"The Cook" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 19:18:38 -0500, "Dee.Dee" >
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
. ..
>>> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:51:55 -0500, Dave Smith
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>Michael \"Dog3\" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I may be tempted to give a Christmas tip to my maile carrier if
>>>>> > he/she
>>>>> > ever manages to deliver all my mail in my mail box, not in thei
>>>>> > neighbours, and only my mail in my box. Given my 30 years experience
>>>>> > at
>>>>> > this location I doubt that will ever happen.
>>>>>
>>>>> I stopped giving the mail carrier the time of day he started cutting
>>>>> through a flower garden to get to the mailbox. I've asked him twice
>>>>> to
>>>>> please walk around it and the request doesn't seem to sink in.
>>>>
>>>>I'll tell ou how thick some of my mail carriers are. Our mail box used
>>>>to
>>>>get
>>>>knocked over at least once a year. It was a major job to go out , dig
>>>>out
>>>>the
>>>>old post, put in a new one, get a new box, put the lettering on it and
>>>>stick
>>>>it on. After replacing a number of them I thought maybe it wouldn't be
>>>>hot
>>>>so
>>>>often if it were a little further off the road, so I moved it back 6"
>>>
>>> Years ago one of my dads friends had the same problem, but he knew it
>>> was kids. He lived in a semi-rural subdivision. Teenage boys in an
>>> old pickup truck would take out a bunch of boxes late in the evening.
>>> They did it fast and were getting away with it. So he got his hands
>>> on a long section of train rail and set it in concrete, and boxed it
>>> in with cheapo pine boards. He even painted it a nice bright color to
>>> draw attention. He had to replace the pine once more but the problem
>>> stopped and the kids got caught as the truck was disabled.
>>>
>>> Lou
>>
>>
>>In WA state, they cherry bombed our mailbox loads of times.
>>
>>When we moved here, they did it twice. Then we bought the cheapest piece
>>of
>>crap-mailbox we could find. The pole sways and DH will prop it up a bit.
>>The numbers bought will get torn off or they peel off in the weather. The
>>mail people have written in indelible pencil our address. People who come
>>to do work related jobs get ****ed at us for not putting nice numbering on
>>the box. (It didn't even matter when we did have nice numbers, they
>>couldn't figure out that exactly .75 miles from the caution light was our
>>mailbox/driveway.) One mailman, who may be still on the route refuses to
>>drive up our driveway. (We keep it in good shape.) He has done some
>>irritating things. Then there is another one that I'm not certain about.
>>But the good one makes up for the other ones.
>>
>>We decided that we would continue to use our disgusting looking mailbox as
>>long as it will stand and can be put up again, and to keep putting new
>>numbers on when they get illegible, but that's it, no more decent
>>mailboxes.
>>
>>Dee Dee
>>
>
> When I was growing up in NC, the boys who cherry bombed mail boxes got
> sent to reform school or military school if the parents had enough
> influence and money. When I moved to FL, the boys who flushed cherry
> bombs down the school toilets were sent to reform school. One of them
> also lost some fingers. I believe that tampering with a USPS mail box
> is a federal crime.
>
> --
> Susan N.


I love that. It's supposedly their mail box, but I have to paint it.