Mailbox designers

Mailbox designers have all the possibilities in the world to fuck with mailmen. And they do. It seems that their only motive when they design the boxes is that it should be impossible to deliver mail to a household easily. If they are a bit in the mood the boxes also fuck with the mailmen. And if they are really in the mood, the boxes also hurt the mailman.

Some of the ways that they fuck us is:
-The box (that I hereby will call the slit in the door) is so small that anything larger than a A5 envelope will not fit.
-The box is so thin that e.g. two magazines will not go in together.
-The box (the rat-trap design which is a hole straight through the door which has two metal flaps on either side of the door) has to be pushed open with a finger to let the mail through (both of the metal flaps), the finger has then a 50/50 chance to get stuck on the way out.
-The box above is also so small that a A4 envelope / magazine don't go through unfolded.
-The box has something that traps the mail on its way through the door -> the mailman must then stand there and fipple with the mail until it goes through.
-The box is hard to open.
-The name tag is incomplete.

When mailboxes at regular houses are concerned several of the problems above still hold, and then there are some additional once:
-The mailbox is hidden so that your mailman cant find it.
-The mailbox lacks number or name.
-The mailbox is positioned in a way that you have to get of the bike/moped to get to it.
-There are some plant or fence in the way of the mailbox.
-The mailbox looks like if it would open one way, while it is in fact the other way.
-The mailbox is full.
-The mailbox is hidden behind the house.

The fact is that the number of good, easily opened, easy to find, easy to drop anything down in, name clearly visible boxes in all the rounds I have gone is less than 3%.

I think that mailbox designers should have their own place in hell where they (yea I know I am an atheist and don't believe in hell, but it works to good as a metaphor not to use it) are exposed to their own contraptions all day long.