Mail during the winter? (movies, live, eat)

[Northern Maine Land Man]

One night I saw some bright flashes by my neighbor's house. I thought a wire must be down. I went out to check and he was welding a piece of railroad rail to a second piece of rail bracing it. He set his mailbox inside the apex of the triangle and put a reflector atop the rail. A couple of months later there were many flashing lights out there and I went out again to see what was up. A state plow was impaled on my neighbor's mailbox. The state highway people were all worked up about it. However, it turns out that the mailbox was not in the state right of way. It was well onto the guy's lawn and he had repeatedly asked the state not to plow his lawn. His property was on a curve and the plow drivers always got a running start and pushed the snow way back.

Very soon after the plow truck impaled itself on the mail box there was a really big reflective sign put out there by the state. His house sure was easy to find in the fog and snow.

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Only in Maine do people purchase mail order septic tanks and actually have them delivered.

[bignhfamily]

Several years ago we spent the holidays with friends in Lubec. We headed home to NH on Jan. 2nd and we stopped in Machias to send a post card to my mother. The weather got so bad that we decided to stay in Bangor that night instead of driving several more hours in the snow. We got home around lunch time on the 3rd and my mom had already called to tell us she got the post card. I was impressed with the post office that day.
My sister is the post master of a small central NH post office and the rural carriers all have 4X4 trucks or jeeps to deliver mail with. I imagine that across the Maple Curtain things are done in a similar manner.

[RMoore007]

...even in the winter......except that we had to move our mailbox behind a utility pole to protect it because it got stove up a couple times too.

[alittlenerdy]

Hahahaha! Y'all are funny!

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man

One night I saw some bright flashes by my neighbor's house. I thought a wire must be down. I went out to check and he was welding a piece of railroad rail to a second piece of rail bracing it. He set his mailbox inside the apex of the triangle and put a reflector atop the rail. A couple of months later there were many flashing lights out there and I went out again to see what was up. A state plow was impaled on my neighbor's mailbox. The state highway people were all worked up about it. However, it turns out that the mailbox was not in the state right of way. It was well onto the guy's lawn and he had repeatedly asked the state not to plow his lawn. His property was on a curve and the plow drivers always got a running start and pushed the snow way back.

Very soon after the plow truck impaled itself on the mail box there was a really big reflective sign put out there by the state. His house sure was easy to find in the fog and snow.

LOL

I would if he markets his mailboxes?

Sounds like a great idea to me.

I once did a mailbox post by strapping three powerpole timbers together. Our local Ma'Bell in California offered used poles in 8 foot lengths. We kept loosing mail boxes to drunk drivers, I had to replace the post and mail box many times. Until I replaced it with 3 power poles bundled together. It stopped us from loosing mailboxes.

It gave a local tow truck some business too.

It appears that joy-riding kids after a few drinks thought it was a great idea to hit mailboxes at high speed and watch them fly up over their car.

[Maine Writer]

Originally Posted by corgis

I'm thinking Maine Writer had to wait a week or so and go pick her mail up at the Post Office because the snow was higher than her mailbox and buried it.

You're right. We had to pick it up at the mom 'n pop convenience store where we can buy beer, soda, ice cream, chips, coffee, tag our deer and moose, buy fishing and hunting licenses, a gift in the gift shop, get lottery tickets, shoot the breeze with the neighbors, register our vehcles and pay our taxes. Our tiny post office is in the back corner of the store. (I'm not making that up.) The plow pushed wet snow in front of the box late one afternoon and it froze into a block of ice over night. We gave up after that. It became a joke. "Anyone check the mail-igloo?" "Hey look! I can see the top of the mail....never mind, it's snowing again." We started getting mail again last Saturday after six weeks of picking it up.

[7th generation]

As long as you keep the mail box clear of snow and the plow truck doesn't hit it, you are golden.
This is from last year.

[starwalker]

Originally Posted by Maine Writer

You're right. We had to pick it up at the mom 'n pop convenience store where we can buy beer, soda, ice cream, chips, coffee, tag our deer and moose, buy fishing and hunting licenses, a gift in the gift shop, get lottery tickets, shoot the breeze with the neighbors, register our vehcles and pay our taxes. Our tiny post office is in the back corner of the store. (I'm not making that up.) The plow pushed wet snow in front of the box late one afternoon and it froze into a block of ice over night. We gave up after that. It became a joke. "Anyone check the mail-igloo?" "Hey look! I can see the top of the mail....never mind, it's snowing again." We started getting mail again last Saturday after six weeks of picking it up.

Hey, I wanna work in YOUR store... you guys have mine topped by quite a few services! (had a guy asking about fishing licenses last night... we don't do vehicle registrations or taxes either, but then you don't have a town office so I guess it makes sense.)

Our box only got missed one day, I think -- when our plow guy broke his plow at our place and had to get it fixed before he could complete the job. He plows out the mailbox as well as the drive... and the garlic (long story... still haven't found it)

So far we haven't been victim to the drive-by-mailbox-attackers. Maybe it's the ad for HEX signs I have nailed to either side of the post scaring them off! or maybe we're not on the "right" road...

[retiredtinbender]

Originally Posted by RANGER.101ST

ok this is right up my alley.
why because im an ol county boy,
in the winter we go weeks with out seeing the mail man,last year we were 9 weeks with out power.the winter before that we had alot of snow and didnt see the mail man for 4 months.we had to snowmobile in to town to the post office.some were stranded so bad that they ran out of food and had to eat their furniture to survive.OK IM KIDDING>
where do you think maine is,at the end of the earth.i have never seen the mail man miss a day.if he dont deliver the mail its one of two things.
he cant get to the mail box witch means i gota go shovel it out so he can.
or i aint got no mail.hope this helps.

I love it when ranger answers!! Makes reading these theads really enjoyable.

[starwalker]

Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man

A state plow was impaled on my neighbor's mailbox.

K wants to know, was your neighbor by any chance an engineer in WWII and forgot and made a tank trap??