If you’ve been following along you know that this is the last day in what the USPS has designated as “Mailbox Improvement Week”.  This doesn’t mean you can’t turn that ugly mailbox into a presentable one any time of the year, just keep in mind that duct tape is not the solution.

Number four on our list:

1. Raising or lowering your mailbox to meet local height requirements.
2. Replacing or adding house numbers.
3. Loose hinges on a mailbox door.
4. Rusting or peeling paint.

For example, this could use a new paint job:

I also wanted to share with you, Mr. Witles’ new mailbox. This little shoe box car opens at both ends.  I’m betting those headlights work too.

Next on our checklist:

1. Raising or lowering your mailbox to meet local height requirements.
2. Replacing or adding house numbers.
3. Loose hinges on a mailbox door.

We were visiting some friends recently in Palm City when we spotted this cute homemade blue tractor mailbox.

That should give you some ideas of what to do with old wagon and lawnmower wheels.

Join me on Saturday, May 10th for Stamp Out Hunger™ — the nation’s largest annual single-day food drive! The more people who help, the more successful we’ll be, so forward this to your friends, too.

To learn more, tell a friend or download materials to promote this cause, visit: HelpStampOutHunger.com

ABOUT STAMP OUT HUNGER

On Saturday May 10th, letter carriers in more than 10,000 communities will collect food items and deliver them to local food banks to help some of the millions of Americans, including an estimated 13 million children, who face hunger every day.

Since 1993, families have donated more than a half-billion pounds of food to Stamp Out Hunger. You can help make this year our most successful ever. Simply place bags filled with nonperishable food items like canned meats and fish, canned soup, juice, pasta, vegetables, cereal and rice next to your mailbox on Saturday, May 10th. *

Your letter carrier will pick up the bags and deliver them to your local food bank.

* Please do not include out-of-date items or those in glass containers.

Here’s the latest curbside art from Ed Witles. I’m always surprised by his ingenuity, whether he’s making whimsical mailboxes like the stuffed animal Christmas tree or more earnest displays such as the Taj Mahal

If you’re a new visitor, use the search function for “witles” to view more of his mailbox art.

From the same person who brought us the White House Mailbox and the Taj Mahal.

Here’s Ed Witles latest creation, the Annapolis State House:

Here’s the original for reference:

Truly amazing.

Here is another one of a kind mailbox from Ed Witles of Glen Burnie, Maryland. Can you spot where the mail goes? It took me a minute to find it.

Here’s the way it looks at night, candles and hearth a glow!

If you haven’t been following along, Mr. Witles has been creating unique mailboxes for a few years now and these are a few of my favorites so far:

The Headless Horseman

Helicopter

Taj Mahal

White House

Here’s another mailbox from Mr. Witles of Glen Burnie.

He was gracious enough to allow my in-laws to take some photos of mailboxes he had in his shop and yard waiting to be displayed next.

This Dalmation Mailbox is in front of Huffard Animal Hospital in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

Thanks Gremmy.