Going Out On A Limb
Submitted By: Joe & Debbie R
Favorite Comment: Fixer Rob T Firefly says, “The mailbox trees are sprouting early this season.”
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I doubt there are 2100 houses on that street…
The mailbox trees are sprouting early this season.
Yes but don’t steal a cutting from your neighbour or you’ll end up with the same address.
Ah, thats where you’re wrong. You see, its a bomb. And it’s gonna/has blow/blown at 9 o’clock.
Ummm, street addressing does not work that way. I’m at 803 on my block, and while there are certainly 3 houses between me and the street to the right (after which is the 700 block), there are not 96 houses between me and the street to the left (after which is the 900 block). More like 8.
It’s kind of like IP addressing. There’s simply an allocated range. There is no guarantee that the next IP in the range is assigned to a host.
Crocodile Dundee finally decided to settle
Photoshopped
@Mahs
I hope you meant that as a joke because there are all kinds of wonders to be seen in the world of rural mail delivery. This is normal bordering on ordinary.
I actually like it, by the way. I must stop visiting this site so often.
@Mahs
I believe your comment is photoshopped! It’s too stupid to not be!
Actually, that is nearly the perfect rural mailbox. Where I used to live, mailboxes would occasionally fall prey to teenagers in pickups with baseball bats (or other handy implements) I can’t count how many times I had to replace mine.
Bonus points if the unseen mounting point is spring loaded.
The mailbox is strongly snow plow resistant. The snow pushed off the road will usually pass harmlessly underneath the mailbox, rather than push it over. At least as long as there is less than 3 feet of snow, and the plow stays over the roadway.
I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We get 180″ of snow. If you want your mailbox to survive 8 months of plowing, you figure out a way to keep the snow from piling up around the mailbox support. That is a BRILLIANT solution.
When you really need a permanent address…
Bingo. That’s exactly the problem this solves. I wish I had a nearby embankment to do something similar as I’m sick of replacing my mailbox in the spring.
Yes, the ingenuity of the farmer. Many here in IL are similar, and as KingofPain says, spring-loaded to return to the roadside so the mailman can deliver your mail.
Then you should do like these people and keep a log.
It’s a win. He or she solved a problem with free materials at hand, instead of buying something that would not work half as well.
If I didn’t know better, I would say that this mailbox belonged to my relatives in Oregon. Wrong address, though… .
@dono1
Sappy, but good:)
…Two cables attached to the bottom, fed thru holes on the log, tied to a cider block on the ground. The box gets hit. And, gravity returns it to its place once the perps drive away.
Gosh, I don’t know how to rate this. It’s actually pretty clever. It fails to fail. So should I rate it Thumbs Down?
Win, win! Win! Didn’t buy new redundant crap, wood’s not preserved with god knows what, probably solved the snow problem (which I hadn’t thought of, so fail to me), it works, it won’t hurt anyone … win! I even think it looks good.
I like this idea! I currently live in CT where mailboxes routinely get plowed. I saw one solution where a guy had his mailbox on a giant wrought iron hook that was set back about 5′ from the road. I don’t even want to think about what it must have cost him to have it made. The snow plow drivers out here are brutal. It’s like a contest sometimes to see how many mailboxes they can hit. Some of the people out here have elaborate set-ups with wood or even brick shields to block the snow plows from demolishing the mailboxes.
We lived in IN for 25 years, and only had our mailbox hit once by our neighbor. It was in a stake so that we could just bolt it back into the ground. We didn’t get that much snow, we got drifting that would lock us in.
This must be a rural root.
I saw mailboxes like this everywhere when I lived in Western NY. In addition to the snowplow issue, the storm drainage system consisted of large ditches next to the road, so any mailbox mounting system had to bridge that crevasse.
@dono1: Good one!
Talk about “T’d up”! Where’s my Louisville Slugger??
If the person had used a nice, wooden mailbox instead of that dented POS, this would have ruled. Total natural, organic use of what’s around.
Green is as green does.
Re: addressing, in Alberta (places I’ve seen anyway), the addresses are like a grid. You have numbered streets going one way and avenues crossing them. An address such as 10203 123 st is the third building past the intersection with 102 ave.
Of course we can get away with this because it’s mostly flatlands, allowing for a nice grid layout. Some places could never pull it off.
Hm, I need a joke to lighten up this boring post. Hmm…
That’s sticking it to the (mail)man!
This looks like it could easily be rural central Texas. The log is from a cedar tree (our variety of cedar doesn’t grow nearly as thick as others) and the “bush” to the right is cedar (small tree or treetop from a fallen one). The surrounding terrain fits the bill and chances are that road would kill a snow plow.
The mail box looks like it’s already been hit a few times. Bonus points to the owner/lady of the house for not putting something kitschy on the mail box. Totally utilitarian and not at all kludged.
Love it!
hey that’s a mailbox we will see in the year 2100 (I’m referring to the EPIC RTS game Warzone 2100)… *goes to the TV and watches Mad Max*
@That Guy
But from a more rural standpoint (which this certainly looks like) numbers are usually assigned on a “what could be there” format.
That is, if the town requires 100′ of road frontage for a building lot then the numbers would increment every 100′. There may not be any neighbors near by, or someone’s property may have more than 100′ of frontage, but the assessors (or whomever) dole out the numbers accordingly so that neighbors ‘could’ move in and have a valid number, or an owner could sell off appropriate pieces of their property and end up with valid numbers.
THE MAILMAN HAS NO EXCUSES NOW!!
So THIS is where Wile E. Coyote lives…
The post office has a new rural branch.