Do you still see post boxes on streets nowadays?

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1. Yeah, they’re still common

2. Yes, they are quite common in my neighborhood

3. Do you mean residential mailboxes or the big blue mailboxes you can drop letters and small packages in to be mailed?

   The answer to both is yes, but the latter is less common than it used to be.

4. Yes.

5. Yes, the letter carrier delivers to them in their jeep.

6. No, they’re usually next to the street to avoid creating a traffic hazard.

7. We used to have at least one on every residential street in a town of 4500(I used geographic.org, we have 83 streets) but USPS.com shows only 3 remain. They started taking them out about 10 years ago as most people just use the main office to drop off mail as it’s right by Kroger and Lowe’s

8. the blue snail tops? yeah, they’re still around. have to know where to look and where they are, but they’re not too hard to find.

9. Quite common in DC

10. Yes, there aren’t as many as before in my city, but they are still there.

11. The Post Office has been removing them in some areas, you can even [find news stories about it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt8499B20Mw).

    In the suburban areas of the west side of Detroit they’re definitely going away. Numerous family members of mine had one in the same place for years, now gone. It’s happening in other cities too.

    Some neighborhoods never had them to begin with, the last 2 that I lived in didn’t have one.

12. Yes. My dad uses them all the time for his business. My city still has them all over the place, but they’re often times put in commercial areas since you can just use your normal mailbox at a house.

13. Yes because in my town the houses have mail slots for receiving mail but no mailboxes with flags for outgoing mail. So we have to drop it off in a blue box somewhere. I rarely mail letters so I don’t care.

14. Yes, there is one right outside my house.

15. Like the blue drop boxes?

    Yeah, but nowadays they’re more strategic about where they put them. Close to apartment complexes or grocery stores mostly.

16. Some of the newer residential developments in North Texas are doing away with the street-side mailboxes and moving to a community mail stop, like what you would normally see at an apartment complex.

    Where I grew up, in a suburb predating WWI, we didn’t have mailboxes. Mail was delivered to the door. My aunts and uncles lived in neighborhoods that mostly developed in the 80’s and they all had street-side mailboxes

17. Yes. Suburb of Dallas.

18. There’s one at the end of my block. It’s an area with older midrise apartment buildings and small mail cubbies, so the post boxes get a frequent use by people needing to mail almost anything.

19. We’re rural and almost everyone has them.

20. Yes

21. Why would they have been taken away?

22. I love them. Something so american about seeing that blue box on the side of the road in a town of 500 people in the middle of no where. God bless usps

23. Still here but my house has the receive only mailboxes, same as most of my neighbours so we’ll be among the last to have them removed if at all.

24. My ancient apartment building has mails slots on each floor, that drop into collection box on the ground floor.

    Collection is fairly intermittent.