I get a local weekly newspaper and the delivery guy sticks it in the holder under the mailbox. There’s never more than ten or eleven pages to the paper, so it doesn’t have a lot of weight, or bulk, keeping it snugly held by the tines. Several times I’ve discovered my paper against the yard’s back fence, strewn about and weathered-looking like, well, yesterday’s news.
Most of the time the entire paper is there, but two times I spotted a single missing page a few days later, up against the back fence. The house next to mine must act as a wind-tunnel of sorts, blowing leaves and random trash into the back yard as though piled there purposefully – which is convenient, I suppose.
I called the newspaper office and asked if they would put the paper in my mailbox, but they aren’t allowed to by law. Your mailbox is federal property, and I guess it’s cheaper for them to deliver it than to mail it. There isn’t a screen door, or anywhere to wedge the paper, either, so I have to be home and get the paper as soon as it’s delivered, or hope the wind wasn’t blowing that day.
Fences not only make good neighbors, they make a good catch-all too.
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How about putting a large stone of the ground by your box and asking them to leave it under there.. or another box to put your paper in?
Just a thought
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That’s a great idea!! I will ask them. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that! Hee, hee. Thanks! Jerri
Our mailbox is considered the owner’s property..as all kind of papers or flyers are put in there. I would think that unless it is a government locked mailbox it wouldn’t be govt. property… but then what do I know..I’m Canadian…Diane
Lol Diane. I don’t know what the Canadian postal system is like vs the United States’, but a mailbox is federal property because it’s used for federal business, and the Postal Service has priority over citizens, I guess. I hope you’re staying warm in whatever area you live in! Thanks for commenting! Jerri