nice mailman???

It depends on how much mail there is. The mail box is for mail not for the newspaper. I would have just put it on her steps or wait until she came home and then brought the newspaper over to her. But here the mailman will just slip the letters in because there is usually a newspaper or two in the mailbox. And if your neighbor already had a part underneath for newspapers, you could have put it there.
I guess things are a bit different in the States. They must have rules that mailboxes are for mail only.

hello antiquelady

shame on your mailman for doing that! and i have had days where that i haven't felt good as well and didn't check my mail for a day or two and seems to me like they have always put something in the mailbox when that i would already have mail in it. and what that the mailman did by throwing the newspaper on the ground like that, isn't that called littering? lol right? maybe you had a substitute mailman today. lol

take care and have a beautiful afternoon.

I think only mail is allowed in the mail box Antiquelady. Even if it is your own mail box, I think it belongs to the post office once it is in the ground.. at least that is what I have always heard. I know that we can't have any papers put in our mail box.. they have to either have their own box, or be on the ground.

I think that it was unkind but if this behaviour is different from how he usually acts then probably something had upset him.

Legally, only stamped mail can go in your mailbox. It was rather rude though.

I do not know all of the circumstances, but there are some laws about what can be put in mailboxes. If your newspaper did not come in the mail, it cannot be put in the box. Our church delivered circulars for a store, a billion years ago, and we were cautioned that we must not put them in mailboxes or the store would get in trouble. Same with our Avon catalogs when I sold. Technically that is Federal Government Property and although you may have purchased the box, nothing is supposed to go in it that has not been paid to be mailed.

Hello antiquelady! Personally, we don't have a mailbox at home.

I watched the movie "Air Bud" and that I noticed that the newspaper man just throw all the newspaper on the ground so I guess that's what the mailman did especially maybe there are no enough space for the mails.

No I don't think it a rule to put mail in on top of other mail put the paper is something else.You are not surpose to put anthing in mail box unless it comes thhrew the mail.That is what I have been told.

Well, since you said that he is friendly I would say that he got up on the wrong side of the bed. Maybe he was having a off day. I think it was tacky what he did with the paper. I don't think there is anything that says that he can't put the mail in the box if there is already something in there. Just chuck it up to him being in a bad mood.

He really looked rude at that instance. You just don't throw things like that. It shows his breeding, right? That's probably how moody he is.