Mailbox repair (TN style)

[Latestarter]

OK... just gave up on eatin' salad...

 

[frustratedearthmother]

AHA! A salad bowl on legs!!

Ummmm.....there is a limit to the 'recycling' that I will do! If/when we ever have a big ol' Texas 'get together' I'm bringing the salad, lol!!

 

[Mike CHS]

Without a doubt this thread has gone off in a direction that I never would have anticipated.

 

[Baymule]

Well, I did buy an adult potty chair when DH had his knee replacement surgery. He never used it-just trying to do some creative thinking here-I was so inspired by the crutched up mailbox. Ya'll got any better ideas?

 

[Baymule]

Without a doubt this thread has gone off in a direction that I never would have anticipated.

Mike, I do have this twisted humor.....it's liable to bust out at any opportune moment.....

 

[Bruce]

This is a senseless post - this mailbox is just down the road from us and the mailbox has been leaning so much that I'm not sure how the carrier managed to get mail to stay in. They added this support post (better known as a crutch) to hold it level.

The owner passed a couple of years ago and the house is going to seed along with the blind mare that has the run of the property. This was done several months ago so it appears to be a fair fix.

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So there isn't anyone actually getting mail there, right? Perhaps it was the current owner's shot at a temp repair just so it didn't fall into the road, with humor. Works for me! But I bet the carrier would request it get reset properly if s/he actually had to put mail in it.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

He never used it-just trying to do some creative thinking here-I was so inspired by the crutched up mailbox. Ya'll got any better ideas?

Put it out on that fancy new porch you've got and plant something pretty in it...Oh what the he(LL) plant salad greens in it! Then I don't have to bring the salad!

 

[Mike CHS]

Bruce - the woman that owned it passed but it was handed down to her oldest daughter who is letting the younger daughter stay there for about another year while she finds a place to live. The mail carriers here like most everyone rarely raise an eyebrow about anything - they just take it all in stride.

There are a bunch of mailboxes set in buckets with either stone or concrete since some places are solid slab stone that you won't be digging in.

 

[NH homesteader]

There are a lot of mailboxes in buckets here also. Not convinced it's due to me being from the "granite state", pretty sure it's just easier than digging a hole.

That being said our mailbox is significantly lower than it is supposed to be because the town keeps fixing our road by piling more dirt on it. Thank goodness our mailman doesn't care!

 

[Bruce]

At some point the carrier might care

Our box and the one next to it for across the road are both in old (and rusty but painted) milk cans. Carrier was OK with that but over time with the town grading the road, adding stone, grading the road, ad infinitem they both were pushed back and tilted back. We got a note requesting they be reset within a certain distance from the road and a height range. There is a BIT of a pull out before the ditch so we dug out dirt and stone, reset the can and backfilled.

If the box is not OK, they can flag your mail at the PO as "no suitable receptacle" and not deliver so it isn't wise to ignore the "request"