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A lot of us live in the country, or a small town.

Our post office is in a town of maybe 500 people. We are on the farm in Iowa.

Like to share thoughts on you neck of the woods?

Remote village. Everyone lives in a P.O. box.

Two miles from a small village.... Nearest neighbor is 1/4 M away, and invisible from here... Close enough..

We live in town, have a street address, but our mail comes by rural carrier.

I have a rural mail carrier and the service is terrible .

10 miles from town and the mail box is 2 miles from us. The rural mail carrier goes to church with us so he will deliver packages to us so they don't have to stay at the post office or as the previous one did, put them on the ground next to the highway.

I live 2 miles out from a small village. The village consists of a small group of houses built around a crossroads with flashing light, a convenience store/gas station, a general store, a garage/mechanic, a church, a concrete business and just recently a General Dollar. My mail is delivered by rural mail carrier to my mailbox at the foot of my drive.

4 miles from the nearest village. Nothing but family owned gas station/convenience store, a mechanic, a body shop and a blinking light.

It's told there is a post office in the Grand Canyon, the mail comes, and goes by pack mule, the winds make using a helicopter impossible. Know that is rural delivery.

3 miles from a town of 2500. Rural carrier. Delivery on Saturday is very unreliable.

PO Box only. No delivery here. PO is about 2 miles away.

P.O. Box here no delivery. When we moved here in 1982, one could simply list the name and town and stuff would show up. Without zip codes today though, I doubt the larger mail handling centers would take the time to hand sort and route things.

Live in rural AK with no home mail delivery
PO Box only with weather greatly effecting delivery

Live a mile and a half from a small town of 375 people. Mail comes to a P.O. Box in town. House has a street address, but we just tell folks we live across the road from June and John. The town has a small credit union, and one reasonably stocked grocery store, a bakery and a restaurant.

30 miles from town. 1.5 miles to mail box. can see a neighbor 3 miles across the valley. can see Creston BC. and Porthill 5 miles across the valley.

Keith, it's a small town indeed if you can't buy beer.

I can see my dog running away from home for the first three days.

Nearest town of 2300 is 6 miles away. Mailbox at the end of the driveway for normal mail. Weird looking mailman.


For packages, a smoking hot brunette delivers to the house.

Live in an outer suburb of a large megalopolis.

Over the decades, most of the people here moved out of the central city because of....(it's "raciss" to say why).

Mail is reliable. 1/2 hour to 45 minutes to major league sports (if I ever go again), first class plays, symphony orchestras, museums, skiing, a national park, a 300 yard rifle range, and several Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays venues. Also an hour from the walleye capital of the world, the largest Amish community in the USA, and a 1000 yard rifle range. No BLM.

City dwelling done right, IMHO.

No mail here. If need be it gets sent to a neighbor up the road.