Remember When: Mail Was Delivered to Your Door

[This comes from a narrative written by Emmilou Collins Edmonds Adams around the year 2000. Portions in brackets [] were added for clarification.]

When we lived in San Antonio when I was a child, mail was delivered twice a day except on Saturday when it was only once. No mail on Sunday.
 
If you lived in the country on a main road, you had a mail box in front of your house; otherwise you had to walk to an intersection where there were many mail boxes.
 
When we lived on Maple [1469 Maple, Bartlesville, Oklahoma] we had a mail box at the door. Eventually we put in a mail slot which we put in the wall so that mail would not be in the way when we went in the front door. That worked great, especially if we were away for several days.
 
When we moved to Briarwood, we could still have had mail delivered to the door, but we opted not to. It did not seem right for the postman to have to walk up all the steps to the front door. We would have had a mail slot put in but could not figure out where we could put it. Ideally it should have been on the first floor. Perhaps it should be in the garage door, but the doors were metal. So we opted for a mail box on the street.
 
Once the postman came to our door with the mail saying we seemed to have lost a mail box--it was gone and we had not noticed. We found it in the vacant lot across the street.