The Perfect Mailbox Design

My family and I moved from 'the big city' to a city with acreage. When we lived in the big city you could request a package pick up from usps.com, put your outgoing packages outside of your front door on the porch, and know that your mail carrier would pick them up when he passed your house. Now that we live in the 'country', it is a little different. You can't put your packages outside your door or at the end of your driveway for fear of a deer stepping on it, a roaming dog coming up to it and sniffing at it and possibly marking its territory or for fear of the ants attacking it.

Since I run a small business in my home, Sassy Bratz Boutique, I mail a lot of packages. In addition, I receive a lot of packages because I have an obsession with a few online stores, so when we moved into our little 'farm' home, we my husband had to come up with a solution. After receiving a note from our mail carrier saying that our current mailbox needed to be moved closer to the road or we would not be allowed mail delivery, we knew it was time to do a redesign. My husband, knowing my needs, designed the perfect mailbox and hired someone to build it.

Here is the before picture of our mailbox:

And the after:

I am in love with this mailbox! Not only are my packages safe from varmints, bugs and weather, but they are safe from 'bad guys' that like to steal your mail! The huge niche in the back of the mailbox cannot be seen from the road and is big enough to fit several packages or a great big package. 

Yep, I am pretty proud of my husband for being so darn smart! 

Written by: Aimee Fauci