I think being a mail carrier must be one of the most uninteresting professions there is. I mean, you drive around by yourself with stacks of other people?s mail. Stop at the mailbox, open the flap, put in the mail, close the flap, drive off, and repeat. I think I might go crazy after only one day! So it makes me wonder, is that why some people put up bazaar mailboxes For Sale? Don?t get me wrong I?m all for customized mailboxes. I have on more than one occasion put my last name and house number on my box. And I have anonymously longed for one of those fancy brick numbers that are not only lovely to take a look at, but also very functional. I mean they are virtually indestructible!
customisation is one thing. I'm able to handle the family name mounted or painted in a pretty font. I'll even put up with some decorative elements like birds, flowers, or even a favourite sports team. But I put the cutoff point at bigger than life animal statues which make you stop and wonder, ?What were they thinking?!?
for instance, in a near by city there's very nice house found on the gulf of Mexico, and stationed prominently by the road sits an almost-life-sized mummy manatee holding a stainless steel wall mount mailbox. Now this in itself is bad enough, but it just doesn?t stop there. Down toward the mother manatee?s tail there ?swims? A sweet small baby manatee. But it?s not swimming with momma, no it seems like it is nursing! Now I'm sure that it's not essentially nursing, because manatees nurse their babies from a gland under their armpits. But if you didn?t know this small tidbit of pointless minutiae, you would potentially think that this engaging mailbox features a nursing baby manatee! I am wondering what goes through the mail carriers head!
This isn't the only artistic mailbox out there. There are web sites dedicated to nothing except ugly mailboxes. I found footage of mailboxes featuring sculpted pelicans, ketchup bottles, swimming fish, and even Mickey Mouse. The artistic endeavors didn?t end with the mailbox, some home owners got creative with the mailbox post, using anything from rims, to scrap metal, to old tree limbs.
