Hate it when this happens!

[fortyshooter]

For almost 6 years I had this unique address post up at my range property and BAM it's gone!

Some yahoo missed the curve which comes from other direction up the road and took a fast trip to the woods along with my post.
Haven't found the big bullet yet. Dang it! Looks like he got out the way he came in.

[markiver54]

I'm sure it left a signature on their vehicle.

[BrokenolMarine]

He probably got out to check the damage, saw the big bullet, and thought, "That's Cool. I could use this." Sorry for the loss brother. I think we had a long thread here a few years ago about mailboxes, damage, mailbox baseball, postmasters, carriers, etc.

We put our box up at the new farm according to USPS regs. The carrier wanted it where SHE wanted it. refused to deliver mail until we moved it. Not.

We had it back off the road so the carrier was safely off the road in the blind curve in a cleared gravel pull off. Also kept the wife and kids off the roar when checking the mail, and put the box out of play for mailbox baseball.

Attempt to swing at our box, you catch air hitting the hump of our gravel drive and drop ten feet into the mush of the culvert fed ravine below... You might hit the willow.

We didn't move the box, the postmaster moved the carrier.

[Sir Henry]

Bummer.

[BigAl52]

To bad there Forty your post was cool. Maybe drill pipe in concrete for the next one

[cooperhawk]

Our bank of seven mail boxes used to be right on the highway. One day I had just got the mail and
was walking back to my car when a two wheeled trailer came unhitched and took out all seven just'
missing yours truly.
The guy stopped and apologized. The next day he rebuilt all the mail boxes on his own. Nice guy,
of course I knew where he lived.

The mail boxes are now on the service road well away from the traffic and safer for all including the
carrier.

[fortyshooter]

To bad there Forty your post was cool. Maybe drill pipe in concrete for the next one

Yeah I have a plan but will wait for cooler weather.

[fortyshooter]

First house my brother had was near a sharp curve and his neighbor was right at the curve. Lot of times on a weekend night somebody would be haulin and miss the curve and end up in the guy's yard. One night my brother was woke up to see flashing red lights thru out the living room and looked out to see an emergency vehicle had missed the curve and had landed right next to the guy's house. Month later there was a highway guard rail put up by the city in front of the yard!

[BrokenolMarine]

Directly across from our ravine, and that curve, was a gravel road that ran thru the state forest for several miles. Popular route for drunks to cut thru to avoid the main highway or youngsters to take to avoid prying eyes while tooling around in the wheels. The road ended abruptly after coming over a rise, and several times a year we'd find the road frontage torn up where someone blew the stopsign, crossed the road, and went into the mush... Some were lucky enough to power out, others had to call for a tow. The first year or two we went down and offered to pull people out with the tractor... But dealing with abusive drunks at 2am in uniform on duty while getting paid is one thing...

... Doing it for free at 2am and risking getting sued for damage you didn't cause. Ah... Nope. If we heard the accident, we'd call the Sheriff's Office, they would send a deputy and rescue. Most of the time we never heard it.

[2ffat]

Whoa! Maybe when you replace it, build it in brick and concrete.

[The Happy Kaboomer]

Or mount it on a short section of power pole about 4 ft. in the ground and 4 stikkin out.

[Travlin]

I live on a very narrow paved city street that was put in during the 1920's. I used to have trouble with folks across the street backing out at night and hitting my mailbox. Being in the building trade I got a ten foot 6X6 and put it four feet in the ground and cut the top off so the mailbox was at the proper height. Funny thing, no more damaged mailbox or post. If someone were to hit it they would need a tow truck.

[BrokenolMarine]

ONE thing to keep in mind. In some jurisdictions, they have regs on the size and material you MAY use for the pole your box is mounted on. If you put the wrong pole up and a driver is injured in a crash due to the pole or base, you could be liable. NOT that I care, but I saw a couple videos posted by attorneys warning about that when people posted about the cool ideas they had after vandals killed their box.

Usually these regs are in place in liberal cities rather than rural environs. But I'd ask my guy before I invested time and money or left it to chance.

My ex father in law in West VA lived at the bottom of a steep hill in Beckley and every winter for years, they took out his box sliding on the ice. HE finally mounted a section of phone pole in a hole he dug with a borrowed drill from the Mine. His property was thin topsoil over slate. Never lost another box but a lot of cars got crunched for the rest of the time he lived. Died of black lung.

[dave77]

Not a mailbox but one winter night a car slid into the chain link fence at the school I worked at and did considerable damage. Cops came by the next morning and found a car bumper laying next to the fence with the license plate still attached.

[markiver54]

Not a mailbox but one winter night a car slid into the chain link fence at the school I worked at and did considerable damage. Cops came by the next morning and found a car bumper laying next to the fence with the license plate still attached.

I think I would have at least retrieved my plate!

[GFK]

I had that happen a few months ago. I attributed it to a new mail carrier. I live in the city limits, and there is only road in and out the neighborhood. Traffic usually consists of those interacting with the residents. Plus, I typically have a vehicle parked in front of the house. So, it was caused by someone who missed the vehicle but hit the mailbox. Whoever did it, placed the mailbox neatly in my yard. It probably was an accident. Yet, mail was not delivered, until I replace the mailbox. If it was a mail carrier, he/she covered himself/herself fairly well.

[Hatchdog]

Funny this came up now, just two weeks ago this happened. Our community has two roads in it, the one I live on is within one mile of the county road so we get mail delivered to our driveway mail boxes. The other road is greater than a mile so the carrier by rule does not deliver to the driveway. As more people have built up this road the mailbox collection was getting pretty unorganized and was located at the end of one residents driveway. Folks would pick up their mail and use his gravel driveway to turn around and were messing up the gravel. He requested the boxes be moved further up the road to prevent this. So we built this stand and immediately had to put an extension on it due to more folks moving in.

Two weeks ago we had our community clean up day and shortly after we were finished this happened. I am pretty sure I know who did it but have no proof. This guy is the messiest person in the community and is confrontational so we just filed a report with the sheriffs dept. Fortunately the stand was able to be repaired at little cost and only one box was destroyed beyond repair.

Every community has at least one POS living in it and we do too.

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[markiver54]

Yup, ours is a nice, well kept, safe neighborhood, but we have one of those types also. His house is not within my view, but you should see it. Amazing it has not been condemned.