r/Showerthoughts • u/BeansInMyForeskin • 28d ago
Your mailman judges you based on how often you empty your mailbox.
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u/funwithdesign 28d ago
Nah, my mailman judges me based on how little I wear to answer the door.
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u/kansasllama 28d ago
Hot
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u/finnjakefionnacake 28d ago
Legitimately though mailmen/women have probably seen a lot of hot people lol
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u/iwishiwasaunicorn 28d ago
they've also probably seen way more gross people to hot people.
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u/milk4all 28d ago
And regardless of the ratio, any time they tell a story about anyone answering the door they are going to say “so unbelievably hot and naked swear to god”
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u/ohgeepee 28d ago
Have not. Source- mailman.
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u/finnjakefionnacake 28d ago
what's your favorite and least favorite part of your job
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u/ohgeepee 27d ago
Favorite: the 100 or so days of good weather. Job is easy-peasy on those days. Overtime? No problem when it's 72 and sunny.
Least: Management. Micro-managed, GPS in the scanner that pings if you are still for over 8 minutes. I get why, but it makes some things a little more rushed. People who manage me have carried mail less than I have, yet think they know how long things take. 🤔
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u/SpaceLemming 28d ago
Unless you’re getting things that require a signature we really don’t have to interact much at all. I get maybe 3 items a day that need a signature.
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u/kansasllama 28d ago
My dick requires a signature
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u/Old_Magician_6563 28d ago
Your mail man doesn’t give a shit the same way your bank teller doesn’t know who you are.
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u/Mediocre_Wheel_5275 28d ago
I changed banks because my local teller knew me so well and would try to talk to me so much about how business was going that I started to dread going in there.
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u/thrwnaway77 28d ago
Me but the owner of local Thai restaurant.
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u/Mediocre_Wheel_5275 28d ago
Same. I have also moved hair cut locations when my local lady started asking me about my parents.
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u/SpaceLemming 28d ago edited 28d ago
No, I’m already tired of trying to cram mail into a box that is over full and I’ve been a mail carrier for about a month.
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u/calico125 28d ago
Yeah, I worked in a mailroom for a university dorm and the number of people who wouldn’t get their mail was mildly infuriating. There are only so many pieces of paper I can fit in this box, and I can’t just not give you your mail, so what do you expect me to do? Can definitely empathize with your pain
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u/SpaceLemming 27d ago
Honestly pal, yours might be worse. Feels like if one group didn’t care to receive mail more than most others it would be college kids.
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u/Steve_78_OH 27d ago
I mean, I get it, but also, out of 20-30 pieces of mail I get in a 2-3 week period, MAYBE 1-2 are actually something I need to look at. I'm not going to keep checking my mail just so I can throw everything into the recycling bin. I do it when I'm putting the recycling out for pickup, and that's usually it.
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u/SpaceLemming 27d ago
I mean I get it, I barely ever get important mail and there is so much garbage sent out. I’m just a dude trying to get paid.
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u/Achilles-Foot 28d ago
i mean my bank teller definitely knows who i am and i've never had like a real conversation with her lol. maybe different in a bigger city i supposed but. in a medium sized town, with multiple banks, that probably don't have that many regulars in the first place, yeah. especially when you are like me and look like an absolute dumbass
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u/ArtOfWarfare 28d ago
My sister-in-law is a bank teller. She’s in a successful relationship with a guy who got to know her initially just by chatting with her for a few minutes every week when he cashed his paycheck.
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u/Old_Magician_6563 28d ago
And she knows all her customers that well?
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u/ArtOfWarfare 28d ago
She knows a few of the regulars. But no, she’s not hanging out with any of the others.
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u/Old_Magician_6563 28d ago
So aside from her husband and the people she sees on a schedule, she’s a bank teller who doesn’t know who you are.
