Merry Mailbox is back! Decorate your mailbox and snap a photo for your chance to win a share of over $600 in prizes.
After a fantastic first year, the Tutukaka Coast Merry Mailbox Competition returns for Christmas 2026. Enter now and spread some festive cheer!
How to Enter
Decorate your mailbox (or mini “mailbox” for juniors – e.g., shoebox, carton, or cardboard creation), then email your best photos to tutukaka.nz@raywhite.com.
Please send:
- A clear photo of the mailbox on its own
- A photo of the mailbox with its creators – we love seeing the people behind the entry!
Send as many as you like, but tell us which one photo you’d like used for People’s Choice voting, as we can only upload one photo per entry to the public voting album. If you don’t choose, we’ll pick the one we think shows your mailbox best.
Include with your email:
- Name
- Property address
- Phone number
- Category being entered
- Your chosen photo for public voting
Competition is open to all Tutukaka Coast residents.
Entries close at 5pm, Sunday 20 December 2026.
Categories
- Coastal
- Upcycled/Sustainable
- Kiwiana
- Open
- Junior (Under 12s)
For junior category: children under 12 can decorate a mini ‘mailbox’ (a shoebox, carton, or cardboard creation).
All entries will also go into the ‘People’s Choice’ category, voted on by the community on our Facebook page. New this year: People’s Choice voting stays open right up until Christmas Day.
Key Dates
- Entries close: 5pm, Sunday 20 December 2026
- Category winners announced: Monday 21 December 2026
- People’s Choice voting closes: 11pm, Christmas Day (Friday 25 December 2026)
- People’s Choice winner announced: Monday 28 December 2026
- Prize collection: from the Ray White Tutukaka office in the first weeks of January 2027
Need some inspiration? See last year’s Merry Mailbox winners.
Terms & Conditions
- The organiser of this competition is Ray White Tutukaka (Dina Vink, Murray Coop, Leah Coop and Peter Vink).
- Competition is open to residents of the Tutukaka Coast. Junior entries must be created by children aged under 12, with parent or guardian consent.
- Entries must be original. All entrants must be the creator and owner of their submitted entry.
- Entrants are responsible for ensuring their decorations or creations are safe, stable, and securely constructed. All participants take part in this competition at their own risk.
- No responsibility can be accepted for entries not received for any reason.
- Prizes will be awarded across the listed categories. The number of prizes awarded in each category is at the judges’ discretion. No cash alternatives will be offered and prizes are not transferable. Organisers reserve the right to substitute any prize with another of equal value if necessary.
- The judges’ decision is final, and no correspondence will be entered into.
- The People’s Choice Award will be determined by the highest number of public votes across the Merry Mailbox 2026 competition album on the Ray White Whangarei & Tutukaka Facebook Page as of 11pm on Christmas Day, Friday 25 December 2026.
- Any attempt to artificially inflate votes may result in disqualification.
- Only one photo per entry will be included in the People’s Choice voting album. Where an entrant does not nominate a photo, the organisers will select one.
- By submitting photos that include people, entrants confirm that everyone pictured (or a parent or guardian, for children) consents to the photo being shared publicly.
- Prizes are to be collected by winners from the Ray White Tutukaka office in the first weeks of January 2027. Winners will be contacted to arrange collection.
- By entering, participants consent to their entry (including photos) being shared on Ray White Tutukaka’s social media channels and used in future marketing or promotional material. Entrants will not be entitled to royalties or payment for such use.
- The organisers accept no responsibility or liability for any theft, loss, injury, or damage to decorations, structures, or property related to this competition.
- Personal information supplied will be used solely for the purposes of administering this competition and will not be shared with third parties.
- The organisers reserve the right to verify the eligibility of any entrant or entry.
- This competition is in no way sponsored, endorsed, or administered by, or associated with, Facebook.
- By submitting an entry, participants agree to these Terms & Conditions.
- All inquiries regarding conditions of entry can be directed to tutukaka.nz@raywhite.com
