Each year, USPS designates the third week of May as Mailbox Improvement Week to encourage customers with box-on-post-delivery to examine and improve their mailboxes.

Diana Goebelt and Frank Schwarz’s experiences sending packages led them to ask if they could do it better. After two years of ...

Kwon says lower-income residents can get the boxes at a deeper discount – and they have a lifetime warranty. The City of Tukwila has a similar program, and other cities are considering the same.