I live in an apartment complex with a community mailbox center. It's about .4 miles from my door, and closer for all other residents. Almost ALL of the residents that I've seen there are climbing out of their cars! I can't laugh too hard though because my riding a bike for .4 miles is almost as lazy as driving.
To be fair that's been changing this summer, and I do see a few people biking up to the boxes now. I take advocacy credit for that, just by being a visible reminder