• NickwithaC
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    619 months ago

    And you never hear of them getting stolen or vandalised. They come from an era of timeless design and top notch build quality.

  • SokathHisEyesOpen
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    139 months ago

    Wow, that’s pretty neat! Our mailboxes in the USA are fully above ground, and probably a lot smaller in capacity than yours.

    • @bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      99 months ago

      I’d imagine that’s a benefit, but the design was probably for structural integrity. Last thing you want is for someone to lean on it, tipping over, and then rolling down a hill or something.

          • @IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
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            139 months ago

            When the IRA was in full offensive mode they would call in bombings to the authorities to give them enough time to evacuate areas before the bombs detonated. They wanted publicity & destruction but not injuries or deaths. By making the bombings more of a nuisance than a threat to life they figured they would avoid losing a lot of public support for their cause. They were against the British government, not British citizens.

          • Flax
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            09 months ago

            Generally, someone involved in planting it would have phoned in to a newspaper and been like “I just planted a bomb at this place lol”

    • Endorkend
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      09 months ago

      Theft and the fact they tend to be in locations (like street corners) where cars may crash into them.

      There’s a really OG mailbox in my town, it’s bent a full 10° towards the house it stands in front of, has classification as a historical relic and all, that has been run into by cars at least 3 times per year since cars were around.

      It is still standing.

      At one point (around when it got its classification), they put safety poles around it.

      Until they got removed, they ended up getting replaced every year because they were all bent to hell from new accidents.