Most of them look alike or similar for the reasons Spartydog mentioned. However, occasionally you see a fanciful one. It still has to meet specifications, but it might be decorated to look like a locomotive engine, or an animal with a big mouth, or a car .
I’ll give you another quirk of the USPS. The carrier cannot HAND you your mail. It has to go into the box. My neighbor and I were resetting a bank of four mailboxes at the end of my driveway, that had been knocked over by a snow plow. As we were working, the mail truck pulled up, and my friend and I jokingly held up the 4x4 that the boxes were attached to. The mailman said, as humorous as that was, truth is, I have to deliver it to the box. In fact, If you guys weren’t here, he stated, I would have held your mail until tomorrow, or until you fixed the boxes.
I’ve encountered this numerous times since then when I’m having a package delivered, along with the lettered mail. He’ll put the letters in the box, and then come up my driveway to hand me the package. :rolleyes:
As to the OP, although it is technically forbidden, as many others have said, if you wait until after the USPS delivery is made, but before the person has picked up the mail, you are unlikely to get in trouble for it unless the recipient complains.
You buy your mail box…you set up your mailbox…but when it’s set up to receive mail it doesn’t belong to you anymore.
It belongs to the usps.
That may be true but it’s certainly not practiced everywhere. I get mine handed to me all the time.
Maybe you should stop picking bar fights.
Oh, wait. That’s your ass. Never mind.
I got into an argument the other day because the mail lady that delivers my mail removed a flyer from my box.
I was under the assumption that the box belonged to me and therefore the contents belonged to me as well.
I guess technically she was right and I was wrong although I still think it’s the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of. Luckily for me the post office is a ghost in the wind shrinking and going bye bye.
Zombie RFD.
If you put a note in a zombie’s mailbox, is it a grave violation?
Ba-da-bump!
There’s a current (week of 5/9/11) campaign to have you put food items in, or on, your mailbox this Saturday, to be collected by the postal carrier and donated to the hungry poor folks. How does that compute?
the plastic bag provided by the letter carrier says; “1. leave non-perishable food by your mail box”.
Welcome to the Dope, dire1973. In case you were wondering, the zombie references are just because this thread was started several years ago (and now has risen zombie-like from the grave).
Re the food drive, you’re allowed to put items in your own mailbox. Otherwise nobody would be able to put outgoing mail there.