In the days before blogging, actually meant writing a letter on a piece of paper, popping it in an envelope and posting it in the mailbox down the road.
Then we would wait excitedly for a reply from a lover or a friend, check our mailboxes every day to see if he/she had replied. As bloggers, we are aware of making regular posts, but how often do we think about writing an actual letter? And if we do still indulge in that rather quaint way of communicating, what about updating that tired old mailbox on your front wall. There are some unique and different new mail box designs available.
From a slimline high tech-look for your modern loft apartment to the multifunctional or single slot-type mailbox, it is worth giving it some thought, or that precious letter may go missing. Friends of mine have been hinting very subtlely that perhaps I should do some thinking on this. As they enter my gate, they make a pont of closing the wooden door on our old wooden mailbox, remarking at the same time that it is a wonder that I don’t lose more mail. They are right of course. The door is jamming and getting old – in winter it tends to swell up and not close properly.
My mailbox is about half the size and depth of a shoebox. As a result the newspaper delivery guy has to fold the paper over twice to try and squeeze it behind the door. Mostly, though, he just throws it over the garden gate, where it is invariably snapped up by our dog. If it doesn’t get eaten it often gets rained on. Depending on the force of the delivery guy’s throw, it often travels through a prize flowebed on its trajectory path, decapitating a rose or two on the way.
So, this year, come hell or high water, I am going to treat myself to a new mailbox, preferrably multifunctional, with a tiny slot for the bills, a dog and weather-proof one for the newspaper and one for the fun stuff. Maybe I can even get one that has an automatic eject mechanism which detects junk mail. Now that would be really cool!
