First you have to get them to stop and deliver the mail. We got two packages today but the outgoing mail in the door was ignored. I’m glad it wasn’t carrying a check to pay a bill. This jerk Joy is making the Post Office a laughingstock.
And heaven forbid that the Post Office should change the time that they deliver the mail. Our condo community has a large number of older residents, and when the delivery time was changed, it was a major topic of conversation for months. And then last week, the garbage collection company changed the pick up day. Oh, the humanity!
Home owners still get mail. Mostly bills from small companies, but the trash collector isn’t small and still uses paper bills. I can, however, use EFT to pay them. My power company sends an ebill, but my credit union has to send them a paper check.
My Major Credit Card with “auto-pay” kept missing withdrawals from my bank acc’t, thus kicking off Late Payment fines, which took lotsa time on their 1-800 number to get them straight, thus I get their bill in the roadside mailbox, payable by check and a ‘forever stamp’..At 86, I’m gettin’ too dam old to play internet games and financial finaglings with twenty-somethings who think “It’s all so easy and CONVENIENT, too !!”
I love getting mail! This is something my husband does not understand. If it snowed 10 ft (which does not happen here) I still would be trying to go out and bring in the mail. When husband was still working my big excitement for the day was to go out to the PO and check the mail in the box we had there. He does not understand this love of getting mail. I finally was able to explain it – like in the movie "The Music Man ’ when they sing about the Wells Fargo Wagon – it could be something exciting!
No, it rarely is – most exciting is one of the few magazines I get, mostly monthly or less often.
These days we have the mail coming to the house (gave up trying to get it forwarded from the box during Covid and did not want to go out to get it at the PO). We get up, get dressed eat lunch, I wash the dishes, and then I get to go out to the mailbox in front of the house and check for mail – the highlight of the day!
Templo S.U.D. over 2 years ago
bless you, international postal services
Caldonia over 2 years ago
Geez, I guess my dad was a plugger. There was a lot of mail, but I don’t think it was worth his trips.
wiatr over 2 years ago
First you have to get them to stop and deliver the mail. We got two packages today but the outgoing mail in the door was ignored. I’m glad it wasn’t carrying a check to pay a bill. This jerk Joy is making the Post Office a laughingstock.
nosirrom over 2 years ago
Guilty. I try to time my errands so that when I return the mail has just been delivered.
kelloggs2066 over 2 years ago
Well, maybe if the Plugger isn’t working until sundown…
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member over 2 years ago
“Pluggers still get mail”.
Pocosdad over 2 years ago
And heaven forbid that the Post Office should change the time that they deliver the mail. Our condo community has a large number of older residents, and when the delivery time was changed, it was a major topic of conversation for months. And then last week, the garbage collection company changed the pick up day. Oh, the humanity!
juicebruce over 2 years ago
Just another daily chore …..
david_42 over 2 years ago
Home owners still get mail. Mostly bills from small companies, but the trash collector isn’t small and still uses paper bills. I can, however, use EFT to pay them. My power company sends an ebill, but my credit union has to send them a paper check.
guy42 over 2 years ago
No reason to go to the mailbox, it’s empty. If there was something in the mailbox the flag would be up.
ctolson over 2 years ago
That’s because the Grandkids aren’t visiting.
raybarb44 over 2 years ago
Sometimes it’s a tie though…..
CynthiaLeigh over 2 years ago
I use the Informed Delivery feature on the USPS site to see if I have any mail.
unca jim over 2 years ago
My Major Credit Card with “auto-pay” kept missing withdrawals from my bank acc’t, thus kicking off Late Payment fines, which took lotsa time on their 1-800 number to get them straight, thus I get their bill in the roadside mailbox, payable by check and a ‘forever stamp’..At 86, I’m gettin’ too dam old to play internet games and financial finaglings with twenty-somethings who think “It’s all so easy and CONVENIENT, too !!”
Sailor46 USN 65-95 over 2 years ago
That would be my wife
William Robbins Premium Member over 2 years ago
once a week, i transfer the junk from the mailbox to the trash. occasionally i’m surprised there’s something to open.
mafastore over 2 years ago
I love getting mail! This is something my husband does not understand. If it snowed 10 ft (which does not happen here) I still would be trying to go out and bring in the mail. When husband was still working my big excitement for the day was to go out to the PO and check the mail in the box we had there. He does not understand this love of getting mail. I finally was able to explain it – like in the movie "The Music Man ’ when they sing about the Wells Fargo Wagon – it could be something exciting!
No, it rarely is – most exciting is one of the few magazines I get, mostly monthly or less often.
These days we have the mail coming to the house (gave up trying to get it forwarded from the box during Covid and did not want to go out to get it at the PO). We get up, get dressed eat lunch, I wash the dishes, and then I get to go out to the mailbox in front of the house and check for mail – the highlight of the day!