Pine Knoll Shores Real Estate & So Much More: What does your Mailbox say about you?

So what happens to the mail for the post the post that is missing the actual box? LOL Very clever post with a nice hook at the end. Mail boxes, front porches, etc, are such extensions of our personality. 

Anne - I'm guessing they have a P.O. Box or maybe they pay all their bills online ;0)  My mailbox is screaming for some attention!

Hi Any.

Our mail box is on a different street from where I live. I guess the mailman can't find my address or is unwilling to drive the "one block" to my house.

I have a simple maile box. Nothing to it. But if it was at my home. Then that's a different story.

Have a great day on the coast.

Best, Clint McKie

Amy, that is a fun assortment....I can't say we have that diversity and creativity here. Go for it with yours and post us a picture of your creativity.

Amy love the pretty mailboxes.  I have found over the years in New York not to waste the time or money on a mailbox.  The teens ride around on a regular basis with bats hitting and destroying the mailboxes.  Such a shame.

Love how this all ties in to feature what your location is like. It gives me a sense of just who lives in your neck of the woods.

Ha!  Mine says, "I conform to the HOA.  If I don't conform, they will fine me $10/day until I do conform.  I conform, I conform, I conform..."

Good morning Amy,

I love all the personalized mail boxes! They are wonderful and an extension of the owners. In 1995 the US Post office in Austin said "no more individual mailboxes" in subdivisions..they came up with the cluster box system so many areas in Austin do not have their own mailbox on their property :(. Thanks for your share I love it!!

In Steamboat Springs we either have a PO Box or cluster mailboxes in a central location in our neighborhoods, so I'd almost forgotten how a mailbox can be a decorative yard accessory! Fun reminder! 

Clint - My box looks pretty rough right now.... I almost wish it was around the corner ;0)

Ellen - The folks on the island definitely have a little creativity... I Love it!

Debra - They really do that?  I have only seen that type of behavior in the movies....

 

Fun post, thank you.

Fun pictures. Love all the different sorts of mailboxes. Our is just the standard boring community mailbox. Nothing exciting here.

I think the covers that you can buy are pretty neat.  I've always wondered if those were legal per restrictions in most subdivisions

Amy, you always have such great ideas... I wish you much success with helping people find new mailboxes to match their new homes...

Amy, nice way of tying this mailbox post with real estate. We're free to have any type of mailbox in our subdivision. It is interesting to see what other families do to catch the mail.

Great feature.  It's always fun to see the ways that homeowners express themselves and assert their individuality.

No sense in decorating mailboxes in New England. Every year ours gets knocked off the post by snowplows going by at 100 mph. Our Dept. of Public Works is getting tired of taking my phone calls...

Mine says... no bills allowed. . .come back one year!

I just have a regular black mail box ( In a townhouse association), so I think it says I am not creative like these guys.

I love this post!  When I moved to my home I saw my neighbor welding his mailbox.  A few days before some kids had knocked it off witha baseball bat, so he got his welder and welded a cage around it.  Still makes me chuckle to this day. 

My mailbox says more about my street than me.  It's  a Possum painted on a black mail box... odd you say?  Well I live on Possum Point Drive.

Hi Amy, What a clever post!  I, too, just have a standard community mailbox so it was fun to see your perspective.  Congratulations on the feature!

Never thought much about it...My mail box matches my home...natural cypress, plain. 

Good morning Amy. I love the post and am so taken by the wonderful pictures that are evocative of the area, the homes and the owners.

Great post; very enjoyable!

Cute post and some unique mailboxes. I love the ones with a little personality. At our last house by the lake I handpainted a sailboat on our mailbox. I need to do something with our current mailbox. Hmmm what to do?!

Wonderful mailboxdes, and what a great idea to write about them -- really captures the spirit of life on the Crystal Coast, which you know so very well.

Nice post.  My mailbox, unfortunately, is just a plain old black box for mail.  I have seen some really nice ones in the area though.  It's interesting to see ones painted or decorated nicely.  They are truly telling of the owner.

I am a mailbox afficionado - love this post, especially the invisible one. I think you may have inspired a post for me in the near future. We have a simple black mailbox with gold letters...before it was a worn-out cedar slat version with faded cardinals on it...not lovely. This is fun stuff! Love the creativity.

What a cute idea! We have a lot of neat mailboxes around here too! Guess I better head overcro see what color you went with on that front door!

Fun stuff here Amy. I've seen everything from beer kegs to chickens as mailboxes here. Personally, I want a customized snapping Turk from the Beatle's Yellow Submarine movie as my mailbox...

I don't like funky mail boxes.  Maybe its because I lived in a neighborhood with and HOA - all mailboxes look the same and are housed with a nice shake cover.  My mail box now is basic black on a nice black scrolled stand. Simple.

Nice looking mailboxes. We don't have too many decorate mail boxes in our area.

Mine is boring black but we have all kinds around here from fish to John Deere tractors.   What BUGS me is the lack of an address. 

Used to throw newspapers for a living and it is an absolute pain to find addresses in the dark.  Makes you wonder what would happen if an ambulance had to find the house.

Those are some cute mailboxes. We have cluster mailboxes in my neighborhood, so no ability to decorate.

A nice collection of mailboxes - we have mainly bass fishing or dogs in this area.

I knew a guy who put a big, heavy piece of steel in his mailbox after kids destroyed it with a baseball bat. They got a surprise the next time they tried it.

