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They will no longer collect letters here, after this week. Of course I'm sending mail here until then, a gesture I can't quite explain. Corner of Strong and Sherwood, Detroit, MI.
traffic was doing that one foot per minute thing when I looked out the passenger window and saw this mailbox.
From time to time, vandals stave in mailboxes with baseball bats up and down the street when they're bored. Not this time. My mailbox was in a head on collision with a pick-up truck. Dry road, good light, but the truck seems simply to have veered off the road into the ditch, snapping off my mailbox at the ground. The truck then proceeded to encounter the neighbour's culvert which it gazelle-like o'ersprang (not!) before coming to rest on their front lawn. I will be without mail service now until next week.
A mailbox near my house.
Taken near my house with a Yashica J and Kodak Ultramax 400.
No post-processing :)
Don't know if Male or Female, but the pair are feeding their chicks. The one stands guard while the other hunts for food. This is the "Newspaper" hole, under a pair of mailboxes, ours and our neighbors.
26 June 2025
Indiana
I'm guessing this guy is a lineman, but it's one of the coolest rural mailboxes I've seen for quite awhile.
I found this little gem near Chandler Springs, Alabama, which used to be a hoity toity resort town until 1918. Not sure what happened then, but its heyday was apparently from 1832-1918 according to Wikipedia's "Alabama Ghost Towns" list.
My wife and I found this one night last summer hanging around around mailbox. At the time, it was laying eggs all over the mailboxes and wall. If I remember right, she was about 6" across.
INFO:
The cecropia moth, one of the largest moths found in North America. It is a member of the Saturniidae family, or giant silk moths. Females with a wingspan of 130 mm or more have been documented. It is found as far west as the Rocky Mountains and north into the maritime provinces of Canada. The larvae of these moths are most commonly found on Maple trees, but they have been known to feed on Wild Cherry and Birch trees among many others.
The life cycle of the moth is much like any other saturniidae species. It lays oval-shaped, light brown eggs on the leaves of the host plant. When the eggs hatch, small black and hairy caterpillars emerge (first instar), and eat their eggshells.
Sometimes the newly hatched caterpillars have yellow bristles, which darken in a few minutes. As the caterpillars age, they molt 4 times. The second instar is yellow-green with black spots and spiny orange, yellow and blue knobs. The third and fourth instars have smaller spines, and are similar to each other. The fifth instar is a whitish color with bright yellow, blue and red knobs. The caterpillars feed heavily on their host plant and can grow up to five inches long. They then spin cocoons of brown silk, usually wrapped in leaves of the host plant. They then pupate inside the two-layered cocoon. There is only one brood per year, the cocoon overwintering and emerging in spring. When the adults eclose, they have to pump fluid into their wings to extend them. The females emit pheromones at night, which the male can detect with its large, plumose antennae. Males can fly for miles in order to reach a female. The moths mate, and the female spends the remainder of her life laying eggs, while the male may mate several more times. Because the adult moths do not have mouth parts they are unable to eat. As a result, the lifespan for an adult Cecropia moth is generally only 7 to 10 days in the wild, perhaps a little longer or shorter, depending on how much movement the moth makes. For instance, if temperatures are cooler, the moth may remain mostly inactive, which will increase its life. In captivity, this lifespan can be extended to about a month by placing the moth in the fridge directly after it hatches and its wings are dry.
Differentiating between genders of this species is very easy. The most obvious difference is the plumose antennae. Males will have a very bushy antenna while females will have a moderately less bushy antenna. Another difference is that the females will be slightly larger in the abdomen due to carrying eggs. Male's abdomens are also more angular than the female's abdomens which are more rounded.
Pests of the moths have become a huge problem. Parasitoids such as some species of wasps and flies lay their eggs in or on the young caterpillars. The eggs then hatch into larvae, which consume the insides of the caterpillars. The parasitoid releases chemicals taking control of the regulatory mechanisms of the caterpillar. Once the parasitoid has grown enough, it induces the caterpillar to pupate. Once the caterpillars pupate, the larvae themselves pupate, killing the cecropia pupa. Squirrels have also been known to consume the pupae of cecropia moths, decreasing the population greatly. Pruning of trees and leaving outdoor lights on at night can also be detrimental to the cecropia moths.
-Wikipedia
This is the infamous "Mailbox Marilyn" I first saw Marilyn in 1970 on the northside of Chicago in the Rush St. area, doing what she did best.
The reason she was named Mailbox Marilyn is because she carried self addressed stamped envelopes on her. When she would get paid for a date she would put the money in the envelope, and mail it to herself, this way if she got stuck up by a trick they wouldn't get her bank roll.
Marilyn is no taller than 4ft. tall and when she went she went too jail other whores would try too take her money, but the only one that got a hand on it was the postman.
She is no longer hooking, she is now panhandling at Washington and Wabash.
One of the Great Characters Of Chicago!