Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

People who put their street name on their mailboxes

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.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-66 next last
To: SamAdams76

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.


21 posted on 05/26/2021 5:10:19 PM PDT by LIConFem (Don't drain the swamp. Just fill it with hungry gators. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SamAdams76

Will you please call your New Yorkers home from Colorado
. They have weird ideas and are always trying to get elected.


22 posted on 05/26/2021 5:10:47 PM PDT by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Valpal1

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.


23 posted on 05/26/2021 5:11:31 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: SamAdams76

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.


24 posted on 05/26/2021 5:12:46 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign! )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SamAdams76

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.


25 posted on 05/26/2021 5:12:52 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SamAdams76

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.


26 posted on 05/26/2021 5:16:35 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign! )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SamAdams76
"New York City is definitely coming back."

Sorry to hear.


27 posted on 05/26/2021 5:16:41 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SamAdams76

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.


28 posted on 05/26/2021 5:19:05 PM PDT by suthener
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sten
Those UPS Stores used to be called Mailboxes Etc.


29 posted on 05/26/2021 5:19:08 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: TexasGator

Perhaps so but why would you want to make it easier for them?


30 posted on 05/26/2021 5:19:50 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: hercuroc

Nobody knows my street address. Not even the people who run Google Earth.


31 posted on 05/26/2021 5:20:47 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: SamAdams76

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.


32 posted on 05/26/2021 5:21:06 PM PDT by Paladin2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SamAdams76

My last name is on the inside of my mailbox in small letters.

Otherwise I get letters for many different people with my address.


33 posted on 05/26/2021 5:23:45 PM PDT by Az Joe (FREE CHAUVIN!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ProtectOurFreedom

Any “UN outta the US, US outta da UN” signs in your childhood ‘hood?


34 posted on 05/26/2021 5:23:55 PM PDT by Paladin2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: SamAdams76

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.


35 posted on 05/26/2021 5:26:03 PM PDT by the_Watchman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SamAdams76

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.)


36 posted on 05/26/2021 5:28:23 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (“Respond only to polite and intelligent posters, who don’t insult you or us! Forget the others!”)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Paladin2

Don’t remember seeing them, but they were probably there.


37 posted on 05/26/2021 5:28:30 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: Bonemaker

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.


38 posted on 05/26/2021 5:30:14 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: SamAdams76

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.


39 posted on 05/26/2021 5:35:47 PM PDT by Pollard
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pnut22
Todays postal workers are not the brightest. Might help.

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.

40 posted on 05/26/2021 5:38:10 PM PDT by T. P. Pole
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-66 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson