Mailbox archive: 4910 East Andrew Street

A sky blue mailbox with a two-color stripe:

The photo is from June 3, 2013. I haven't published it until today.

Mailbox archive: 4918 East Andrew Street

Here's a mailbox that looks to me as if it's by the same artist who painted the box across the street (see Mailbox archive: 4917 East Andrew Street):

It's another in the series of mailboxes that I snapped seven years ago (this one on June 3, 2013) but haven't published until now. The mailbox is signed SKay.

Mailbox archive: 4917 East Andrew Street

The mailbox door was open when I rolled by on June 3, 2013:

Across the street is another mailbox in the same style. We'll see it next time.

Mailbox archive: 4933 East Andrew Street

This mailbox sits on some kind of galvanized metal tube. The photo is from June 3, 2013, but I haven't published it until today.

Mailbox archive: 5657 East 26th Street

I snapped this photo of a mailbox in a pot with artificial flowers on June 3, 2013, but I haven't published it until today.

Mailbox archive: 5745 East 26th Street

Shining Light Baptist Church has this stuccoed post with a business-sized mailbox.

I photographed it on June 3, 2013, but haven't published it until today.

Mailbox archive: 5836-5842 East 26th Street

Here's a nautical-looking yard as I found it on June 3, 2013:

Since then, the big tubes have been removed. Here's a Google Maps Street View from May 2018:

Mailbox archive: 1536 North Sahuara Avenue

A lavender mailbox with big white flowers:

I snapped the photos on June 3, 2013, but haven't published them until today.

Mailbox archive: 5962 East 26th Street

This mailbox isn't special — lots of mailboxes are embedded in walls and posts — but the setting is. There's an arch shaped like a mailbox and pots of cactus all around.

I took the photo on June 3, 2013, but haven't published it until today.

(Not) April Fools: Mailbox crash tests

I kid you not. This photo is from a government-funded 1978 University of Texas research study, Crash Tests of Rural Mailbox Installations. Click there if you'd like to see the report.

Scroll through for photos of cute mailbox installations as well as bizarre shots of different vehicles the study used to hit mailboxes. But, to make sure this isn't a complete waste of your time, you might also want to read Appendix A, U.S. Postal Service Specifications for Rural Mailbox Installations. You'll learn, for instance, that if you don't have stamps to mail something, you can leave money in the mailbox and the carrier will take care of it for you. (That was 40+ years ago, at least, in 1978.)