Daily Object Photo: Wall-Mounted Mailbox

Mailbox

A letter box, letterbox, letter plate, letter hole, mail slot, or mailbox is a receptacle for receiving incoming mail at a private residence or business. For the opposite purpose of collating outgoing mail, a post box is generally used instead.

Letterboxes or mailboxes consist of four primary designs:

• A slot in a wall or door through which mail is delivered (through-door delivery)
• A box attached directly to the house (door-to-door delivery)
• A box mounted at or near the street (curbside delivery)
• A centralised mail delivery station consisting of individual mailboxes for an entire building
• A centralised mail delivery station consisting of individual mailboxes for multiple recipients at multiple addresses in a particular neighborhood or community

Wall-mounted or attached mailboxes may also be used in place of mail slots, usually located close to the front door of the residence. They are known as full-service mailboxes, since most have provisions for securing outgoing as well as incoming mail. Attached wall-mounted mailboxes are still used in older urban and suburban neighbourhoods in North America. They are especially common in urban and suburban areas of Canada, where the curbside mailbox is rarely seen except in rural areas. Attached mailboxes are less common in newer urban and suburban developments and in rural areas of the United States, where curbside delivery or delivery to a community mail station (cluster mailbox) is generally used.

(Source: Wikipedia.org)

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