People who put their street name on their mailboxes

[Flaming Conservative]

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

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

[Jim from C-Town]

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.

[SamAdams76]

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.

[Scrambler Bob]

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.

[TexasGator]

“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.

[TigersEye]

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. :)