Mailbox restoration in Ashburn, Virginia.

Worth knowing in Ashburn

• Mail to 20148 is addressed to Ashburn, and the Postal Service also accepts Brambleton and Broadlands on the same ZIP — so an Ashburn address and a Brambleton address can be the same house, and both spellings deliver.

  Source: zippopotam.us and zip-codes.com (a USPS data reseller, secondary), both retrieved 2026-09-22 by the seo-town-research pass. Not verified against USPS: tools.usps.com returned an empty body that day. Retrieved 2026-09-22.

• Brambleton’s design guidelines say the black boxes and posts are to be kept in the original black satin finish, that fading paint “can easily be refreshed with a coat of black satin finish paint”, and that no application is required to do it. What is not permitted is changing the style, material or colour — so repainting in black satin is the maintenance the guidelines ask for, and the one thing you cannot do is pick a different colour.

  Brambleton Community Association

  Source: Brambleton Community Association Design Guidelines, MAILBOXES p.73 and Appendix V rev. 8/15/2023, https://brambletonhoa.com/DocumentCenter/View/6440/BCA-Design-Review-Guidelines- — the covenant behind it is Declaration Article 8, Section 8.2(x), https://brambletonhoa.com/DocumentCenter/View/924/Article-8---Restrictions-on-Use-of-Lots-and-Common-Area-Rules-and-Regulations Retrieved 2026-09-22.

• Broadlands publishes a street-by-street mailbox list, so the right post colour depends on your address rather than on the community: Behr #SC-105 Padre Brown on some streets, Behr Ultra Pure White on others, plain black elsewhere, and in Overland Park a Rust-Oleum Hunter Green Gloss box on a white post. Glebe View Drive alone runs to three different standards depending on the side and the stretch.

  Broadlands Association, Inc.

  Source: Broadlands Association community standards, https://broadlandshoa.org/community-standards/mailboxes/ — and “Standard Mailbox Styles in Broadlands”, prices as of 2.1.2024, https://broadlandshoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Broadlands-Mailbox-Style-List-Website-2024.official-1.pdf Retrieved 2026-09-22.

• Townhouses in both Brambleton and Broadlands are served by cluster boxes the Postal Service installs, not by a curbside box on your own post. There is nothing for us to repaint at a cluster box, so a Mailbox Refresh is for single-family curbside posts here.

  Source: Brambleton Community Association Design Guidelines, Cluster Mailboxes, https://brambletonhoa.com/DocumentCenter/View/6440/BCA-Design-Review-Guidelines- — and Broadlands Association community standards, https://broadlandshoa.org/community-standards/mailboxes/ Retrieved 2026-09-22.

• If yours is one of Brambleton’s older Gulick weathered-bronze boxes, original replacement parts are no longer made, and the association’s own answer is a black satin box with the post painted black satin to match.

  Source: Brambleton Community Association Design Guidelines, Appendix V rev. 8/15/2023, https://brambletonhoa.com/DocumentCenter/View/6440/BCA-Design-Review-Guidelines- Retrieved 2026-09-22.

Neighborhoods inside Ashburn

• Brambleton is the neighborhood the crew is working a month at a time, which is why an address inside that boundary pays less while they are here.

  Brambleton

• Broadlands is in the same 20148 as Brambleton and answers the mailbox question completely differently, which is the thing worth knowing if you live on the line between them.

Before and after

The before and after below are one Brambleton mailbox and post, shot from the same spot on the sidewalk.

Before

After

Brambleton, September 2026

Addresses we reach here

Loudoun County.

• 20147
• 20148 · also addressed as Brambleton, Broadlands

That covers Brambleton and Broadlands. We book anywhere in Loudoun and Fairfax counties — this page is only the part of it we can say something specific about.