What mailbox defines your home?

A drawback about staying in a condominium is that you are subject to having your mail put into commercial mailboxes. The ones that come in banks of stainless steel with a flap and your unit number on it. It looks so impersonal and well, commercial. I guess it cant be helped because of the number of people staying in a condominium block.

Previously when I was staying in a house, we had our mailboxes in the gate pillar and so did everyone else in the area. There was just a slot outside for the postman to put our mail into and most times if it was a bulky envelope the lazy postman would not even bother to put it in the whole way resulting in our mail getting sopping wet if it rained.

I was just wondering why we did not get those nice residential mailboxes as they do in the USA. You know those that are stand alone with a little flag on it that the postman raises if you have mail. I’ve wanted one of those ever since I saw it in the Charlie Brown comic book I used to have as a kid. Its too bad that we have fences and gates here and there’s no way I can get one of this in the condo where I stay.

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