Mail delivery time of day

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

Here is an admittedly odd question but I can't seem to find the answer. What time of the day do you usually get your mail delivered to your place?

I've been away for about 3 weeks and today I'm having my mail delivered at once for the time I was away. Since the mail won't fit in my apartment box, I'm going to have to wait for the mailman and get it from him in person. I'd rather not wait outside longer than I need to since its cold and I don't really want to be standing around all day.

Since I'm usually not home during the day I have no clue when the mailman normally arrives.

I thought maybe the USPS would have a service where you could put in your address or zip code and they would give you an estimate for the time of day when mail is delivered in that area. I couldn't find it but maybe its there somewhere?

If it helps any, I'm on Summer St around the Central Street intersection.

Comments

[marphod.livejournal.com]

(Schedule based on zip code... ? There are 1200 zip codes in MA. That's around 2000 families per zip code, not to mention business addresses. Even if a postal worker could deliver to 2 addresses per minute, that's still a limit of around 750 a day, assuming 6 solid hours of deliveries and no down time.

More realistically, (going by the job postings on uk and US postal service websites), a postal worker would cover 3-6 miles a day. Somerville has ~8000 addresses per square mile, which is equivalent to a linear distribution of 90 houses per linear mile. at 6 miles per day, that's still only 550 houses per worker. It isn't like there is a swarm of postal workers that go zip code by zip code, delivering to the entire area in a 2 hour window.)