Bitter and I replaced my mailbox yesterday, which makes it a fresh target for any neighborhood teens to decide to play mailbox baseball.  Fortunately, that’s more of a rural teen activity, and not something I’ve seen often played in my neighborhood.  But my old one was oxidized and falling apart, and the post was hanging from a single nail.  I don’t know if this was just age, or the result of a previous game of mailbox baseball, but I had to shore it back up with screws, after I pissed off and killed the family of carpenter bees that were living in the post. I probably should have replaced the post too, but I’m lazy.
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I want you to get a new post. Then we can scrape those numbers off and put pretty ones on the post itself.
I’ve always thought of making a mailbox that automatically falls over when struck. That way, it limits damage to the box and proves useless to drive-by hitters.
Or maybe one that “swings around”…