2802 East Drachman Street

Here's the scene: a white mailbox surrounded by flowers and cactus:

The box has handpainted flowers:

The west side is faded, probably by strong sun:

I stopped by on June 12th.

2926 East Glenn Street

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 door (rather than at the curb).

2619 North Tucson Boulevard

My guess is that the critter on the scroll is a coyote — after looking at Comparing Wolves and Coyotes (from the California Wolf Center). Whatever it is, it sets off the galvanized mailbox.

The photo is from May 27th, 2013.

1721 South 4th Avenue

Though I usually don't show saguaro-shaped mailboxes, this one is worth an exception! Gregg Townsend spotted it along the route for Cyclovia on April 6th.

The “arms” are covered with... spark plugs. A search with Bing tells that, naturally enough, you'd take your vehicle here for service. The business is Arizona Radiator and Muffler Service.

Thanks for the prickly art, folks. And thanks too, Gregg, for taking the time to get off of your bike and snap some photos!

2925 East Glenn Street

This green mailbox isn't especially interesting by itself, but it shows a way that some people avoid going outside (in this case, by the green mesh gate) to get the mail. Though I didn't actually check it, boxes like this usually have a second door inside the wall.

I snapped the photo on June 12th. You can also see it — with a lot of other “flat” art — on the Tucson Murals Project blog. (It's in today's April 18 entry.)

4009 East Kilmer Street

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 photo on May 27, 2013.

4010 East Kilmer Street

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, 2013, along this street in the Poet's Square neighborhood.

4042 East Kilmer Street

This white mailbox has a colorful black-outlined house number.

I snapped the photos on May 27, 2013.

4241 East Poe Street

On my early-morning May 27th ride, I found this black mailbox, on a rickety post, painted with puffs (or are they flowers?).

4227 East Poe Street

A black mailbox with handpainted vine and blosssoms, snapped on May 27, 2013.

4044 East Poe Street

There's no missing the house number perched on top of this brown mailbox. The box is on a post made from twisted wood (with steel behind).

I found it May 27, 2013.

4033 East Poe Street

Somehow this black house-shaped mailbox with fancy scrollwork supports looked to me like something out of Edgar Allan Poe.

I crept by on May 27, 2013.

4035 East Elmwood Street

Here's a yellow mailbox with handpainted flowers:

It's the last box I found on my morning ride May 26th.

4118 East Burns Street

This gold-colored mailbox has wild handpainted flowers:

It's the last of our boxes from Burns Street — this section of it, at least. I was there on May 26th, 2013.

4145 East Burns Street

This bright mosaic-covered mailbox...

...is in front of a beautifully decorated home, which you can see by clicking there (to view it on the Tucson Murals Project blog).

I visited on May 26, 2013.

4241 East Burns Street

This plain metal mailbox has a post surrounded by prickly pear made of brown metal. (Yes, it's at 4241 East Burns. The first 4 is missing.)

I snapped the photo on May 26, 2013.

4231 East Burns Street

Though I couldn't find a house number on this white mailbox, Google Maps Street View tells me that it's at 4231 E. Burns. Rocks and a piece of weathered wood surrounded its (partly bent) post.

I took the photo on May 26th, 2013.

4144 East Oxford Drive

This white mailbox has handpainted green vine:



I found it on May 26th.

4132 East Oxford Drive

This white mailbox looks similar to some others I've seen around town. Maybe they're made by a local artist?

It has rectangles with desert scenes. I rolled by on May 26, 2013.

4143 East Oxford Drive

I found this blue mailbox with butterflies (one only partly finished?) on May 26th.

4201 East Oxford Drive

Here's a black mailbox with intricate white patterns... and a couple of bits of red:

I snapped the photos on May 26, 2013.

4220 East Oxford Drive

When I rolled by this home on May 26, I couldn't find a house number. It was between 4214 and 4232 E. Oxford Drive, though, and Google Maps gave me the address 4220:

It's a gloriously hand-painted white box.

4245 East Kings Road

Here's one last box from this two-block stretch of Kings Road. It's white with bronze and copper trim, and it's on a post that's shorter than most boxes’:

I snapped all of the Kings Road boxes on May 26th, 2013.

4232 East Kings Road

Here's a blue-green mailbox with handpainted flowers and a fantastical critter wrapped around the box:

I snapped the photos on May 26th.

4220 East Kings Road

Can't miss this mailbox with its signs and bumper (well, box) stickers!

I found it on May 26th.

4214 East Kings Road

We're in the middle of a bunch of boxes on a short stretch of Kings Road. (I've wondered why some streets have so many artistic mailboxes... is it “keeping up with the Joneses?” Someday I'd like to make a map showing all of the boxes I've photographed in Tucson and see if there's a pattern.)

This one...

...has handpainted flowers and vines over a salmon color. I snapped it on May 26th.

4138 East Kings Road

Click on the photo if you'd like a larger view of the handpainted house number tiles on this double-decker mailbox with a fancy post. Each of the tiles has its number surrounded by the sun, some birds and some cactus.

By the way, this is our 250th mailbox on the blog. I found it May 26th.

4101 East Kings Road

I spotted this (hard-to-miss!) blue mailbox with handpainted flowers on May 26th.

4009 East Whitman Street

This large mailbox has some rust here and there... but, then again, not many people need to water their mailboxes! The box is also mounted on a trellis and partly covered by a climbing plant.

I found it on my May 26th crisscross through Poets’ Square.

4038 East Whitman Street

We've switched from mailboxes along Water Street into the Poets’ Square neighborhood. (It's also sometimes called Poets’ Corner, but the city's neighborhood map for Ward 6 shows Poets’ Square... and the boundaries are also a square!)

Here's a black box with a desert scene in a circle in middle of its three-column post.

4252 East Poe Street

In the middle of the Poets’ Square neighborhood is a charming box with a child's touch:

I found it on May 27th.

4149 East Holmes Street

If you came to the blog today looking for a heart-shaped (Valentine's) mailbox, sorry. The best I can do (this year, at least!) is a pink post. The box and the rest are turquoise-colored.

The “Location” box, where you can usually click to see an address, doesn't seem to be working as I post this week's entries. So here's a clickable address: 4149 E. Holmes.

Update: This mailbox is also shown in the April 6, 2017 entry.

2702 East Edison Street

The home at 2702 E. Edison (which, for some reason, wouldn't show up in the “Location” box at the end of this entry) has both a weathered red mailbox with a zigzag design...

...and a long mural. (Click there to see the mural. It's today's post on the Tucson Murals Project blog.) I took photos of both on May 20.

1710-1716 East Water Street

In the past couple of weeks, we've been looking at mailboxes along Water Street. The first was in the 800 block, just east of 1st Avenue. Now we're finishing this part of Water nine blocks east, in the 1700s, just west of Campbell. (There's more just east of here — as well as more sections of Water, here and there, including the last one I've found which is past Craycroft. I'm hoping to catch all of Tucson's creative mailboxes by some year in the future...)

Though I couldn't find any photos that look much like it, this design reminds me of something I'd find at a dock (without the mailboxes, that is). I found it May 20th on... where else? Water Street. The boxes are addressed 1716 and 1710.

1705 East Water Street

Last time, I posted a fish mailbox from Water Street. Here's another — a white box with fish on both sides:

More mailboxes from May 20, 2013 are coming next... though just one from Water Street.

1448 East Water Street

This handpainted mailbox is covered with tropical fish:

It's signed SBaker '95.