Omg
 

Funny!😆

Love your satirical sense of humor.

Painting the aluminum doors? I'm sure that will hold up well... :ohdear:

There's an awful lot of boxes!

Personally, I haven't a clue as to my box #... I know it's general vicinity, and the stickers help me hone in...

Well, considering I only check my mail every week or so, and I only do this every other month or so when we're in FL, The # is useless to me...

I'm changing mine to this one...

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Yea, but how do you remember what sticker you used! :) On April 1st someone should go out and put put the same stickers on all the boxes. :) All I remember is ours is 4x4 (4th row across 4th row down). No idea what our actual number is although I did tattoo it on the bottom of my foot for when I die so the coroner can show it to family when he opens the drawer.

Stickers are easy to remember. It's quite distinct and reminds me of my home state...

But your tattoo idea has me thinking...

I don’t care, I go there to pick up mail not gawk at all the stickers or who not parking between the lines. See I don’t worry about stuff I have no control over.

Good idea. Stop logging in if it bothers you and we will all be better off...

Mailbox stickers were a good, quick activity for my 3 year old grandchild this past summer. How many Mickies can you find? How many flags? Do you see any animals?
That, combined with the golf cart ride to the postal station, and I filled 30-45 min of “down” time.

Odd, my mailbox doesn't look anything like the ones pictured.

I have no idea where my mailbox is my wife gets the mail every time. Probably doesn’t want me to see what we are receiving

Mailbox
 

The best thing you can do to your mailbox is to make (print)
your name (paper) in bold lettering with your address (no city or zip) on it.
Make it as big as possible be still fit INSIDE your little mailbox door.
Tape that INSIDE your mailbox door and it would be a great help to your letter carrier in putting the correct letters in the correct box. Remember most of the letter carriers in
The Villages are contractors hired by the postal service to work just your Postal Station.
They are not US Postal Letter Carriers (Federal Employees) there is a big difference.
The person who delivers our mail (CG) does a great job. How she keeps up with all new houses every couple of weeks has to be hard.

The stickers are ugly and just trash the postal stations.

Lol

Number on box
 

What about the number on the Box

:1rotfl::1rotfl: :1rotfl: :1rotfl:

Do that many people not know how to read the numbers on their box? A sticker saves them one second maybe. Kindergarten.

Curious, who is "you"?

Kindergarten is being bothered by something so trivial.

For me, I get a chuckle seeing all the different stickers when I pick up my mail. In the split second that the stickers actually cross my mind, I see who are sports fans, Disney fans, rainbow lovers, etc. I guess I'm an optimist - glass half full - look on the bright side kind of person.

Yea.
 

Yeah, that could work too. But for those who don't have the location and elevation programmed in to their GPS, they may be reading numbers on nearly identical boxes.
Imagine a lot full of identical cars and to find yours you have to walk the lot checking license plates. Easier and quicker if you had a scrunchy or tennis ball on the antenna so you could spot it from a distance, don't you think?

Just out of curiosity, is it really that hard to remember your box number? It’s always in the same place.

Not really, for some.
 

For me, I have the exact location and number memorized. I am the one who most often gets the mail. Wife seldom gets the mail and to have a visual "marker" helps since she doesn't know the precise location or have the number memorized.

Looong number, going up and down (not the way we usually read), and in my case at the very bottom so you have to bend down to see it, low light in evening even more difficult to read. And then you wonder why people don’t use the number? The Villages is a city now population wise, it is time to get urban door to door delivery, and stop this rural type postal boxes service.

That really isn't any help without a flashlight. I was our mailroom around Christmas and there is no way you can see inside to the little door when it is closed to see a name or address without shining a flashlight inside it. Addresses are all marked in the mailroom over each box although that doesn't always help because another family with the same house number on a different street often gets my mail which is why I "took a tour" of the mailroom. She said it was simply due to the part-timers not being careful as each address is very obvious on each box.

However I am tired of getting the previous owner's mail. Now I get 12 cremation letters every week instead of 6!

I lived in urban Houston for 10 years, a bit bigger than TV. We had no door to door service. You walked to the end of the block and got our mail from a lock box (and larger lock boxes for packages) similar to what we have here. 24 mail boxes for 24 homes on the blocks.

Lol, I challenge anyone to show me anyone who has been arrested or cited for putting a sticker on their own mailbox. What is the code section? What agency enforces this? USPS Postal Inspectors? They're about as likely to arrest for a street crime as the Secret Service. Vandalism? Not if it's my own mailbox. Ya know the mantra: "No victim, no crime."

People can find anything to complain about

I totally agree with watch dr. I don’t think the mailbox center is a place I bring guests to show off the beauty of The Villages. It is there for a purpose, that’s all. Riding by on the street they look nice and you don’t notice the stickers. Some people might need something to help their declining memory and mobility find their correct box. Some might like it because it is cute or meaningful to them. It’s not on yours, so get your mail and move on. Don’t get your panties in a bunch. Some people love bumper stickers, some don’t, some antenna tie ones (scrunches or flowers), some not so much, go home read your mail and worry about real problems in life. Go visit a shelter, do help at a senior center, enjoy what little time you have left on this planet, and smell the roses. Live life to your fullest. The clock is ticking people......

Deep throat mail box conspiracy
 

i want woodward & bernstein to expose why 6 foot plus villagers are assigned the bottom tier boxes and the petite ones are assigned to the top needing either a ladder or pogo stick to get their mail. Hint. I believe the conspiracy starts in the design center.
And also
to video the delivery drivers who kick the boxes into the smaller bins so that you can't fit a nickel in there and need wd 40 to get it out.
Also
video the delivery drivers with open doors who kick the red button to gain access thru the gates.

Made me chuckle.

Another chuckle from me.

Just wondering if you have a flower at the back of the roof of your car.

That is what those fake flowers are for. Right?

I realize now that many times when people do not quote who they are responding to, they are actually responding to the original poster in the original post. I think that is the case with this post that you responded to.

We had a single family home in South Florida for several years, in between Miami and Ft. Lauderdale. The homes were built with gang mailboxes and the gang mail boxes are still in use today. That area was much more populated than The Villages. I don't think it has anything to do with population whether gang mailboxes are assigned to a community.

My car doesn’t look like every other one on the lot and I do not have to identify it by a number that runs up and down instead of left to right which is challenging enough.