@LovesTha our mail delivery is done entirely from a mail truck. They just drive down the road and stop at each box without ever getting out, unless there is some large package they can’t smash into the mailbox (and they try hard)
@mansr@LovesTha the mail was delivered on foot where I grew up in southeastern Michigan - the houses were close enough together for that to make sense.
Where I live now, the post office is 10 miles away from each house is about 80 meters apart from each other - very low density and the hills are a killer. Walking and biking are recreational activities only - there is nothing close enough to either walk to bike to.
@LovesTha@mansr the lots squeeze together in the front on this part of street. Some mailboxes are on opposite sides of a driveway, and others are ~120ish meters apart. Was trying to give a rough average.
Where my parents live, the mailboxes are all together in a little cul-de-sac and so the post office truck just has one stop in that part of the neighborhood. As I understand it, all the new neighborhoods have to do that with their mailboxes now - the USPS seems to want to phase out mailboxes at each house to make delivery faster and more efficient.
@jerry@mansr Postie bikes are these most places in Australia. CBD's may be delivered by foot with a trolley. Flat areas around the post office by push bike and rural by truck to banks of Road Side Mailboxes. But 95% (maybe) of residential mail is by a honda postie bike.
Your suburb of 80m wide lots would be by postie bike.
The postie bike is the only petrol powered vehicle allowed on footpaths.
@jerry well, now you have an excuse to put a computer into that mailbox and run your mail server on it. "I heard you like mailboxes, so I put a mailbox on your mailbox." :awesome:
@jerry This distracted driver reminds me of a great story.
I was having brunch with the wife. As we were walking out, I noticed a car creeping by that was heads down, looking at her cell phone.
I was already on the parking lot pavement; as she drove by, I smacked her car pretty hard with my open hand and yelled the loudest I could, FFUUUCCCKK.
She slams on her brakes in a panic, looking around.
I am, of course, laughing my ass off. She then gets out of the car to try and yell at me.
I, of course, continued to laugh and say listen lady, you were on your phone; you could have run over a kid or anyone, really. You are lucky. This is a cheap lesson, so say you are sorry, get back in your car, and pay attention.
@0xamit@jerry Could be a new driver. My daughter, while practicing with her learner’s permit, hit a mailbox with the side mirror once. She was so fearful of oncoming traffic she had a habit of hugging the curb. Fortunately, her incident damaged the side mirror and not the mailbox. 😄
@thomasareed@0xamit I know the driver - he went to school with my son - lives in the neighborhood, mid 20's, been driving for a decade. Just one of those things. He hit the curb before entering the video I posted and that popped his right front tire and he was apparently so startled that he didn't recover before hitting the mailbox. He did quite a lot of damage to his mom's new car...
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