Rural Delivery is a photograph by Phyllis Taylor which was uploaded on March 26th, 2017.
Rural Delivery
A collection of mailboxes found on a rural road in the United States of America. Each mailbox is unique in its own way and with one hanging on for... more
Title
Rural Delivery
Artist
Phyllis Taylor
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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A collection of mailboxes found on a rural road in the United States of America. Each mailbox is unique in its own way and with one hanging on for dear life!
When Rural Free Delivery Service began, first as an experiment in 1896 and later as an official service in 1902, patrons looked around their homes and farms for anything they could find to use as a mailbox. As a result, rural letter carriers found themselves face-to-face with a hodgepodge of homemade, semi-functional "mailboxes." Old coal oil, syrup and food containers were dragged out, sometimes with sticky remnants of the original contents pooled inside the box, and slapped on top of poles set out along the road. The mailboxes in this image are an amazing improvement over how mailboxes came to be.
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March 26th, 2017
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