Creative Mailboxes

I was somewhat surprised the Postal Service allows these. I think they're quite wonderful...what ingenuity some people have!

"In picturesque Bainbridge Island, Washington, a small town just a 35-minute ferry ride from Seattle, lush forest flora and ocean sunsets aren’t the only scenic vistas residents and visitors enjoy. More than 100 quirky, artistic, and often deeply meaningful mailboxes line the neighborhoods’ streets. Brothers Jim and Dick Strom turned a 1948 Packard sedan into a massive family mailbox for the three generations that live on their sprawling property. A married couple whose home is directly across from the shoreline erected a miniature lighthouse. The one-of-a-kind boxes do much more than add levity to morning walks, according to resident Denise Stoughton — they’re part of the fabric of the community. In a recent special for The Seattle Times, Stoughton shared that she’s been so captivated by the mailboxes’ “expressiveness, individuality, and cultural contribution” that she’s in the process of writing a book about them. And she’s not the only one they’ve inspired. Local artist Sandy Haight began seeing the mailboxes in a new light during the COVID-19 pandemic. Though she typically paints emotive watercolor portraits of flowers, she found herself painting mailboxes during quarantine. She told Stoughton: “Mailboxes were evidence that people were still at the other end of the driveway.”