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Do you have a physical mailbox at your house for receiving mail?

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Halcyon:
I know this seems like an odd question, but in the 7-8 years of living at my current house, I've never installed a letterbox. My reasoning for this is that 95% of correspondence I receive from the various companies I deal with comes via email and I prefer the security of a PO Box for physical items.

Only on rare occasions do I actually receive letters, the PO Box is mostly used for receiving parcels which I can collect from the post office any day of the week (including weekends). Whilst crime is extremely low in my neighborhood, it eliminates the risk of anything being damaged due to weather, or stolen, particularly in cases where I am not home for days at a time (which is fairly often). Another advantage is that I never receive junk mail or advertising, plus it's one less thing I need to check everyday (if I get mail to the PO Box, I automatically get an email notification).

Today however, I'm told by my bank that "initial" cards are sent to physical addresses and require "management approval" otherwise. This was never an issue when I first opened my account with this particular bank (which have actually been pretty good to deal with in the past, so I don't want to name and shame them at this time). I personally think this is a rather stupid decision.

I honestly don't see the point of a letterbox these days? To me it's equally useless as a cheque book or purchasing newspapers to read the latest news and weather. I see having a letterbox in front of my house as something for spiders to live in and dogs to pee on.

EDIT: I've included a poll for shits and giggles.

xrunner:
The answer to your question for me is yes I do have a mailbox at the street. It's a security mailbox so the letters and boxes drop down and can't be removed unless you have the key to the bottom back door.

There is no real reason not to have it out there even if you want most of your mail to go to a PO Box.

SiliconWizard:
I do but we've seen a clear increase in stolen goods in mailboxes in the past 2 years. So I have practically stopped receiving anything in my mailbox. I could as well get rid of it, although over here I think you're supposed to have one, if just to be able to receive administrative mail, even if most of it these days is also by e-mail.

Ed.Kloonk:
The new piss-off for me as far as postage goes is on-line sellers who are unwilling to send to a po-box in Australia, not understanding that despite the size of the box, it's available space and indeed the size of the parcel, the post office will deal with it accordingly. Unlike other countries.

As a result, I have to nominate the house as the address and now I watch on the camera the idiot mailman drive up the mailbox and even if all the auths-to-leave stuff is ticked, he 'cards' the thing and takes it back to the local post office.

Here's the rub. He does this to anyone receiving anything bigger than a business sized envelope. And the card he leaves in the letterbox says you can pickup after 4pm. That's because he has driven around all day with everyone's stuff and not dropped it off, and then returns to the post office, and they have to deal with it. For items that have tracking, this guy drives the whole system nuts.

Fucking madness.

themadhippy:
fairly standard in the uk to have a hole in the front door with a flap over,we call em letter boxes,not big enough to get  large  stuff or burglars through,but  big  enough  for leaflets and junk mail.

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