Rural/Farm Life

because it is an obstacle in the 'right of way', and vehicles have a probability of hitting it...even on a dead-end lane.

I am in agreement with the thinking behind the law. Going the direction of creating something that would increase damage to vehicles and potentially raise the risk of injury in an accident isn't/wasn't really a proper answer.

Getting as much of the mailbox support out of the potential path seemed better. So, it now sits on a hinged arm about 3 feet further back the original position over a newly created graveled shoulder that I hope will provide the letter carrier a firm all weather place to pull over and service the mail.

I am hoping the "mailbox polo" that is being played soon ends. Moreover, although I know that it would be out of character for their yeoman tea-hadist libertarine cheat-where-you-can life-styles, I yet hope that the persons driving down the lane who after all may still collide with it will have the common courtesy of taking responsibility.

Now if I could just get the adjacent neighbors to socialize their dogs so they don't come running a couple hundred feet off their property to menace us when we walk to that mailbox.