He lives in a pretty rural area off a long dirt road that non-4x4s have gotten stuck so it may not be conducive for a mail truck to go down it.
Mailbox hit by drunk driver
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He lives in a pretty rural area off a long dirt road that non-4x4s have gotten stuck so it may not be conducive for a mail truck to go down it.
Pretty sure he lives on an unpaved rural road that the postal carrier does not drive down. All the homes on the road have their mail boxes out by the highway.
Is this serviced by the post office or by rural mail carriers in their own vehicles? Many of those people use 4x4 Jeeps with right hand drive.
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That's how my mail service is and that is almost exactly what I told them, lol.
"It isn't in their contract to get out of the car"
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OP said it was a 45 minute drive. Ouch
I guess you haven't been out west? Street? LoL! I'm the Last house on a dirt road. Here the mailman doesn't leave the street.
Here is how my morning commute starts! When I stop at the stop sign is where the street and mailboxes are.
They drive the square post office truck thing
I'm sure that wooden box is not approved. I hate it as the door always falls open and is in my way.
It would have been better if the whole thing got torn down one night by an anonimous driver. Then all 70 are in the same boat and things can move quickly
Here, a guy named "Trent" posted he was planning to destroy his landlord's washing machine in order to force purchase of a new one.
Don't be Trent...and destroy the mailboxes completely to force action. They will get YOU.
Aren't mailboxes sacred cows by any measure? I wouldn't be surprised if the P.O. had regs to condemn that array of mailboxes.
Who constructed the array in the first place?
Don't be Trent...and destroy the mailboxes completely to force action. They will get YOU.
Aren't mailboxes sacred cows by any measure? I wouldn't be surprised if the P.O. had regs to condemn that array of mailboxes.
Who constructed the array in the first place?
A neighbor built it about 40 years ago
You should call a TV station. That could be on news on a slow news day.
Mine is cantilevered out on a 1.5" pipe about 4 foot. It's a 6 ft pipe total. I can adjust it out when the snow piles up.
But it sits inside a 2" pipe and has a break away bolt securing it. If someone hits it it will swing around and hit the backend.....
Stuff like this is so aggravating. I have no ideas on a remedy. How far is the main post office? I'm sure they're going to hold the mail for you. Only caveat is you have to go get it.
Roughly 45 minutes 1 way with traffic and what not in an area I never had a reason to go to.
This is a situation that isn't fair, but life rarely is. You're going to have to fix it, and you'll be out time and money.
Do the other neighbors---at least with the boxes directly above yours --- know of your problem?
Is there really not a fabricator among those 70 mailboxes in BFE???
Do the other neighbors---at least with the boxes directly above yours --- know of your problem?
Is there really not a fabricator among those 70 mailboxes in BFE???
Too bad a bulldozer didn't run over the whole contraption.
It could still happen. The desert is a lonely place.
