My Cursed Mailbox

[kayla87]

My poor, poor mailbox. Last winter my neighbor witnessed someone nick it with their side mirror on a snowy night. Last summer a teenage twerp in our neighborhood purposely hit it as he was walking by. It was so damaged we had to get a new mailbox. Now, this afternoon, as I was shoveling, someone drove into it.

We live on a curve, one of three in our neighborhood. None of the other four houses on our curve have been hit. I walk the neighborhood enough to also know we're the only people who've had a banged up mailbox, and the only ones who have had to replace a mailbox.

Does anyone else have a cursed mailbox? Or is it just me?

 

[dawson5]

My two neighbors south of me are cursed. I think the snow plow took off the door to the one two doors down. It's brick with the metal mailbox inserted into it. My neighbor next door, he had a teenage girl take his out last winter. Brick one too. She was leaving her boyfriends, we live on a curve also, icy road, too fast for road conditions, took it out. She called the boyfriend, he & his dad came. Luckily I was outside, neighbors weren't home. They didn't leave a note, dad told me who they were. I still wonder if they would have 'fessed up if I didn't happen to be outside. Actually, neighbor two doors down (north of us) had theirs taken out by punks last winter too. They were feeling macho, 4 wheel drive, driving in people's yards. Took out her mailbox. I wonder what would happen if someone put spike strips in their yard? They do this all year long, usually hit the corner houses. I worry about someone either having a sleepover in tents or letting their dog out at night and being hit by one of these punks.

 

[NikitaZee]

Yes, us! Our neighbor backed into it last year - broke the post in half - and it's granite! Neighbor replaced it (to the tune of $400) - only to have a snowplow break it in half again. The town sent us $40 to replace the post - so now it's a wooden one. I always wonder what neighbor thinks about the wooden post - after she laid out money to replace a granite one ..... but we can't see replacing granite again for an obviously 'bad luck' mailbox.

 

[kayla87]

My two neighbors south of me are cursed. I think the snow plow took off the door to the one two doors down. It's brick with the metal mailbox inserted into it. My neighbor next door, he had a teenage girl take his out last winter. Brick one too. She was leaving her boyfriends, we live on a curve also, icy road, too fast for road conditions, took it out. She called the boyfriend, he & his dad came. Luckily I was outside, neighbors weren't home. They didn't leave a note, dad told me who they were. I still wonder if they would have 'fessed up if I didn't happen to be outside. Actually, neighbor two doors down (north of us) had theirs taken out by punks last winter too. They were feeling macho, 4 wheel drive, driving in people's yards. Took out her mailbox. I wonder what would happen if someone put spike strips in their yard? They do this all year long, usually hit the corner houses. I worry about someone either having a sleepover in tents or letting their dog out at night and being hit by one of these punks.

Well, I can be grateful we only have a wooden post for the mailbox. It will be cheaper for the guy to replace We are lucky that we stayed home today, because it wouldn't have been very nice to come home to a busted up mailbox, and you're right, who knows what people would do if there wasn't a witness.

I don't have a single good thing to say about 4 wheelers, so I won't say anything at all

 

[kayla87]

Yes, us! Our neighbor backed into it last year - broke the post in half - and it's granite! Neighbor replaced it (to the tune of $400)

Wow!

 

[kathie859]

Like you, we live in the curve of the street and lost a few mailboxes over the course of the first few years we lived here. The man next door worked for the USPS and suggested that several of us request a USPS freestanding mailbox. It's about 4.5 feet tall and has 12 boxes in it. We jumped at the chance to get rid of our personal mailbox and now just have to walk across the street to the USPS box to pick up our mail. Every household has their own key to their own box. It's worked GREAT for over 20 yrs now.

 

[sbell111]

A few years ago, some idiots played mailbox baseball with the boxes on our street. We replaced that destroyed one with a big brick beast with brick planters on both sides. We no longer have a problem.

 

[castmemberb4]

Mine has the opposite curse, it needs replacing BAD. A few months ago
some one lost it on our curve on a rainy night took out several of the neighbors mailboxes, hit my nephews jeep that was parked in front of our house, and pushed it 10 feet up into our front yard. Did she take down our crappy mail box? NOOOOOOO!
So I've asked for a new mailbox and flower bed for Valentine's, that way I have flowers all Summer not just a week

 

[Tarheel Tink]

I read once that if people are taking out your mailbox in a driveby with baseball bats to replace it with a very large mailbox that you put a smaller one inside of; pour cement/concrete into the gap between them.

 

[kayla87]

Mine has the opposite curse, it needs replacing BAD. A few months ago
some one lost it on our curve on a rainy night took out several of the neighbors mailboxes, hit my nephews jeep that was parked in front of our house, and pushed it 10 feet up into our front yard. Did she take down our crappy mail box? NOOOOOOO!

Glad to see I'm not the only one with mailbox issues

 

[TaraLee4]

I read once that if people are taking out your mailbox in a driveby with baseball bats to replace it with a very large mailbox that you put a smaller one inside of; pour cement/concrete into the gap between them.

My grandfather, always the handyman, set up his mailbox so that if it got hit really hard (ie, when one plays 'mailbox baseball') it spins, and does not get knocked over. There's one dent on that mailbox...but goshdarn it, it's been 15 years or so!!

Now, the post does not spin, so if someone backed into it...well, that's another issue.

 

[tiggger1]

Every time it snows our mailbox either gets hit by the plow or the snow from the plow takes it out. We have already replaced it ( just the post) at least 4 times this winter. That does not included the time were the drunk driver ran through it and our telephone pole last year!!

 

[dislal]

We had bad luck with our mail box!! We live on a very deserted road and around Halloween every year we had to replace, so about 5 years ago my brother offered to have a friend of his who makes things out of steel to make us a mailbox. The best part is it looks like a real mailbox and my DH hollowed out a 4x4 and put a steel pipe inside of it to bolt the mailbox to and we concreted into the ground.

Nope haven't had a problem, looks like there was some red paint on it one day, but I'm sure whoever hit it was hurt worse than the mailbox