of town, then the mail deliverers use their own vehicles.
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February 25th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
It’s not weird to me, because I also live in the boonies! The nearest gas station is four miles away, the nearest grocery store is six miles (and it’s a podunk little store, blech), and the nearest Target is eleven miles away! Oh, and our mail carriers (there’s a few that rotate throughout the year) all use their own vehicles, though they do have magnetic signs they put on the front, back & sides that identify them as mail carriers.
February 25th, 2010 at 7:12 pm
Our postal carriers drive their own vehicles as well, so it is not weird to me. We live in a little town in the middle of no where– UPS usually has to call to find our house.
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February 25th, 2010 at 7:21 pm
Ditto. In town they do have mail trucks but all the rural carriers drive their own vehicles. Same with garbage pickup. We got it in town but not in rural areas. You big city girls live such sheltered lives. :p
February 25th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
Hahaha yes very sheltered, I’ve lived within the Houston city limits almost all my life. So this is all so new to me. LOL Wow I must be sheltered if so many people have mail carriers that use their own cars. LOL
February 25th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
They have mail trucks here, but some carriers drive regular cars too. Although, some of the regular cars have the steering wheel on the passenger side. I’m not sure how they determine which routes get the mail trucks, but our carrier drives an old Jeep Cherokee.
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
That’s how it is delivered around here. Some people get it in the regular mail trucks, while some get in cars. I think they sub out work.
February 28th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Kind of reminds me of where we live all major stores are 20-30 miles away there’s this small like mini mart that’s SO expensive about 15 miles. We do get mail but you have to drive up to get it (all mailboxes are in one spot before you drive into where all the homes are) and they won’t deliver to our house you have to pick it up at the post office. This sucked especially during Christmas time.
I also had to do the same thing “No Watching Horror Movies” when we first moved here I was like “No Way” beautiful house but seriously it’s one of those homes and areas that you ALWAYS see in horror movies.
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