Mai Box outside a new home (Flower Mound, Post: apartment, rental, new house)

[dennyhomeowner]

Hi all,

Is there any code to constructing a brick and stone mail box for a new house? Our builder says that our mail box will go to other side of the street rather than the side of the street where the house exists. Appreciate any inputs.

Cheers,
-D.

[Squirl]

I have often wondered about the inconsistencies about single side of the street, cluster, at door and at curb deliveries. I own some rental properties and it seems every place has a different level of service. Most of it seems to depend on how a specific development was coded by the Postmaster at the time when the developer submitted zoning approvals. I have to say I prefer in this order: cluster mailboxes, at the door delivery, other side of the street from me, my own on my side, pickup at the P.O. box.

I like clusters (locked, coded not correllated to your house number) for neatness and security of the mail -- and no one knows which is your box. At the door you can have a slot that goes directly in your house, but your dog makes a fuss every day. The other side means you have a clean curb on your side, easier to mow and for your guests to park, and you burn 15 more calories free each day getting your mail! Your side, you have to mow and edge around it and you have the equivalent of an apartment-sized fridge stuck in front of your house & blocking your view all the time. My personal home has a brick monster the size of a 10 year old kid with a serious weight problem. I hate it. Wish we had groups of nice clusters at different places in our community. It would look so much cleaner.

Check With The Postmaster Before You Install A Mailbox, Or Else

[dennyhomeowner]

Thank you Squirl. That was very informative. So, it is the postmaster who is in control of where the mail box goes. Do you know by chance if we can request the postmaster to change the location of the mail box? This is in the city of Flower Mound.

Cheers,
-D.

[Squirl]

Originally Posted by dennyhomeowner

Thank you Squirl. That was very informative. So, it is the postmaster who is in control of where the mail box goes. Do you know by chance if we can request the postmaster to change the location of the mail box? This is in the city of Flower Mound.

Cheers,
-D.

Can't hurt to try but I doubt you will have luck. The post office has been losing money for a long time and will soon be cutting back to 5 day deliveries - dropping Saturday curb service altogether. If all the mailboxes are on the same side of the street it probably cuts down about 30% or more of the time a carrier needs to spend in a neighborhood. I hate curbside mailboxes. They cost the postal service tons of money and contribute to residents' isolation. After a few years the brick mailboxes are tilting or broken, the post boxes get banged up. I think every community should have mail stations like apartment communities have. I hate snail mail; most of it is total junk and a bain on the environment. JMHO.

[loves2read]

The location of mail boxes and how mail is delivered is negotiated by the developer, the city (because of curbing, driveways/sidewalks, and street construction), and the postal authority when developments are planned and zoned...
I doubt there is anything an individual can do to change the location of personal mail delivery once a development has been plotted and construction has started..
Your only option really is to rent a PO box and have all mail use that physical address...
if you don't want to walk across the street...
The fact is that the mail box itself (however it is constructed) is really the property of the USPS--damaging one is a Federal offense I believe...