Russell Schumeyer

HE BUILT HIS MAILBOX LIKE A HOUSE FOUNDATION!! Smart move, or a lawsuit waiting to happen? He says his mailbox has been hit over and over, so this version is six by six posts sunk about four feet into two and a half yards of concrete, roughly 4,000 pounds by his count. He says he chased the last driver who hit it all the way home and their insurance paid. The clip opens and closes on a truck lying on its side next to it at night. Part of me loves this. If you keep taking out a man's mailbox, eventually he stops building mailboxes and starts building bunkers. And nobody hits a mailbox sitting on its own post at the edge of the yard by accident eight times unless they're flying down that road. The other part of me knows how this goes. Somebody's teenager swerves for a deer, and now a concrete block is the reason they're in the hospital. Plenty of towns have rules about what you can put that close to the road for exactly that reason. I'd probably split the difference. Build it tough, put reflectors on it, and call the county about speed on that road. Then go get the mail like a normal person. Either way, slow down on his street.