Depending on the length of your driveway checking your mail can be trivial or a chore. fhuable on YouTube shared this solarpowered, IoT, camera enabled mailbox. It might be overkill but its just the right kind of overkill. Via Hackaday:
The basic idea was to equip a mailbox with a camera and have it send over pictures of its contents. An ESP32-Cam module could do just that: with a 1600 x 1200 camera sensor, a 160 MHz CPU and an integrated WiFi adapter, [fhuable] just needed to write an Arduino sketch to have it take a picture every few hours and upload it to an FTP server.
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