Mailbox Improvement Week, May 21-27 USPS

Rural mailboxes must meet USPS regulations, including design, size, placement, and addressing. However, some amount of customization, personification, artwork, and quirky statements apparently are in the realm of acceptability if measured by the rural mailboxes seen in Jericho, Vermont.

Jericho, Vermont Mailbox Art II

Captions by Bernie

   Every day is Valentine's day when your mailbox is dressed in its very best.

                                           THE Gold Standard

  

                                                               Everyday Garden Variety

                         Duplex (Special zoning permit)

                                        Shadow Box Design 

                                           Patent pending

            Plain Jane

Who knows 

what strange and ominous 

mail lurks in the shadows.

Built like a rock

Covered Mail

                                   Linkedon Mail

Just Over the Line Scenic Mail 

                                                 Deere John....

First-floor mailbox,

 second-floor chicken coop.

                                        Color of the Month Club 

Unfinished paint job.

                                              Looking like Ninety-eight

                       but only Sixty-three years old.

Lichen we are missing one, ma!

                       

32 Stallion Road

Steep four-degree incline; 

 Heavy mail - please use the alternate lane.

Do not remove the tag

 under penalty of law

                 The bigger the sign 

                  the bigger the number

You don't know your town until you walk its dirt roads and view its diverse mailboxes!

Faded Glory

                                Tree Mail - Watch for falling limbs

Ninety-eight litter of leaves on the tree; ninety-eight litter of leaves, one falls down, watch it fly around; ninety-seven litter of leaves on the tree, one falls down, watch it fly around…    Come on sing along, you know you want to.

   Norman Rockwell and Robert Frost bring home the family                     Christmas Tree.

She dared him to cross the red line.

                    The blush of  Bloom

                  She loves me, she loves me not, she loves me…

Butterflies and other insects deliver pollen 

                                      Planted, potted, 

                                                   awaiting Post Card from Sunny California.

Hot Mail

                                     Eighteen Twenty was a very good year.

                                                          Copy Cat

                                                      Starry-eyed mail 

                                          Two thirds correct 

                                  Big Brother, Little Brother

These folks do not have to worry about mice in their mailbox ever again.

   I just wanna feel Purple, Red, Yellow, and VT Green. 

A bit worn, a bit tattered, 

will she recover?

In the darkest of hours

 there is always light. 

     

     Moooorever, though the milkman no longer delivers,

        you can still count on the mailwoman or mailman!

    Presumably Queen Victoria of Osborne House

After I have tea with the Queen, I will be out and about Jericho, and perhaps Underhill seeking more unique, unusual, artsy, and divine mailboxes. 

Which is your favorite? 

View Artsy Mailbox I at https://jerichovermont.blogspot.com/2022/05/jericho-vt-mailbox-art.html

Laugh, Dream, Try, and Do Good

-Bernie

Jericho, VT Mailbox Art

 

Mailbox Improvement Week, May 21-27 USPS

Rural mailboxes must meet USPS regulations, including design, size, placement, and addressing. However, some amount of customization, personification, artwork, and quirky statements apparently are in the realm of acceptability if measured by the rural mailboxes seen in Jericho, Vermont.

"...Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community." - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie.

Jericho, Vermont Mailbox Art

Captions by Bernie

   I would bet this residence has viewed The Wizard of Oz many times.                                                  "There is no place like home".

      In Vermont, it is always best to keep a winter hat close at hand.

Covid proof? Copper alloys are an EPA-registered self-sanitizing surface capable of continuously killing bacteria. 

Anyone who has driven on dirt roads in the spring knows how much mud splashes up onto everything nearby. 

This mailbox is apparently set with that in mind. 

                                                           It's who we are. 

A gift wrapped with a bow means 

there is something special inside.

                                      Eternal mail delivered here.

                                                               Alexa De Meade?

                                                          Twins, presumably fraternal.

                             

                                                             Hey, somebody stole my letters.

                                                           Hey somebody stole my numbers.

Number ONE.   Just saying.

                                                          Logic puzzle

                                                  Is there a red dot or a blue dot on my face?

                                         When I grow up will I be

                                            twice the size I am now?

                                                                              Vermont - A cut above the rest.

                    Why am I always at the end of the mail delivery? 

                     

                       Cause someone has to come in last.            

                                              Speak louder I can't hear you

                                                - you're fading in and out. 

                                                  Rail Mail

Snare Mail

                                                            Bridle Up Hope Mail

                                                      (Always) Eleven days till spring

                         It gets really hot and really cold here sometimes

                                                     Down-right  Confused

601 reasons to not 

have the dog bring in the mail.

                                                                   Also Known As 

                                                               Captain Jack, Mr. Tennessee,

                                                               Sgt Pepper, Dirk Smith…

You don't know your town until you walk its dirt roads and view its diverse mailboxes!

   Six hundred and seventy-five times I pumped this well and still, no mail has come out. 

                           Four years old - Happy Birthday!

                                                                       Number ONE.

                                          Just not bragging about it.

                                                                     Another ONE.

                                          Ok, that is going to really 

                                          confuse the mailman.

                                               Double Hook US Mail

                            One is the loneliest number 

                                that you will ever know.

                        Le Grand Speedway 

                        except during mud season.

Hieroglyphics

                    It was a dark and stormy night.

                                                      Mailbox sling 

                                                          Ah, Shucks

                                1st place for the "Rockwell Message Art" award.

                                               Two more years and I can retire.

To Tom Baribault 

How many butterflies does it take to produce one gallon of maple syrup?

                                                          Milk Mail

                                              

   Wagons will never replace 

                                                  the Pony Express.

                                                 My Little Chickadee

                                                         Mae West

                                               This is house number eight, 

                                                where my mail better not be late.

                                                  We are all one big happy family.

                                                         Though I am 70 and wear a frame of calm,

                                                          I am still fierce and full of energy. 

The family that skis together is bound together.

Curse that Red Barron

Marking The end of an era

   The "Yellow House" - 

deliveries of family, love, and survival accepted.

                           Timber-trussed mail

                                                       Netherlands - Vermont Dutchland

   I'OWL be keeping an eye out 

            for interesting-looking mailboxes! 

Meanwhile, will you vote for your favorite?

How to Vote: Snail Mail of course! Mail me your choice: 320 Browns Trace, Jericho, Vt 05465 Email works as well but not as much fun.

And tell us the story behind YOUR mailbox.

Laugh, Dream, Try, and Do Good

-Bernie

View Artsy Mailbox II at https://jerichovermont.blogspot.com/2022/05/jericho-vermont-mailbox-art-ii.html

Hail Mail person! 

Through sleet, rain, snow, & ice, your mail will reach you - the mailman will deliver -

if the snow is not blocking his or her path to your mailbox!