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(now with 'car' option)poll: so how IS mail delivered to your house?

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Chris G:
Yes, Chad loses purely by virtue of having posted that.

billf:

--- Quote from: Chris G on August 30, 2007, 04:21:24 pm ---Yes, Chad loses purely by virtue of having posted that.

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 ;D

knave:
Growing up in the middle of nowhere, the mailman, Luther used to drop of the mail in a jeep every day at the same time. Sometimes he would give me a ride up the hill from the busstop. If he was early he would bring it down the 100 ft or so to the house. Real cool guy.

Now as a grown up I attract trainee mail-people like flies on...

I seem to get my mail, the neighbors mail some guys mail down the street not to mention every piece of junk mail for all the past residents for about 10 or so years.  My first house the mailman parked and walked to each house.  Most houses had a mailslot or a box on the porch.

New house used to be what I thought was a seinior route...cus all the houses had a mail box on the sidewalk. and the fat old guy never had to get out.  It was better then unless I parked in front of it like we mentioned earlier.  Soon after I moved in the old mailman disappeard and now it's a different one each day.  Ok well we might be down to two now. 

All in all though I'm not complaining though it is always nicer if the mailman is able to apply a little bit of common sense and I find that most do.  As long as the mail has some part of my name and a mostly correct address I get it. (At least I think I do.)

I still don't park in front of my mailbox though...

danny_galaga:
ok, i added car/truck to the poll. whoodathunk? you yanks have to drive every freakin where! i wonder how much USPS loses each year? Aust Post actually turns a large profit (360 million dollars last year, compared to British Post 1 billion POUND loss!) For those that missed my other thread, my interest in this is that i've just joined australia post (",) yes, i am now to be feared  ;D .
this is how most suburban mail is delivered in australia (and new zealand i believe)



(i notice the jpg is titled 'chadstone'. coincidence?)

about the incorrect addresses. here we are allowed to make reasonable assumptions about wrong addresses. if it says smith st and its actually smith court but there is no smith st in that suburb you can assume thats what they meant. also people get dislexic about unit numbers, writing 7/60 smith st instead of 60/7 smith st. each postie has to sort their mail on an armature which has about 20 streets listed on it. and every house and unit for those streets. its really simple to double check against another piece of mail for the same person and see if that's who it was intended for.

jbox:

--- Quote from: billf on August 30, 2007, 11:28:31 am ---What are you a mailman?   ::)

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Much worse - he's a software engineer. If your doctor puts too much of a tail on your next script you'll be surprised at how strange your oral medication will taste...  >:D


--- Quote from: someRandomWebPage ---G. What do you do if you receive a prescription and the drug name is misspelled?
- Dispense the drug with the closest name     11%

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