Bygone Icons

Red-and-blue USPS mailboxes
Red-and-blue USPS mailboxes

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Posted by Duff at 3:20 am (PDT) on Wed August 12, 2009   
Not only are they gone, but photos of them seem to be gone. (Some sort of conspiracy...?) This was one of the hardest BBeM images to locate on the Web; I must have spent days searching for it.
Posted by Robert J. McKelvey at 11:41 am (PDT) on Thu September 8, 2011   
I recall when these mail boxes were painted red and blue they were also stenciled, airmail now 5 cents.
Posted by GlenEllyn at 7:48 pm (PST) on Sat February 9, 2013   
I never understood why they got rid of these - they were quite distinctive.  The all-blue ones just don't stand out as well.  Oh well, who knows, maybe they'll bring them back some day.  You know, everything old is new again...
Posted by Duff at 8:57 pm (PST) on Sat February 9, 2013   
I believe they switched to a single color to save money.
Posted by AliKaplan at 7:14 am (PDT) on Mon April 22, 2013   
We had a mailbox next to the deli in our neighborhood and the kids started throwing stuff in it, some things that are too gross to mention!  They finally just took it away. 
Posted by Bob Matthews at 12:10 pm (PDT) on Mon April 22, 2013   
This was when you had to write a "Zone Number" in the address between City and State. This was before they invented zip codes. Neighborhoods also had smaller mailboxes attached to the lamp post.

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