Whether a mailbox is shaped like a fish or encased in brick, homeowners willing to invest several hundred dollars in one are offering passersby a glimpse of their personality or boosting the curb ...

“Cows, trains, tractors are big in the Midwest. On the coasts, it’s fish, parrots and flamingos. But golf bags are big everywhere,” says Mark Fitzpatrick of the novelty mailboxes his company, The ...

Purchased in the early 1990s, the mailbox matched the real tractor he had bought about six months earlier. Neil Patnaude and his wife, Margaret, keep horses at their Red Oak Farm. “I thought it would ...

No longer are homeowners content with the standard black steel mailbox perched on a 4-by-4 at the end of the driveway. These days they’re dressing up their address and prettying up their postboxes.