Week 5: Letterbox

Ok. Who came up with this idea? Apparently someone who has a pretty mailbox! Uh, I do not. Also, who calls it a letterbox? Was this list created in the UK? I think so, or maybe Canada?? People around these parts call it a mailbox. I have my suspicions, because also notice #26 Colour. Well, any way here is what I wish my mailbox (oh, oops. I mean letterbox) looked like:

This is nice, right by the front door. How convenient!

Or this, this is pretty.

LOVING this one. So sweet, I might not even mind getting bills if they were found here. Ok, maybe that's a little extreme.

Even this!

Nope. None of those are even close to the awesomeness of my... um, letterbox. I just feel fake calling it that, like I'm an intruder, like I'm trying to be in the cool crowd. Maybe if I had one of the above mailboxes as my own I could try calling it a letterbox, but I can't. Why? Because here is mine:

Oh, or should I say 'ours' since it's shared with the whole community. Once there was a day long before I lived in this house where I saw a set of these shared mailboxes and I thought how much I wouldn't like having to use those. And here I am, using one. And I was right. I don't like it. It's not very fun or pretty or personalized. Probably the mail carrier prefers them. They probably make their job much easier, and for that I'm glad. However for me, I like when mail comes to my door/my mailbox, it just seems so much friendlier. Maybe that sounds silly, that's ok.

Enjoying the idea of a pretty mailbox one day,