Will not tell the mailbox story here. Very sad - several mailboxes were destroyed in failed installation attempts. Long time ago.........
Too bad about those termites and the bastits.
The post office delivers our mail to other people who sometimes bring it to us. Sort of a lottery or raffle, basically. Current mailbox is in a brick thingy that has been knocked over by a drunk & rebuilt once. Sometimes it gets nudged & I take the riding lawn mower & nudge it back into place. BTE, my lawn mower does have a trailer hitch.
I'll tell my mailbox story here. Late one night I heard brakes lock down, tires sliding on pavement followed by a loud bang and crash. I figured it was drunks hitting my mailbox again, so, I loaded a 9 MM auto and dropped it in my back pocket. I drove down the driveway since it was 1/4 mile long and I'm too lazy to walk. Sure enough there was a car upside down in the ditch and my mailbox was again torn to hell. The car reminded me of a dead horse with all fours sticking up. The wheels were still spinning and steam was spewing out from under the hood and the lights were still shining up into the sky. They were inside screaming for help as all of the doors were stuck. I tried to open all 4 doors and none of them would budge. I finally got my feet up against the car and my fingers behind the door, and managed to finally pry a door 1/2 open. I don't think a "normal" man could have done it. Beer cans started rolling out by the dozen. After finally getting all of them out, the driver was only worried about the lights still being on, and a cop giving him a DUI. I decided he was right, the lights needed to be off. So, I broke them out with the butt of the 9 MM. There was a 12 y/o girl in the car. When the coppers got there, their story was that she was driving.
I think I should have just left them traped in the car, as they never fixed or paid for my mailbox.