Checking the mailbox – the actual mailboxes where the postman puts the mails in – is one of the things I enjoy doing. It’s like opening a surprise: Do I have something in the box?

When I receive something and it’s not a bill, solicitation, or junkmail, I feel happy. Receiving a handwritten letter or a gift makes me feel connected to the sender, despite our distance. Sure there are emails, but letters are tangible proofs that someone remembers you and made an effort to express it to you. That’s what makes it special.

Right now, my father and I live in an apartment sharing one mailbox with other tenants. Sometimes when there are too many mails, the envelopes and other parcels stick out of the incompletely closed box or they all get crumpled inside. If the weather is bad, the contents get wet and I get disappointed. I feel a part of the surprise is taken away from me. The image above shows how our old rusty shared mailbox looks like. The paint is peeling off, and it is totally unlocked.

Most of you don’t know it, but one of my goals is to start a happy family in a nice house. I would also make sure to invest on installing a handsome secured residential mailboxes. Snapshots below are my ideal ones. They look classy, too.

A charming mailbox should go along with charming house because that’s what surprises deserve.

How about you, do you like checking the mailbox? Does your mailbox look better than what we have here?

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Post tipped by pals at http://www.mailboxixchange.com/ which also offers commercial mailboxes.