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Title: We like Melissa & Doug, but were disappointed by this item
Review: Our previous experience with Melissa & Doug products has been pretty good, but the quality control team was asleep on this particular item. The locking mechanism for the door does not operate smoothly and requires a key to turn; it would have been better to have a knob for smaller fingers and as a backup once the key inevitably gets lost. It seems as if the thickness of paint was not accounted for in the design, because all of the pieces fit tightly until your kid wears the paint off the corners. The thickest envelopes that can only go in the top slot hit the back of the box before dropping down, so your kid really has to shove them through; ours splintered the inside face of the fiberboard around the slot within a day. After one week of use, some of the seams between panels on the mailbox are already cracked and chipping. Our kid really wanted a mailbox, but we now wish that we had chosen a different brand.
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