Alice Ynchausti may never leave the life of the U.S. Postal Service. Proof of that sits outside her Amador Avenue home of the former South Lake Tahoe postmaster, even though she retired three years ...

With snail mail headed the way of landlines and newspapers, few give much thought to their mailboxes these days. In some neighborhoods, doorstep delivery is already extinct, replaced by clustered ...

Weathered or painted, clustered or alone, with letters or decals and in black and white, mailboxes can reflect the homeowner's favorite sports team, farmer's life, garden setting or pet affinity.

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 ...

Almost every neighborhood has one — that mailbox that stands out from the rest. They serve as landmarks of sorts and announce to passersby a message from the homeowner: We Love Dolphins, Gator Fan ...