Go Ahead And Find One

When The Big Guy was here last May for his annual visit, he had something he wanted to mail.  I told him we would drive by the Post Office on the way out.  No, he said, we could just go to a box on the street; he already had postage on it.  I told him there weren't any street boxes around my neighborhood anymore.  Gone the way of the pay phone.  No, he said, every neighborhood still has mailboxes.  So I had no choice but to prove it to him.

We left home and traveled a couple miles in one direction.  No mailboxes.  To prove I didn't just pick a route where I knew no boxes existed, we drove a couple miles in a different direction.  No mailboxes.  We covered about all four points of the compass without finding a single blue box.

Finally having proven my point, we headed for the Post Office.  While stopped for a light, The Big Guy suddenly exclaims "There's one!"  Sure enough, through the intersection and about a block ahead was a mailbox.  What he didn't know until I told him was that the box was one block from the Post Office.  I know it doesn't make any sense.  But the only walk-up mailbox in my vicinity is a block from the Post Office.

I used to know where all the mailboxes were, especially the drive-up type.  They're all gone.  Look around your neighborhood.  Let me know if you can still find one.