It is just a simple box on a wooden post at the end of my driveway. Except for the one time purchase and installation price it has not cost me a cent to maintain over the last 15 years. It serves a very simple purpose: store outgoing mail for pick-up by the USPS and hold incoming mail until I can pick it up.Moreover, it currently works for me six days a week. Its hidden value lies in that fact that I can send a greeting card to someone anywhere in the USA, even Hawaii, for for less than half a dollar. Usually it will make it from my mailbox to the mailbox of the person I am greeting within 3 business days.
Sure I can take the same card to FedEx or UPS and they could promise delivery the next day. But my point is that I would have to "take" it to them unless I live within walking distance to a FedEx or UPS pick up box or center. Add to that a minimum service charge of 6 or 7 dollars and it is easy to see the hidden value I have in my personal USPS mailbox.
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