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While grocers still distribute coupons through mailboxes or as inserts in a newspaper, the deals have evolved to meet consumers on their smartphones through mobile apps and email inboxes.

A month later, it appeared in my mailbox without a note or explanation — just proof someone cared enough to return it.

The Searle couple retired to this region five years ago, and other mailboxes in the hamlet indicate they are not the only expatriates in the region.

But I can recall the ecstatic joy of going to the mailbox with my mother — or on her orders — because there was almost always a letter from someone.

Friends knew their old neighbor was home, still corresponding, because the flag on her mailbox seemed always to be standing at attention.