We have individual mailboxes in my neighborhood.  My first neighborhood with them! As I fancy myself a crafty chick I quickly got out my silhouette machine & appplied vinyl to our's with a giant E for our last name! I love it!

My mailbox says friends mail is always welcome and debt collectors he lives on the next block.  It's a good life

 

Haha My mailslot at the office says "Kathleen is not in the office that often"!  :)  I work mostly from home.  Stop in weekly to clean out my box.  

Cool post!

Sincerely,

Kathleen 

Amy, now you've got me curious.  I need to drive around and look at mailboxes now.  Ours is pretty plain.  Hmmm, what does that say about us?  

Amy, 

I love a cool mailbox that shows a bit of personality.  A few years ago, we got out of the car to take a picture of a cow mailbox with real cows fenced off behind it.  I still grin as I pass by that home.  

Then, even if it doesn't have a personality, if the home is listed, it makes sense to have the mailbox looking clean and fresh... even in basic black.

All the best, Michelle

Amy ~ Green, to match your front door would be perfect. I love walking around the neighborhood looking at the different mailboxes. My favorite is a giant walrus!!

I have not seen this many different mailboxes in one place, Amy! Some of them are awesome, but I can understand that some people would not share my opinion. It does make getting mail a much more fun experience! 

Amy,  I see the same mailboxes you see but I never really SAW them until now.  You notice everything!  Now I'm looking at my mailbox and wondering what I can do to spruce the boring old thing up.  Great post!  (As always.)

Amy- cute post and we have an assortment here too... like the big cement manatees in front of houses. 

Amy - That's a lot of mailboxes.  Mine is just an ordinary one.

I love mailboxes. The custom ones make a nice closing gift for that family that already has everything.

Amy - I am a mailbox fan as well. I love that lighthouse box. I love to spiff mine up and make it stand out with special plantings. It really is a great way to enhance curb appeal and welcome your visitors. Nice post.

I guess I would drive to work everyday too with that view. 

Amy:

Such a nice assortment of really cute mailboxes.  We have a plain black metal box which hangs on a wall of my porch.  Very few of the houses in my city have interesting mail boxes like you do in North Carolina.

Amy - you would not like our urban "super"  mailboxes here ..... they are so ugly that when they first started using them if you had one on your yard you received a reduction in your property assessment (they look like the boxes you would find in the post office set on two steel posts)

Those mail boxes do look like a great reflection of life.  I miss mailboxes. My town is small and we have no home delivery. So the post office become a little social hour. Maybe I'll just need to put stickers on my PO Box. 

Enjoy the sights on the coast!

My mailbox says that I am one of many here. And you need a key to see me. I live in an hoa, but not for long and that I'll get a whimsical mailbox, lol.

I like the first box best but the birdhouse and sail box are special, too.

Amy.  Now that is a terrific collage.  You are so lucky to have interesting things to see on both sides of the road.  Are those puffins on the red box?  Puffins  just make me smile.

Amy, you are so lucky to have those views every day, very cool, I love the mailbox that isn't!!!

I LOVE YOUR POST AMY... THANK YOU FOR SHARING!!! LOL!!

Great pictures. I love the details that reflect the homeowners personality.

Amy~
I love your photos of the mailboxes!  Good luck in finding the perfect mailbox for your home.

 

☔ Amy, I did a similar post on mailboxes here in Raleigh last summer... 

I think it's a hoot what folks do! Congrats on the

Pamela

What a cute blog!  I thought you were going to stay with the first impression type of dialogue with this one.  Great photos of mailboxes!  Have a great day!

Mailboxes were fun...while in Italy my hub shot all sorts of doors...we have a collage of doors from Perugia ,Rome,Bologna and more that hangs in my home office.

Wow all that greenery looks nice. Wish I was sitting on the beach today. I love the NC coast.

After the last big storm, I was glad our mailbox survided the snow plow removal process.  Build it sturdy to survive the winter plows or replace it each spring. 

Mel

 

Pelican is cute. My parents have a sideways golf bag for a mailbox. Have to keep that thing painted & looking great.

Cute photos of mailboxes, I like the one that looks like a little house.  We have a community mailbox in our neigbhorhood so it's pretty boring.

Good afternoon, Amy. I too am amazed at what folks do to their mail boxes...

My mail box says I live in the suburbs where the Post Office will not come to my door.  It is a community box I walk to.

Amy... what a really cute blog post.  Such cool mailboxes.  And yes, I would think that for any and all buyers who are moving to the Crystal Coast in North Carolina, that you would be the one to find them the perfect mailbox. 

Great post! How fun, I always like to look at people's mailboxes. There certainly are some creative ones out there. I saw one recently that made me laugh that was spray painted gold and the flag was removed and replaced with a Dairy Queen straw attached by a paperclip. Very creative! Not my choice, but it did make a statement!

Hi Amy, cute but you missed my favorite of the giant largemouth bass.  Do you think a fisherman lives there?

Hi Amy, cute, but you missed my favorite of the giant largemouth bass.  Do you think a fisherman lives there? lol

I live in a neighborhood where the mailboxes are allowed on only one side of the street.  So, I got together with my neighbor and we created a custom designed dual brick mailbox holder featuring flower planters with both our addresses carved in stone, on their side of the street where the mailboxes are allowed.  Other neighbors have done the same.  It makes the neighborhood look richer I think!

Yes they do....unfortunately on a regular basis so you can never have a nice mailbox.