On the town in Asheville, N.C.

 Here's a stand of three Jebco mailboxes in lovely downtown Asheville, N.C.

I got the chance to visit Asheville in 2009 to attend a professional conference, and I was treated to the nickel tour of this picturesque mountain town by a former Ashevillian, my friend Lee Ann O'Neal, who appears in the middle pictures, next to the stand of Jebco mailboxes.

This particular set was on the street in front of an art supply store called True Blue.

 Interestingly, notice that the box on the left -- the oldest of the three -- is a little bit larger than the newer boxes to its right. (Anyone know why Uncle Sam wanted smaller mailboxes?)

If you zoom in on the picture, you can see the larger box (with the weathered blue color) is date-stamped either 1962 or 1982, but I think it's 1982.

The last picture of these three shows a Jebco mailbox that has been retired by the Postal Service and which now is used (in a white color scheme) by the Asheville Citizen-Times newspaper, where Lee Ann used to work, as an outside overnight drop box. Zooming in on the picture shows it's date-stamped 1981.

(Photos by Jennifer Peebles)