| I think being a mail carrier has to be one of the | | | | For example, in a neighboring city there is very |
| most boring professions there is. I mean, you | | | | nice house located on the gulf of Mexico, and |
| drive around by yourself with stacks of other | | | | stationed prominently by the road sits an |
| people's mail. Stop at the mailbox, open the flap, | | | | almost-life-sized mother manatee holding a |
| put in the mail, close the flap, drive off, and | | | | mailbox. Now this in itself is bad enough, but it just |
| repeat. I think I would go crazy after just one | | | | doesn't stop there. Down toward the mother |
| day! | | | | manatee's tail there "swims" a sweet little baby |
| So it makes me wonder, is that why some | | | | manatee. But it's not swimming with momma, no |
| people put up bazaar mailboxes? Don't get me | | | | it looks as if it is nursing! Now I know that it is not |
| wrong I'm all for personalized mailboxes. I have on | | | | actually nursing, because manatees nurse their |
| more than one occasion put my last name and | | | | babies from a gland under their armpits. But if you |
| house number on my box. And I have secretly | | | | didn't know this little tidbit of useless trivia, you |
| longed for one of those fancy brick numbers that | | | | would probably think that this interesting mailbox |
| are not only lovely to look at, but also very | | | | features a nursing baby manatee! I wonder what |
| functional. I mean they are practically | | | | goes through the mail carriers head! |
| indestructible! | | | | This is not the only artistic mailbox out there. |
| Personalization is one thing. I can handle the family | | | | There are websites dedicated to nothing but ugly |
| name mounted or painted in a pretty font. I can | | | | mailboxes. I found pictures of mailboxes featuring |
| even tolerate some decorative elements such as | | | | sculpted pelicans, ketchup bottles, swimming fish, |
| birds, flowers, or even a favorite sports team. | | | | and even Mickey Mouse. The artistic endeavors |
| But I draw the line at larger than life animal | | | | didn't end with the mailbox, some home owners |
| statues that make you stop and wonder, "What | | | | got creative with the mailbox post, using anything |
| were they thinking?!" | | | | from rims, to scrap metal, to old tree limbs. |