That is quite the row of mailboxes.  Interesting the changes that happen over time. 

Not postive Jeff but I think it is post office rules.  Our farm used to have several mail boxes together and now all are in front of the actual home.  Actually stupid as the route carrier has to make a ton more stops to deliver. Wear and tear on the vehicles for all the extra starts and stops.  And rural carriers have to provide their own vehicles.  (My dad was one back in the day of grouped boxes like the above picture)   Yet in the subdivisions, they have gone to cluster mail boxes.   The guys driving the postal trucks have less stops and the guys driving the country roads now have more stops.  Makes sense like everything else the government runs. 

Jeff loved both photos and had to laugh I knew in Carlsbad you would not get the white stuff:))Endre

Good morning, Jeff Dowler, CRS wow... that poor mailman who needs to pay close attention to which box he's stuffing mail into!!

Good morning, Jeff... I've seen something like this a few times but can't say I was ever "moved" to take a photo of it. These days nothing we see much in city limits so it's probably worth preserving in a photo.

That looks like the original cluster mailbox and is quite a sight for sore eyes, haha.  I definitely prefer having the mailbox in front of each home, but that isn't as common these days.

Good morning Jeff. Been years since I have seen a collection like that up close and personal. Thanks for the memories. Enjoy your day!

Those were quite common in days gone by, weren't they?  I think most of them have been replaced with more secure clusters thanks to fraudsters.

Jeff the snow plow knocks my mailbox down every year, I think the driver does it on purpose.  I bet he would have a field day trying to wipe out all of these mailboxes in one shot.  

What a fascinating display. All I can see when I look at those boxes is stolen mail. At the very least I would have found a way to secure the content of the boxes. Wonder what they put in their place?

The mailboxes are gone to history and you have captured them for posterity.  The photos should be framed and hung in their local post office.