I need to hear good things about the UK

Mail delivered through the front door mailbox!
Rain.
Trains.
Bakeries.
Cool temperatures.
Cosy homes.
Countryside.
Styles and gates.
Farms.

We have a milkman! 

Mail delivered through the front door mailbox!

Where do you get your mail in the US then?  My parents gets put through the door and the mailman collects any outgoing post as well. 

Where do you get your mail in the US then?  My parents gets put through the door and the mailman collects any outgoing post as well. 

For the most part you have to leave your home(and get out of your PJ's) and go down the street to what is called cluster boxes. Maybe 16 homes have boxes clustered together. This is how it for new builds for the last 15? years. Very inconvenient.

Where do you get your mail in the US then?  My parents gets put through the door and the mailman collects any outgoing post as well. 

I always got mine through the door as well, but then I lived in a series of older houses in New England. My parents in Louisiana had a mailbox at the end of their front path - not in a cluster with others, as Cheers has described, but their own private one. That seemed pretty much the norm in the 'burbs in the south.

Having said that, I did also live for a short period of time in a new modern apartment complex in New England, and my post came through the door there as well. So it's not just in old houses ... perhaps it's more regional?

My house in California has a cluster box, but it's at the end of my driveway. My parents who live 2 houses down from my house have a normal mailbox at the end of their driveway. The only reason we have a lockbox is there has been some mail theft so USPS put in the cluster boxes for some people, but it's not the norm at all where I used to live.

Here in Massachusetts 'burbs we get our mail deposited in the metal mailbox hanging by the back door. And we pretty much get our own mail (unlike in Leeds where you probably get the post for somebody at the other end of the terrace and who knows where yours went? Not to mention the items that are too large to cram through the slot so they make you go to the sorting office. In US they tend to just leave it on your porch, usually tucked behind a flower pot or whatever)

Not to mention the items that are too large to cram through the slot so they make you go to the sorting office. In US they tend to just leave it on your porch, usually tucked behind a flower pot or whatever)

Make friends with your postie! Mine always leaves big parcels either by the back door or tucked behind something in the front! 

Make friends with your postie! Mine always leaves big parcels either by the back door or tucked behind something in the front! 

Dunno if they'd do that in our "high crime" area    They only deliver to the back of the terrace and the proximity to easy escape down t'beck would be tempting. I've had things pinched off the clothes line.

We have a milkman! 

Indeed! It's lovely getting milk delivered.  Just wish it came in glass bottles (when I was a kid I got milk in glass bottles)

Indeed! It's lovely getting milk delivered.  Just wish it came in glass bottles (when I was a kid I got milk in glass bottles)

Ours here comes in glass bottles.  I love it! 

Ours here comes in glass bottles.  I love it!  

Jealous!!!!!  I may call the dairy up and see if they actually do that... I've just gotten plastic always

Good things about the UK:

• Got a toothache in the middle of the night, the next day I walked into the dentist without an appointment and in 20 minutes had:  seen a dentist, got x-rays, prescription, made an appointment for a  root canal and had a cleaning.
The whole thing will cost less than my normal checkup without x-rays in the US (not as many flavours of fluoride though)!

• BBC period dramas

• Wells Banana Bread Beer

• Cream Tea, High Tea, Champagne Tea

• Better Train system than in the US

• Cabs and buses in small towns. So much easier than worrying about a DD

• Eurostar

• Cathedrals

• Working at a very small company: 15 people with 8 nationalities between us
In the States I worked at a company with 100+ people and all save one Canadian were American

Jealous!!!!!  I may call the dairy up and see if they actually do that... I've just gotten plastic always

Oh I hope they do.  There's something fantastic about having glass bottles of milk sitting on your doorstep in the morning. 

Indeed! It's lovely getting milk delivered.  Just wish it came in glass bottles (when I was a kid I got milk in glass bottles)

Ours here comes in glass bottles.  I love it! 

Ours comes in glass bottles too!