How do you send outgoing mail (real mail, not email)?

[Descartes]

The wife was wanting to send some standard mail, so I told her just to throw it in the mailbox and put the flag up. We both paused for a second in surprise, and I realized that I haven't sent mail from my mailbox in years. The obvious concern is security.

So, do you send outgoing mail from your box or do you always drop it off at a post office controlled box?

 

[tasmanian]

Mail box.

 

[her209]

Put it in the mailbox with the raised flag.

 

[Leros]

I put it in the mailbox, but I don't raise the flag. I'm paranoid about somebody stealing the mail.

 

[alrocky]

Outgoing mail at work. Safer than the mailbox at home.

 

[eplebnista]

Bills-Put in drive-thru drop-box at post office
Personal Mail-Mail Box w/ raised red flag

 

[soydios]

Don't raise the flag. It's a calling card for identity thieves driving around. My grandmother had her mail stolen about a year ago, and she went through months of hassle to clean up the identity theft. Just take your mail to the post office, or one of them blue boxes.

 

[mattocs]

Originally posted by: soydios
Don't raise the flag. It's a calling card for identity thieves driving around. My grandmother had her mail stolen about a year ago, and she went through months of hassle to clean up the identity theft. Just take your mail to the post office, or one of them blue boxes.

Some kids in the town down the road pee in the blue mail bins and mess up all the mail. I take it to the post office when I check my PO Box.

 

[grohl]

Originally posted by: alrocky
Outgoing mail at work. Safer than the mailbox at home.

 

[nonameo]

Originally posted by: mattocs

Originally posted by: soydios
Don't raise the flag. It's a calling card for identity thieves driving around. My grandmother had her mail stolen about a year ago, and she went through months of hassle to clean up the identity theft. Just take your mail to the post office, or one of them blue boxes.

Some kids in the town down the road pee in the blue mail bins and mess up all the mail. I take it to the post office when I check my PO Box.

You need tyvek envelopes.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

What the hell. Has society forgotten how to send paper mail?

I routinely send paper mail through the blue box outside my house every week.

 

[GeekDrew]

We in the country generally send mail by placing the item in the mailbox, and by raising the red flag.

I personally either hand deliver it to my mom and she takes it to the post office by her office, or I stamp it and send it out in my office's mail.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew
We in the country generally send mail by placing the item in the mailbox, and by raising the red flag.

Here, we can even leave the change for the stamp in the mailbox, if we don't have any.

 

[anxi80]

i walk down the street and drop it off in the outgoing mail slot. i have one of those community locked mail boxes where you need to use a key to get your mail. no flags or anything, only a key to worry about.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: joshsquall

Originally posted by: GeekDrew
We in the country generally send mail by placing the item in the mailbox, and by raising the red flag.

Here, we can even leave the change for the stamp in the mailbox, if we don't have any.

That's *technically* possible on any rural route (unmounted carrier). Few people know that though, and it's not something that the carriers publicize very much.

 

[erub]

take the elevator downstairs to the lobby of my condo building where all the mailboxes are, and drop it in the outgoing mail slot

 

[Bateluer]

I walk the short ways to the mail room at my apartment complex and drop it in the outgoing slot. Usually just Netflix DVDs going back though.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

My mailbox is up my street a ways amongst a cluster of the other neighbors' mailboxes. There's a community out-going mailbox there with a lock on it for the mailman.

 

[Captante]

I very rarely send paper mail these days, but when I do it goes in one of the blue drop-boxs.

 

[FoBoT]

mailbox
i live in a rural area, i think my mailbox is safe from aliens and whatever

 

[pontifex]

mailbox
i live in a rural area also

 

[oboeguy]

There a couple of blue mail boxes on our street in NYC. Plus there's the PO (which, BTW, stands for p*ssed off, which is how you feel whenever you go there) 5-10 minutes' walk away.

 

[spacejamz]

mail it from work...there is secure outgoing mail box I have used for the past 5 years with no problems...

it sucks that you can't even mail something from your own mailbox anymore...

 

[MovingTarget]

I'd say it depends on how well I trust my neighbors/neighborhood. Official business I send through a post office maildrop, but personal stuff goes with the red flag up outside my house.

 

[nakedfrog]

I put it in the box and put up the flag.