Oh, wow. Bummer. But, I would think the Village is now going to be responsible for buying and setting a new post.

This happens about every year to ours and our daughter Amber's. Sometimes they get hit more than once a season. We both live in the country.

Sue

jemdandy, all I want to know is why did you wait 100 years to report it?

This happens almost every year here. It's a good winter if our mailbox isn't knocked down at least once. We just pick it up, repair or replace.

That's a shame. What a winter! My mailman fell on ice in the Post Office parking lot and injured several ribs.

Will the village replace it? Our county does. In fact they replaced the one on our rental yesterday without being asked. The door was falling off because of the box being hit so hard with snow from the plow. DH was going to replace it in spring. We knew they did if they hit the box and broke it off. DH saw them when he came home and talked to them. They said someone surveys in the winter for snow damaged boxes and reports them. After they are reported, someone comes out and replaces them.

Sorry you had to fix it in the cold and snow, and hope they replace it for you.

Tami

If our mailboxes get hit by the snowplow, it is our responsibility to replace them. I don't think that's fair.

Wow! That's an amazing picture. The only place I've lived with snowplows, I'm not sure they ever came down my street, so it's interesting to hear that so many of you have your mailbox damaged every year.

gazinia, you're too funny! Yep, ripped it clean off. Glad it wasn't a side view mirror on a car!

We have had ours knocked down a couple of times but not by snow plows. I think it is the neighbors across the street they back out and don't watch for our mail box. Or people visiting them.
Thing is they don't even bother to come tell us and offer to fix it or pay for it. The last time it completely broke it at the ground level. My husband had to go buy a new post and dig out the other and really a lot of work, spent a weekend day doing that instead of something he really needed to be doing.

You are lucky they will replace it for you.

I too was wondering about the 1914 date LOL

Ours met a similar fate earlier this year; one of the first plows. And my dh is a welder, so that sucker was SOLID.
That plow guy sure knew he hit something!! But hey,stuff happens. After once or twice, I'd be making a phone call.

There are a lot of dead mail boxes on my way to work. The banks are too high and the plows barrel through to send the snow flying beyond the ditches. A couple boxes were replaced with kitty litter buckets attached to temporary stands/posts. The type where the half of the lid opens and can snap shut. Smart cause they are likely to be hit again before the end of the winter. A number of years ago there was a fellow not far from my parents village his mail box was a favourite of the kids who smashed mail boxes while joy ridding. He modified it so that anyone trying to smash it wouldn't be able to. Unfortunately a car hit it and the people were hurt more because of that. Not sure how it ended but he was in a fair amount of trouble. Good luck, hopefully you won't get hit again.

ouch! now I know why dh is so strict about shoveling and keeping ours as clear as possible...

In my neighborhood, everyone's mailbox is on their porch. I would be very upset if the plow came through my yard and destroyed my porch. In some parts of my town the mailboxes are at the curb and I never hear of the plows hitting them. Our plow drivers are extra careful.

Hate when that happens! LOL

We've had that happen to our mailbox several times, but never from a plow. It's either kids being jerks or people turning around in our drive and backing into it. One time though, the county was mowing and they lifted up the cutting blades and sliced the bits on the front of the mailbox that you use to open it, right off! I was astonished when I went to get the mail that afternoon, I had to pry the box open on the sides. We found that annoying but funny at the same time. :)

Getting our box smashed repeatedly was very irritating and expensive. We finally sunk a smaller box into a larger one and poured cement into the gap. No one smashed that one, or if they did, we couldn't tell. Finally, in fear of a lawsuit, we replaced it with a steel box that weighs about 20 pounds all by itself. No one has bothered that box. We just repainted it, so now it's a good target. Of course, all the kids have grown up and hopefully moved away!

About that 1914 date, my fingers do not know what my mind is thinking.

We have been living on this street for 38 years and this is the first snow plow destructuve hit. I used to get small damages from the snow coming off the plow until I installed a box brand named, "Iron Box". It looks like a regular box, but is made of 1/8 inch thick steel. It is weighty.

Our Post Office has specifications about how high the the box should be and the distance from the curb, so I do not have much variance about placement.

Outside of town, a few boxes are mounted on a "swing-away" arrangement. The box is mounted on a long pole much like a fishing pole. When it gets hit, it merely swings out of the way like a garden gate. The problem with this sort of mount is making is steady enough so it won't be a nusiance for the Postman to operate. Here in town, such a mount is impractical because the support post would be in my neighbor's yard and a nusiance for him. (The Post Office has mandated that all boxes be on the same side of the street with the result that half of us have boxes on the other side of the road and next to our neighbor's lawn. Although the sodded area goes all the way to the curb, the lot lines do not. I try to keep all my stuff on the outside of my neighbor's lot line.)

The Village has agreed to replace the post. There are buried wires a mere couple of inches away from the post. These maybe phone lines. I'm happy to off-load that responsibility to them. They'll need to contact the Digggers Hot Line before punching a hole for the new post.

A friend had that problem. He put up an 8" iron pipe, filled with concrete, topped with a steel mailbox that weighed 65 lb.

When we lived in MA it was a common occurrence that our boxes got covered in snow. The plow people knew exactly what they were doing and didn't give a crap...they just did it anyway...There were three of us on that post of boxes and we were the only ones that would get out there and get them cleaned up. If we didn't, there was no mail delivery...I know those drivers must have laughed every time they did it ...

MY DH is one of those snowplow drivers. He just told me you have to be driving 40 miles and hour to get the snow so it will go off the end of the blade. He drives a plow not a truck. He can lift his wing up on his until he is past the mailbox. The ones who drive the trucks with the blades can't lift theirs. He can drive his 25 or 26 miles an hour but the trucks have to be doing 40 or all the snow just sticks to the blade. DH has only hit one in 13 years. Our county replaces them unless it is really bad and there is too many of them. DH drives on the county roads not in town.

good luck on a replacement