Paint My Mailbox Blue

I’m gonna move up to the country,
Paint my mailbox blue.
I’m gonna put some flowers on it, baby,
Trailing vines and dew.

I think it’s brilliant how, in this song, Taj Mahal used decorating the mailbox to represent choosing a laid back life with time to indulge in beauty and quirkiness.  

On a recent afternoon, I found myself looking through photos of one of a kind mailboxes.   

  
Santa Fe, New Mexico

  
Bainbridge Island, Washington

  

  
Jacksonville Beach, Florida

  
Greenwood, Seattle, WashingtonStuyvesant Town, New York, New York

  

  
Bushwick Collective, Brooklyn, New York
(the mail slot is in the mouth)

Per Denontie Segrete, “For Secret Denunciations.” This frightening mail slot at the Doges Palace in Venice, Italy allowed citizens to anonymously report their neighbors’ alleged misdeeds to the authorities. I bet Joseph McCarthy wished he’d thought of that. 

Of course, darling, if you don’t have anything nasty to report, you can always use your mailbox to store your perfume.

 

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