Do me a favor?

IF you own a bar called "Sweeney Mc Drinky's" and one of the E's falls off during a windstorm...
IF your house number is 742 Evergreen Terrace and you went out to Plunderer Pete's Hardware and Salvage and bought those reflective sticky numbers to stick on the mailbox, but some kids peeled the '4' off...
IF you are the president of your neighborhood improvement association, and it falls on you to replace the missing I and A in the brushed aluminum letters on the brick entrance parapet that announces to all that they have reached LITTLE NEWARK...

Please, either get perfectly matching replacements, or replace them all. OK?

Nothing looks cheesier than mixed fonts, but you see it all the time on signs and mailboxes and I'm asking nicely that we all strive for a certain uniformity.

And if you're going for the homespun look on your mailbox where you just dip a brush in some old Rustoleum and slather on the RFD address, could we pencil in some guidelines first?

And think about this one night when you're coming home after dark. Pretend that you're driving an ambulance or fire engine or police car, and try to find your house on your street just by the numerical address. If it's not readily apparent, you really could save some valuable time by posting the numbers somewhere where responding units could see them.


I've had just about a lot to say about the world's mailboxes today, have I not? Thanks for reading!