I don't have my own mailbox, but I had one at my old apartment, and still I kept finding my mail thrown everywhere. It was strewn all over the porch, because the mail carrier decided to just throw it all over.
Anyone else ever experience this?
My wife didn't shred her paystubs before putting them in the recycling. Saw them strewn on the street.
Most neighborhoods in Las Vegas have one central bank of mailboxes that the whole neighborhood uses. Sometimes someone will either pick the lock or get the key to the mail carrier's side of the box (which allows access to all of the boxes at once) and that could lead to mail being strewn everywhere.
Quote from: bandit957 on October 09, 2024, 10:36:08 PMI don't have my own mailbox, but I had one at my old apartment, and still I kept finding my mail thrown everywhere. It was strewn all over the porch, because the mail carrier decided to just throw it all over.
Anyone else ever experience this?
No. Because I have a mailbox.
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I haven't trusted traditional snail mail in years. I do all of my personal accounts billing paperless online. Just about the only thing I get in my home mailbox is junk mail. It's good filler material to add with the other documents I put in the shredder.
Any physical packages I order (such as something from Amazon) gets delivered to my workplace where I can receive it in person. I'm not putting up with UPS or FedEX just leaving packages unattended on the front porch of my house while I'm at work. They didn't do that in the past. Previously they would take packages that couldn't be delivered to someone in person back to the depot; it was possible to pick the packages up there. Some of these companies have options where you can have a package delivered to a secure place where it can be picked up. But that isn't the default policy. When the delivery people work on auto-pilot they just drop packages off at the front porch step, even if there are thieves following the freaking delivery truck.
It's odd how "strewn" sounds a little old-fashioned, but still in use; but other forms of the verb are right out.
"There's a worker out there strewing mail"
"They strewed the supermarket ads"
"I strew mail if I'm upset"
"I found my mail gibbed on front porch."
Quote from: kurumi on October 10, 2024, 10:42:25 AMIt's odd how "strewn" sounds a little old-fashioned, but still in use; but other forms of the verb are right out.
"There's a worker out there strewing mail"
"They strewed the supermarket ads"
"I strew mail if I'm upset"
But "strewn" is an adjective. In this case, it is describing the mail.
"It was strewn all over the porch."
The verb is "was" as the past tense of "be."
There was an incident several years ago when some undelivered political campaign mail was found in a ditch in a rural area not far from here, but that situation was taken care of pretty quickly.
This does make me wonder a bit about the overall 'security' of vote-by-mail systems.
Mike