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

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

   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!