I have seen some high-end neighborhoods with delivery to the mailbox at the entrance and middle-class neighborhoods with delivery to the door. So I suspect it isn’t some local tax thing either like garbage pickup.
Edit: Meant paper mail delivery to clarify!
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Talking about paper mail only?
Some areas have postal workers that walk, could also be due to theft.
Some of it is also just changing regulations. Most new building developments (at least in Canada, but I’ve seen it in the US as well) don’t even have door to door postal service, they’re required to set up community mailboxes. An identical development built in, say, the 1980s would still have door to door service and is basically allowed to do that because it’s grandfathered in.
USPS has also actively tried to get people to move away from mail slots to boxes or community mailboxes.
So mostly age of the housing development and how inclined the local post office is to fight residents on delivery.
My 90 year grandparents in Michigan just had their mail delivery moved from the end of the driveway to their door. They were worried about slip and falls during the winter.
My apartment has delivery to a community mailbox
Where I live the only people allowed to have mailboxes by their door are certain “old” neighborhoods, and they are slowly doing away with them going to only boxes on the road, or a community box, this saves on labor costs.
I believe in my neighborhood at least the HOA decided to have the communal one put in, the houses up the street still have personal mail boxes at the street in front of the house. I know there is some neighborhoods in my town that have door to door will mailboxes on the front of the house
Its even weirder where I live. Older (like 1930s) homes on my street get delivery to their roadside mailbox. I in my 1950s home have to walk about 750 feet to the point office, where I get a free PO box.
Well, they don’t check that I walked. I’m allowed to drive if I’m feeling lazy.
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