• ladicius@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    In Germany mail was delivered two times a day, in the city district even more often, up until the 1960s.

    Nowadays the mailpeople show up two times a week.

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      10 months ago

      It blows my mind that they don’t pick mail up from peoples houses. I live in a city, so it could be different in more rural areas, but I my closest mailbox is almost a half kilometer away.

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        10 months ago

        Yeah, I was a little shocked too.

        Especially in apartment complexes. There’s usually a communal outbox for anyone to send out mail. But no, you’ll have to go all the way to a post office to drop off mail. The nearest one is a 20 minute walk for me.

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          10 months ago

          Yeah, it’s kind of weird that this is one of the things the US got right compared to most other countries. If you’re already sending a guy to every house in town, why not pick up their mail while you’re at it.

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            10 months ago

            But you need to wrap the letter or parcel and pay for postage anyway, so unless you’re regularly sending things it’s still easier just to go to a post office.

            And that means the postie has to check every single house even if they don’t have any mail which slows things down a lot.