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Monday, June 26, 2023

Cooper Street's blocks for boxes

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In 2013, we saw several mailboxes in a few blocks of East Cooper Street: 4012 (June 26th) , 4201 (June 5th) , and 4240 (June 8th) . (If you ...
Monday, June 19, 2023

2009 mailboxes

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(That's the year 2009. Sorry, only four mailboxes here.) Just for fun, I did an image search on DuckDuckGo (a private alternative to ...
Monday, June 5, 2023

1327 South 8th Avenue: Church in 2016

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David Aber found this “churchbox” on May 8, 2016. He emailed it to me but I lost track of it — until now. At the time, he wrote: “It’s betw...
Monday, May 22, 2023

Mailbox art in Roswell, New Mexico

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Mail by Robert Neffson AMoCA (Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art) Roswell, NM On your way to Carlsbad Caverns, or just heading to Roswe...
Monday, May 8, 2023

9054 East Calle Kuehn: Cabin

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Nothin’ fancy here, folks: a small cabin with a chimney, with probably just enough room to hold the mail. David Aber found this on February...
Monday, April 24, 2023

4265 West Dakota Street: Steel mesh and roadrunner

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Last time we posted the mailbox Gregg Townsend found at 4330 West Dakota St . Their neighbors at 4265 Dakota were in on the game, too: I wa...
Monday, April 10, 2023

4330 West Dakota Street: Can't miss this mailbox!

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Tucson has plenty of bizarre mailboxes. This one is near the top of the list: Gregg Townsend emailed it yesterday. He wrote “I think the si...
Monday, March 20, 2023

5515 East Hawthorne Avenue: U of A no doubt!

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No question about this homeowner's fandom…
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Mailbox secure from (almost) everyone: 3614 East 28th Street

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You've read about mailbox theft. ( Our previous post had a photo showing a mail thief caught in the act.) Here's another answer: Th...
Monday, February 20, 2023

Mail thief caught on mailbox camera

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KOLD 13 News in Tucson reports that forty-nine million Americans over the past year have had their mail stolen, according to Security.org, a...
Monday, February 13, 2023

4412 East 6th Street: This box is for the bird(s)

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On September 9, 2022, David Aber took a photo of a mailbox with a bird nest and a bird on top. It was so amazing that I decided to go there ...
Monday, February 6, 2023

Correo en un museo

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I've been on the road for most of two months. (Maybe I should visit Tucson! 😁) In December I visited MUFI (short for Museo De La Fila...
Monday, January 30, 2023

826 North Venice Avenue: Wildlife

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David Aber took these photos of a mailbox covered with desert scenes on September 9th, 2022: As usual, I don't know how he finds am...
Monday, January 23, 2023

702 North Venice Avenue: Rob the Bot

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David Aber named this mailbox Rob the Bot (as in RoBot, not the kind of bot you're forced to deal with online): How can you tell that i...
Monday, January 16, 2023

4563 East 10th Street: Box guarded by a griffin

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As Wikipedia says , "Since classical antiquity, griffins were known for guarding treasures and priceless possessions." Although t...
Monday, January 9, 2023

Box by the border

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On Saturday (January 7) I was on a road at the very southwest corner of the US — south of San Diego, just north of the border wall and a few...
Friday, December 23, 2022

Last call for mail to Santa!

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The Russians have been bombarding the North Pole, so Santa's email is down. This is your last chance to send Christmas wishes to Joll...
Monday, December 12, 2022

Most popular mailboxes in ten years (our 10th anniversary)

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This blog started exactly ten years ago on 12/12/12 (December 12, 2012) with our first entry What's a mailbox? explaining what we'd...