Garden Decoration

Some people have the sweetest things in their home gardens. I spotted this little letterbox, no longer in use as a letterbox, in a suburban neighbourhood, just sitting pretty and fine in the garden. The history of the letterbox turns up a number of articles on what I know as the post box or mail box, here is one about British letter boxes: http://www.postalheritage.org.uk/page/letterboxes  and then Wikipedia tells me that post boxes are like what is seen in the following article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-office_box, which I suppose is right in that they are PO Boxes. And full circle we finally get back to the letterbox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_box. I remember the day in school we all wrote a letter to Santa, and my excellent Mum that night gave me a big envelope to put everyone's letters to Santa in. The next day on a class trip to the local post office my teacher let me post my big envelope through the mailing slot and this made me very happy for at least the rest of the week. It's funny how the smallest things can make the biggest impressions on a child. Ever since I have loved receiving and posting mail. I wonder when the above letterbox last received mail and how long it was in service. I think it may be the original letterbox for that property which also makes me wonder why it was replaced. It just seems to be a perfectly good letterbox to me.

SUGARBEE XX   04/06/13