Mail Call - Mailbox Tips Curbside mailboxes take a beating from the elements. After all, it's the first thing people see when they come to your house. Start with the box itself that you can purchase at your local hardware store.
Styles go from traditional with steel, functional with plastic, or more folksy with a wood box.
It may be more work, but think about your poor postman, bored senseless by row upon row of dull boxes. Finally, you must have your house number on the box in large numerals. Next comes the post. Again, feel free to paint or decorate the above-ground part of it. And, to prevent being teased by your neighbors, slap a level onto the post to make sure it's sitting true before the concrete hardens.