| There are lots of benefits to have brick mailbox | | | | Besides the fact that the kids cannot know it |
| designs. Take a ride in the country and look at | | | | over, there are other benefits of having one of |
| mailboxes. For every 100 you see, at least 98 of | | | | these lovely mail containers in your front yard. If |
| them are metal. You buy a $5.99 metal mailbox | | | | your home is brick, then some of the leftover |
| at a discount store, and spent a few dollars for a | | | | bricks can be used to build it. Instead of dumping |
| wooden post for it. There you have it, a country | | | | the bricks in the trash, you put them to good use. |
| mailbox. But a brick mailbox design is much more | | | | You can run an electric line to the brick mailbox |
| beautiful, and sometimes more importantly is | | | | and have a light installed. The light would add a |
| much more sturdy. | | | | nice decorative touch and also help people find |
| Add to that country road a bunch of kids with | | | | your house. You can also put your house |
| nothing to do in the evening but ride around with | | | | numbers on the structure. You would have to use |
| a baseball bat and try to knock off as many | | | | a special drill bit to attach the numbers. |
| metal mailboxes as they can. It happens every | | | | Another benefit of this type of mail container is |
| day in some area of another. Kids will be kids and | | | | that it won't blow over in a wind storm and the |
| they think it's funny. | | | | mail is very safe. If a car hits it then it may be |
| Again, take a ride down that same road where | | | | damaged. |
| the kids knocked off the metal mailboxes and | | | | If you are a handy, do-it-yourself type person, |
| you will find at least one mailbox that is still intact, | | | | then you can build a brick mailbox design yourself. |
| because it isn't metal and it isn't on a post. It | | | | If not, you can hire a handyman or a contractor |
| happens to be a brick mailbox. Once upon a time | | | | to build yours. Sketch out a design you like, don't |
| only the rich folks had this type of mailbox, some | | | | make it too fancy, and go from there. Check |
| of them were natural or man made stone. They | | | | with the post office to find out about any |
| were a sign of importance, and indicated that the | | | | particular restrictions regarding the size, location, |
| people living in that home must be rich to have | | | | for your brick mailbox. |
| such a fancy mailbox. | | | | |