20) So what’s with the funky photo treatment? Am I trying to make some statement about the grittiness of the Capitol Hill neighborhood? Am I reflecting the starkness of the human existence? No, nothing quite like that. I visited this box at Boylston Ave E and E Republican in the early evening, just when it was starting to get dark. The lightening apparently confused my camera, which overcompensated by totally blowing out my forehead. Applying this rough sepia filter is just my way of covering up for an otherwise bad photo.

21) Let me end the suspense and tell you right now that no, I did not get the Free Gulp. Nor did I take advantage of the 2 for $20 special. I didn’t even use the ATM Inside. All I did was grab this quick photo outside the 7-Eleven as I passed through the Haller Lake neighborhood. If you want to take advantage of any of these great offers, get yourself up to Roosevelt Way N at 1st Ave NE pronto.

22) What a stroke of luck! We met some friends for dinner last night, and the restaurant turned out to be across the street from the only mailbox left in the International District! If you find yourself at S King Street and 7th Ave S, you can choose from quite a few places to eat after you’ve worked up an appetite doing your mailing.

23) This project has proven to be very educational. Am I learning deeply repressed secrets of my own inner child? Am I learning about the crumbling infrastructure of the human soul? No, I’m mostly learning that I’m not very good at anticipating when the 10-second timer on my camera is going to fire, resulting in shots like this. I proved this to be true once again at the corner of Boyer Ave E and 16th Ave E in Montlake.

25) It was a fine sunny morning, the perfect time to enjoy a Tiny Diet Coke next to this box on NW 58th Street at 14th Ave NW in Ballard. Does anyone else remember when there used to be a mailbox on the median that runs down the middle of 14? One of my fondest mailing memories involved that box, and it’s sad to see that it’s no longer there.

26) Snail-mail artist Flatchestedmama invited me to check out this classic mailbox parked in front of a Safeway in the Othello neighborhood. Could I refuse an offer like that? Of course not! I headed down to S Othello Street at MLK Way S on a chilly Sunday morning so we could meet and exchange thoughts on various mail-related artistic expressions. Like you do.

27) I was rather surprised to notice that I had not yet visited the Queen Anne neighborhood for this project, so I sneaked up there this morning to rectify this omission. As you can see, I was trying to play it really cool and stay somewhat hidden… the last thing I wanted was for a mass of angry QA residents to spot me and take retribution for overlooking them for so long. This great hiding place is next to the hardware store on W McGraw Street at 3rd Ave W.

28) I’ve visited a few post offices in the course of this project, but let’s face it… this Federal Station downtown on 1st Ave between Marion and Madison has the grandest entry of them all. But even status such as this is not sufficient to keep their box free of graffiti.