Mailbox challenge by maggiemae

Mailbox challenge

Our mailbox doesn't get used that much nowadays, in fact NZ Post is considering reducing mail deliveries to only three per week!

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Three good things:
1. Receiving a real letter in this mailbox.
2. Got some peculiar looks from cars passing by!
3. Getting hooked up in finding more about a lady who I went to school with and has now been recognised as a major poet. She died in 1975 and no family remains.
You have one gorgeous mail box. Nobody writes letters anymore and bills get paid on line. We are considering doing away with Saturday deliveries. Mostly I just get junk.
January 27th, 2014  
very pretty mailbox. hope you find nice letters in it and not just bills
January 27th, 2014  
Awesome shot
January 27th, 2014  
Very pretty mailbox, lovely capture
January 27th, 2014  
that is a lovely mailbox!!
January 27th, 2014  
It's such a bright, cheery mailbox! I think if everyone saw how beautiful it was, they'd all write a nice letter and mail it to you!
January 27th, 2014  
I love your NZ post boxes...thy just fascinate me. Yours is a beautiful example of them....I expect you painted the flowers yourself maggimae!
We have bought back three of those plastic ones with the drop down lid & little red arm sticking up. We love them because we can put our letters in there for posting & our very obliging postman Tony takes them to the sorting office for us. Three days a week is not good though....do you have lots of junk mail...we get loads!!!
January 27th, 2014  
@smellychelli What a nice thing to say, Michelle! Thank you!
January 27th, 2014  
What a beautiful mailbox!! I love it!! I just have a letter box in my front door with Finlay waiting on the otherside to catch anything that gets posted through!!
January 27th, 2014  
A very handsome mailbox!
January 28th, 2014  
@happypat This box was here when we bought the property 4 years ago and on the front is a metal sign: "No Circulars" ! And it is taken notice of which amazes me!
January 28th, 2014  
@pamknowler I love the thought of that scene! Hope you retrieve most of it!
January 28th, 2014  
So sad that such a pretty mailbox gets very few letters. )o: Want me to send you a postcard from the Poconos?
January 28th, 2014  
yes nice mailbox maggie...if you called them letterboxes this would be a real 'letterbox crop' :)
January 28th, 2014  
Meg
what a pretty box...love the softness, too.
January 28th, 2014  
nicely presented - pretty mailbox
January 28th, 2014  
i would love to get a letter sometime, maybe i need to write some first.
January 28th, 2014  
That is one beautiful mailbox! And I do agree about how nice a letter is -- nowadays it's all email!
January 28th, 2014  
prettiest mailbox I've ever seen! you should see my rusty old thing!
January 28th, 2014  
Beautiful mailbox.
January 28th, 2014  
Well you do have a fancy post box. We have been contemplating a cut back in home delivery here in the States too. So far it has been delayed, but surely it will happen
January 28th, 2014  
What a pretty mailbox!
January 28th, 2014  
Deb
Fancy mailbox :D
January 28th, 2014  
how cool is that
January 28th, 2014  
Oh Maggie! This is beautiful!!! Great addition to the challenge! Thanks so much! Did you paint this?
January 28th, 2014  
You mailbox is quite glamorous! Mine is plain and a bit beat up.
January 28th, 2014  
Such a pretty mailbox, Maggiemae!
January 28th, 2014  
@eyesmile no, I didn't paint this and it actually looks better than it does in the light of day!
January 28th, 2014  
Very pretty, certainly prettier than our letterboxes
January 28th, 2014  
@swguevin I have disguised the spiderwebs and the vague rust, Sheila! Camera is No One!
January 28th, 2014  
Lovely mailbox. It will be a sad day if they stop the delivery all together to homes.
January 28th, 2014  
Gosh, mail only three days a week. They just raised stamps to 49cents and now they are doing less deliveries? Very lovely mailbox.
January 28th, 2014  
What a beautiful mail box!!
January 28th, 2014  
really?! I new you guys were laid back but thats part time! pretty mailbox :)
January 28th, 2014  
Beautiful mailbox!
January 28th, 2014  
So pretty. Love your focus.
January 28th, 2014  
Beautiful mailbox
January 29th, 2014  
such a shame that letter-writing is slowly dying. i'll write you a ldtter and/or postcard if i knew where to send it. :-)
January 29th, 2014  
@summerfield you are so sweet Miss Summerfiield! I will dine out on this comment for a while!
January 29th, 2014  
What a beautifully decorated mailbox! Good luck in your search for info about the former classmate and poet.
January 30th, 2014  
Lovely!
January 30th, 2014  
You have a gorgeous mailbox Great shot of it!
January 31st, 2014  
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