To this day the mail is the high point of the day, and an empty mailbox will make me sulk or fall into a depression.

He often read the bulletin board, checked his empty mailbox, and had been meticulous and deliberately slow in moving his professional possessions the very short distance of forty-five feet.

As a result, he said, he either had to lie - about, say, the fact that he is divorced - or face an empty mailbox every day.

His mailbox, once empty, now overflows with scripts, he said.

To a 4-year-old, Charlie's empty mailbox on Valentine's Day isn't so much humorous as heartbreaking.

Mail will only go to the mailbox for the original recipient name, and the cloaked address will always have an empty mailbox.

His eyes lifted to stare into the dark square of the now- empty mailbox.

Why else did he check an empty mailbox at the Starkfield post office every day?

Unable to speak, I slide my hand into my empty mailbox, wondering where my copy of the memo went.

She keeps her eyes peeled for empty mailboxes, peeks under doors but more than anything, she watches windows.