I used to believe there was a little man that lived in the mailbox. He would catch the mail and make sure it went to the right place.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I always thought that a little person lived inside each mailbox waiting to take my letter to its destination.— Anne
- i used to think that the word e-mail was a sex, like male, female and e-mail.
I'm so thick!— Confoozed - I always believed that we lived in Manchester (we didn't) but it was always the main place on the local news!— Richard M
- I thought when i was a kid, that all mailboxes had tubes that brought your mail to the person u sent it to.— Andrew
- I waited for the mail to come on my 11th birthday so that I could get my letter to Hogwarts... It never came.— Charlie
- When my sister told one of my brothers her e-mail address, he thought to spell out “at” instead of typing “@”.— EJ - no longer computer illiterate!