• DoomBot5@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In the US, residential mailboxes are actually suppose to be made to give away when hit by a car. Even the large brick ones in the south are designed to just fall over on a hit.

    It’s a safety feature for the dumbass drivers hitting mailboxes.

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      1 year ago

      Muricans prioritizing the wrong thing as always. If you want to carelessly run through my property I want to see a big dent in the car

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        1 year ago

        I solved this problem on my rural road, 5 gallon bucket of concrete, holding the mailbox. Wont kill you, but it will fuck your car up all to hell.

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          That works, car hits it and pushes concrete bucket. Their car is fucked, your mailbox just need to be put back in place, postmaster is happy. Win win win situation.

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            Yeah lol, on one of my old phones I have pictures of my mailbox, broken pieces of bucket, and several chunks of honda scattered 30 yards down the street. No more bucket, but the concrete was just fine. I had to straighten the pole a little, but it still stands.

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        1 year ago

        Safety of humans vs safety of letters 🤔

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        Oh they will have a dent for sure. They just won’t potentially be dead from impact.