got mail(box)? eta

A friend of mine in Belgium has created a virtual museum of sorts to preserve that most endangered of all species...the mailbox. Alain would love for this to be a global project--representing letterboxes around the world.

That's where you come in, bloggy friends of mine. I know we've got great photographers out there. I've seen the results! Why not snap a picture of your mailbox to share with the world and save for posterity? Just think. One day you can show your grandchildren where we used to get those things they've read about in books called "letters".

When you visit the site above, there's a link to follow to submit your photos. Go check it out. And please--spread the word.

C'mon...I'm going to put mine up there. (It is as plain and grey and blah as anything you've ever seen. But, it does look very soviet to me. The numbers don't even match the flat numbers. They just say 1, 2, 3, and 4.) Donchawanna?

eta: I think the ordinariness, the every-day-ness is exactly what he is looking for in these pictures. This is social history, cultural history in the making. And, remember, that the "standard" image of a silver-grey mailbox with a red flag that we all conjure first when we hear the word mailbox is not what mailboxes look like in other countries.