Apartment mailbox
It’s been a habit to collect mail everyday from our mailbox downstairs, at the building’s second floor. Why second floor? There are only three units on the first floor since we live on a hill. There are 15 units on each floor of our almost two decade old building. (Our building will be up for remodelling in 5 years or so).
Here’s how the mailboxes at our building looks like.
At our home in the Philippines, we don’t have a mail box. It would be unsafe to put one outside the gates of our house (the mails are not even safe at the post office!) since we are on a busy street with lots of pedestrians passing by daily.
Even with the mail boxes open to all residents (and non-residents) of this building, I haven’t lost a single mail. Nobody cares about our mail and sometimes people are too busy to care about theirs too. By the way, I’ll have to go back down since I forgot to get the two bills inside our mail box.
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May 15th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
I used to love living in an apartment. I have had similar experience with mail.
May 16th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
^^ the novelty has worn off after almost 5 years… i surely miss our home in the philippines… but i love my sister’s cozy space in ohio
May 18th, 2008 at 12:16 am
Our metal gate has a mail box but it rarely contains any mail. Mang Romy the postman always calls out so that we get our mail (and the neighbors’ mails too)directly from him.
I would love to have a wooden mailbox like that in the film Il Mare, and get all sort of things through post too. Nowadays I only get bills.
May 20th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
That’s so cool ^^
I agree. Mailboxes are not famous here in the Philippines for that reason which I am not too proud of >_<
Lifestyle in Korea is so different in a good way.
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July 1st, 2008 at 10:59 am
At our home in the Philippines, we don’t have a mail box. It would be unsafe to put one outside the gates of our house (the mails are not even safe at the post office!)
This sounds much like Dallas, Texas! We recently had to replace our condo mailboxes with a high-security cluster box unit due to repeated break-ins. We even made a video about and put it on YouTube - Apartment Mailbox Theft
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