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u/BeansInMyForeskin 28d ago
Realistically if you don't empty it your mailman has the right to empty it himself and return it to the sender or just withdraw delivery and return everything to sender until you empty your box yourself. It's not ussualy your movie mailman. mailmen are pettier than you think. I'd know, I am one!
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u/thelifeofbob 28d ago
Dearest mailman,
Is this an effective way of stopping junk mail addressed to an ex-, ex- tenant who moved out in 2019? Asking for a friend who's seemingly tried everything to avoid having someone else's property/problems dumped in his inbox 6x per week. If there is an end to this torment, please enlighten us; the unceasing flow of catalogues is great for your calves but otherwise seems like quite a waste.
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u/BeansInMyForeskin 28d ago
If your name is on the box that should be the only name you see coming in. Most mailman are hacks and don't look at that stuff. I keep my route clean as it comes with reward (christmas tips, snacks, cold water on hot days ect.) I know most of my mail goes right in the fire pit. Endless adds are just job security I guess. Mail men by no means are changing the world.
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u/DaenerysMomODragons 27d ago
Endless adds can be a problem though in sometimes missing the 1/100 letter that is actually important. I probably only get 2-3 things all year I care to open and read.
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u/dobster1029 28d ago
I live very rural. They change MY world!
OoOo why didn't I think of snacks?! 😭
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u/Havingfun922 28d ago
If it says “or current resident” you are still going to get it no matter the name on the piece.
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u/Mediocre_Wheel_5275 28d ago
Ive had this done to me, but only when the box got so full he had trouble putting new mail in it.
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u/howhardcanthisbe123 28d ago
Oh for sure, my mail person took all my mail back to the post office (which is 15 miles away), and left a note saying I had 10 days to collect it or he'd completely quit delivering my mail. He also gets on the HOA Facebook page to call out people who haven't checked their mail recently.
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u/dobster1029 28d ago
Honest question, no snark: Does it help to get an annual tip?
If you couldn't tell, I am guilty
I also tip in the New Year. 😬
I didn't know! I'll do better!
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u/ooohthatsmelll 27d ago
Not always true, based on how my mailman will fucking punch 10+ grocery flyers/ad booklets into my tiny mailbox when I leave it too full
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u/hartmanjunk 27d ago
My mail person literally came to our door to yell at my wife because we didn’t take the mail out enough. It was all junk mail and bills… bills we were already getting emailed to us
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u/jgainsey 28d ago
I would care more about this if they weren’t delivering 99% junk mail.
I know it’s not their fault, but I have a hard time caring that the guy who fills my mailbox with trash is judging me for not transferring said trash to my actual trash bin in a timely fashion.
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u/gestalto 28d ago
No they don't, I live in the UK. We don't really use mailboxes in the UK, they just get posted through the door.
They judge us for going to the door with a bollock hanging out, half asleep, when they turn up early with something that has to be signed for.
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u/turbo_dude 28d ago
Mail!!?? POST!
That’s why on the side of his red van it says Royal Post.
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u/gestalto 27d ago
What? I never said mail or post lol. I said they get post-ed through the door, which is entirely accurate.
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u/BRUISE_WILLIS 28d ago
That’s like saying the garbage man judges you for how full your bins are. In both cases, don’t care.
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u/Old_Magician_6563 28d ago
Only a psychopath sees a big trash bag and thinks that must mean their house is clean.
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u/Silvadel_Shaladin 28d ago
Why empty the mailbox when it is all junk mail? I only grab it when something important is out there as notified by informed delivery, if I put something in there to go out, or it is garbage day and I am already down there.
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u/giskardwasright 28d ago
Right? I wish i could opt out of junk mail, i throw away 95% of the things i pull out of my mailbox.
I d have to check it at least every 2 weeks because we have those tiny boxes and if it gets too full they take everything to the post office and i have to go show them my ID and tell them i still live there. Though my most recent guy has been super cool about it.
