Our mailbox is back up.

Very happy to hear that your town is so cooperative this way. I live in a city and our mailboxes are not really exposed to anyone bumping them. Here it is like pulling teeth to even get anyone to listen to complaints. I wish to live in a small town some day as well as most people really do help one another out. Here in the city most fend for themselves and or are too busy to watch over some. My apartment needs a great deal of upgrades but for now it is what it is as our landlord will not make repairs. We are hanging on for as long as we can as my boyfriend does own a home in Arkansas for which someday we will relocate there.

Good for you! I live in a rural area, and the plows took out my mailbox 4 times last winter.And I had just been bragging about how that was the longest time I haven't had to have the mailbox replaced. You're lucky they would do that, and even give you a temp box. They wouldn't do that here, so we are replacing it ourselves (if it'd ever quit raining!!) We live at a county line, and there is a road across from the house that is a township road. We have 3 different plow systems turn around there: State, Township, and County. After the 4th time, I asked them if I could have permission to move the mailbox down to the far side of our driveway, that way backing up plows don't have to worry about it anymore. So that's what we're doing. That's a good idea about the wheel-hub base, will have to look in the barn and see if there's one there I can use. I'm also putting up one of those plywood snow shields that are so popular on our road, so that the snow being thrown by the plows can't hit the mailbox and hit the plywood instead. We had to call the State garage this spring about our 200 yr old maple that's real close to the road. A huge branch was hanging after a storm and I was worried it'd come down. I called the state patrol: somebody from the road dept. will check it. They never did. The next storm that huge limb just missed falling on a car and crushing it. The road was closed for days because it was so big, and the State Police were very upset that the State Rd dept didn't check it in a timely manner as someone could have gotten killed. After that, they sent 3 giant cranes to take down that huge tree...but it took them 2 months to even do that. Every time it stormed I prayed nobody would get hurt! So, no, I'm thinking this area does not respond in a helpful or timely manner lol.Glad you're getting your new mailbox up! Hope you're having a nice day!