"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 6/21/2014 12:36 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>
>>
>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On 6/21/2014 12:12 PM, l not -l wrote:
>>>>
>>>> We may see even more cluster boxes for subdivisions. USPS recently
>>>> created
>>>> a stir by announcing new requirements for delivery to cluster boxes
>>>> instead
>>>> of door-to-door.
>>>> "Under a cost-saving plan by the U.S. Postal Service, Americans moving
>>>> into
>>>> newly built homes will not have mail delivered to their doors and will
>>>> instead have to trek to the curb or neighborhood cluster boxes.
>>>> The Postal Service began the change in April, and Congress is
>>>> considering
>>>> an
>>>> even bolder shift that would also affect existing houses. It's
>>>> unclear if
>>>> delivery to the door will eventually be eliminated entirely."
>>>> http://news.msn.com/us/usps-may-end-...-for-new-homes
>>>>
>>> Uh, yeah. Except (according to Julie) they bought that house 10 years
>>> ago
>>> and by all accounts it wasn't new construction. They haven't shifted to
>>> existing houses yet, so I still don't get the need a mailbox key at her
>>> house. Then again, she doesn't explain things very well.
>>
>> Or you are not willing to understand that many do not work the same way
>> as yours.
>>
> Of course I understand that. You yourself said you've encountered locking
> mailboxes when you lived in other countries. I've lived where I had a
> locking mailbox. It's not an unfamiliar concept except I've never run
> into it except apartments/condos.

Well, from what we see from others, your experience is not 'all there is'


> She said, "They can't make a copy of the mail box key. We did get two.
> Husband lost his..." Why can't they get a copy of the key made? The post
> office can surely replace it. *Someone* is unlocking that mailbox when
> they deliver the mail. That same someone (the USPS) should be able to
> provide a replacement key or two.

No mailman every had a key to unlock mine! They just shove it through the
slot!

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