The long walk
As with many apartment complexes, my apartment complex has a "mail center" where residents can go and pick up their mail. The center is pretty well centralized where it's within a fair distance from everyone.
When I get home, I take a nice short stroll over and back to get my mail. 3-4 minutes, tops.
But for some, this distance would seem to be in miles, and asking them to walk would be too much.
They'll generally park their cars at the center, retrieve their mail, then go and park at their apartment only a few yards away. A downstairs neighbor did this one day. I parked, walked over, walked back, and was heading up the stairs before they were even opening their car door.
Don't even get me started about what they do when it's raining a little. Stop the car, break out the umbrella, walk 2 steps to the covered mail center, close the umbrella, get mail, open umbrella, take 2 steps to the car, close umbrella, repeat process when getting home..
What a burden it is not to have mail slots for our apartments! Woe!

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