The Mailbox is in the Ditch
Last week I received a call at work from Jennifer stating that the mail box had been knocked over. She said the box itself was fine but that the 4x4 wooden post was "split." I didn't know exactly what that meant so I cancelled an upcoming appointment at work and drove home to check things out. The post snapped off in a diagonal fashion about one-third of the way up. It was sitting next to my neighbor's mailbox which was also clipped off only his was about two-thirds of the way up. How this happened I could not tell. There were no skid or tread marks. No dents or marks on the actual posts themselves other than the breaks. The only piece missing was my neighbor's mailbox door. It took more than a casual force to cause such damage, maybe a piece of farm equipment swiped them as it came through. Regardless of the cause, I had to either get a new post or repair the old one. I picked up the mailbox and saw that it would fit back together is I could find s