I walk past this quiet street in Sheung Wan quite often and have noticed these mailboxes for a while. Mystic because they are nailed on a tree surrounded by apartment buildings and instead of address information or names, they are marked with “Dad”, “Sister”, “Brother” and “Teacher” in Chinese. Bizarre and quite different with these mailboxes.
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Very bizarre! Must be an explanation in there somewhere…I admire the clarity of the I.D.’s on all the boxes (even the ones on “You’ve Got Mail”!
January 22nd, 2007, at 6:52 pm #They are all very small! How do you do when you want to receive a parcel?
January 22nd, 2007, at 6:52 pm #en effet tres surprenant, je sais pas comment fait le facteur pour s’y retrouver ;o)
indeed very surprising, I know how not made the factor to find itself there; O)
January 22nd, 2007, at 9:46 pm #nope! not my mailbox…mine should be “妹妹”…which means younger sister…LOL~
January 22nd, 2007, at 9:58 pm #good observation lisi..! *thumbs up*
perhaps one day you shuold spend one day there to see if anyone opens the boxes..
January 22nd, 2007, at 10:09 pm #intriguing and mysterious!
January 22nd, 2007, at 10:43 pm #Looks like a Chinese Ghost story, never walk around this tree during a full moon night!
January 22nd, 2007, at 10:58 pm #Hi there,
January 23rd, 2007, at 12:46 am #Quite intersting. I saw some mailboxes here in Istanbul, they were the mini size of the original house, made by the architect of the house. Ofcourse when I say “house”, I don’t mean condos, apartments…I mean mansions….Guess, very soon, we wont need any kind of mailboxes anymore…
How neat! I love them! What character.
January 23rd, 2007, at 1:54 am #And there’s really letters inside! Maybe you can write a letter and put in the ‘teacher’ box and ask them to give you an explanation?
January 23rd, 2007, at 3:08 am #yeah i was just thinking the same thing: there are letters in the box!! strange, where is the box for ’santa claus’?
January 23rd, 2007, at 4:18 am #What a mistery! I’m very curious!
January 23rd, 2007, at 4:57 pm #Lovely photo by the way!
Hi…thanks for the footprints, you know what…I walked past it again today and found that on the very rusty one (top right) it actually says “younger brother”, and the mail inside are pretty yellowish…that’s adding more to the mystery!
Alice, if we get a parcel we usually get a notification card and then we’ll have to go pick it up at the nearby post office.
min…very funny…I’m sure you’re a little “mui mui”
very intriguing, right? I kind of think, maybe it’s some kind of installation art/street art
January 23rd, 2007, at 11:17 pm #très belle photo
January 24th, 2007, at 9:02 am #originale
bravo