Friday 2 September 2011

Mailboxes Disappearing As Usage Drops Off

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Chalk up another casualty of the digital revolution: the blue corner mailbox. Because of steeply declining use, the U.S. Postal Service has removed more than 60 percent of the blue boxes, once as common on the American streetscape as lampposts and ice cream trucks. In 1985, nearly 400,000 blue mailboxes graced American streets. Now only 160,000 remain, and more are vanishing every day.

(thanks Cora)

1 comment(s):

Reader said...

That's a "drop box." A mail box is the box you have at your home for the mailman to put your mail in.