letter boxes
Jul 12th 2013, 5:36 am
#16
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Joined: Jul 2013
Location: Upper Hutt, New Zealand
Posts: 99
Re: letter boxes
Our letter box is useless, enclosed at the front, totally open at the back, consequently if the wind and rain is at a certain angle everything gets soggy - the amount of post and flyers etc which have become paper-mache I have lost count. At least a company from which I ordered a book from recently had the sense to put it in a sealed plastic bag inside the large brown envelope before posting, as the envelope had all but disintegrated by the time I retrieved it.
Jul 13th 2013, 6:08 am
#17
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Joined: Mar 2010
Location: Upper Hutt, NZ
Posts: 507
Re: letter boxes
Its a metal box and unfortunately its not ours as we are currently in a rental - a good point though!!!
Aug 17th 2013, 9:12 pm
#18
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Joined: Feb 2013
Location: upper hutt
Posts: 21
Re: letter boxes
Just in case you think I am kidding, I had no idea until we were threatened with having our mail withheld:
http://www.nzpost.co.nz/home/receivi...specifications
http://www.nzpost.co.nz/home/receivi...specifications
Aug 18th 2013, 10:51 am
#19
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Joined: Oct 2003
Location: In my own little world
Posts: 1,457
Re: letter boxes
My Postie is great. (I'm rural - and rural posties seem to be a different breed.)
I made my post box out of wood, after getting the 'regs' from the NZ Post site, so it resembles the house (très twee!!) I placed it far enough away from the gate, on a post, that he has room to drive around the back of the post box, open the door, and put DVD sized parcels inside, then close the door, without exiting the car, if it's pouring with rain. As the post box is constructed like a miniature house, it has 'overhangs' on the roof, covering the door at the back and the slot at the front - so dry post... If the parcel(s) are too big to go in the post box, he opens the gate, and drives up to the house and knocks on the door.
I also have a PO Box in the local town / village. That's where all the 'important' stuff goes - bank statement, legal documents, and so on. I also cut addresses out of parcel wrappings and burn them. (I'm kinda paranoid about identity theft...)
I made my post box out of wood, after getting the 'regs' from the NZ Post site, so it resembles the house (très twee!!) I placed it far enough away from the gate, on a post, that he has room to drive around the back of the post box, open the door, and put DVD sized parcels inside, then close the door, without exiting the car, if it's pouring with rain. As the post box is constructed like a miniature house, it has 'overhangs' on the roof, covering the door at the back and the slot at the front - so dry post... If the parcel(s) are too big to go in the post box, he opens the gate, and drives up to the house and knocks on the door.
I also have a PO Box in the local town / village. That's where all the 'important' stuff goes - bank statement, legal documents, and so on. I also cut addresses out of parcel wrappings and burn them. (I'm kinda paranoid about identity theft...)
Aug 18th 2013, 12:09 pm
#20
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Joined: Jul 2008
Location: @ the beach.
Posts: 7,243
Re: letter boxes
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Aug 18th 2013, 6:39 pm
#21
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Joined: Jun 2010
Location: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Posts: 2,744
Re: letter boxes
When we had our fence replaced in December of last year I purchased a mail box from Mitre 10. I had the builder fit it into the fence in the same position as the old mailbox.
I've nicknamed our mail box, 'the chicken coop' 'cause that's what it reminds me of !
I've nicknamed our mail box, 'the chicken coop' 'cause that's what it reminds me of !
