@crashglasshouses @Gurre @caesar @futurebird I am here in California where snow is kind of a fable in most of the state (and in the rest, wow - Tahoe can get 800 inches of snow a year!)
(It's 60 steps (!!) from the bottom to the top of our house, so a few steps to our mailbox isn't, for us, much of an issue.)
We have had mail stolen out of our non-locking traditional end-of-driveway mailbox. The thief took checks we were mailing - he acid washed 'em and re-wrote (and re-signed!) them to "Cash" and tried to cash them at the bank - the bank, of course, refused. Stupid crook.
Around here essentially every new build of multiple houses ends up with a multi-delivery box on the street. Only the single-family, separated houses get individual boxes any more.
(Trash pickup is similarly consolidated in some instances.)
Yeah, I wish the post office would do more to not carry that awful junk mail. I guess they make $$ from it. But ours tends to end up in the recycling bin before it ever enters the house.