It was an ordinary day. Looking at site after site that displays rather unusual mailboxes that can be placed in front of your home to collect your U.S. Mail each delivery day. You may have already read my story about the demolition of my very nice wooden mailbox that was destroyed in early September of 2016. My wife and I loved that mailbox, since it was easy to give directions to our home by telling about the large wooden mailbox that sat at the end of our driveway that was made of the same wood as the home and painted the same color. For years Carol would decorate the box with Christmas lights for Christmas or ghosts for Halloween. We got many compliments over the years until someone decided to stray from the road and totally destroy the mailbox. Can't imagine what it might have done to their car, but it was the last time that our mailbox collected our mail. We decided to buy a plain mailbox just as all the others in our neighborhood so I purchased one at Home Depot and installed it with concrete where our other mailbox had resided. Nothing really neat...just a plain brown mailbox. Then over the next few years we talked about perhaps buying or making a new mailbox that would make our home slightly different than all the rest in the neighborhood. We looked around the county as well as searching the Internet for ideas. We printed out images of mailbox after mailbox, but have still not decided what to do. I have posted a few of our choices at the end of my story so you can get an idea as to what we might want to have as.a new mailbox. If you have something unique that would be a good fit for a contemporary home, please add a comment on my story and included a photo of the mailbox. We may love your choice and will try to find a duplicate to place in front of our home. We are open to just about anything as you can see in our photos we have taken from other sources. It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy
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| Our large wooden mailbox |
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| Decorated for Halloween |
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After being destroyed by a driver.
Ideas follow: |
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