It may be down the street after another snow plow driver tried to convert you to a paperless customer. Just sayin'.
I'll take a picture of what the neighbor and I did. Hopefully we fixed the problem for this winter.....
Next Winter? I think it's going to be snowplow proof mailboxes for both of us!
What ya gonna do?
Found out according to USPS specs that steel mailbox posts aren't "legal" but that anything else can be used for a mailbox post. We are exploring aluminum and other material options. He works for the railroad; he said he has some beefy options available.
We also could use a railroad tie for each mailbox too........ He has access to brand new ones.....
I know we are hijacking this thread, but...
We lived in a rural short-life mailbox area for a number of years. One of the high school teachers (a local boy) where our sons attended, was arrested and fired for taking several students bowling and drinking. When they finished bowling, they used baseball bats from his car to destroy a lot of mailboxes in our farming community.
I have no idea how many mail boxes we replaced over about 15 years. Baseball bats were the weapon of choice. But big 4WD
vehicles were not far behind. They enjoyed driving up to a mailbox or backing over the mailbox. We found a few of our rumpled and scraped-up mailboxes a few hundred feed/yards down the road that got stuck under these vehicles
After the teacher incident mentioned above I welded 3/8-inch rebar hoops into a 1/4-inch thick plate. It kind of looked like the bed for a covered wagon. I found a large (package size) rugged rubber USPS approved mail box that I drilled for easy mounting onto the plate mentioned above. The mailbox was made from rubber much like the freeze-proof water bowls/buckets for critters ranging from sled dogs to horses.
I had some old utility poles out behind the barn. I cut off about the bottom 8 feet of one of them. I used the post hole digger on my tractor to drill down as far as possible (36-40 inches). I poured a full bag of Sakrete into the bottom of the hole. The pole was plumbed using a few more bags of Sakrete. The remainder of the hole, about 6-inches from the ground surface, was filled and compacted with clay, and topped with one more bag of Sakrete.
The pole was trimmed to whatever the recommended height for a mailbox. The plate was mounted to the pole with some large lag bolts. The mailbox was attached to the plate.
Several weeks later we found that or mailbox and pole were leaning over. Around the pole we found various automotive lamp assembly pieces and bumper trim.
The county police gathered the materials. They knew what kind of vehicle they were from. We don't know if anything more happened, but we had regular arrests in or area for mailbox destruction.
Repairs to the mailbox were relatively minor.
