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We don’t have those little red flags here in Sweden, actually I don’t think the mail man will pick up your mail, you have to put it in a post box. Another weird thing here, in the city anyway, all the postal carriers ride bikes (rain sleet snow, whatever) so they don’t deliver packages. We pick ours up at the local grocery store.
I hate the mail carriers..they’re always late and they tend to cram everything into our small tiny mail box.
I seem to always mail stuff on my way to work or at work myself.
In town, all of the mailboxes have little red flags. Cheery little things, I like them.
Out here in the ‘dunks, we pretty much get our mail at the post office or at a Shipping Depot place. The kids are pretty good at blowing the mailboxes up with the M-80s. It’s just easier.
Oooh don’t get me started on mail service, I could rant all day! 
My verification word is bleah, that sums it up nicely! 
We still have those little red flags on the mailboxes in my town.
My old mailman used to know us, or I should say he made it a point to know people on his route. After we moved he always made sure mail with our old address still got to us.
Wow, you speak dog? I’m impressed.
I like our mail carrier. He’s a rural driver, and they’re more laid back. Plus, the guy’s dad is a postal mail carrier (did the DC area before getting transfered to Topeka), so I’ve gotta be semi-nice. But ours is awesome. 
Actually brings packages that won’t fit in the lock boxes to the door, or at least leaves a note in both our box and on our door. Much better than Florida had.
SuperWoman, is that so? I was wondering if they did sneaky crap like that. Assholes. I was going through them pretty fast.
Nixxie, biking in the snow and rain? Do you get a lot of soggy mail?
Donna, maybe you need a bigger mailbox?
Maggie, M-80s, what are those, grenade launchers?
Zoe and Sarah, I guess the big-city mail carriers don’t even compare.
Joe, yup. Comes in handy sometimes, though I often choose to have no idea what they’re whining about sometimes. Demanding little creatures.
We’ve never had that service (putting your outgoing mail in your own mailbox to be collected) in Australia as far as I’m aware… I always thought it was a pretty cool thing when I saw it in movies.
We still have the little red flags here. I don’t use them that often. I’ll only take it out to the box if I know he’s getting ready to come, otherwise, I take it to the post office. I’m old fashioned like that. Sometimes I’ll just buy one single stamp to mail something. lol What a dork, I know. *sigh*
And as was previously stated, Netflix DOES delay your movies. Fuckers.
Our mailman is a very nice Filipino man who loooooves catching me outside or bringing packages to the door. He always flirts and talks way too long. I guess it’s a pretty lonely job. lol
They did a sting on those mail carriers, you know? I know a guy who got busted. He would pull them out, take em home and watch them and then send them on! Oh and about the stripping fantasy- I’ll tell you what- back in the day (this time last year) no one could strip like me. The things I did. Shhhh. Doesn’t jive with working as a nanny.
Amy, don’t be too jealous. It isn’t that reliable. I prefer to drop it into a postal drop-box.
KG, funny how they get around so much, yet it could be a lonely job. Either that or your mailman likes you! 
Jackie, I knew it!
I can’t get mail at my house. I can only get it at the post office or if I work hard enough I’m rewarded with a cluster box.
I hate mail. I guess I’m so dependent on computers that mail has become a burden.
My word is “girls”—whoa! Yeah, there’s a few of us in my head 
You <i>can’t</i> get mail at your house, or prefer not to? The only mail I like to get these days are packages of things I ordered and checks. Though direct deposit is so much better.
My bills seem to get to me really, really quickly. Figures.
Hehe, yeah them bills seem to get top priority, don’t they?
We have those big banks of multiple mailboxes, so the lazy ass mail man doesn’t have to drive house to house. We got a new mail man a few months ago and he is constantly putting mail in the wrong person’s box. And some people do not even use their box, they keep a post office box. So my husband was down at the mailbox one day and the mailman is jamming mail into a box that is full because no one uses it. My husband told him, “No one uses that box” and it turns out about 10 of the letters were OURS anyway. A credit card bill we got charged for being late. A CHECK we had been waiting on for a month.
Seriously, I’m sure the mail service will die someday soon and I won’t miss it. I rarely use it, except for one of my jobs to send out invoices. And Christmas cards.
nope, we don’t get soggy mail. They have these cool little, hmm....baskets on the front and back of their bikes and they have covers on them. I will try and take a picture one day (when I get batteries for the camera http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1626/pictureflash2bz.gif)
I missed the party here with the comments. Lots of comments. I’ll just say that we still have the flags on our mailboxes here. My mail service is getting better. I used to not get it until four or five o’clock. Now, it’s about noon time. Much better.
Annie, wow that blows! I can see mail carriers being lazy and stuffing mail wherever just because there’s a bank of boxes. “They’ll sort it out themselves.” What an ass.
Nixxie, well that’s good. Soggy mail is just really hard to get out of the envelope, heh.
T, you’re late! Did you bring more booze?
It may not be JUST the mail service- Netflix is notorious for delaying movies if they feel you are cycling through movies too quickly. We still have the little red flags here where we live.
Super Woman | 06.03.2006 | 2:51 PM