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Ortanna, Pennsylvania: Pine Box Coffin Mailbox

Next to a dangerous intersection, a homeowner with a dark sense of humor has placed a mailbox fashioned out of a pine box coffin.

Address:
1485 Carrolls Tract Rd, Ortanna, PA
Directions:
From Gettysburg drive west seven miles on PA-116/Fairfield Rd. Turn right onto PA-3011/Carrolls Tract Rd. Drive 3.5 miles. You'll see the coffin on the right, just past the green Ortanna sign.
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Coffin mailbox.

Pine Box Coffin Mailbox

The coffin mailbox...

[Jeff Foushee, 05/02/2019]

... makes us appreciate every day we wake up, alive and excited about what might be delivered!

Coffin mail box.

Pine Box Coffin Mailbox

Stand up wooden Old West pine box coffin is a home mailbox. At the corner of Carrolls Tract and Ortanna Roads. A blind intersection. Be careful.

[Chris Harmon, 09/08/2018]

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