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Decorative Rural Mailboxes,
HDR Photos
Unique decorative rural mailboxes and mailbox designs are plentiful in Kings County New Brunswick Canada. High dynamic range photos of rural mail boxes are presented on this page.
Rural mail delivery has been around since 1908 in Canada. At that time, around 250,000 rural mail boxes were scattered across the nation, greatly helping the Canadian farmer.
One hundred years later, Canada Post estimates about 843,000 Canadian residential addresses are served by rural mailboxes - about six per cent of Canada Post’s 14 million points of delivery.
In their infancy, many resourceful containers were used as mail boxes. The rural mail delivery person would see his fair share of old crates, dented buckets, cigar boxes. Their interiors were often not cleaned, thus the mail would become sticky or wet from the existing syrups or oils of the boxes' former uses. When standardized models appeared, the cheaper mail boxes would cost less than a dollar while the higher-end boxes even had locks.
Even though the common tunnel-shaped mail box has existed since 1915 (designed by postal engineer Roy Joroleman), it doesn't mean there has been a lack of decorative rural mail boxes spotting the landscape.Despite falling victim to snowplows and vandals (ever played mail box baseball?), rural mail boxes remain a symbol of the honour system. Many are a source of pride, as witnessed by the many mailbox designs.
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