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There was also a discussion of mail chutes in old buildings a while ago, and many suffered from blockages (or being non-operational, as in your case). I could s
by 205guy 6y ago
There was also a discussion of mail chutes in old buildings a while ago, and many suffered from blockages (or being non-operational, as in your case). I could see someone finally clearing out a blockage during a renovation, then dropping the old letters in the mail. But the original article was a card written between families, so probably not in an office building. The flea-market theory from the article seems the most plausible.
- 5555624 6y agoI've lived in several apartment buildings that had a mail chute, from the top floor to the first floor, next to the elevator. I don't know how often it was checked for blockage; I think the USPS just picked up the mail form the box at the bottom of the chute.