The Mail Monsters Project | 13

What would you do if you ran into a Mail Monster?

I bet that this design made by Alan features the very pillar box where he posted this letter... Because it was attacked by the mail monster inside (can you see its eyes in the dark?). At least, the stamps were vandalised!

Inside, the most interesting text and... a bit troubling.

Pillar Boxes are so familiar on the streets of British towns that, unless you need to post a letter, you hardly notice them. Some of them have Queen Victoria's royal cypher on the door and they are older than any of the people who pass them and probably most of the buildings of the street. 

But if you happen to be passing when one of them is emptied, then you notice it. Who can resist looking inside when the postman gets out his big bunch of official keys and swings the heavy iron door open? There is a wire basket to catch the letters and stop them failing down the base of the box, but what is in that space?

If you have ever seen one being moved, you know that they go surprisingly deep underground -- there must be a large space in that black painted base, a dark void which hasn't seen the light of day for over a hundred years. Anything which does fall through the wire mesh will drop into that unknown space, into the domain of whatever unknown creatures live down there, feeding upon lost mail and detached postage stamps. 

Perhaps that is why the postman is always in such a hurry to take the mail and close the door again, to slam it shut and lock it with those ancient keys, before the mail monsters get out!