Design: House Box
Materials: Stainless Steel, Magnet
Designer: Joseph Hess
"The House Box is an iconic design for receiving snail mail. This design would look great in front of an ultra-modern home or seaside cottage. Easy to install and use, it will last for generations to come."
"Made from 14 gauge Stainless Steel (2 to 3 times stronger than mass produced options), it wont rust or yield to abuse. Mail is delivered through the front slot and retrieved through the door on the other side
It is available in a full service option, or a locking, limited service option. There are two post options as well, a standard duty brushed stainless steel model and a heavy duty mirror polished model"
Designer: Joseph Hess
Link: readysteadyco.bigcartel.com
Location: Portland, OR
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Comments (11)
The box is great, but i love the house... is it an eichler???
Sleestack,
You took the words right out of my mouth!
Most of the mailboxes in our neighborhood are dented messes thanks to the teenagers who "customize" them from time to time. No biggie, though, because a new one costs $10-15. For $365 this mailbox had better be able to withstand a nuclear war.
Where's the flag to alert the mail carrier to pick up outgoing mail?
Is this box Postmaster approved? If not, in my area the postal carriers would ignore it.
I have a kind of ugly but very functional mailbox (Rubbermaid) that has two flags. A red one you put up by hand to signal outgoing mail and a yellow one that goes up when the box is opened -- that alerts you that you HAVE mail. If it ever gets run over by a snowplow (as has happened in the past) I don't think it's available any more. That yellow flag feature is WONDERFUL in bad weather when it's so disconcerting to gear up, go outside, only to find an empty box!
(Add the flags to this mailbox, get Postmaster approval, and we can talk!!)
The non-locking version will ship with a flag.
As far as postmaster approval, you just have to take the box to your local post office and the postmaster there can approve it for you. Getting postmaster general approval would require me to put that language you see on many boxes on the front of the box making it rather ugly.
Thanks for the feedback!!
I love that the door is in the back with a slot on the front. I've never seen that before. It makes sense - why walk out into the road to get your mail? Cool :)
Wait, so, how does the carrier get the outgoing mail? By reaching around the back? My carrier is in a truck and doesn't get out.
I recognize that house! I believe it is a Rummer and it is in the Vistabrook neighborhood of Portland. I was looking at a house for sale near that house and was blown away by how beautiful it is. A red vintage Porsche is parked behind the frosted garage door, and the owner parks his newer Porsche in the driveway.
The house is awesome!
MeganF
I am remaking the box so that outgoing mail will be retrieved from the front. It will still be a locking box too. Now the box will have identical doors on both sides which I actually like more! Thanks for the input!
That's great, and super that it locks too. I bet that would look fabulous. Thanks for the update!