Letterboxes

The humble letterbox says a lot about the person who owns it.  On our many drives around the Sunshine Coast, we have seen some pretty amazing and some pretty funny letterboxes out the front of people's homes and properties.  Most are the fairly normal 'Bunnings-like' in appearance but sometimes the owner has used whatever is available which has lead to some humourous looking depositories for the mail.  We have taken photos of a few of our favourites from around the place and rated them according to originality and humour.
Many rural people use old metal milk drums because they are big (for parcels as well as letters) and waterproof.  We saw some decorated with ornaments like fake lizards and one was turned into a red Australia Post robot using a gas bottle for extra body parts.  We found a plain wooden letterbox with lace doily curtains hanging from the front.  That was located at the junction of two dirt roads along with a number of other letterboxes where several property driveways merge.

One property that we drove past looked like a junk yard with odds and bods laying all over the place.  Their letterbox was a microwave oven on a fence post.  I wonder if the postie likes pushing the door button every time he has to put mail in.  Our humble slit letterbox in Adelaide had a spring loaded opening which had to be unsprung because the postie kept getting his fingers caught in it.  Sometimes posties don't have a sense of humour (present family members excluded) so some of these creations may not be welcomed.  A house in Nambour had a model prop aeroplane over it's letterbox which we thought was fitting given our current aviation adventure.
The unlikely winner in our eyes, however, was an unassuming letterbox which spoke volumes to Steve and I when we saw it and definitely had us in stitches.  We had the added bonus of actually seeing the owner of said letterbox which further tickled our funny bone.
This letterbox was neither large or waterproof but looked as though it had seen better days.  The owner was an 80 something year old man who happened to be out on his ride-on mower cutting his front verge when we went past.  The letterbox screamed out to us the owners thoughts that "well I'm gonna be dead in a few years so why the hell should I spend money on a new letterbox now".
We have done quite a few u-turns in recent weeks to go back and have a closer look at the one thing that determines the personality of those who choose to show it - the humble letterbox.