For at least 6 million of eBay's 19 million members, that means that unless they change their notification settings, they may soon be receiving e-mail promotions, telemarketing calls and advertisements in their postal mailboxes.
And particularly in a country where postal mailboxes are protected by federal law, the notion that reading e-mail messages is no longer a private act may prove disconcerting.
In the John Jay school complex in Brooklyn, New York Today spotted one that is now home to a postal-service mailbox.
Between the perils of airmail and the untrustworthy Brazilian postal system (street mailboxes were apparently never emptied), and the lost letters and wayward proofs that followed, it was a miracle there was any editing at all.
Earlier this year, Mr. Kapner said, Ms. Kenna arbitrarily changed the apartment number listed on her mailbox, confusing postal workers and neighbors.
The medals were found Jan . 20by a Cos Cob postal employee in a mailbox in front of the post office.
If the mail doesn't have your address on it but ended up in your mailbox, the postal service made a mistake, not the sender.
Agents also have taken a boxload of materials from a postal box at a Mailboxes Etc.
