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The Design Evolution of Mailboxes (core77.com)
13 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments





I love the US mailbox design. The flag is such an interesting feature to avoid having to make a trip yourself. Back when I was living overseas sending a letter meant me having to the post office or find an outgoing mailbox to send it.

I love the mail, I love receiving hand-written cards. Something that somebody actually had to make an effort to get a message across. I write all my Christmas cards by hand.

I wish USPS would adopt something like the stamp code in the Netherlands [0]. That way we can avoid using 3rd parties all-together.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postzegelcode


Mailboxes are being deprecated in favor of cluster box units in a lot of places in the US. It's sad to see them go away because this sort of individuality also goes away, but I really do like the security of cluster boxes and parcel lockers. Centralizing the mail collection area for a neighborhood is just the right way to do it.



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