Obviously there’s going to be some variation – maybe even a lot of variation – but, on a typical day, when would you expect the mail arrive (at your home or residence, that is)?
Between 1 and 2 pm, depending on mail volume and other stuff. We’re pretty early in the route, so I suspect that people at the end of this carrier’s route are getting their mail after 3.
In winter, add the potential for a couple hours later on, especially if the carrier got assigned part of someone else’s route.
Noonish. Well, it gets stuffed in the communal box at the end of the road at noon. I pick it up a couple of times a week from there.
I don’t know. I’m not at home (work or at happy hour) when the mail arrives, unless it’s being delivered at 7:30 in the morning and I didn’t know, for lack of ever checking on the way out. On Saturdays, I either don’t check my mail because I haven’t gone anywhere, and it’s not worth the effort to go downstairs just to toss out junk mail or find a phone bill, or I check it on the way in from wherever I was. This is usually later in the day or evening, so it comes before 5:00pm. That’s all I know.
I picked 11AM, but it’s for the office I work. When the mail man changes or there’s a substitute, it usually gets delivered later in the day. At home, I have no idea. It’s delivered by the time I get home. It really just depends where on their route you are.
Get mail delivered twice a day. Once in the morning between 8:00AM and 9:00AM, and again in the afternoon generally between 3:00PM and 4:00PM.
Between noon and 1: most of the time, closer to noon.
Is that residential mail? What country do you live in?
1 PM – though technically that’s when they promise everything will be in the box, since they don’t deliver around here and we have to rent PO boxes for mail. And so far it’s been true, though I usually don’t check it more than once a week or so unless I’m expecting something.
50000 pop suburb.
All over the place. Sometimes 11am, sometimes 2pm, sometimes 5pm. No consistency whatsoever.:smack:
I have no idea because I go up to check the mailbox about once a week, or less often if I forget.
3:30ish PM during the weekdays. 1PMish on Saturdays, I think.
Around 4 pm. I’m the last house on the route, so it really depends on how the rest of his day goes. The mail truck doesn’t *exactly *peel out, but it does move pretty fast after my mail’s been delivered. 
Residential mail in the United State of Texas! Sure our schools suck, but we have a great turnaround time on Netflix DVDs.
I have never heard of twice-a-day residential mail delivery. No wonder they’re in the red.
The first run might be for general mail and the second run for packages–I am not sure. I do know that my larger parcels appear only to be delivered in the afternoon.
At the P.O., mail is put in the boxes by 10:30 am. This time has gotten later and later as they’ve added more and more boxes to the post office. It used to be 9:00 am.
At home, the carrier ususally comes by about 2 pm although it has been as late as 5 and as early as 10.
I would assume that’s it. Maybe it’s done differently in smaller communities, but in New York regular mail and very small packages (those that fit in the priority mail envelopes, basically) are delivered by your local mail carrier on foot, while boxes and so forth are put on a separate truck.
We had a nice, symmetrical bell curve centered around 1 PM going for a while, but it’s shifted to 2 PM and, while still a bell curve, is now lopsided. Oh well.
Usually before 2PM but on days when the weather starts to get more than merely ugly and into the near dangerous category we get mail much sooner. According to my regular letter carrier, our local office has a large number of part time and reserve carriers that they call up when the weather turns nasty. This cuts the individual route size nearly in half those days and thus we get mail by 10AM
I can’t even answer the poll. We gave up trying to figure it out long ago - sometimes they are there at the crack of dawn, sometimes in the early afternoon…nothing regular.
Maybe it is a Las Vegas thing - but not only do we have no clue when the mail shows up, but the same goes for garbage pick up - sometimes really early, sometimes really late. Same story for the recycling pick up.
I think they sort of figure they get here when they get here - and get over it.