Mailboxes are a thing in all of New Zealand, but in rural parts of the country you can both send post from and receive mail to your mailbox. You put a flag up on the side if sending and it let's the postie know to stop and collect the contents.
Mailboxes are an opportunity to be artistic, creative, avant garde, or 'send messages' in ways considerably less conservatively than folks tend to build and decorate houses.
Hate a mailbox and it is relatively easy and low cost to change.
Even in town post never comes through a slit in your door.
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| Rural mailboxes gathered at the end of the public road. Mail is only delivered to 'the gate'. |
Some examples of creative mailboxes....
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| Paint job |
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| Navigation mark |
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| Cream can |
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| Coal scuttle |
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| Ordinary rural mailbox - imaginative paint job |
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| THAT front yard again |
Hari OM
ReplyDeleteSomething I miss from OZ... in fact any country I've lived other than in the British Isles. Though I guess a fair few other countries probably have through-door post too. Now, the question is, are you working on designing your own mail box??? YAM xx
The ones that match the house..so there is no mistake whose box it is..I like those!
ReplyDeleteI love kiwis imagination and artistic creativity. Some mailboxes are simply awesome.
ReplyDeleteThe best is yet to come - It's on a main road and there is nowhere to park to photograph it so I'll have to plan a walk to capture it's image and it can have a post all on its own.
DeleteOh I like those! We have a boring old black metal mailbox at the bottom of our drive ( the postie can't make it all the way up to our front door 😉). I forsee a paint job looming...
ReplyDeleteThe mail boxes are wonderful. It's another opportunity for people to exercise their imagination and creativity. Shall we see yours?
ReplyDeleteI was actually thinking old-fashioned red phone box at the gate repurposed as a book swap. One of the neighbours has a tardis (genuine old blue police box)!
DeleteI love the cow and the VW bus boxes. so where do you get packages and some of these, our regular mail would not fit through, like big office envelopes. is yours on your property? or at the gate? we are the only section left, that has delivery to the door, back in 1972 when our house was built, every house in the city limits was to the door. the homes Beau and I walk through behind us, have a box with tiny doors and a key, all on one post. like a mini post office would look. some walk right out to the door and others have to walk a full city block. most drive and stop...
ReplyDeleteThose are all unusual and witty looking, most common one i've seen is a microwave being used as a mailbox.
ReplyDeleteI guess there are plenty of dead microwaves around.
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