Dog-shaped mailboxes, Hawaiian-print mailboxes, even tiger-protected mailboxes — such letterbox creativity could eventually disappear. As CNN Money recently reported, the U.S. Postal Service has begun ...

Editor’s note: Pacific NW magazine’s weekly Backstory provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the writer’s process or an extra tidbit that accompanies our cover story. This week’s cover story explores ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There was a time when a mailbox was just a mailbox, an ordinary item that held the mail, did its job, and ...

Buckets, boxes and plant containers are just some of the items residents could be seen using as makeshift mailboxes on Tuesday. Across Massachusetts, people have been forced to improvise after their ...

IT’S BEEN PRETTY MUCH one red-letter day after another for Denise Stoughton — and for creativity, community and connection — since we delivered our July 16 story about her heartfelt mission to ...

Roger Buchko insists he isn’t angry about receiving too much junk mail. And the Phillipsburg, New Jersey, native isn’t trying to scare anybody off his front lawn. Nor does he say he’s trying to send a ...