We urban stoics like nice things. Pleasant, in turn, means pleasing. Something that falls within the realm of personal responsibility is organising your own day-to-day affairs. Mailboxes are like that.
Letters, invoices, parcels and newspapers are put in the letterbox. In blocks of flats and terraced houses, mailboxes are neatly placed side by side and each person's mail is put in its own compartment. If you open the mailbox and find your neighbour's bill in yours, "AHA - put in the wrong box!"
The mailboxes in the yards of large American homes are particularly admirable. There is only one, not next to the neighbour's. Order - even if you're alone! If only one letter arrives, it is put in order in the one mailbox without another next to it. Admirable. The Stoics would have been amazed.
The sad thing is that once the mail is brought inside, it is usually not kept in very good order.
