Here's Why Dryer Sheets are Showing Up in Mailboxes in Minnesota

Why Are Dryer Sheets Showing Up in Minnesota mailboxes?

Surprises are showing up in mailboxes all over Minnesota and sadly, it is NOT a care package with amazingly, delicious homemade cookies. Even a Crumbl Cookie would make my day. Sadly, food is NOT showing up but rumors are flying around that mailboxes throughout the country have dryer sheets inside. If a dryer sheet magically appeared in your mailbox, leave it, there is a really good reason why it is there.

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According to the New York Post, a postal worker that has been stung multiple times from yellowjackets uses the dryer sheet tactic to help keep the pests away. For mailboxes that have "issues", he just puts a dryer sheet in the back of the mailbox and that helps the "satanic creatures", as he called them, from creating a little home in the space.

Thankfully, the yellowjacket season should be done soon since snow is on the way. But this will all repeat again next year, so keep a dryer sheet handy for your mailbox.

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Do you know how expensive it is to mail a letter now?

I haven't mailed Christmas cards in about 7 years so when it was time to buy stamps for graduation cards, I almost fell through the floor at the HyVee service desk. Did you know that the price for a normal stamp is now 0.63 cents? And, did you know that they are wanting to hike this price up again 0.66 cents?

Back in my day...I remember when I tried to tape a quarter to the corner of the envelope to mail a letter. I was a little kid and didn't have a stamp or a way to get one and I thought this might work. FYI, it didn't.

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