Walt Longmire Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 P.O. Box? Locking cluster box? RFD to an unsecured mail box by the road? Or home delivery? I have a p.o. box that I have used for almost 40 years. Several years ago I bought a box in a cluster box in my neighborhood. I am working on switching all my mail for delivery to the cluster box so I can eliminate trips into the post office. Right next to our cluster box a few households have mounted up the old fashioned unsecured mail boxes. I can't imagine doing that these days just to save a couple bucks. The cluster box cost me around $200 (maybe less, don't remember for sure) but it's mine, and there will never be another fee. The p.o. box is $180 a year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmohme Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Mail box at the end of my driveway with a security camera on my house aimed at it so that I know who to thank for disposing of my junk mail. I don't care to disarm just to go to the post office to check a PO box. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 (edited) Most things home. Some things PO Box. Edited May 19, 2020 by Historian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alabusa Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 A regular box at the driveway. Lived here since '90 without issueSent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Box at the end of drive and never had a problem. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted May 19, 2020 Author Share Posted May 19, 2020 I had to ease into the p.o. today and make my way among the unwashed masses. There happened to be one other customer in there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 We share a little triangle driveway with three other houses and each of us have a plain old mailbox there. I know our mail carrier and we haven't had any problems so far. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holyjohnson Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 last two houses i got a locking mailbox and welded it to the steel posts by the Road. Postal rules there made it the only real option. this house has the box by on the house by the door. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrB Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Box at the end of the driveway, no problems. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted May 20, 2020 Author Share Posted May 20, 2020 Do any of you folks with the box by the road still have an RFD address? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.Cicero Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Box at the end of the driveway. It's been run into or baseball batted once in 10 years. I probably just jinxed it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moshe Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Mail box. I am thinking of replacing it, eventually, the box is absolutely hideous compared to the home and property. I am uncertain why someone with a beautiful Colonial red brick home, and property would put an atrocity that looked like the 60's had a love child with the 70's as a mail box. The thing is horrid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 51 minutes ago, Walt Longmire said: Do any of you folks with the box by the road still have an RFD address? Nope. Street address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster55 Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Box at the end of drive by entrance gates Dope heads been going through some on the road I heard I'm gonna leave them a fresh envelope of German Shepherd **** for their grab and run 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tadbart Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Cluster box (free) for most stuff. PO Box ($104/year) for gun parts and precious metals that must be smuggled into the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Just your standard mailbox here. Used to have a PO box for people on the net to send me stuff so they won't know my real address. I don't have that anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RenoF250 Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Box at the end of the driveway. That is part of my home selection process, I don't want a PO box or cluster box. Previous house had mailbox also. I get a lot of Amazon crap and it is left by the front door. Ring camera keeps an eye on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted May 20, 2020 Author Share Posted May 20, 2020 Do any of you worthies even know what RFD means? Ya dumb bastards. Probably too young. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 4 minutes ago, Walt Longmire said: Do any of you worthies even know what RFD means? Ya dumb bastards. Probably too young. Nope, I gave up rural lifestyle when I was 17 and moved into an urban setting. Why anyone would wanna live in a rural setting their WHOLE LIVES is beyond me. Oh well, to each their own I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Rural Free Delivery Sears Roebuck & Co. Built their original business on that. At one time or another they sold guns and ammo, house kits, tombstones, automobiles, appliances, clothes and much else mail order. I even ordered automobile parts from them. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Oh, and to answer the original question I have a standard rural style mailbox inside one of the huge brick columns common in this area - no doubt to thwart bat swingers. I mounted a very large metal box side saddle on the column at the postman’s request. The brick column is before the side saddle box as one drives by. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 5 hours ago, railfancwb said: Rural Free Delivery Sears Roebuck & Co. Built their original business on that. At one time or another they sold guns and ammo, house kits, tombstones, automobiles, appliances, clothes and much else mail order. I even ordered automobile parts from them. You could buy houses from Sears. I wonder where you'd ship it to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC Tiger Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Plain ole' mailbox at the end of the road. One of those "Step 2" things. Was easiest thing to put up after the tornado took out my old one. 11 hours ago, Mrs.Cicero said: Box at the end of the driveway. It's been run into or baseball batted once in 10 years. I probably just jinxed it. Knew a guy who put his on a 5 ft long piece of railroad iron, cemented 2 ft into the ground. Never had to worry about it being take out after that. But I think the post office made him change it because it would endanger a car that was really out of control and hit it accidentally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 14 hours ago, Walt Longmire said: Do any of you folks with the box by the road still have an RFD address? Didn’t some federal rules - maybe from Homeland Security - mandate street numbers for every residence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 911 requires street numbers in my area. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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