Editor’s note: Pacific NW magazine’s weekly Backstory provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the writer’s process or an extra tidbit that accompanies our cover story. This week’s cover story explores ...

Unearth the art of mailbox transformation as we showcase a designer's journey in turning a simple mailbox into a neighborhood ...

(CNN) – Dog-shaped mailboxes, Hawaiian-print mailboxes, even tiger-protected mailboxes — such letterbox creativity could eventually disappear. As CNN Money recently reported, the U.S. Postal Service ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There was a time when a mailbox was just a mailbox, an ordinary item that held the mail, did its job, and ...

Buckets, boxes and plant containers are just some of the items residents could be seen using as makeshift mailboxes on Tuesday. Across Massachusetts, people have been forced to improvise after their ...

LOS LUNAS, N.M. (KRQE) – A unique exhibit is coming to the Los Lunas Museum of Heritage and Arts. Starting Saturday, the museum will host “The Weirdest, Most Creative Mailboxes in New Mexico.” The ...

With snail mail headed the way of landlines and newspapers, few give much thought to their mailboxes these days. In some neighborhoods, doorstep delivery is already extinct, replaced by clustered ...

Roger Buchko insists he isn’t angry about receiving too much junk mail. And the Phillipsburg, New Jersey, native isn’t trying to scare anybody off his front lawn. Nor does he say he’s trying to send a ...

Mailboxes along state or federal highways probably don’t come to mind immediately as traffic hazards. But the Colorado Department of Transportation is conscious of them before embarking on highway ...