Mail still will not Hide at Login... Why!?

Apfle seems to ignore most of it's own rules:
After years and years, Apple Mail still will not Hide upon login when the Hide-Box is check in User Accounts startup items.
Is there a way to get it to hide, like other Apple applications?
And WHY does Apfle refuse to let us hide this app?
Thanks

Make an AppleScript like this:
tell application "Mail"
activate
close front window
end tell
then put it in your Startup Items instead of Mail.app
As to why this has never been fixed:
Apfle are too busy removing great features they created from OSX 1.0 to OSX 4.0

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