I’ve been working on fixing and upgrading my kitchen and hubby is more interested in doing things outside. He handles all the yard work and keeps the driveway cleared of snow and ice over the winter months.
Right now he is interested in a project at the end of our driveway. He wants to build a brick enclosure for a new locking mailbox. We’ve had to replace our standard metal mailbox on a wood post twice since we moved here. It seems that every once in a while some juvenile delinquents drive down the road late at night and bash in all the mailboxes, supposedly “for fun.”
At first, we just replaced the mailbox with another one just like it. We did that again, reluctantly, the second time. But this time, hubby is looking at locking mailboxes and encasing the box with bricks to foil those destructive kids. This is getting to be more than just a nuisance.
Although we’ve not had any trouble with people opening our mailbox and taking our mail, it occurred to us that the kids could easily do that while we are away at work or running errands. The only thing we can do to prevent that is to get lockable mailboxes and head them off before they can steal our mail, especially since the holidays are fast approaching and a lot of people are known to send gift cards, checks and money to friends and family at Christmas.