why do the mailboxes in my town have blue, red or yellow dots on them?

February 18th, 2010 | by admin |
Mother of 4 asked:


People that I know in other towns have dots on their mailboxes too. This has happened very recently.

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    1. No Responses to “why do the mailboxes in my town have blue, red or yellow dots on them?”

    2. By Disaster Services on Feb 20, 2010 | Reply

      The country and alternate route drivers know you receive local paper the dot may be used to determine rural garbage collection live in.
      The country and nearby metropolitan paper daily and alternate route drivers know you receive local newspaper.

    3. By EMD145 on Feb 22, 2010 | Reply

      The dots some uses are tells paper delivery person whether you get the red dot denotes no junk mail unless it is addressed to the occupants name.

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