The lonely mailbox **Edited

You call it a postbox? I've never done that. you must be from a different province... :)

I call it a mailbox, too!! Alberta here :)

postbox here england here;)

Brievenbus = Netherlands

I have always called it a mail box! I am in Alberta as well.

Us down under call it letterbox ..!

I call it my toybox.

...then there are the "renegeade" Canadians! ;-) CanadaPost. I guess here in Ontario we're a tad more "stuffy"? Thanks for signing up all! This is going to be fun!

Hey! Look at all these Canadians... I've got to sign up for this one. Mine's a Post Box of course. (Post is my last name!)

Come on in @eepy ! Love to have you with us!

Boite aux lettres in French!!

Oh dear, Miss babygirlbangura seems to have left us.... ROTFL! Sorry, I can't stop laughing......

Yeah - - - - - what's up with that?? She's stalking me!!!!! ;-)

I will join!! BC Canada here.. mailbox is what I call it.. :)

Just to continue with the semantics... here in Australia a mail box is the thing you receive your letters in and a postbox is the thing you drop them in to get them delivered.

Unless you have a box at the postoffice to receive letters in, that is also a post box.

Anyone confused yet?

I LOVE it @catestalkergc !! I lived in Australia for a while and that is so accurate! :-) And @SFreer I lived in BC (born and bred) and Ontario(where I am currently being held against my will) is tres stuffy!! BC rocks my world!

@catestalkergc - Although we Aussies do know that a mail box is what letters are delivered to, surely you call yours a 'letter box', not a 'mail box', don't you? (Oh, the internet is making us all become Americanised faster than ever before... especially the young kids...)

BTW, FYI, ETC, Australia Post calls a post box (the red box that you post your letters in) a 'street posting box' if I'm not mistaken. I was looking for the official terminology for them once. How clunky though. I just call them 'red post boxes'. (The 'red' is there to aid fast comprehension of what I'm talkin' 'bout 'cos who has time?) ;)

And for what it's worth, I call the ones at the post office 'post office boxes'.

That's my take on it!

Postboxes and mailboxes are called "poštovní schránka" or "schránka na dopisy" in my language (Czech) :)

Thanks for sharing, everyone! :-)

"Caixa de Correio" in Brazil!

Peti surat (letter box, for receiving) and peti pos (post box, for sending) in Malaysia :o)

Postkasse in Danish :-)

" Почтовый ящик" in Russia! :)) Basically "postbox" if I translate it .

I don't have a mail box. =sniff= All I have is a slot in the front door, through which tons of junk mail & unwanted catalogs fall on the rug. My husband and I refer to it as "the trash leak"—as in, there's a lot of trash out there in the world, and it's always leaking into our house. =sigh=

But every once in a while a whole bunch of mail art arrives on the rug—yay!

Have you heard people say that they BLUE boxed something? Meaning they dropped it in the BLUE mail pick up stations, usually outside a grocery store or there one by the circle K. They are not as common as they used to be, and nothing over 13oz, can get dropped in it. they make the mail slot really narrow now.

I dont trust them, and since we have a blue box right at the PO, which is mile from my house. I do blue box things there, but mainly I put my outgoing mail in my sunflower mailbox, and put up the red flag and my female male carrier comes every day about 2pm.

OH if I had checked for typos before I left the above comment!!!!!

"Buzón de correo" in spanish, or at least here in Chile =)

It was fun to read all the comments so I thought I'd leave my contribution as well =)

A "Postfach" in Austria is something you can get your mail AT the postoffice. The one you have at home would be your "Postkasten" or in dialect "Postkastl"

This is such an interesting thread! Guess I'd better join the swap now. I'm a true blue aussie and yep my home delivery box is my letterbox and I put things in for sending in the postbox down the street. I've always loved England (or anywhere else) that delivers right to your door! Imagine having mail just appear in your house! I love it! But then again I work from home, and if I didn't have that little walk to the front gate to collect my mail I'd never get any vitamin D!

Great idea for a newbie swap - good opportunity for those who are new to Swap-Bot & who want to get into the action of swapping postcards, etc.
Thanks for getting those mail boxes, post boxes, whatever, filled!

I'm loving this thread! :-)

Canadian here. In the city I had a mailbox, attached to the house. Here in a tiny village I have a post office box, which sucks because to get our mail we have to go to the post office to get it. Thankfully my kids think that is a treat, so I give that chore to them :) To send something out usually I go right to teh post office, but if in the city I sometimes use the red mailbox, and I just call it a mailbox. Oh and the mailman, we call a letter carrier (I had an aunt that was and she hated the term male man so letter carrier it was), parcels arrived in the truck. We called him/her friend ;p If a parcel was arriving it was a good day (though before swapbot that usually meant I had ordered more school books)

When I was a kid I lived in a small town in SK. CANADA with a post office, where we had to go get our mail from our Post box. Now that I'm grown up and live in a city, we get mail delivered to the house in our Mail box. It's ok, but I hate it when they stick big envelopes and other big things like wads of fliers in it so that it can't close...

Wow! I just noticed this is No. 1 on the Top Swap list! Way to go, kerrydwynn!

I have both a mailbox and a Post Office box. I love going to the post office (I can go any day, time,) and get all my goodies from Swap-bot. Since this is #1, I think I'll join

@AZmom875 - I liked your typo. ;)

We call ours the 'postman' but fewer people do anymore (too formal & sexist). Many just call them the 'postie'. Even my dog calls it that (recognises it as that).

In my youth I used to go and 'get the letters'. Now I go and 'get the mail', but this may, in part, be because I have an American husband. (Some of my lingo is international for the sake of convenience and efficiency.) :/

The other thing I wanted to say: Although in the city I once had a postie who walked with a double canvas 'laundry cart' thing they pushed, our posties mostly ride motorbikes, known as "step-throughs". They're the least-gutsy motorbike you can get (yet not a scooter), and they ride on the grass right up to the letterbox, in and out of people's driveways/on the road as needed, or just all along the nature strip between houses (council-owned grass strip next to the road). If the postie needs to drop something too big for the letterbox at your door, they'll more often than not just ride the bike right up to your door, not get off it and walk. I like this and not-so-secretly want to be a postie. My dog would bark at me though. He is outraged by motorbikes, but he's just a fraidy-cat.

I wish we had US mailboxes with the little red flag you put up if you have mail to be collected! Our posties don't pick up. If only!

(Clearly I am a postal nerd which I no longer can deny.) :X

Ohhhhhhhhh @papercaper ! We see through you! (Thanks for joining and commenting!)

Wow.....love how this group is active. ^_^/

... * steps away from the X-ray * ...

BRIEFKASTEN in german

buzon in spanish from Mexico

Me, again - I just use the term "mailbox", both for the metal thingy attached to my house beside the door to receive my lovelies, and for the box on the street, which USED to be red, but has been plastered with different postal codes now. When I first saw it, I thought it had been graffitteed, but... nope, it's the "new" look in Calgary.

I just learned a while ago that in Tagalog my language in the Philippines. The box is called BUSON.

I agree with Aussiemate. I live in suburban South Australia and we have our mail home delivered into our "letterbox".