Oh Mailbox, Wherefore Art Thou Mailbox

The city of Chicago has no mailboxes. Okay. So that may be a slight exaggeration (as I am sometimes prone). But there aren't any mailboxes in the Loop (for all you non-Chicagoans, that's what other cities know as downtown, central business district, etc., etc., etc.). I've been on a mission to find one-- just one, and nada, zip, zilch. Does Chicago have some underground IRA bombing situation that I don't know about? So what if there is a mailbox outside of my apartment... or actually in my building for that matter; sometimes I need to mail something at lunchtime, or after work, and there's nary a mailbox to be found. Mailbox angst. Another reason to curse the world.