Comments on: Mailbox Color for Your Era

By: Telephone Booths for Your Era : N Scale Limited

Telephone Booths for Your Era : N Scale Limited — Thu, 05 May 2011 21:15:32 +0000

[...] seen, most people get this wrong — it’s like using a red stop sign prior to 1954 or a blue mailbox prior to 1955 (stop signs were yellow and mailboxes were olive drab before those years). Often times, it seems [...]

By: Frank Giacobbe

Frank Giacobbe — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:41:00 +0000

That information was form the United States Postal Service. At least in my area, I only see two colors of mail box — the standard blue and an olive drab which is used for mail relay from one postal worker to another. I have not seen black public mailboxes. Where have you seen those?

By: Reetzsan

Reetzsan — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:04:00 +0000

If they haven’t changed since 1971 how come I am seeing black mailboxes, blue and green mailboxes?

By: Boxes Crates

Boxes Crates — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:12:46 +0000

Great! Thank for information, I'm looking for it for a long time,

By: Boxes Crates

Boxes Crates — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:12:00 +0000

Great! Thank for information, I’m looking for it for a long time,

By: Jim Boyer

Jim Boyer — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:37:10 +0000

OK, just did a quick internet search and found a couple of articles about the removal of mail boxes. Seems that to cut costs, USPS is trying to eliminate boxes that receive fewer than 50 pieces of mail daily.

By: Jim Boyer

Jim Boyer — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:18:30 +0000

Kirk, I think you hit on something, not just in Chicago but everywhere. There used to be a mailbox at every few intersections. Now they are hard to find. There are a few drive up boxes, but not many on the corners anymore. Guess they are going the way of pay phones.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:41:53 +0000

Yeah me to I thought they were real as well . Somethings you guys build are so real looking I cant believe that you have made them . I was just thinking about mail boxes as well . In Chicago I didnt see very many at all or newspaper stands very few at all .

By: Greg Woolliscroft

Greg Woolliscroft — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:28:38 +0000

haha…no I didn’t realize the mailboxes were real….I’m so used to looking at your work and marvelling I just thought it was getting even better….by the way Frank….I still can’t log on to the Forums……

By: Frank Giacobbe

Frank Giacobbe — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:23:22 +0000

Greg, you realize those photos are REAL mailboxes, right? :) I just did them in Photoshop to illustrate the points of the article.

And I build Web sites for a living, but currently unemployed — unfortunately.

Also, I find it interesting that ever since we added the “Articles you may have missed” section to the home page, we’ve had a big boost in readership on these older articles.

Everyone realizes you can get to the archive of topics from the top navigation, right?