Mailbox locator

I've been meaning to do a post on this for a couple of weeks. In the middle of January, the Post Office location that serves mail to our area changed fromt he one downtown to the one in East Bay. We thought this would be a good thing, because the East Bay one was the place we had been dropping our Netflix off at.

After the switch, we noticed that the Netflix dropped off there started taking longer in transit. Both incoming and outgoing sometimes take a while. I actually marked 2 disks missing last week after having waited 7 days for them to arrive back a Netflix. (They showed up the next morning. I wonder if it's some big consipiracy between Netflix and the Postal Service to slow down the flow of DVDs for customers...)

Anyway, We have been experimenting with different locations. The problem is sometimes we don't think of it early enough, and we wonder when the last pickup of the night is for different locations. (East Bay is 9:30pm, but if it's going to take a week, I might as well leash it to a turtle...)

A few weeks ago, I found a site that lists all mailboxes, their location, and the time of the last pickup.It's found at the Mailbox locator site. It's a pretty slick little thing. You can search by town name or zip code. They provide a brief description of how to find the mailbox. (My favorite so far: "Behind Arby's") Selecting a box gives you the pickup times as well as a mini map to the box from Google Maps. The page will also have a picture of the mailbox, if someone has sent one in.

Maybe one of my new hobbies will be taking pictures of mailboxes in odd places. Oh wait, I had a mission companion that had an odd fixation with taking pictures of trains. Never mind.