When last did you hand-write a letter to someone, and take the time to post it? For many of us, that's a thing of the past.

Dog-shaped mailboxes, Hawaiian-print mailboxes, even tiger-protected mailboxes — such letterbox creativity could eventually disappear. As CNN Money recently reported, the U.S. Postal Service has begun ...

Editor’s note: Pacific NW magazine’s weekly Backstory provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the writer’s process or an extra tidbit that accompanies our cover story. This week’s cover story explores ...

Reader-submitted creative mailbox photos promo ad in Quark and Adobe InDesign For some in your community, a mailbox can be a work of art. Some are handmade or handpainted, or have a neat story behind ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There was a time when a mailbox was just a mailbox, an ordinary item that held the mail, did its job, and ...

It all started with a trip to the hardware store for a mailbox. "All they had were $5 mailboxes," said Ginny Schnekenburger. "I figured I could build one better than that." So she did. Schnekenburger ...

No longer are many homeowners content with the standard black steel mailbox perched on a 4-by-4 at the end of the driveway. These days they're dressing up their address and prettying up their post ...

Roger Buchko insists he isn’t angry about receiving too much junk mail. And the Phillipsburg, New Jersey, native isn’t trying to scare anybody off his front lawn. Nor does he say he’s trying to send a ...