Pluggers by Rick McKee for January 05, 2024

Never seen a fish mailbox.

Something fishy about this postbox.

Mine reflects the nature of nearly all of the mail I receive … it’s in the shape of a garbage pail.

Nope ! Still use a standard Mailbox . I’m retired and my Hobby is just " Getting Er Done " ;-)

What’s a mail person’s mailbox look like?

Saw a mailbox on an Deer decoy complete with attached real horns. Figured the guy was an avid hunter; wife commented that she feels sorry for the guys wife in that likely the majority of all wall space is occupied by a head or rack mount.

I enjoy fishing and hunting, but I just want my mailbox to be a mailbox.

Nice mailbox. Obviously, this plugger does not live in a HOA.

I love it!

Nice. I’m checking out Amazon for one of those right now!

Mine doesn’t, but that’s a good sign for those who do.

I’ve seen the upper portion of an defunct stainless BBQ grill mounted next to a mailbox, and it had lettering stating “For Large Packages”…..pretty clever.

How about them fish head boxer briefs.

Or if you still have one of the old standard steel ones.

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Today’s Pluggers is obviously about how if you’re a fisherman, you’d have a mailbox shaped like a fish (I guess? I mean, would you? Would you really?) but because the plugger in the panel is himself shaped like a bear, I can’t help imagining that in the Pluggers world of apparently all mammalian human-animal hybrids, the equivalent of a furry would be someone who likes to dress up as a reptile or fish, and so Andy Bear here (YES THEY HAVE OFFICIAL NAMES AND YES, FOR MY SINS, I KNOW THEM) is letting the whole neighborhood know that he’s a “scaly” and proud of it.

I have not dared to mail anything from my rural delivery box in a couple of years. Even after I got a locked mailbox, someone stole an outgoing check and “bleached” it to alter the payee. Fortunately, I have an ornate cursive script I use for filling out the amount and that could not be changed.

I blame the banks for not converting to color cameras that could discriminate these alterations. My bank offered a refund, which sounded good, until I found out that it required a written statement from the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), who was the original payee, that they never received the check. Have you ever tried to get anything the least bit extraordinary from the DMV? I could get verbal confirmation but no one would write such a simple statement. Thanks a lot Chase.

The only time my wife ever threatened to take a double-bladed axe to something I had put up around the house. She was definitely not a fan of the Billy the Bass mailbox. I took it down and put back up the old one (boring), put poor Billy in the garage on a shelf and a short time later he made a trip to Amvets courtesy of my wife.

Or football fan. I’ve seen helmet mailboxes in team colors

As long as it doesn’t sing when you open it.

For a long time we had our home mail going to our business’s box at a nearby Post Office in a nearby community. (We have 3 post offices which are closer to our home than the one which serves our house.)

When we first moved into this house we had problems with delivery – mail not delivered, wrong mail delivered, etc. I contacted all the way up to the Postmaster General in an attempt to resolve the problem. Our local Postmistress’s solution was to deliver our mail in a sealed larger envelope – not of much help as mail still not get to us and this stopped within 2 weeks. So I changed our mailing address on everything (I could think of) so it went to our business’s box in that nearby Post Office.

Then came Covid. I live in the county which at one point early on during Covid had the 3rd highest number of cases of any county in the U.S. and more cases than several countries which are not that small. (Understand county had more cases than 2 boroughs – counties – of NYC). We REALLY did not want to go out and pick up our mail at the box. So I worked on changing our address with everyone/business I could think of back to our home address and figured we would have to deal with our PO and their poor delivery.

Turns out it must have been the former delivery person who was the problem. The fellow who delivers it now (and during Covid) is excellent.

Now if we could only get one Federal government agency to change our address back to our house we would be set – their mail still goes to our PO Box.