1424-1426 East Drachman Street: Plenty prickly

I've seen a few mailboxes with metal prickly pear cactus as a post underneath, but nothing like this:

You can see the prickly pear in the background, too. Here's the back side of the mailbox:

I walked by (and kept my distance 😉) on November 20, 2024.

5302 East Waverly Street: Flowers and skeletons

This faded mailbox has skeleton heads that are even more faded:

I found it on November 9th.

4060 East Fourth Street: flowers, dots, and Pogonip

I saw this cheery box September 30th as I tried to detour around a traffic problem on Alvernon. It has white flowers and dots with a flowery flag:

After I looked at the photos on my computer screen, I noticed that the flag has © 1994 Pogonip Inc. at the bottom. A search for the name took me to results listing a Tucson company that used to have the interesting web address MailboxFlags.com. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the website or almost anything about the company.

(By the way, this is one of the Tucson neighborhoods with streets going every-which-way that I guess someone had fun planning. I should learn to check a map before I drive! Here's Google's view: https://maps.app.goo.gl/a68ZgLngJm6pTqKh8.)

Mailbox outside BICAS

Artsy BICAS has murals around their new-ish location near Grant & Stone. They also have a fun mailbox:

You can see the other art in the post Murals around BICAS on The Tucson Murals Project blog.

I rolled by (in my car) on July 11, 2024.

Mailboxes (some are fun) for sale in Tucson

I searched DuckDuckGo (a search engine that doesn't track you) for: tucson mailboxes. Most of the results were for mailbox services like the UPS Stores. But I found photos and listings on Facebook Marketplace:

    https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/tucson/mailboxes/

Most of them are boring undecorated mailboxes, but some listings are for fun maiboxes and places that make custom mailboxes. You don't have to log in to Facebook to see the first few screenfuls. But after that, they'll force you to log in.

Suspected mail thieves caught with AirTag

On February 20, 2023, I posted Mail thief caught on mailbox camera. Last week — August 27, 2024 — the Associated Press published a story with another clever technique:

    California woman fed up with stolen mail sends Apple AirTag to herself to catch thief

(By the way, if you haven't heard of AP, they've been supplying news since 1846 — from very local to worldwide. I suggest looking around their website apnews.org.)

2522 South Calle Yucatan: Day and night

I found this bright box on Sunday, August 4:

It has a daytime side (which happened to be sunlit when I was there)…

…and a nighttime side (in shadow):

Completely different at 3202 East 24th Street

Our November 18, 2014 post showed a mailbox a few blocks south of Reid Park that might have been a covered wagon. On May 28, 2024, I noticed something completely different: a huge letter A (as in the University of Arizona) with a mailbox near the top:

That's one creative Wildcat — or a family of them.

1441 South Palo Verde Avenue: Flowers and handprints

What a sweet mailbox! I found it on May 12, 2024.

5870 / 0785 North Campbell Avenue

This is the first mailbox I've seen with the address forwards on one side and backwards on the other:

I found it on April 16, 2024.

(Not) "Air Mail" box in Chattanooga

Have you been around long enough to remember when there were two ways to send a letter: regular first class mail and air mail? (Regular mail went by train or truck. Air mail went by, uh…). On road trips in the countryside, I saw some homes with two mailboxes by the road. One box was the normal kind near the ground. The other was on a tall post — reaching maybe ten or 20 feet into the air — with a sign saying AIR MAIL.😏

On a road trip in October, 2023, I stopped by the Sculpture Fields at Montague Park in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Although this sculpture is actually “Captain Merkel’s Ramming Dragon” by Verina Baxter (18'x10'x6'9", made in 2015), it reminded me of the old AIR MAIL boxes.

What do you think?

Bright box at 3539 East 28th Street

This blog was quiet for eight months starting August, 2023. I didn't publish the photos here before I stopped posting to the blog. I took them on February 18, 2023:

Hidden in the Garden District: 2216

David Aber spotted this colorful mailbox in the Garden District on April 12th:

Just underneath the front of the mailbox are bright red lips 👄 and a heart 💖 — for the USPS letter carrier, I'll bet 😘:

It's spectacular — and fun. I didn't post it with the address, though. It's 2216 North Sycamore Boulevard.

Thanks, David.

Critters on post at 1806 North Winstel Blvd

Tiny ceramic sculptures are crawling around the tops of two sides of this mailbox post:

I was there on April 4th.

Dancing post at 1730 North Winstel Blvd.

This mailbox has small tiles along both sides of its post that show dancers:

I spotted it on April 4.

2209 North Northway Avenue: The boxes are back (a bit)!

I've had to let the blog rest while I did other things. But when I rolled past this mailbox, I knew I couldn't leave the blog quiet forever…

The “Woofable” makes me think this is a dog. If you have a better idea, please leave a comment below (you can stay anonymous if you'd like) or send me an email from the Contact Us form at the right edge of this page.

I was on the Palo Verde Neighborhood Art in the Gardens tour this past Saturday, April 6.