JFred, our mailbox is a standard farm-store metal box, at the streetside bottom of the stairs. It's bolted to the railing, running upward at an angle, with the lid on the uphill side. It's not like we can run it the other way, ya know? Let the mail fall in the street? Make it impossible to put in with one tender postal hand? So when the lid is LEFT down, it gets rain in there. So that's always.
Those mail "people" ~ well sometimes, FOR A DAY ONLY, the mail gets left in there. And those people get huffy and self-righteous and always leave the lid down, knowing damn well the box is going to fill like a kettle before they get to the next house. It swells and puffs up like a mushroom. You have to pull the envelopes out with needle-nose. My Civilization, Architectural Record, Garden Design, Low Rider ~ just leave it in there one day, your stuff, and whether the new stuff will fit in there or not, they gotta punish you with the not so subtle hint. They jam the stuff in there like a war-bonnet in a telescope. It's a big box, but not if there's perchance any residue in there from the day before; no, then there's not room for a postcard. I think it's immature.
Yah. That's what I think. |
