[1976gmc20]

I've thought about building a mailbox out of a piece of large heavy steel pipe - maybe cut it in half and weld a piece of channel for a base to make the traditional shape.

We had a nice old American made jumbo mailbox when we moved out here. Then a few years later some house movers wiped it out. I fought with them for a month or two before we finally got them to buy us a new jumbo box but it is a chinese made POS and leaks rain and snow even brand new. I moved it up the hill a couple hundred feet to where the other mailboxes were so the rural carrier wouldn't have to stop twice.

My post is getting bad and I had to brace it a while back. When the ground thaws out again I'm planning to talk to my neighbors about building a "hitching rail" out of 6x8 timbers for mine and all of their mailboxes to mount on. Except for the butthead across the crick that threatened to kill me!