We’ve all seen some staggeringly ugly mailboxes in our time, have we not? But it takes a dedicated mailbox critic like Linda F. to get right down to collecting them on a purpose-built blog.

This is the one mailbox in her collection-to-date that really can’t properly be described as ugly — it’s definitely more in the line of unusual funky folk art. In fact, the dragon mailbox is a Joel Haas original, and we should all be so lucky as to have one.

Makes you wonder what all the owners of golf-ball-shaped mailboxes and football-helmets-on-posts were thinking, when they looked at the basic store-bought rural mailbox and said, “Hey, I could do something with that!” Never mind the anatomically correct mermaid, from which the Post Office made the owner remove certain body parts…