The U.S. Postal Service was created on this day in 1775. Since then, people have been going out of their way to entertain their mail carriers by creating and decorating crazy mailboxes to receive their letters, bills, and birthday cards in. You have to have a mailbox, and if you don’t do anything to it it’s just going to be a stupid, boring metal box sitting in the front of your yard. Why not add a little bit of flair and turn that ordinary mailbox into a cow, or a dolphin, or a baby’s butt? Give your mailman a laugh today by putting something weird on your mailbox. Trust me: they’ll thank you for it. Here are some people who went out of their way to make crazy mailboxes: