How many are old enough to remember

[HAB911]

an old school newspaper box? My neighbor who lived here since the 1940's had one and asked me to remove it years ago. I saw the potential, and it has been the home of many Carolina Wren families. This year, a Carolina Chickadee family to be, beat them to it!

[Walleye]

1. Nice adaptation. We had some that were cylindrical. For the paper I eventually went to work for us an adult.

[Beringia]

2. Great

[Deuxcents]

3. Now *that's* how you recycle!

[niyad]

4. How cool is that??? I remember back in the day, the mailbox and newspaper box under it.

[BattleRow]

6. I still have that combo..but the local newspaper is no more,alas.

[niyad]

10. Alas, the daily fishwrap here is still extant.

[Diamond_Dog]

5. Yep! Those boxes used to be everywhere.

What a great idea to recycle them into birdhouses!

I wonder how much longer before mailboxes disappear ………

[RainCaster]

7. what a great use for that paper tube!

I like your thinking. 😁

[Auggie]

8. I hadn't thought of those in years

Thanks for the memory

[BidenRocks]

9. Our paperboy would drop it inside the screen/storm door.

The Milwaukee Journal and The Milwaukee Sentinel.
Our neighbor liked the horses in Illinois, so they had a paper box for The Chicago Tribune.
About 1963. I was 8.

[Squaredeal]

16. I hope that your parents gave him a tip

That took extra time to that of just putting the paper in a box on the street or tossing it on a porch. At that time, newspaper boys earned 2 to 2-1/2 cents per delivery (5 cents for each Sunday paper) plus collecting weekly and being responsible for paying for the deadbeats.

[Cheezoholic]

11. Have one next to my mailbox. Still gets used occasionally for larger envelopes orders

I've learned to check it for yellow jackets frequently lol

[Beartracks]

12. We had the paperboy on a bike hurling the paper up to the porch...

... or close enough.

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[George McGovern]

17. I hope your paperboy's aim was good enough for close enough! I had a route growing up.

Small section of a small town. Papers were dropped off around 4-4:30 am. I'd walk my bicycle down the driveway to the newspaper box right around the corner. Load up the delivery bag, sling it over my shoulder and pedal off. I was taught by the previous paperboy to walk up to a customer's door, open the storm door and slip the paper between the doors. I imagine a larger route would have required hurling the paper toward, if not onto, a porch.

Complete the schedule, get home, eat breakfast, go to school. The route was year 'round, no mornings off. Fond memories, except for snowfallen cold winter mornings. Those were not so fond.

[Beartracks]

20. I recall it was almost always on the sidewalk. Not bad at all.

I did paper distribution while in college, but it was just a stroll in the quiet predawn hours to drop and unbundle them in the dormitory lobbies. Small campus, three dorms. I think I hauled them in a wagon. Your experience sounds much more character-building.

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[George McGovern]

21. Ha Ha! Well, if it was I didn't know at the time. But I suppose I learned responsibility. Thank You!

[Kali]

13. cool!

we still have one up at the end of our road. I have been using it to leave things for people to pick up when I don't have time to actually meet them up there.

[debsy]

14. Love the remodeling into a bird condo!

My mother always asked me to get the paper for her. We would sit down together, she in her rocking chair, and we’re would do the crossword together.

[Squaredeal]

15. The HOA where my now wife once lived was told newspaper boxes weren't allowed.

As a young woman, she worked for a taxi cab company and drove one of the secondhand vehicles to and from work, which the firm would buy at auction to convert into cabs. She had one of the shop employees bolt her box onto the car’s trunk and she parked it at the end of her driveway, which wasn’t against the rules, and she then drove another future cab between home and work. She wasn’t about to let her daily paper get wet whenever it rained.

[HAB911]

19. OMG, a woman after my heart

sounds like something I would do, lol

[George McGovern]

18. Excellent job HAB911. Nowadays your project would be called "repurposing and rehoming". But you fixed it up nicely.