This morning, as the nation struggles with a widespread computer network malfunction, I ponder a simpler time when communication didn't depend on digital equipment. So today I focus on another in an ongoing series of postal collection boxes. This one is outside the door of Jefferson Tower, part of the sprawling complex of buildings that comprise UAB University Hospital (which was just - once again - named the best hospital in Alabama and one of the tops in the country.) JT, as we UAB employees call it, is a 1940s era high rise structure that was once the main hospital building in Birmingham. It replaced Hillman Hospital, the adjacent building which was built in 1888 as a small charity hospital. So for over 100 years, doctors, nurses and countless patients have passed the site of this mailbox, and no doubt many sent letters from it to tell friends and family of their medical condition. Hopefully for most, it was a message of good news.
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