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.
It makes deliveries easier.
No biggie... We have our names and street address on our mailbox.
On state or county roads in rural areas the state route number can change, thus 2200 state route 23, and a couple of miles down the road, the state route can be re-numbered state route 56, and the house numbers can be in the 2200’s too. One part county owned and one part state owned.
Depends. My USPS didn't know my address existed, so they wrote it in black marker inside the RFD box door. (It was already on the outside in big letters). :-/
That sounds like a Hillary Clinton argument.
Considering how often USPS delivers out mail to an adjacent street......
Streets have signs, houses have numbers, what is the problem?
Not sure. A lot of people have "29" as a number on their house but there are hundreds of thousands of streets in America that have a "29" as a house number.
At that point of time, unnamed roads had a name and there was a house number at the most remote location.
Learned then that a house family had in Santo (Texas y'all) was on Lamar Street.
Did not know that 'till then.
THIS! I am CONSTANTLY getting mail from other TOWNS never mind my neighbor’s mail. Seems knowing the alphabet and numerical system isn’t a prerequisite for today’s usps workers.
Government employees. No merit in evaluating them. Good job if you can get it.
A few years ago, we had a postman who was always stoned or wasted somehow. Since our dozen mailboxes are lined up with street names and numbers of variants of 4 and the same name, we got to know our neighbors quite well.
“...that’s mine, this is yours...”
^
Makes it easier for the Rat activists to manufacture fake mail-in ballots.
i intentionally left the last residents name on my mailbox...
Dear facebook
If you are looking at my mailbox you already know my street name and only need the individual house number on the box.
The bell shaped curved has taken a radical shift to the “stupid” end and I’m still way over here on the right side.
I have never seen such a thing.
What I have seen is street names etched into concrete (at street corners).
What in the world?? If your house number is on your mailbox, and your street name is on a sign on every corner, it wouldn’t take a genius to put two and two together. What in the world is the difference? Anyone walking, jogging, riding, or driving past your address KNOWS what street they’re on.
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