1441 South Palo Verde Avenue: Hands painted

In this blog, I try not to show factory-painted mailboxes or mailbox covers (that slip over a blank mailbox). So I was glad to spot this hand-painted mailbox with two hands painted on it. The other side has a garden:

I found it January 23, 2026.

Weird and wonderful mailboxes around the world

This blog has been pretty quiet for quite a while. I'm hoping to start riding my bicycle through Tucson neighborhoods during 2026. In the meantime, here's a fun post from the German national broadcaster Deutsche Welle showing 11 mailboxes — especially in Denmark, where the national postal service has stopped delivering letters:

    dw.com/en/weird-and-wonderful-mailboxes-around-the-world/g-68217893

It's part of their Constructive Journalism series.