I have the same mailbox I set up when I first moved here 33 years ago. It had a thing on the top to put the street number in. Sleek, cool...
Someone kept knocking the top off. I would find it a few yards away and reinstall it. Apparently, that really annoyed the vandal. That person finally tossed it in the drainage easement once. I found it there and reinstalled.
Finally, it was no longer "findable". OK, I gave up. I figured it was someone who would get older and lose interest. After a few years, I made a fish shape to hold brass letters. It remained.
But after enough years, the flag assembly began to stick. I realized the mailperson couldn't lower it easily. Well, I like my mailperson, so I went out to fix it. I discovered it wasn't really a good design (it needed to be lifted slightly to lower it).
Nothing like a challenge...
I went at it with a screwdriver, pliers, and axle grease. By the time I was done, it slid from up to down to up to down smooth as silk.
The next day, I stood by the mailbox as the mailperson came by. I said "check out the flag". She did and pronounced it "perfect".
So I also painted the flag a brighter red. Might as well overdo it, LOL!
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Saturday, November 9, 2019
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