Where are the mailboxes for EP homes? (El Paso, Horizon City: house, closing)

[pappy97]

Going to be moving from DFW to EP (likely Far East EP or Horizon City) within 6-12 months. Still early on, just looking at listings, nothing too serious.

Something I'm finding perplexing is that the homes I look at, I can't seem to find where they have their mailbox. In DFW, most homes have a mailbox encased in brick that is directly on the side of the road (So the mailman never has to get out of mail truck when delivering the mail.) In other non-Texas places I've lived, they have a mailbox near the front door and the mailman walks up to the box and puts the mail in it.

For every house that even looks remotely interesting to me in Far East EP or Horizon City, looking the pictures and Google Street View, for the life of me I can't find a mailbox! I'll even use Street view to go down these streets and don't see any mailboxes anywhere. I also made sure the street view was new enough such that people were living in these homes, so there should be mailboxes. I even looked at random areas on the westside and couldn't find mailboxes either.

Am I missing something? How do people get mail that is sent to their home address? I apologize for what might seem like a stupid question, but I've never seen homes without mailboxes, let alone every home in my search (And every home on a street from a searched home!) not having them.

Thanks!

[ZSP]

Ours is one the curb at the end of our driveway. It's a brick (matches brick on house) structure about chest high with the metal mailbox built in. Some are built square, others rounded off on top and many have a planting box to one side of the base.

IMHO, most are very attractive. Tried posting a pic of one...no luck.

[pappy97]

No worries, I got my question answered elsewhere. Answer is, most communities in EP have community mailboxes, i.e. at the end of the street there are metal boxes for each homeowner and you go there to pick up the mail. Seems inconvenient, but convenient to the postal service worker. (What you have ZSP is what I have in DFW, that apparently isn't really anywhere in El Paso that I could find, although I'm sure some places have it)

I just have to make sure I get the key for that at closing, or apparently I can go to the post office to get a key if somehow I don't get it at closing.

[ZSP]

You'll need to visit the PO for your key(s).

It's newer communities that have the cluster mailboxes.

[doolish1]

When I lived there in Cimarron it was a community mailbox on the main entrance street.