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

Jericho, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, all the children are above average, and the mailboxes are pictorial, picturesque, and pleasing.

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