Typhoon-tilted Mailboxes

The Typhoon-tilted Mailboxes are two postal boxes on Longjiang Road in Taipei that lean at distinct angles due to damage from a natural disaster. Both remain in active use for mail collection despite their permanent slant.

A 2015 typhoon struck the postal boxes, causing significant damage to infrastructure across Taiwan at that time. Rather than straighten them, the postal service chose to keep them tilted as a permanent reminder.

The tilted boxes have become a meeting point where visitors pose with them, mirroring their angles in photos and treating them as symbols of resilience in a place prone to severe weather.

These boxes sit along Longjiang Road where foot traffic is steady, making them easy to locate and visit. They work like any other postal box, so you can use them to send mail if needed.

The postal service could have easily straightened or replaced these boxes, but chose instead to preserve them in their damaged state as a public display. This unusual decision transformed ordinary equipment into an unintended monument to survival.