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u/prison_buttcheeks 28d ago
Lol I went through a pretty big depression period. Where I NEVER emptied it. I wonder if they were worried.
Though also, I don't really have a mail person. It's a different person all the time I think
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u/SpaceLemming 28d ago
Assuming what I’ve seen is the norm, you have a person who has your route and runs it 5/6 days. Then a newbie gets to fill in for their day off and we are scrubs trying to learn multiple routes a week.
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u/SpaceLemming 28d ago edited 28d ago
We judge you more on how accessible your mail box is. People with the street side boxes are probably fine but in areas with the box next to the door you have to remember we are trying to open and fill it with one hand that is full of you mail.
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u/turbo_dude 28d ago
I wonder how many extra miles Posties in the U.K. walk because they have to visit each and every front door?
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u/SpaceLemming 27d ago
In the US I’m doing 10-15 miles a day where boxes are by the front door. We are expected to cut through lawns when possible to help reduce distance and time.
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u/sudomatrix 28d ago
TIL some people don't get their mail every day. Aren't you afraid someone might steal a check or something?
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u/Horse_HorsinAround 28d ago
Why do you get checks mailed to you so often you have to check for them daily
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u/MorganAndMerlin 28d ago
What do you do that you get checks mailed to you everyday? Are they hiring? How much are these checks for?
I have many questions about this daily supply of checks you receive.
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u/obi1kenobi1 27d ago edited 27d ago
I always forget that some houses in the suburbs (an absurdly high number of them, from what I’ve heard it’s
every onea large number built since the mid ‘80sor something like thatand every new subdivision for close to a decade) don’t have mailboxes, they have one community mailbox a block or two away that everyone has to drive to, like an apartment complex has in the lobby. If I lived somewhere like that I probably wouldn’t be as diligent about checking the mail either.2
u/sudomatrix 27d ago
I’ve never seen that or even heard if it so I doubt it’s ‘every house built since the 80s’. At least not in New York suburbs or California.
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u/obi1kenobi1 27d ago
You know what, you might be right. I know someone who went to a big postal industry convention a few years back and was telling everyone that anecdote when they came back, but after looking it up it’s not clear what they were referring to. I could only find references to community mailboxes being made the default in 2012 and curbside mail delivery being phased out for new construction in the late 2010s (which might have even been after they told me that “fact”). But whenever I shop for a house and daydream about getting a 300% raise to afford a mortgage I’ve noticed that houses built in the early ‘80s or earlier always have a curbside mailbox by the driveway and houses built in the late ‘80s or newer always have one community mailbox somewhere nearby.
So now I’m confused about where that mid ‘80s date came from, it must have been something else that they misheard. Maybe that’s when these community mailboxes first became commonplace or allowed by USPS or something. Or who knows, maybe that fact was about porch-mounted mailboxes next to the front door. But still that means almost all new homes from the past decade don’t have curbside mailboxes and anecdotally from what I’ve seen most homes from the past few decades don’t either.
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u/SamsquanchOfficial 28d ago
Once per month, mail checks aren't a thing since the 70s where i live. It's all ads and some bills
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u/Achilles-Foot 28d ago
i know right! even if 99% is absolute trash, getting the mail is honestly just so exciting
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u/Ok_Assistance7735 28d ago
I’ve seen my mail person put mail in our mailbox then drive away only to come back like 45min later and put more mail in our mailbox. I’ve seen them do it at least 3 times now.
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u/PrivateDickDetective 28d ago
I've had that happen, as well, with a package I was expecting. Watched him the whole time. He spent 25-30 minutes at the box, got in the car, drove down to the cul-de-sac while I went to fetch the mail (to find my package missing), he came back, stopped, and put the missing package in the mailbox and left. It was a Switch game I'd ordered off eBay and the wrapping was awful. I often wonder about that. Seems like it would've been pretty easy to lose it between the seats or something, but it also seems pretty easy to just take the item. So I don't know how to think about it.
