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Originally Posted by Burning Down
Yeah, the neighbourhoods I've lived in were built in the 50's and 60's. They only introduced outside mailboxes here for the suburbs like 30 or so years ago. It's less work for the mailman but I don't get how they know who's mail goes where. I guess every address for that street gets assigned a box but then there's like 50 little boxes. I'm guessing that every little compartment has the house number on it, sort of like apartment mailboxes have the unit numbers on them. The only problem with the mail slot is that if it's winter or just windy out, you get a draft.
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The way it works for my neighborhood (as small as it is, it's like...5 houses), the mailboxes are down the street and they have the last name of the family that lives there and the house address. With apartments or bigger neighborhoods, they have just the house number and provide a key to each homeowner to the corresponding mailbox. Personally, I think the last name and address system works better than anything.