Speaking of the USPS: What time does your mail arrive?

[imdjh]

When I was a kid, Dennis' father (Mr. Mitchell) said hello to the postman as he left for work. Hazel's postman dodged the yardman and handed her the mail as Mr. Baxter was taking off in the morning.

In 51 years I have never lived in a house that got morning mail, certainly not early morning mail. My mail frequently comes after 4:30 and has in every place I have ever lived. How is that possible?

What time does your mail come?

[Shine]

1. It usually arrives about 3pm.

In 45 years I've never lived in a house that gets morning mail, either. Weird.

[femmocrat]

2. We pick ours up at the Post Office.

It closes from 12-1 p.m. and at 4 p.m. so we have to get there at their convenience! It also closes at 11:30 on Saturdays.

BTW, I can remember the mail coming twice a day during the Christmas season back in the 1950s! Now they are talking about discontinuing Saturday deliveries.

[hippywife]

4. Ours isn't even open on Saturday.

And it closes at 4 during the week, too. So incredibly inconvenient already.

[Kali]

16. wow ours has similar hours but the "lobby" is open all the time

so you can at least pick up whenever and if you have stamps you can drop off in the slot or the outside box

[hippywife]

3. About 11 a.m.

and we are near the end of the route, I think. We're in a rural area and she turns around in our driveway after she delivers here and heads back the direction from whence she came.

And remember Dagwood running over the postman on his way out the door to work?

[HopeHoops]

5. Between 9:45 and 10:15.

Usually it is 10:00 sharp.

My regular postman is great. If there's a package, he'll bring it up to the door along with the other mail. Some of the substitutes will bring up the package but leave the rest of the mail in the box (other side of the street). It isn't that big a deal, but I appreciate the courtesy shown by my regular postman. He gets a gift card for Christmas - and I hand deliver it.

[SoxFan]

6. We get the mail in the morning

Usually between 9:30 and 10:30 at the house. I have a PO box, and the mail is generally up by 9 AM.

When we lived a block and a half away, we never received the mail until close to 5 PM.

[Blue-Jay]

7. Early afternoon, most days.

[begin_within]

8. My grandparents had mail delivery twice a day!

In Chevy Chase, Maryland, decades ago of course. Now here in San Diego I get my mail anywhere from 1 p.m. to after 5 p.m. depending on who is doing the route - each person seems to take a different route.

[trof]

29. Yes, I remember morning and afternoon deliveries.

I'm 68.

[Kingofalldems]

9. It all depends on what part of the letter carrier's route

your house is on.

[TheMightyFavog]

10. Where I am now, It's around 1:30-2ish

Round about 3 on Saturdays.

Back in college, the mail came at round about 10 in the morning. Depending on how busy we were at front desk, and how much bulk mail bullshit there was, we'd usually get the mail into every resident's mailbox by 1.

[azmouse]

11. Whenever it gets here...

Sometimes the mail arrives early in the day - maybe 9am to 11am.
Sometimes it doesn't arrive til after 5pm.

I guess it depends on who is delivering the mail that day on our route. It's never the same person or the same time.

[Captain Hilts]

12. Often after 6pm. And I don't receive a lot of mail I'm supposed to receive!!

[Mabus]

38. You must live near us

Most days we get two deliveries a day, one in the afternoon and one after 6. Every once in a while the mail person will come by in the morning. But our real problem is when we have a letter or a package that we need to sign for (my husband is an attorney, so we get a lot of registered mail from other attorneys or clients) but the carrier never rings the bell. I've left notes on the mail box that if the car is in the driveway that we're home. I do most of our shopping in the evening so the car is in the driveway most of the day. I've gone to the post offices to complain and each time they say they will talk to the carrier but inevitably the next day I'll find a slip and end up having to go to the post office to pick something up. Whenever I go to the post office I take a sack of misdelivered mail with me. I think my record is over thirty letters in one week of which twenty were supposed to have gone to someone within a few blocks of us. Most days I get more mail for our neighbors than I do for us. In the beginning it was part of my daily walk to deliver the mail to the right address. It was a nice way to meet some of the neighbors but, after a while, it just became a pain the butt.

fwiw, we live in the Aspen Hills area and we get mail from the Twinbrook station and from the Aspen Hill post office. It's really screwy.

[Captain Hilts]

43. I'm in B-CC and the Arlington Rd. post office is INfamous for having the

rudest employees - even my friend's therapist won't go there!

But, I've been trying to get some financial work done with my mother's estate and it took THREE attempts to get some papers to me.

this happened a few years ago also.

[Mabus]

45. Before I moved here, my complaints with the post office were nonexistent

Other than the usual, "a trip there took longer than I thought it would" complaint.

When we moved in, I did what I've done before when I've changed addresses, I attached a card to the mailbox with our names on it to let the postal carrier know who we were. In fact, I've done that several times but each time the card is removed. I printed up a label and it was removed too. It must be something in the water because I've never had so many problems with the post office before. I guess I should feel some sort of relief that I'm not the only one who thinks the service around here sucks.

[PBS Poll-435]

13. 3PM

Two streets over.

[nuxvomica]

14. Between 11 and noon

Rarely is it later than that.

