Tucson Mailbox Art

This black mailbox is mounted on an exhaust manifold with a yellow flag above. Let's get a closer look: I raced by on December 25...

This candy-striped box stands in a candy-striped pot on the gravel yard. Even the windowsills are candy-striped. (I took this fuzzy phot...

Most of this plain metal mailbox is covered with multicolored mosaic tiles: The photo is from Christmas Day.

With all the scrollwork around this mailbox, can a letter carrier find where to put the mail? I took the photo on Christmas Day.

This black car with flames coming out of the hood is headed uphill at an angle such that the letter carrier only has to open the grille and ...

Two views of a mailbox inside of a large gray stuccoed post painted with nature scenes: I drove by on November 9th.

This unique fish-shaped box with a rusty iron finish was made by custom metalworker Solaz: Their website is solaz.biz , and the site show...

It's 2015 and I'm back on my bicycle hunting for mailboxes: That rusted bike between the posts of a mailbox isn't actually mi...

Just in time for the new year, here's an old box on a fence, unused. It sits behind a new bog-standard mailbox at the curb: I took...

Just in time for Christmas, here's our 300th mailbox! It's in a rusty brown color, surrounded by a butterfly and a flower — a call...

Here's a pair of black mailboxes with saguaro posts: I usually don't show saguaro posts , but these two were too fun to miss. I...

This white mailbox is embedded in its custom-made post, with a nook below it and tiles that match the ones on the home's front porch: ...

Here's a dark blue mailbox with a country scene in reds and browns: a little road winds past trees, one with a swing, and a building (ma...

Now for the second of four boxes along 24th near Reid Park. It's dark blue with grass, flowers, butterflies and clouds: The photos ar...

This handpainted mailbox shows some kind of vehicle, but I'm not sure which: Across the top are parts of three leather straps, two wi...

Just in time for autumn — in Tucson seasons, anyway — a black mailbox topped with a floppy doll on a cloth saying “Happy Fall”: I spotted...

The sun is setting (or rising?) over black hills on this mailbox with fun ironwork between its posts. I snapped the photo on July 28, 2013...

Here's a mailbox with a shooting star and a critter-shaped flag. I found it on July 4th, 2013. Like last week's box , there's...

Appropriately enough for Flower Street, this box is covered with handpainted blue flowers. I passed by on July 4, 2013.

This black mailbox is on a pint-sized post. I (almost) overlooked it on July 4, 2013.

It's balloon fiesta week in Albuquerque. Though this is the Tucson Mailbox Art blog, let's jump to New Mexico for a gray mailbox w...

I found this (mostly) green mailbox on a (partly) red fire hydrant July 4, 2013.

Offline, out of town, off my bicycle… I haven't posted any mailboxes for (exactly) four months now. I'll aim to put at least one onl...

I rolled by a simple entrance and white wooden mailbox at 324 N. Norris on June 30, 2013.

This artistic fence and "post" mailbox (on a post made from a tree branch) were spotted at 121 N. Norris on June 30, 2013.

This rust-finished mailbox with turquoise accents is at 1347 N. Plumer . Click there for a Google map. I found it on June 27, 2013.

From June 27, 2013: a simple design with a turquoise maildrop: For some reason, the address, 2320 E Adams , wouldn't appear in the Lo...

The owner left this black mailbox hanging out… on a unique right-angle post with numbers welded to the post: I took the photo on June 25,...

This black mailbox has a painted sculpture of a waving man chained to its post. I rode by on June 25, 2013.

There was no water in sight to grow a rust-finished mailbox with cattails around its post, as well as a cattail flag. I found it on June ...

This black mailbox has a bird on an angled post with the house number. I snapped the photo on June 25th.

I wondered if the owner ever put flowers in the flowerpot shards embedded around the black mailbox in this stucco and brick post. I pond...

The theme here is sunflowers. There's also a sunflower sign by the front door (the photo is fuzzy because I set the camera to zoom in ...

Here's the scene: a white mailbox surrounded by flowers and cactus: The box has handpainted flowers: The west side is faded, proba...

This home, which I spotted on June 12th, has a fun entrance with something you don't see much of in Tucson anymore: a mailbox by the do...

My guess is that the critter on the scroll is a coyote — after looking at Comparing Wolves and Coyotes (from the California Wolf Center). ...

Though I usually don't show saguaro-shaped mailboxes , this one is worth an exception! Gregg Townsend spotted it along the route for Cy...

This green mailbox isn't especially interesting by itself, but it shows a way that some people avoid going outside (in this case, by th...

It's a poetic setting for this green mailbox with the house number cut into a large plate at the right side of its post. I took the p...

This rust-finished mailbox and post have the house address in twin-peaked flat metal on top: It's one of the boxes I found May 27, 20...