Mailboxes in front of Mog Houses

[Mirage]

It doesn't take all that long before you know who they are.

As for the icon usage, I don't think my haubergeon or stack of coeurl meat would fit inside a normal sized envelope.

[Rhianu]

It doesn't take all that long before you know who they (item delivery NPCs) are.

Still, it should be more obvious than it is. Some kind of visual indication should be in place. The lack of such indicators on all types of NPCs as always been one of FFXI's biggest flaws.

You might be able to remember the locations of enough NPCs to get by, but chances are you haven't memorized the locations of every NPC in the entire game.

As for the icon usage, I don't think my haubergeon or stack of coeurl meat would fit inside a normal sized envelope.

Why not? Every item in the game can each fit into a single inventory slot, regardless of size. Your haubergeon and stack of coeurl meat, for example, would each take up exactly the same amount of inventory space as a flower or a slip of paper would, not to mention how we adventurer's can carry around up to 240 items without any visible backpack of any kind. So clearly Vana'diel's items must be susceptible to some kind of inter-dimensional space/time compression, thus allowing any item to fit into almost any space. :P

[Mercer]

Thats a really good idea.

[Minda]

Change the names of all item delivery NPCs to "Item Delivery." It's not like any of them are ever important to the game's story, so they really don't need to have unique names anyway. "Item Delivery" as a name would work fine.

D'awww, they don't get their own names? Aren't they special enough?

Just kidding, but I do like the idea of having a mailbox outside of the home. We do it in real life for the very same reasons!