Dad has never taken care well with the mailbox at the gate for months I guess, it is in terrible position. Dad used to be proud of it when at the first time he had it until I went to the city for an interview. It was the first model among other mailboxes at that time. It was also the most protruding item the house monotonous iron fence surrounding our big yard; nothing interesting on the fence only the mailbox. It had got painted several times by my father.
My wife also thought the same thing as I did about mailbox when we both visited him last weekend. She thinks that the mailbox is unique – different from other recent mailboxes — but now it looks like just a piece of junk standing on a porous wooden pole. There were several rotten and new envelops and one or two of them were from me. I was not surprised because after sending the letter I then called him on the phone. Dad knew I sent him a letter but he was apparently in bad condition to get the letter from a 20-meter mailbox from the house door. And he has never taken my letter until now!
Now, my wife and I are inside a mailbox shop. We both decided to get one new mailbox for the house, the one which is easily reached by my Dad. I consider on a wall mount mailbox that would be stuck on the outer wooden wall. I am sure this will be working. Yet seeing a lot of mail boxes available on the shop, my idea gets fading. There are a lot of interesting models and designs that could be best fit to the house. I apparently agree with a mailbox chosen by my wife and we don’t want to hesitate again on taking that one. We both are certain the mailbox would look nice at the house wall, and the most important thing is that my Dad does not have to be lazy to take any mails and letters for him out of the box.