[quakerboy]

17. +1

generally between 11 and noon. A couple times, generally weather related, it is later. A few times it has been earlier.

[phasma ex machina]

22. +1 nt

[Kali]

15. supposed to be in the pobox by 9:30

but that is 5-6 miles away and down a rotten dirt road so it actually only gets here a couple times a week or less

[quakerboy]

18. you should have a

Pneumatic tube delivery system installed. That would be cool.

[Kali]

20. ...

:spray: :rofl:

no shit! I really need one big enough for ME!

[quakerboy]

40. Ah,

Futurama style. Totaly righteous. I agree.

[Roon]

19. When I was still getting my social security check in the mail

The mail came rather early..cept for check day..then the mail wouldn't come until 6PM. Now I have direct deposit and our mail comes mid-morning almost every day. Wouldn't you know it?

[Kali]

21. oh yeah - bills are never late

but checks? ppffft I don't even expect them to arrive the same WEEK they are supposed to arrive, much less the day.

[Roon]

54. for sure!!!

my parents are in the real estate business and they wait on their rent checks every month. So I know where you are coming from!

[onestepforward]

23. Between 2 and 4pm.

[susanr516]

24. Somewhere around noon

[Rhythm]

25. Our carrier is generally here no later than 10:30am

Though he has been known to be as early as 9:30. We are among his very first stops on his route.

The place we lived previously didn't see the mail delivered until 3-3:30pm.

[mnhtnbb]

26. About noon.

[mike_c]

27. no mail delivery here...

...unless you mean "what time does mail get to the post office?" Which I don't know. But at any rate, I wouldn't much care when they delivered it, if they would just deliver it. It's a pain having to pick everything up at the PO.

[sakabatou]

28. Used to arrive 1 or 2 pm

Now it arrives around 5pm or later.

[trof]

30. Don't forget Dagwood. He'd upend the mailman on his rush out the door.

Our mail comes around 10:30.

[Capn Sunshine]

31. I'm not sure

I always pick it up when I get home, usually about 10 pm

[nickinSTL]

32. ours usually comes around 1-2 pm

where we previously lived, they didn't have mail delivery in town, we had to pick it up at the PO.

Closed at 4:45pm, inconvenient as I get off work at 4:30 and it was a 20 min. drive...and it was open from about 9:30 to 10:45 or something similarly insane on Saturdays.

[Bryan]

33. 2:00-2:30 p.m.

It's nice to be able to pick it up sharply when I'm home. My carrier is very efficient.

Never met him/her, though; I imagine s/he's on too tight a schedule for chitchat, and I'd hate to give the impression that I'm waiting impatiently for the mail...

[madinmaryland]

34. 5:00pm-6:30pm.

:grr:

[hobbit709]

35. Ours used to be here between 10 and 11

Then they changed our mailman's route and now he gets here sometime between 1 and 5 in the afternoon.

[blueamy66]

36. noon

nt

[BreweryYardRat]

37. Generally, sometime from 1-3 PM.

Sometimes later. Don't think it's ever been earlier.

[proteus_lives]

39. between 10:00 and 11:00am.

I just always assumed it had something to do with routes.

[LibDemAlways]

41. My awesome mailman Stan is usually at my mailbox around 11:15.

If he's gone for some reason, all bets are off. The replacement guys are much later, and generally I'll end up with the mail of a neighbor. Just makes me appreciate the regular guy all the more!

[tavalon]

42. Our mailman comes midmorning and according the earlybird spouse, he is starved for human attention

and will dodge sprinklers and barking dogs to bring the mail to our door even though we have a mailbox at the street. He'll strike up a conversation about nearly anything.

[HopeOverFear]

44. 2pm.

[Hayabusa]

46. Around 1:00 PM, Central

We live on an out of city route, and our mail heads from the local airport to a processing station around 7 miles away. The route's probably big, so that accounts for the delay.

[Odin2005]

47. Around 11AM here.

[madrchsod]

48. sometime around 2...

[Broken_Hero]

49. Between 10:30-11:00 am .nt

[ohheckyeah]

50. About 11:00 a.m.

I live out in the country and this is the earliest I think I've ever gotten my mail.

[grace0418]

51. It's all over the place. I work at home and can hear them come into the building (I live

in a 12 unit condo building). Sometimes it's as early as 8:30am, sometimes as late as 6:30pm. Sometimes they don't show at all. And I doubt it's because no one in the building got any mail. Then the next day we get a whole bunch.

[rurallib]

52. Pretty much 9AM every day.

Due to route changes it has varied over the years. Moved up to 9AM @ 10 years ago and has stayed that way. We live in a small midwestern town, and we are @ 3 blocks from the PO so we must be at the start of the route.

[peekaloo]

53. 2-4 PM. Unless the Stoner is on duty, them it's closer to 5PM. nt

[Lucian]

55. Around 9 or 10 am.

[Brickbat]

56. 9 a.m. or so. I've never lived in a house that got afternoon mail.

[dugaresa]

57. I used to live in a house where the guy across the street from me got his mail at 9am

mine came around 4pm.

I lived in a large suburban neighborhood and I found it quite funny.