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gotta say i love this. but i'm not a fan of the label maker names. i guess they add visual interest but the design has slots for names which are empty (some one lost a key or got lazy in its past life). i'd probably remove the labels and insert words from a poem in the slots, or fortunes from cookies.

I love this! It's much better executed than yesterday's card catalog table DIY [which should be a Related Link, rather than the de Young, saris, or decanters -- WTF?].

Love it! do you have the keys to open the compartments? It would make novel keepsake storage.

It's very cool, but a little..haunting? I guess that adds to the cool factor.

get your tet shot updated! : )

Fantastic!

The idea is reasonably cool (I still have dreams that involve my college mailbox). But I wouldn't want to set a drink on the uneven surface. Doesn't seem like the most practical place for books and magazines either - you'd have to have them standing up and remember which mailbox you put them in. But yeah, mailboxes do have lots of emotional pull....

Kind of cool, but I wouldn't want it in my living room.

Way too big for that space. It's bigger than the sofa! Too low as well. Cool idea, poorly executed.

The names are very creepy... I would have nightmares about those people.

Love this. Love love love.

It's not too big - it would look proportional to a regular sofa, not a love seat. I'm not bothered by the names, unless they are still waiting to get their mail. It's historic. I think it's great for secret storage too. Not really secret-secret, but you can keep things like magazines in it and probably other stuff like the remote, random things that are cluttering to clean up quick when company is coming. I'd probably use a mailbox upright, though, as a cabinet. How much more useful it would be that way.

I agree with KTG --

Really nice, exactly the kind of thing I would want in my house, but I'd probably mount it on the wall too, maybe as a shelf under a new flat-screen TV or something.

An salvaged...? ;)

I love this. The size, color, age, names, everything. I have a major soft spot for ephemera and for some reason, this piece makes me feel the same way ephemera does... nostalgic, a little sad, but at home and cozy. And judging by the names on the boxes, I'd say this box came from the Chelsea or Lower East Side area of Manhattan. :-)

It's fine for somebody else's house but not for mine. I look at it and think, "bacteria." I have to go and wash my hands now.

I still have these mailboxes. They are not big enough to hold today's volume of mail and I struggle getting the mail out every night.

Cool idea though!

poorly executed.