In Memory of Warmer Summers

July 27

Please make note of the mailbox bracket above.  This is a particular design we started seeing as soon as we got into Wisconsin and we’ve only seen this in Wisconsin.  Note the angled pivot point on the right-hand side of the photo.  This is genius!  

If anything were to strike this mailbox it pivots with the blow!  Not only that, but after pivoting, because of the angle of the pivot point, it will return to center automatically.  Brilliant!

Now because kids everywhere like to play “Mailbox Baseball” and hit mailboxes with a bat as they careen by in the bed of a pick-up, I’m not sure this is much of a defense against a particularly heavy Louisville Slugger.

However…this being Wisconsin, maybe such a device could very well preserve a mailbox when struck by an outside rear-view mirror when a participant of a meat raffle who may have consumed too many Leinenkugels (Wisconsin beer) cannot stay between the lines on the roadway. 

Now, the Northwoods folk may say those mailboxes are like that because they get hit by errant snowplows, but keep in mind Wisconsin remains the only state in the nation that first offense Operating Under the Influence (OWI as it is referred to here) is not a criminal charge.