Half of U.S. Post Office Mailboxes Have Vanished in Past 20 Years
U.S. Post Office mailboxes are vanishing at an alarming rate. A BBC article says half of them have been removed in the past 20 years leaving just 175,000.
In the past 20 years, more than half of America's mailboxes have been taken out of service, leaving just 175,000 nationwide.
It may make commercial sense, but it has dismayed letter-writing aficionados.
"Mailboxes are like phone booths, that part of the scenery that you take for granted until one day you need one and it is no longer there," said Nancy Pope, curator at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum.
"It's a sad day when you make your morning commute and see that familiar blue box isn't there anymore."
The latest news is the USPS plans to cull one thousand Post Office locations. It won't be surprising if the number of blue mailboxes also continues to shrink.
