Candid Camera Mailbox

Hola!

Just have to share our candid-camera-like chuckles over the mailbox this past week.

Last Thursday or so, our mailbox door "hinge" gave up the ghost.  It was only this little plastic hinge holding it on--it has actually lasted many years--but I guess even the mailbox door has numbered days.

So it was the mailman who broke it!  Kara happened to be in the front yard when he came.  He opened the mailbox and the door came off in his hand.  "Whoa," he says, "how did that happen?"  Then he's holding the mailbox door in one hand and needs his hand to give us our mail...so what to do with the door?

He places the mailbox door on the seat next to him in the mail truck.  Gathers our mail and puts it in, then puts our mailbox door into the mailbox, too.

The door attaches at the top with a magnet, so we can put the door back onto the magnet, and it looks kind of normal, only it doesn't have a lower hinge.  You pull to open it and it comes off in your hand.

So then the NEXT day is the weekend, and we have a different carrier on weekends.  So Kara watches for him this time, and makes sure she's outside again.  Same thing.  "What??!"  And he puts the mailbox door beside him in the truck, on the other seat, while he gathers our mail.  Mailbox door goes in the box with the mail.

So over the next couple of days, Kara and Teresa go back and forth, asking the neighbor kids to "help them get the mail," or somehow work in a "need" to open up the mailbox.  Each neighbor kid pulls off the door, and thinks he's broken our mailbox.

I went to Lowe's and got a new mailbox today.  It'll be kind of disappointing to replace the old one.

Kari