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.

1434 East Water Street

I found a lot of mailboxes on my May 20th ride along Water Street. This one, mounted on posts like you might find on a pier — and the next (next week) — have a water theme.

1312 East Water Street

You aren't gonna break in to this all-steel mailbox.

Found on May 20th.

1210 East Water Street

On May 20, 2013, I rode past this gray mailbox inside a shiny post covered with tile, mirrors and crystals.

1119 East Water Street

Here's a green mailbox with tile numbers on the post and a critter flag.

I came by it on May 20th.

843 East Water Street

A handsome mailbox with soft mountaintops under a warm desert sky:

I snapped the photos on May 20th.

458 East Alturas Street

Here's a black box with the address, on top, in a mountain-shaped piece of rust-finished metal.

I rolled by it on May 20th.

2519 North Geronimo Avenue

This black mailbox, mounted on an iron circle with a disc in the middle, has an interesting shadow, too:

I found it on May 20th.

3411 North Geronimo Avenue

These tidy-looking stuccoed mailbox and separate address post have tile numbers and artwork around them.

They were along the route of my May 20th bike ride.

3645 North Stone Avenue

On the west side of busy North Stone Avenue is a mailbox that's probably caught your eye as you rode by. It's a dark brown metal color, wrapped by huge flowers and leaves.

(Though I'd spotted this place before, I finally took the photos on May 20th — by riding my bike along narrow Stone Avenue early in the morning, before there was much traffic. Bike lanes here are tiny, and there are no parallel side streets along this part of Stone.)

There's lots more iron work around the home. See the page 3645 North Stone on TucsonArt.info.

3398 North Fontana Avenue

Matching critters, top and bottom, on this black mailbox.

Fontana had lots of good box-hunting on May 20, 2013!

3360 North Fontana Avenue

This black mailbox has a black cat between its posts.

I snapped the photo on May 20, 2013.

2520 North Fontana Avenue

If you've been following the last few entries, you know that I was riding along North Fontana Ave. on May 20 of last year. And if you've already seen today's entry on the Tucson Murals Project blog, you'll know that there are handpainted murals on the porch. (If you missed it, click there.)

And here you can see the box. It's black, on a dark post set with square and rectangular tiles.

3307 North Fontana Avenue

On May 20th, I just happened to be riding far enough on Fontana Avenue that I spotted two similar mailboxes eight blocks away from each other. You saw the first box, at 2520 N. Fontana, yesterday. (If you didn't, you can click there.)

Here's the second box, the one farther north. It's black, with the house number and a saguaro between the posts.

(I normally don't show saguaros, but this coincidence made the boxes worth showing.)

2507 North Fontana Avenue

This plain white box has its house number and a saguaro between the posts:

I found it (and the box at 3307 North Fontana; see tomorrow's entry!) on May 20, 2013.

P.S. The last half of last year was sooooo busy that I had to cut the number of mailbox “posts.” But I'm back on my bicycle, and I'm hoping to get back to posting boxes every day — at least, every weekday.

203 East Linden Street

Let's start 2014 with a creative white mailbox that has the address — 203 E. Linden — in curved dashed letters on both sides:

I snapped it on May 20th (2013).

Santa Koala, 3202 East 28th

We started 2013 with a koala bear mailbox, at 3202 East 28th Street, complete with branches and leaves. When I rolled by last Friday, the 27th, I saw that the owner had added some Christmas cheer to the street.

2411 East Waverly Street

I rolled by this sunny spring scene on May 14th: a handpainted white box, covered by — and surrounded by — flowers.

2345 East Elm Street

In case Christmas Day in Tucson doesn't turn out to be bright and sunny, the photo in today's Tucson Murals Project post, Maybe a mural, part 49: Giant flowers on Elm will brighten up your day.

There's also a mailbox at 2345 East Elm, but it's not quite as spectacular as the flowers:

Homeowners at 2345: Thanks for the art… and the box!

PS: I've been super-busy these past few months. There just hasn't been time to post many mailbox photos. I'm hoping to break away a day, soon, to post a lot of the backlog of boxes. Please check back!