Major task accomplished today - moving our mailbox to the other side of the driveway.
For whatever reason, when the folks moved here, dad sited the mailbox at the edge of the driveway, directly across from the neighbor’s driveway. The road is narrow, about a lane & a half. The neighbor himself has backed out & broke the mailbox wooden post in half some years ago. He put it back together with deck screws & surprisingly, it held together another couple of years.
I guess it was Christmas deliveries, but the post was getting hit a couple of times a month & the last swack actually bent up the mailbox itself & again, the post was totally broken in half ... I had it barely hanging together with a bunch of 3.5” deck screws.
I was searching for a way to mount the box on a metal post when I lucked on a $13 piece of metal that is made for mounting a mailbox on a T-post. “Redneck” as someone described it, but “easy” (and cheaper than a $40 wooden post).
So the box is moved to the other side of the driveway where it should not be hit. I have a metal fence post driver which made putting in the post pretty easy. Now we’ll have to see if the mail carrier is happy with it - it’s to PO requirements as to distance from pavement edge & height.
I hear THAT on the mailbox situation! I got so tired of replacing mine that I just got a PO Box in town - but bought a new mailbox for the new owners, depending upon how they wanted to deal with it after I told them the sad tale of losing a mailbox nearly every winter to the snowplow.
More progress for you! :)