⚠️ WARNING: P.U.I ⚠️

Letterboxes are seen in cities sometimes, but in the middle of nowhere, everyone has a mailbox by the road. Sometimes they are clustered together, a bunch of boxes in the same place so the mail carrier doesn't have to drive a mile down some unpaved dead end road.

I like to decorate mine! Our previous one rusted out so I painted the numbers onto our new one (instead of using stickers) and then painted gold ginko leaves all over it with some bugs hiding around them.

Usually no

We tend to put our houses in the center of our properties and often don't have any front-yard fencing. Making the mail carriers walk all the way up to every house would be prohibitatively time consuming. Without a fence, we need to put the letterbox on a post, so we use a mailbox.

You don't even have to be all that rural. If you have a single-family unattached home that wasn't built in a developer plan, you'll end up with a mailbox on a post at the road to one side of your driveway. Unless a specific location has a problem with theft, we don't even have a locking system.

In the newer planned neighborhoods, they'll set up cluster mailboxes.

Nope!