We love the look of the lighted mailbox, especially in our rural area where there aren't a lot of lights by our mailbox. However, this would turn on automatically and I'm not sure why. Sometimes at 3:30, it would click on. Other times, it would be half hour to an hour later before it clicked on. As it gets dark around 5 or 5:30 in December where I live, I would have preferred it clicked on later and stayed on later. Or, better yet, I wish it had a remote that we could have turned it on and off on our own. It does add a very nice and sophisticated touch to your holiday décor, though.