The first time I didn’t need a key was my first house with my husband, I was 25. I remember thinking how odd it was that anyone could just come up and steal my mail. It was the first time I had ever lived in a single family home.

Where I live now the single family homes have to go to a central mailbox area. Actually, that seems to be sort of common on newer housing in my state.

As a girl growing up we had a mailbox slot in the door, and the mailman just put everything right through into the house. We lived in a townhouse. My parents still live there, and their mail is still delivered that way.

Do you remember anything that was new or struck you as odd regarding mail delivery?