Here's a 'tired' rural mailbox on the way into the city. Out this way, mailbox repair, after scuffling with violent snowplow blades all winter, is a spring ritual. There are lots of creative ways to attempt to secure the delivery box. A pole hole in the ground, a bucket filled with cement with pole, a mailbox suspended from a tree with swinging chains are all ways seen lately to get the mail delivered. Frustrated nerves rural mailbox owners? Hang in there; here's my guess-- mail delivery soon will going the way of the clothesline, 8 track stereo, the rotary phone and the record player to name just a few. Hopefully, snowplow blades won't be engaged this weekend. Forecast: bit o' rain, and maybe, just maybe... ya, you guessed it-- SNOW!
Friday, April 16, 2010
Tired Mailbox
Here's a 'tired' rural mailbox on the way into the city. Out this way, mailbox repair, after scuffling with violent snowplow blades all winter, is a spring ritual. There are lots of creative ways to attempt to secure the delivery box. A pole hole in the ground, a bucket filled with cement with pole, a mailbox suspended from a tree with swinging chains are all ways seen lately to get the mail delivered. Frustrated nerves rural mailbox owners? Hang in there; here's my guess-- mail delivery soon will going the way of the clothesline, 8 track stereo, the rotary phone and the record player to name just a few. Hopefully, snowplow blades won't be engaged this weekend. Forecast: bit o' rain, and maybe, just maybe... ya, you guessed it-- SNOW!
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Too bad about the coming snow. But the old mailbox looks great.
ReplyDeleteWe, too, have been told to look for snow this weekend. Mr. Brattcat had to replace the mailbox every winter when we lived in Williamsville. He got more and more creative each winter, trying to defeat the snow plow. In the end he succeeded in building a snowplow proof mailbox post but my heart went out to the poor plow driver who no doubt paid a rather painful price for Mr. Brattcat's solid problem-solving.
ReplyDeleteWe tried several ways to save our mailbox from snow plow obliteration but after the third loss, we gave up and got a PO box!
ReplyDeleteSnow is in our forecast too, I hoping the weatherman is wrong, as usual.
Sunny :)
I thought they did away with mail delivery a long time ago. All I get is junk mail.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it will be the last snow for you! I had to give up on my mailbox and get a post office box. Too many vandals in my neighborhood kept knocking it down.
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