Just to take it a step further in pedantry, I think the past perfect of "get" is "has/have gotten", so they should either say "you got mail", "you have mail", or "you've gotten mail"!

Or they could say, "There is presently unopened mail in your mailbox"...but then someone might object to "mailbox", because it sounds like "male"box, which isn't necessarily discriminatory, but could be deemed so by people who can't spell...and so they could say, "You have unopened mail (uh, no wait...that sounds like male, too)...okay, "You have unopened electronic messages in the virtual container that is there for the purpose of holding them, so...Oh, forget it!"

Or as Blind DRunk would say, "Ya, like, got mail, eh?"

If this be thread drift, then cast me in irons!

Hee hee hee...

- LH