What is in your mailbox?

[krissysSecret]

I live in a great neighborhood of cluster homes/condos/townhomes..call them what you will.There are no individual mailboxes at each house; we use cluster mailboxes at the corner of each block, each having a locked mailbox.Thats all fine and good..no problem there....until you find yourself standing shoulder to shoulder with your neighbors talking about your day and then it happens.You open your mailbox and pull that stack of catalogues..all womens. Worse yet....that package from Onehanesplace(or other) that has the name plastered all over the package. Kinda hard to hide it right then! I live alone and know most of the neighbors, they know that I am single...so I have been on the receiving end of some funny looks while holding the mail and finishing a conversation. I personally find it amusing,but now, I do wait until everyone else has retrieved their mail....Even the mailman asked me one day who Kristine was! Anyone have any funny mailbox situations you want to share?
Krissy

[Country girl]

Being a GG I don't have any problems but I wanted to say, first it sure as hell isn't any of your mailman's business who gets mail at your box, but if you are worried about what anyone thinks then tell them that it is your Aunt. Sounds like you have it all under control so really this is just a suggestion.

[Kristen Kelly]

Before I told my GF she used to wonder why I got all this mail for Kristen and who was she, as I used to get mail for a woman friend of mine at my mailbox.

[Samantha B L]

In the old pre-internet days of crossdressing I had some funny experience with,shall we say,mail order mayhem and madness.Once,when I was living someplace with my Mom and Sister about 20 years ago I stumbled accross a "Tasteful Clothes For Transvestites" Catalog in a girlie magazine alongside sextoy ads. and the usual personals.So I shelled out the $30 money order and I waited weeks in heavenly anticipation.It finally came weeks later and it was brownbagged and stamped "adult material enclosed".So Mom,Sis and a couple of other people got to the mail before I did that day and they told me later "somebody sent us some porn and it was addressed to you"............."What about that Bud?"........Then there was the time I got a separate P.O.Box and oh boy,the fun I was gonna have with that(I kept it a secret from my family)and the mailman in our neighborhood couldn't get it straight if we were"the ones with the new p.o.box downtown"or so he shouted out on our front walk where everybody at my house and all over the neighborhood could hear him.So that jinxed that!Thankfully,my circumstances are differenent now.But that's almost always how it ended up for me trying to procure clothes,wigs etc. by mail order.I remember I ordered an Elura Wigs Catalog aproximately 25 years ago and family members gave it back to the postman thinking that "we've received this by mistake".they got to the mail before I did that day.Then I had my own apartment fro 3 years and I sometimes ordered Ladies Clothing Catalogs.I had to be careful to only get my mail a couple of hours after everybody else had done so to avoid having to explain away all the ladies stuff.The boxes were in groups of 8 altogether by the front doorway.Sadly,some of these people were real barnyard loudmouths but nothing bad ever came of any of this and here i am none the worse for wear.But these are just a few examples of some of the perils of trying to buy for crossdressing through mailorder.Nowadays my circumstances are different and it is a little easier for me to get the stuff I want but this is just a little of what cd'ing was like before the internet.

[EdGein]

The worst thing is mis-delivered mail. Like you, I have the cluster mailboxes. Maybe two or three times a year, I open my box only to find my neighbors mail. Oh no, that means someone got my mail. I can only hope nothing embarrassing arrived that day...

[Joy Carter]

I got some catalogs and the wife handed them to me and well..........:rolleyes:

[finacarina]

geez if I had time to sit and worry about what my neighbor is recieving in the mail or just be interested.... cmon everyone is too busy with their own lives... nobody really cares.... oh unless they are trying to steal your identity.

[Glenda58]

Gone to mail box dressed even had to sign for a package at the street dressed. I also live alone. Nobody cares they all still talk to me dressed or in drab.

[Kenix]

I made the mistake of ordering things using my drab name. You should see how many catalogues I got around Xmas.:sad:

[Billijo_06]

I use a PO Box for most of the things I order. I mainly use it for the junk that naturally accumulates when you buy a lot mail-order. The Post office will not forward junk mail so when I do not wish the junk mail any more all I have to do is get a new PO Box and start over.

[Melanie W]

first it sure as hell isn't any of your mailman's business who gets mail at your box

Actually, being a mail carrier myself, we do need to know who gets mail at an address to help insure the accuracy of delivery. That being said, there are appropriate ways of asking, such as who all receives mail at this address, rather than who is so and so. The best way would be to use the first initial and last name.

[JeanneF]

I've never had anything particularly embarassing mailed to me, but that's mainly because I buy almost everything in person (excluding occasionally finding a really good deal at Bluefly.com or Zappos or something). But, I do sometimes laugh at the mix of magazines that are in my mail. Like a few weeks ago, I bring in the mail, and there's my new copies of Elle, Metropolitan Home, The Economist and Evo (British car magazine). Or when Esquire and the Victoria's Secret catalog show up on the same day. :)

[ElleCD]

I set up a PO Box for safe delivery of those items I wanted to receive privately. The Post Office has managed to helpfully deliver three items to my home so far when addressed to my PO Box. I got to the first two but my SO opened the third - a rather gorgeous corset. Some nifty explaining later(too lengthy to go into here) I am in the clear (sort of) but I think the next time it happens I'm nailed. PO Boxes are a great idea but some things you just can't control..

[Cherry Lynn]

We have a P.O. box and live in a small town where everybody knows everybody else. I wonder what the postal workers think when I receive mail in my fem name. My wife's name is a variation of my fem name so they may think it was a typo. I have had several items that were too big for box and had to pick up at the counter and nothing was said.

[JoAnnDallas]

I get the VS catalog in the mail in my name. I also get about 10 other women catalogs in the mail in my name. I will come home and on the kitchen table will be a stack of catalogs and my mail sitting on top of it. My wife knows I like to look at womans catalogs and she knows I collect VS catalogs. I now have about 3 years of VS catalogs.

Back many years ago, when I was single, I never had any problem getting catalogs in the mail. Most of the time if someone was in the mail room, I would just wait until they had gotten their mail and left before I would get mine. Now packages were delievered to the office, so if I got a package in, I would have to goto the office to get it. At least most of the housing agents back then did not snoop at the packages or if they did, they never said anything about them. LOL

[Maureen Henley]

We have a curb-side mailbox. When I joined Tri-Ess, the first few peices of mail had pencilled question marks on them next to Maureen's name. I promptly added M. Henley to the names printed on the inside wall of my mailbox. No more question marks.

We have a renter who occupies our basement in-law apartment. He usually brings in the mail, and has had no problem leaving Maureen's mail with ours at the bottom of the basement stairs. He knows I'm a crossdresser, he has seen me in the laundry room in dress or skirt and top. He simply says "Hi", and that's that.

When I read posts here, and think about my own situation, I realize that I lead a 95-98% charmed life.