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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.


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To: SamAdams76

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


You’re late for your yearly brain scan, right? (JK)


61 posted on 05/26/2021 11:44:19 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: SamAdams76

They are on the street. Street signs are ubiquitous. If I pass by a home with 29 on the home or mailbox, I’m certain I could ascertain the street name in a matter of seconds by looking at the sign at the next cross street.

It’s just seems kind of weird to think that putting your street name on a mailbox is giving away too much information. Particularly in the information age when all you need is an idea of a persons address, their name or even just a name & the city they live in & with a couple key strokes you can find out who they are, their complete address, their marital status, their mortgage holder as well as their mortgage balance all through public records & Google searches.


62 posted on 05/27/2021 6:41:33 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign! )
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To: Jim from C-Town
I still think putting your street name on your mailbox is offering up "too much" information. What's to stop bad people from writing it down as they drive by?

I prefer to have a degree of anonymity with regard to where I live, even though the postman probably knows.

63 posted on 05/27/2021 7:06:14 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: SamAdams76

Well, the street names on the corners are missing.

Lack of maintenance, vandalism, or drug people removing them to make their location hard to find.


64 posted on 05/27/2021 7:43:21 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: SamAdams76

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

Then I am to assume you have only a P.O. box, have notified Google and other service to wash-out images of your home and deleted all information about your home on Zillow, redfin, etc.


65 posted on 05/27/2021 9:24:22 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Delta 21
If you are looking at my mailbox you already know my street name and only need the individual house number on the box.

One would hope!
Regarding my own post office I have learned that hope doesn't always get my mail to me. :)

66 posted on 05/27/2021 1:28:38 PM PDT by TigersEye (Will the Younger Dryas Impact you? )
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