Does your mailman pick up your mail?

[sungold123.livejournal.com]

Okay I'm going to sound like a country bumpkin here... but before I lived in Somerville, I lived in the middle-of-nowhere New Hampshire, where if we had outgoing mail, we'd put it in our mailbox and put up the red flag. The mailman would then take said mail and put the flag down. So, I figured if I left my outgoing mail on the little hook below my now-attached-to-the-house mailbox in Ball Square, the mailman would take it. However, I've tried this a number of times now and the mailperson has just left the mail there.

According to the USPS FAQs:

Outgoing mail is picked up:
* For curbside delivery if the flag is up or if there is mail to deliver.
* For door delivery if there is mail to deliver.
* From the outgoing mail slot in a Cluster Box.

Since I receive mail literally every day, it seems like my mail should be picked up. I'm curious to find out what other people's experience with this is...?

Comments

[heliopsis.livejournal.com]

I attach my mail to the outside of the mailbox with a strong magnet, and the mailman always takes it. And I know at least some of the items have been delivered, so I'm inclined to believe this works.

[teele-sq.livejournal.com]

that's really messed up. have you ever complained to the post office? how many magnets has he taken? seems like there should be a cheaper option.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

... I think she meant the mailman takes the mail?

[heliopsis.livejournal.com]

"He," if you please. My emblem is a flower, but it's a butch flower!

[heliopsis.livejournal.com]

Oh goodness! The mail carrier never takes the magnet; he takes the mail and leaves the magnet on the mailbox. If he took the magnet, I wouldn't have done it twice.

"Pronoun trouble," as Daffy Duck once said.