road, sometimes quite a distance from the house.
That makes it convenient for the mail carrier.
It also makes it an easy target.
I grew up seeing mailboxes that had been flattened, knocked sideways, or completely destroyed.
Sometimes you could drive down a rural road and see one damaged mailbox after another.
People eventually started finding ways to make their mailbox posts more durable.
Some used heavier wooden posts.
Others used metal.
Some filled posts with concrete or reinforced them in other ways.
And then there were solutions like the
