What time does your mailman usually deliver the mail? (coupons, insurance)

[michgc]

Originally Posted by Carlingtonian

Our mail arrives through our door slot in the late afternoon--anywhere from 3 to 5. Usually our noble hound has assailed it with his fangs of death, but we've learned to find puppy-punctured catalogs endearing.

Love the old houses with the 'grandfathered' mail slots!

[marie5v]

Around 2-3pm, in Fairfax. When we lived in Alexandria city it was more like 6pm, often later than that. And sometimes, I am pretty sure, the mail didn't come at all.

[South Jersey Styx]

I get my mail between 12noon and 1:00 pm -- same time every day.

[skyegirl]

Originally Posted by roanoker 4

It varies every day so I cannot rely on it anymore. Plus the nearby post office closed so I am trying to get away from using the service altogether! They are even talking about closing the local mail processing center so any mail that goes local must first be shipped to Greensboro NC!. Forget about it for me!

Hmm, sounds like typical "government" comon sense at work to me

Our mail used to come at 9:30am, now it's anywhere from 10am-4pm. Today was priceless. I had an envelope in the mail slot (I have a mail slot next to the front door that comes into a box in the living room, very cute). Anyway, the postal carrier very kindly slid the mail in, along with the envelope I had sticking out to be mailed.
What the heck? Maybe if my postal carrier wasn't on his stinking phone every. single. day. when he delivers the mail, he might have noticed the envelope with a stamp sticking out. Grrr.

Have I mentioned I love email.

[Caladium]

We're apparently at the beginning of a route that sometimes gets done backwards, putting us at the end of the route. Our mail seems to either arrive early early early or late late late. We've had a few days when it didn't arrive until 6.

[HereinVA]

Mondays it gets delivered a little later...usually around 2 pm or so...it get's progressively earlier as the week goes on, and by Thursday we're typically getting it around 11 am or so.

[Carlingtonian]

Originally Posted by Caladium

We're apparently at the beginning of a route that sometimes gets done backwards, putting us at the end of the route. Our mail seems to either arrive early early early or late late late. We've had a few days when it didn't arrive until 6.

Sometimes they'll have a part-timer take different parts of different routes in a given day. On the morning of a day when the mail is heavy, the carrier (having just sorted all the mail at a funky little stand-up desk with a slot for each household on the route) will realize he/she needs help and ask for a couple of sections to be offloaded to a "casual" carrier. So it could be that your section--I forget the "inside USPS" term--has been handed off on heavy days.

The job paid $10 an hour, but I got in crazy good shape, and the coolest thing was that sometimes I got to drive the local postmaster's sedan, with federal plates--like an FBI agent or something. Alas, sometimes it was a minivan with federal plates. Not quite the same cachet.

Originally Posted by michgc

Love the old houses with the 'grandfathered' mail slots!

Yeah, it's pretty nice. No having to have your mail held while on vacation.

[beatlecrazy]

Our mailman comes around 2pm every Saturday, but he has come as late as 6pm on a Friday.

[spencgr]

oh, the good 'ole days....when mail was actually delivered to your house.....

I live in Middleburg, where it is apparently "charming" to require you to pick up your mail from the post office. While this might be ok for actual mail (as the boxes are open access 24x7); it certainly does delay receipt of packages. For someone who works outside of the town, my only option for picking up packages is Saturday from 9-12. God forbid I have something to do at that time, it may be weeks before I can pick up a package.

So, be grateful that you get your mail every day, regardless of the time of day........................

[hilsmom]

Originally Posted by spencgr

oh, the good 'ole days....when mail was actually delivered to your house.....

I live in Middleburg, where it is apparently "charming" to require you to pick up your mail from the post office. While this might be ok for actual mail (as the boxes are open access 24x7); it certainly does delay receipt of packages. For someone who works outside of the town, my only option for picking up packages is Saturday from 9-12. God forbid I have something to do at that time, it may be weeks before I can pick up a package.

So, be grateful that you get your mail every day, regardless of the time of day........................

wow, that's tough if it isn't a temporary situation. We did that for a couple months when my family moved into a brand-spanking-new development when I was 13. They wouldn't even put mailboxes at the end of our street until a couple more houses were filled. A couple months of trekking 20 minutes to the central post office in the town that didn't even want to claim us at first (there was a fight over what "town" our development was in before we moved in).

We eventually got mailboxes at the end of the street...and maybe a year or so later in front of our own houses. But the postal authorities fought us every step of the way. Fun, fun!