WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

Well, there are elderly people in suburbia.

But yeah otherwise this strikes me more as your typical "I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO START INVOLVING MORE EFFORT THAN IT ALREADY DOES" syndrome

Mr Que how dare you make fun of people who want their picket fence and 2.6 kids as well.

this section makes my weekend:

At Avalon West in Charles County, where new homes start at a half-million dollars, some home buyers are fuming.

Brian Hamilton and Kim Muchnick are engaged and recently signed for a $618,000 home next to Hall's house. One recent evening, the couple visited the bed of dirt and piles of wood that will sprout into their 4,700-square-foot brick beauty by September.

"This house is our dream. It's got everything -- all the bells and whistles," Hamilton said. But, he added, "you deserve to have a nice mailbox in front of your house. I don't think that those cluster boxes are pleasing to the eye."

Sitting on her front porch, staring ruefully at her freshly planted garden of shrubs and flowers, Hall said she did not find out that the subdivision would have only communal mail delivery until after she moved into her $525,000 home.

Particularly disappointing is that the houses in the first phase of the Avalon development have different mail service. "They get mailboxes and we don't," Hall said.

I'm pretty sure that the development of suburban communal mailboxes originated in my hometown (Columbia, MD) several decades ago. Jim Rouse - the developer - devised them as a place where neighbors could meet and engage in conversation and get outside of their homes once a day. It didn't work well everywhere, but it did on my street.

They're damn ugly though.

Hall, 37, a government employee who lives with her husband and two children, walks each day from her cul-de-sac to the end of winding Downshire Court to retrieve her mail from a locked steel box.

Hers is slot No. 13 -- "lucky 13," she said, dejected.

"When I walk down there, I think, 'Jeez, this is a long walk.'

Hahah holy shit. Theres lazy and there's FUUUUCKNell.

my mail gets delivered to me in a slot through my door which is in an apartment in the city which did not cost me $600,000 ^_^

my mail gets delivered to me at my door which is a house in a small town which cost less than half of what adam schefter pays ^_^1

i have to take the elevator to the lobby u_u

Every morning when I walk down the steps to my mail, I think "Jeez, this is a long walk"

whatever i sympathize w/lazy wealthy suburban families, walking blows

i had to walk a quarter mile to get my mail in high school

i didn't even get mail in high school

in high school i would walk the 3 miles home from school if none of my friends were around to take the train with but i was the biggest bitch in the world about taking 10 minutes to go to the communal mailbox in the parking lot. if i had an expensive suburban mansion with a martha stewart garden and shit i would be going apeshit over not getting the mail in a handcrafted artisan mailbox of my choosing right at my front gate

lol at it being news though, of course

It would be awesome though if they could make one of those R2D2 boxes actually roll over to your house and hand you your mail with it's little grabber tool

hah kingkong i'm from columbia too - individual mailboxes kinda weirded me out when i finally headed elsewhere.

At least give it an IP address so people can check whether there's something in their mail box or not in the first place.

what the hell do you think this is, the future?

How are you supposed to play Mailbox Baseball with huge boxes like that?

^ word

Very carefully.

Anyone who plays mailbox baseball should be killed.

i think we went through three mailboxes while i was in high school alone

THANX HERMANS

For some reason, our mailbox (ie the mailbox that belonged to the black family) was the only one that was ever the target of mailbox baseball aficionados in my rural era. [mystery.gif]

the fact that it's shaped like a giant baseball might have something to do with that.

hahahaha ok funny