Posted on 05/26/2021 4:56:30 PM PDT by SamAdams76
New York City is definitely coming back. I take the Metro North to Grand Central out of Westport, CT and both the last couple of days, there were so many people on the trains that the three-seaters are now filled by 2 people and even some of the two-seaters were filled up.
Inside the city, we are reaching almost gridlock levels with the traffic. I walked over the Queensboro Bridge today on 59th Street to Long Island City and it was utterly jammed. Not only the vehicular traffic but bikes, scooters and pedestrians abounded. And many people (including myself) were unmasked.
But one thing I notice about driving out of Westport station and taking backroads back to my home is just how many people are putting their street name on their mailboxes!
Does anybody else notice this besides just me?
Why would people do that?
In this day and age, you definitely don't want to be giving away your address information to strangers. Yet these home owners are advertising their STREET ADDRESS to the entire world!
Well it certainly is a bit odd.
Our address does not match the street our house is on. If I leave off the street name, most of my deliveries (excluding mail) are delivered to a house across the street, And besides.. putting one’s street name on their mail box isn’t exactly giving away classified information. I mean, in most cases all one neds to do is look at the street signs to figure it out. Not sure what the paranoia is all about.
Will you please call your New Yorkers home from Colorado
. They have weird ideas and are always trying to get elected.
Sigh. I did stupid things as a kid. I remember a bunch of us stole a...stop sign and gave it to our Drum Instructor as if were some kind of trophy.
I still remember the look of consternation on his face, and the way he muttered something like “Er...ah, thanks...”
We didn’t even give it a thought, that some poor person would go right through that and get clobbered. Dumb ass kids.
Sigh.
It’s also a good idea to have a legible & lighted street address on your home. It allows for the EMS to find you in the event you need them.
Many people who live alone have waited additional time for response because the neglected to have a legible street address.
When I was a wee sprout, we lived in Ithaca, NY. In the early 60s, the parents and their friends were always complaining about the sky-high NYS taxes and how NYC bled upstate dry.
One of my dad’s best friends lived on Texas Lane in Ithaca. One day I noticed he had a misspelling on the address sign on his mailbox. Very proud of having caught the mistake, I said “Mr. Smith, you have a misspelling on your mailbox. Your street is ‘Texas Lane,’ not ‘Taxes Lane’ - - you mixed up the ‘e’ and the ‘a.’”
The adults all had a good laugh at the naive 12 year old kid and then explained one of the facts of life to me. I think that was my first introduction to conservatism.
It’s also a good idea to have a legible & lighted street address on your home. It allows for the EMS to find you in the event you need them.
Many people who live alone have waited additional time for response because the neglected to have a legible street address.
Sorry to hear.
With just a house number someone can, of course, look at the street. With your address they can go to the revenue commissioners website and find out your name, how much your house is worth, when it was last sold, who the previous owners were, etc., etc. There is no privacy anymore.
Perhaps so but why would you want to make it easier for them?
Nobody knows my street address. Not even the people who run Google Earth.
The USPS [and many payment recipients] was clearly challenged over the last 12 months.
I now pay most important bills in other ways than a check in the mail.
My last name is on the inside of my mailbox in small letters.
Otherwise I get letters for many different people with my address.
Any “UN outta the US, US outta da UN” signs in your childhood ‘hood?
An increase in posted street addresses would correspond to increased us of UPS and Fedex deliveries. It is probably seen as a way to reduce incorrectly delivered packages.
No Name, just the street #. In 350 yards our cul de sac becomes 3 differently named streets. New home #’s start with each new street.
My 2 closest neighbors are across the street (different name of street and numbering.)
Don’t remember seeing them, but they were probably there.
At least it doesn’t say MALE BOX.
I think that’s what they should call the result of Male to FAKE Female Transition Surgery.
When we got our first real mailbox here, as in not homemade, I had some business card sized rockauto refrigerator magnets that the graphics were peeling off of so I peeled two of them fully and cut three long, thin rectangles from each and stuck three on each side of our mailbox. Our street number is 111. That’s all that’s on it and for some reason, E-911 gave us 111 even though we’re closest to 205 and 150 is a half a mile away.
Fedex/UPS had fun for a while.
At least once a week, often twice or more, we get mail for some with the same number but the next street over. It has become a running joke that I am their real mailman.
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