Danish Mail Trio

Letter boxes (or mail boxes if you prefer) are a bit like taxis at the weekend – you can never find one, but when you do there's always several of them. Actually letter boxes seem to be a bit of a dying species, along with telephone boxes, public scales and various other bits of street furniture. It's understandable, I suppose, since the number of letters being posted has dropped dramatically since email became part of our daily lives. But I am always cheered at the sight of one of these boxes, and three of them together... Well, I can only assume that since I took this picture in the picturesque town of Odense, birthplace of Hans Christian Anderson, there must be a whole lot of people still sending postcards – remember them? I liked the bright, cheerfulness of this little trio, taken after a rain shower that made them shine and appear as if brand-new. And huddling together they seem to cry out to the passer by, "We're here for you, use us, give us your letters ... please..." - a sentiment that Anderson himself could easily have expressed... Location: Odense, Denmark