Thanks!
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Awesome Jules, I love it! 
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Wow Jules, that looks really good!
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That was my first thought. I am going to steal this idea, change it to canada post and make the top a stamp dispenser and the ‘drawer’ bit a sponge holder.
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You still have “lick-n-stick” stamps in Canada?! I haven’t seen one of those in like a decade! I even get peel & stick envelopes (though I know lick envelopes are still available)
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To be honest I think both are available. I know the ones with your own face/images are peel and stick, but I ‘THINK’ you may be able to get the lick-n-stick ones in standard issue stamps. Either way, I’m over 40 now so I am much more nostalgic than I probably should be. Lol
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so as an aside my so is from the maritimes and at work (academia) was talking with somebody who’d just gotten back from a conference in halifax, and she mentioned repeatedly about how they’d gone through “dart-mooth.”
eventually it was too late to say anything without it being awkward so he just chuckled quietly to himself all day.
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Nice, but my recent stamp rolls were self-adhesive.
Dart-mooth… thats cute. There are a LOT of easily mispronounced place/street names around here. One would think Dart MOUTH would be an easier one, but perhaps Dart-moth is a bit more exotic. 
I asked my mother, she still buys stamps, and she said most are stickers now but you can get lick n stick at some Post Office locations.
SO, I guess the ‘drawer’ area would be the sticker backing refuse area then. Now if my GF would hurry up and arrive so I can start making my post box. The creating will probably be much easier than the painting. US boxes have the advantage of being very plain. Ours are a little more ‘detailed’.
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You can tell if someone is from outside of the HRM when they struggle to pronounce Agricola 
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Alright! Now try Kejimkujik!
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(ok, it’s a stretch!)
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i love the names when you start heading east, though my favorite is driving through Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! on the way to the coast:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Louis-du-Ha!_Ha!
also: i call miramichi mayor mccheese
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On the way to Norwich, to visit my daughter, I pass a Nowhere Lane, and I’m often tempted to see if it’s true.
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If you do, you may find this diner (I go there on my motorcycle a fair amount so I’m not lying when my wife asks where I’m going and I tell her “nowhere”):
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Well, at least the US has a few funny pronunciations that remind us of our roots. Norfolk anyone?
I’ve lived here for over 50 years, and the possible alternative pronunciations have never occurred to me !