Rural Mailboxes

Decorative mailboxes need not be isolated to only suburbs and crowded neighborhoods. They are perfect for rural homes as well.

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Decorative rural mailboxes are sturdy and can be made from wood like our Cedar Mailboxes , cast aluminum or galvanized steel that is covered in durable powder coats for lasting protection. A unique rural mailbox is also important when you want your mailbox to function as a display of your favorite animal, hobby, sporting activity or other interest.

Check out our John Deere Mailboxes. Every type of rural mailbox design is available including themed designs such as Novelty Bird Mailboxes , Farm Animal Mailboxes , Sport Novelty Mailboxes and rural mailboxes that resemble country homes, barns, schools, and churches.

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A post mounted rural mailbox that includes a decorative design can be a stylish example of your taste and represent your property and rural home setting well. Whether you are looking for a classic post mount mailbox or a more modern looking rural mailbox, check out our extensive selection of decorative Curbside Post Mount Mailboxes , ideal for both urban and rural settings.

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Many rural mailboxes can also be customized with Address Plaques or custom Mailbox Numbers and Letters based on your preferences. You can view the various options available online or speak with us directly about particular custom options available. Some rural mailboxes may require extra space for mail and other packages including room for magazines and newspapers. Various mailboxes approved for rural residential use have carrying capacities to meet standard rural conditions for retrieving mail.

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These mailboxes also come in many types of decorative options. Our Copper Rural Mailbox , shown here, is a prime example. National Postal Museum 2 Massachusetts Ave. Washington, DC Tel: The national collection illustrates and invites research into United States philately and postal operations.

It contains prestigious postal issues and specialized collections, archival postal documents and three-dimensional objects that trace the evolution of the postal services. The National Postal Museum is divided into galleries that explore America's postal history from colonial times to the present.

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Visitors learn how mail has been transported and the wondrous diversity of postage stamps. The Museum supports a wide variety of interdisciplinary research projects which address topics of importance such as current and future postal operations, as well as philatelic and postal history.

Our efforts are a resource and point of reference for research and wider investigation by historians throughout the United States and the world. When Rural Free Delivery Service began, first as an experiment in and later as an official service in , patrons looked around their homes and farms for anything they could find to use as a mailbox. As a result, rural letter carriers found themselves face-to-face with a hodgepodge of homemade, semi-functional "mailboxes.

In , after having received a fair share of complaints from rural carriers about the large number of often unsuitable assortment of mailboxes used by their patrons, the Post Office Department appointed a five-man commission to examine commercial rural mailbox designs.

Of the 63 mailboxes submitted for consideration, only 14 met the specifications, which meant that patrons who wanted R. Postal officials had hoped that by selecting 14 companies, the consumer would be able to pick and choose the best mailbox at the best price.

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Naturally, just about every metal-manufacturing company in the country wanted to be included and the list of selected companies grew quickly. Companies who were not chosen began to complain about a mailbox "monopoly. The Post Office Department agreed that any company could manufacture rural mailboxes, provided the boxes were made to postal specifications. By , 46 different companies were manufacturing rural delivery mailboxes.