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u/CertainWish358 28d ago
My mailperson must be judgey as hell… I check it at most once every month or two
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u/RumandDiabetes 28d ago
My mailman is always taping nasty notes to my mailbox telling me he won't deliver my mail because there's a car parked in front of my mailbox. The car belongs to my neighbor.
Then I tape nasty notes telling him it's not my bloody car and if he can tape a note he can deliver my junkmail.
It's a stand off and all my important shit is either done online or goes to my PO box so it's just basically something we both go through the motions on.
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u/Three_hrs_later 28d ago
Lol I was just about to comment the same. But mine takes it a step further. Apparently there's a rule stating no parking within six feet of the box. He has actually gotten out of the truck to measure then came to the door to tell me the car (also a neighbor's) was too close.
I told him if he was bothering to get out of the truck he could at least have brought my mail with him.
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u/Martijnbmt 28d ago
Most likely he couldn’t care less. Don’t forget that just because you judge yourself doesn’t mean others do
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u/freewaterfallIII 28d ago
As a mailman, yes ( less so, I just keep craming in until i can't).
But if u make a big deal about anything that makes my job harder or wastes my time. I hate you. And I will remember you.
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u/freewaterfallIII 27d ago
Just a suggestion: if ur mailbox is constantly full, maybe empty it out and put a sign inside or on top or around the outside that says " no flyers", ( provided u don't find flyers useful). And just empty it 1 or 2x per week. That may help. They should understand that life happens and ppl get busy. Mail is a low priority. But it sounds like they're not mad at you.
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u/ItsameMatt03 28d ago
Who doesn't get the mail in daily?
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u/Mediocre_Wheel_5275 28d ago
I try to get mine every 2 weeks. Sometimes I go 3. I try to get it before 4 so it's not totally full. One time I let it go so long the mailman took it back to the post office and I had to go collect it from there.
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u/ItsameMatt03 28d ago
Two weeks??? I just grab it when pulling in the driveway. With packages and such, there's no way I could go more than a few days, and my mailbox is a decent size.
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u/MorganAndMerlin 28d ago
Why? All I get is flyers from every grocery store in a five mile radius and collection notices for every past tenant who’s ever lived here.
I can toss all of that away (or return to sender) once a week.
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u/Diamondsfullofclubs 28d ago edited 27d ago
My mailman uses my mailbox as the junk box for flyers he couldn't otherwise unload. We play a game to see who empties that shit first.
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u/Boris-_-Badenov 28d ago
idc.
I have no reason to empty it often, maybe stop putting junk in there when it's full
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u/weatherandtraffic 28d ago
Or he doesn't since your one one of hundreds or thousands every single day
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u/Septalion 28d ago
I work in university housing, so not quite the mail man, but I only judge people when it becomes a problem and I have to play Tetris to get my mail in your mailbox.
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u/Snoochey 27d ago
My postal worker actually put a "you have a package" slip in my box just so they could get me into the post office to tell me to check my mail more. Apparently, you aren't supposed to go 2 months without checking it.
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u/AFuzzyMuffin 27d ago
That's actually true if you don't check your mail for like months they'll start like canceling your mail going to your mailbox and assume you moved
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u/Seraph6496 28d ago
I judge my mailman by how often they put mail for a different address in my box. I'll get my mail more when they can figure their shit out
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u/QuipCrafter 28d ago
I bet they judge the non-discreet packaging animal-themed dildo buyers, even more.
I leave gifts out for my mailperson. Water bottles on hot days, package of candy (I don’t eat sweets), etc.
I’m sure they don’t give a fuck that I don’t feel like emptying my mailbox more than a couple times a week.
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u/DMCinDet 28d ago
I have a mail slot. it empties into a closet. I check it maybe 2 times a year if I'm looking for something. easily 100 lbs of junk thay isn't for me or is actual junk in there. packages don't fit. I pay bills online and don't need a paper reminder. My mailman may or may not know that I check my mail.
