Dead Media Beat: Mailboxes

*They're ripping mail collection boxes out of the ground, just like they did with public phone booths…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/24/AR2009072403857.html

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"In the past 20 years, 200,000 mailboxes have vanished from city streets, rural routes and suburban neighborhoods — more than the 175,000 that remain. In the Washington area alone, half the blue boxes that were on the streets nine years ago have been pulled up and taken to warehouses to molt in storage or be s