Rural mail?

[coppertop]

When I was growing up we got our mail at the little post office half a mile down the road, then we went to a Rural Route and got the mail at our gate.

The placing of rural super boxes was done by someone at Canada Post who knew nothing about travel routes etc.

Some of my neighbours drive five miles out of their way to pick up their mail which makes no sense. We were told originally that placement was dependent on denseness of population in specific areas.

[cowman]

Actually on the route I'm on the mail person is an employee of Canada Post...not a tender? They changed that system about a year ago out here?
Now for me personally, rural mail delivery is not a big deal but then I'm not all that far from town and usually someone is in town every day or so. A lot of this route is the big green communal boxes but we have our own box, have to drive about one quarter mile, five days a week.
About 5 years ago I got sick of the snowplow knocking it down in the winter so put it on a heavey truck rim? Now he can plow it over and you just set it back up! About three years ago I loaded it up in the front end loader and brazed up all the bullet holes and re painted it. Same mail box since 1946...they built them stout back then!