Wednesday, February 11, 2015

The seasonal assault on mailboxes

Broken mailbox covered by snow, February 10, 2015
Photos by S. Vardatira
Endangered species (newspapers and mailboxes)
February 2011
Does your mailbox take a beating every winter? If you live on a rural mail delivery route in New England, you know exactly what I mean.

This year, and I honestly have no clue how this happened, the door of our mailbox got ripped off (I presume by a plow) while the mailbox itself stayed firmly planted. Usually the whole contraption ends up on the ground. Two years ago, with the box crushed on its side on the ground, the mail carrier still managed to put the mail in the box. But at least it had a door - this year, with no door and blowing snow, our mail is probably miles away. During each of my frequent trips to the post office this week, I've overheard one or more customers trying to figure out how to deal with their own mailbox woes. I swear, we could start a support group.

At the very least, a coffee table book of broken mailbox
photos!
Mailbox buried in snow, January 2010

Mailbox felled by early summer microburst, June 2010

Digging out mailbox, February 2011

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