Dad Crafts Invincible Mailbox Amidst Road Grader's Antics

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May 22, 2021 2:00 PM EDT

This isn't the first time that we've encountered a glorious tale about a character using a mailbox to enact a truly brutal revenge on someone else, and we highly doubt it'll be the last time. In this case, it sounds like dad hit his breaking point when it came to his mailbox being abused by an inconsiderate road grader. For some more mailbox drama check out this story about a scoundrel who ran down a family's mailbox, and then how the family created an invincible mailbox in response. 

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    Font - r/ProRevenge u/pokey1984 · 13h + Join 5 e 4 3 2 4 Another Mailbox Story I posted this as a reply to someone else's mailbox story. I was informed that it should be its own post, so here it is, edited slightly for clarity. This didn't start out as a quest for vengeance. We just wanted mail delivery to our house. Vengeance came as a by-product, but it was truly delightful none-the-less. So, mailbox story time. This happened back in 1982, for the record.
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    Font - My folks moved to a very rural area on a gravel road. No one had previously lived here, so it was a battle just getting mail delivery in the first place. My folks went several rounds with the local postmaster. He was... somewhat enamoured with his own power and very much a "rules to the letter" kind of guy. Every I must be dotted, every T crossed, and if there's so much as a semicolon out of place you'll have to start all over again. He seemed to have made it his personal mission to make
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    Font - The man who drove the road grader was as annoyed as the local postmaster, as he now had a new driveway to accommodate. We suspect that's why he had it out for our mailbox. After the road grader had demolished three of our mailboxes, Dad got pissed. Previously, he'd used the most basic design, just a post in the ground with a box on top. Now, he was motivated.
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    Font - Dad got ahold of a nine foot long section of metal pipe. It's four inches in diameter (outer measurement) and has three quarter inch thick walls. I have no idea what this was originally intended for. But I know how Dad used it. He dug a hole five and half feet deep. He welded an upside down tripod shape (think open umbrella) to the bottom of the pole and dropped it into the six foot wide hole. Each welded on "leg" was about three feet of some kind of rebar and there were five such spokes.
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    Font - Three weeks later, we received a bill from the township for a bent grader blade. It was accompanied by a letter informing us that we had caused damage to city property because our mailbox was installed incorrectly. It would need to be moved and we were liable for a bill of a couple thousand dollars worth of repairs. Here's where it becomes pro-revenge instead of petty. Recall the fact that the local postmaster was annoyed with us over our battle to get mail delivery? Mom had made a point
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    Font - She submitted copies of the invoice for the grader blade (and the letter stating that the damage was our fault because our mailbox was incorrectly placed) to the post office. She also submitted copies of the official post office approval of the box to the township. The jerk of a postmaster was also quite prideful and became furious that his authority was being called into question by some podunk township. As far as he was concerned, the township wasn't questioning my parents, they were st
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    Font - I don't know what went down between the postmaster and the township, but we received a second letter from the post office, reiterating their approval of our mailbox. We also got a formal apology from the township and notice that the road grader's contract had been terminated because he'd lied about damage to city property. It was worded with a tone that said "please don't sue us because a contracted employed damaged your property." For the record, that post Dad installed nearly forty year
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