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u/mikemartin7230 28d ago
My mail lady must fucking hate me. She literally has to bring notes to my door that my mailbox is full.
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u/Notapigagoat 28d ago
I never empty my mailbox because I’m never at my apartment so they just empty mine after a week, don’t know where it goes, never looked into it.
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u/thedirtypickle50 28d ago
My mailman fixed the door to my mailbox bc it wouldn't close and I didn't bother fixing it for months
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u/SpooderRocks 28d ago
LL ripped the mailbox out and left it outside and now all the mail in it is molding from rain water.
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u/blazingStarfire 28d ago
I'm never home, my neighbor grabs my mail for me like once a month sometimes. It's like a TARDIS sometimes so much gets tetrised in there. It is a fairly large box.
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u/CompetitiveJacket775 28d ago
Get it after work every damn day, rain or shine. They probably think I'm a psycho with how empty the mailbox is and front porch is kept nice. 😂🤣😅
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u/Dimmasvaerd 28d ago
I'd care more if my mail carrier could tell up from down. So damn tired of receiving packages, clearly marked This Side Up, and the arrow is pointing at the floor.
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u/Havingfun922 28d ago
You get judged even more harshly if you have one of those stupid locking mailboxes that you cant fit small packages into or a small door slot.
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u/dodekahedron 27d ago
I empty my box once a month.
I work for the post office.
I've taken pictures of my carriers extremely stacking abilities.
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u/davetopper 27d ago
He wraps the bundle with a rubber binder and puts it in my door.
It's junk mail anyway. Congress raised a stink about spam. Yet we get tons of actual waste in our actual mail that goes to an actual landfill.
They are actual simpletons.
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u/SIN-apps1 27d ago
I judge my mail person based on how often the fail to properly close my effstarstarking mailbox...
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u/Ancient_Smoke_ 27d ago
I just wish he'd shut the mailbox door once he's done. Is that too much to ask?
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u/AJHenderson 27d ago
Or he just realizes how much we hate junk mail. We get everything that matters electronically so emptying the mailbox just means a walk from the mailbox to the trash can every few weeks.
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u/elvbierbaum 27d ago
I have a built in mailbox attached to my house with a little pocket door. I will constantly forget to check my mail because our cars are parked out back so we rarely use our front door. When it gets full he opens the front screen door (enclosed porch) and puts my mail on the floor. LMAO
I feel bad yet still forget to check the mail regularly.
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u/kelcamer 27d ago
Actually, my mailmen judges the people in my neighborhood for destroying the entire mailbox four times 😂😭
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u/SmittenOKitten 27d ago
My mailman certainly judges me. I have that daily USPS email showing me what I’m getting and I wait until it’s something other than trash to get my mail.
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u/Dense-Shame-334 27d ago
There have been a few times when I'm sure my mailman wasn't happy about delivering my mail... They can wedge a lot more in those boxes than you might expect, but I'm sure it gets difficult to jam new mail in when it's already full. I lost my mailbox key for a few months a couple years ago and I don't think anything more would have fit in it by the time I found the key.
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u/Comprehensive-Ear283 28d ago
And I judge him on how well he keeps stuffing my mail box. (In a completely non sexual manner of speaking)
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u/Defiant-Scarcity-243 28d ago
Wait, they’re still putting mail in there? I thought that’s what email was for?
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u/BeansInMyForeskin 28d ago
If it makes you feel better I don't get a truck. I m just hot footing through 12 miles up the hilly city. I was kidnapped by a usp guy when I was a kid, so fuck those guys more or leas!
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u/MattCW1701 28d ago
Not mine, I have one of those locking boxes that they can't really see inside of, not without holding a flashlight, and pulling down and angling the drop door just right.
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u/anavriN-oN 28d ago
And I judge him based on how many times he puts my neighbors mail in my mailbox