Patent ID: 7293696

Claim:
A mailbox, comprising a housing having a plurality of walls top wall, two side walls, a rear wall, and a bottom wall defining an interior of the housing for receiving mail within the interior of said housing; a light source arranged within the interior of said housing so as to emit light into the interior of said housing, at least one of said top wall and said two side walls being a transparent wall through which the light emitted by said light source into the interior of said housing passes; and a post for supporting said housing, said post being hollow and having an interior into which light emitted by said light source into the interior of said housing passes, wherein said bottom wall is a transparent wall, while said post has a top opening adjoining said transparent bottom wall, so that light emitted by said light source into the interior of said housing passes through said transparent bottom wall and said top opening of said post into the interior of said post; said post having at east one transparent wall through which the light in the interior of said post passes.