Taking a drive through a rich neighborhood or seeing how the other half lives can be fun. I like to see all the fancy houses and those big mansions that sit high on the hill. I often wonder what these people do for a living to have such nice houses. You can take a look at the end of the driveway and see some of these personal, household mailboxes that look more like Commercial Mailboxes you would find in an office park or for a Fortune 500 Company. I think you can tell a lot about a family by looking at their mailbox. No, I don’t mean by stealing their mail, just by looking at the outside of the mailbox!

There isn’t a lot of rich folks in my neighborhood or on my side of town. The people that do have steady jobs and are doing better than most in my area, do have an upscale mailbox. It may not be quite as fancy of some of the ones you can find in the real rich neighborhoods, but it’s an upgrade from your average-looking mailbox. I do see a connection with wealth and the types of mail boxes people choose to put up at the end of their driveways or out in the front yard.

Have you ever seen the mailboxes that are attached to the home? I think this was more common in the past; where people would hang their mailboxes from the home. People living in large cities or close to downtown areas don’t normally have much room to put up their mailboxes and some of these residents still have the mailbox that is attached to the house. The Residential Mailboxes that people do have on an outside wall or nailed to a post on the porch, usually get their mail from postal workers that walk around; instead of driving. In my downtown area I see these men and women that carry their mail bags and deliver their routes on foot. I know these people have to be in shape and they get to walk a lot each day.

Mailboxes come in all shapes and sizes these days. People do have a lot more choices now; when it comes to buying a new mail box. My family hasn’t bought a new mailbox in a long time. We are probably due for a new one. I was looking online at Mailboxixchange.com and saw they had a lot to choose from. Rich people or poor people will have no problems here with the 2500+ mailboxes and curbside decor products they offer. It seems most of their products have that “upscale look” to them, so if you buy one here, people are going to think you’re rich. Or perhaps it’s just me that associates nice mailboxes with how much a family earns. You may be laughing at me, but just keep an eye out on the mailboxes and see if you can see what I’m talking about. I have wondered for years and years what the first thing I should buy; if I ever was to win the lottery. Now I know! I will have to buy a huge, nice looking mailbox, that will be the top box in the neighborhood!

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