What time does your mail (US Mail) come?

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My US Mail service here (in a normal city of 60,000) is irritating. Sometimes my mail comes at 12:00 noon, the average time is about 1:45, but sometimes it doesn't get here till 3:30 or so. I don't mind it late, hell even at 4:00 I could live with, as long as it was consistent everyday.

What time does your mail come? And how consistent is the time.

I'm mostly talking residential here, businesses are probably different.

My mail comes pretty consistently between 12:00 and 1:00 pm. I live right next to Boston and I've noticed that the same guy delivers it every day. I have a friend who is a postal carrier that works right in downtown Boston. He has said in the past that sometimes people may have a different route on different days. I have no idea why. This could explain it- some people are faster than others, or some people may "work" the route a different way.
Louisville, KY Population 600,000... comes at 12:30 everyday... never too much later or earlier...
Good point, I guess if I was a postal deliverer (someone told me they make decent $$ for an easy job), I wouldn't mind switching routes vs. having the same boring route everyday...
A pretty consistant 9:15 in the morning, delivered right to my door.

2:30 on the dot every day.
Very good mailman
Thats because your postmaster is banging the lady next door far a couple hours a week.

Did you think eveyone in the country gets thier mail at the same time?

Nope, was just curious about the consistency. A few people, like the guy above, gets his at 2:30 on the dot everyday.
Between 11:30 and 1:00. never later, never earlier. Rarely past 12:30 though.

I live about 4-5 blocks from the Post Office, and the same gal comes by everyday.

Pop? 6000.

In Fairfield & in Vacaville CA, We never got our mail until 4:30 at the earliest, 5:30 at the latest. On one hand, it was consistentish, but on the other, you couldn't go to the Post Office and get something mailed out that day. Ever.

usually between 10:30 and 11:30am. Same guy, knows my name, and is a pretty nice person. For some reason, my dad hates him. I have no idea why.

Population of my town: 12,000.

I live about 4 blocks from my PO.

3 or 4...

Depends on the area. Not quite 3 miles away, a friend gets his mail by 12:30 every day....

Usually sometime about 10:00 AM.
4 of 6 delivery days a week, it always comes between 12:30 and 1:00 PM when the regular mail carrier is delivering.

The other 2 days, with either 'casual' (temp) or other carriers can be anywhere from 11AM-6PM.

The carriers in my area work from 7AM-3:30PM. They spend anywhere from 2 to 4 hours bundling up and sorting mail (by block/street/appartment)before packing up and heading off into the street. This is what can cause a little time difference.

If you have one carrier always delivering at extremely different times it could be that he/she has more than one route, or that he/she is getting a few extra drinks in at the pub. Call up your station, ask for the route supervisor for your address, and ask.

I sometimes pity those bastards, wearing those uniforms in the ungodly NY City weather.

Hell if I know, I'm never there when it happens. Don't you people have jobs?
The time of day doesn't matter to me, the travel time is what pisses me off.
It took 10 days for my letter to Atlanta to arrive.
It took 8 days for my letter to California to arrive.
A package sent to me from Boston took 8 days to arrive.
USPS can lick my nadz.
Mine's inconsistent. Between 13:00 - 15:30 and very occasionally later that that.
it's always been about 2-3pm...even since i moved accross town, 2 miles away from the post office. i used to live right down the street...

lost_packet had me LOL.

Here usually 12:30ish, not sure exactly. Probably a halfhour either way. so anywhere from 12-1 usually.

Horrible! SoCal I get it between 11:00am to 4:00pm...

In Tokyo I got it around 10:00am give or take 15min.

Anywhere from 2:00 to 4:00 pm.
I get my mail during the daytime. Expecting anything more specific is just asking for a disappointment.
as the days get longer, it comes later an' later.

i think lately it's been arriving at 'bout 4:30-5:00 (pm mind you)

Dr. Rev. Krule, MD

LOL @ lost_packet...

I have a PO box... always get my mail at 8am, never later... it just depends on when I go to pick it up


My dog seems to know exactly when, as she goes with me down the lane to pick it up and is insistent about it, running 'round and 'round the sofa and barking until I'm ready to go.
Between 12 and 1:30.

Take those to each be two standard deviations from the mean, and it's pretty Gaussian.

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