Show If i t t I f 4 Mail Maid Box Tells Ally All COALVILLE Those country mall boxes tell teu passers-by passers quite a bit Nothing nicer about the country coun coup try than country mall mail boxes To affirm this just lake take a ride In Inthe Inthe inthe the country They the country mall boxes seem to at you as you drive by introducing themselves as ns it were Im John JohnJ J J. Doe Rural Route 2 9 fox Box and a look at the box is a looka look at a athe the box Is a look at Mr 1 Doe oe They TIley tell teU tales rural rural mall box box- es Cs They are a kind of open advertisement advertisement ad ad- of the type folks that get their malt from that spot Ot Erect shining and clearly let rate f rate c citizens i t I 1 a zen e n s. s They keep their basement clean dont don't let soft drink bottles pile up in their garage have friends and entertain dress neatly and pay their bills Its It's plainly evident their man malt box indicates as much But take a leaning post OSt with the malt mall box sitting sidewise its door hanging open open and and theres there's a slipshod somebody They are the kind that leave the screen door up all alt winter inlet who throw the mop water in the backyard and let their children go to school schoot with their hair uncombed Their mail mall mailbox mailbox box says that about abou them Then there Is the Ule box whose face race looks upward Through years of usage plus someone backing his car into the post post post-It It has achieved a sort of brave posture Who knows why knows why Maybe the nail that joins box to pot post has loosened allowing the box to tip Up forward Or once again may maybe it simply shows forth the dejection of I its I owner Or his tion One can almost hear someone someone some some- one say Next time I go after the tho malt mail I want to take tako a hammer down and straighten the box up up- Next time Of or course if things get too too out out of ot order your rural mall carrier canier will leave you notice Its It's a neat little memorandum listing possible pos poe sible ills alongside check places Its It's quite a list of ot specifications But nothing really but what anybody any anybody anybody body with pride wouldn't do any any- way After all If It those who pass are to read our character by our mall mail box we go to town Only a handful of our forefathers forefathers fore fore- forefathers fathers came over on the Mayflower May May- Mayflower flower er but its it's for sure were we're all aU allin allin in the same boat now Glen postmaster Coalville Utah |