Ok so when I bought my house, they told me if I wanted a mail box, it had to be WAY down the side street, across the road from my house. Meaning I would have to cross a state highway and walk about 250 feet down the road across from my house to get to my mailbox.
I said hell no, and just paid the $120 a year for a PO Box.
All is well and good for another 6 or 7 years and then our postmaster retires and we get a new one. I decide to ask again, hey, so any chance I can put a mailbox in front of my house? This postmaster informs me that if I can't have a mailbox in front of my house, I am entitled to a free PO box.
What? So I say ok, well, I want a refund for the last 6 years then.
*record scratch*
Well all of a sudden guess what? Its ok to have a mailbox right in front of my house.
The mailman was IRATE. Because everyone else on my street immediately did the same thing, and I added about 100 houses to his route. Dude was all sorts of pissed off, and would refuse to deliver any packages to my door that wouldn't fit in the box. He also constantly "lost" my mail. They replaced him or he quit or something. New mailman is great.