I get my mail at a PO box in a city (Portsmouth, NH) 25 miles away. Nottingham, where I actually live (can't fit everything inside that damned little box), has no house to house delivery (that type of delivery comes through Barrington, an awkward drive to pick up packages, etc., in the opposite direction) so we did have a Nottingham PO box for 15 years, but then reached a point where our schedules didn't allow us to pick up the mail except, perhaps, alternate Saturdays -- a real problem. But while we had the Nottingham PO box, mail addressed to the street address (which is what is listed in the phone book, of course) got to us. Now the Nottingham post office doesn't officially know us, so anything addressed to our street address gets sent back as undeliverable. I think only the totally anal retentive use the additional 4 numbers of ZIP plus 4. It means there's enough numbers for every man, woman, child, dog and cat in the country, but they still haven't figured out how to actually find us (except for junk mail).

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