Word: mailbox
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bank. I asked where the bank was, unable to recall having seen it. "Oh, it comes around in a van once a week," he said. The mobile library comes once every three weeks. Most people on the tiny island (pop. 1,000) don't bother with a mailbox. The letter carrier just opens the front door and leaves their mail in a convenient place...
...more intimidating than the timid closet case. Whether my harassers feared my vitriolic quips or my confrontational finger snaps, they had stopped whispering, spitting and throwing. My flamboyance had worn them out. Well, most of them. One morning in October, as I left for school, I realized the mailbox was missing. I found my mother’s flower pots shattered on our front steps. I saw the word “faggot” etched in the driveway. I smelled urine on the front porch. At least my family wouldn’t have to decorate for Halloween?...
...Last week someone came in and said, ‘I didn’t even know I had a mailbox,’” Romeo remembers. “How can you not know you have a mailbox? Maybe they’re just really into e-mail...
...Know You Have a Mailbox...
Back in the mailroom, the whirring of combination locks and the clicking of boxes opening and closing can be heard over the music of WMJX-Magic 106.7 emanating from a small radio. Disembodied hands seem to shoot in and out of the squares in the mailbox grid...