Two big storms ago (or maybe it was three?), my mailbox got a love tap from a passing plow. It wasn’t knocked over, but the door is now hanging on by a single hinge. When I went to Home Depot to get a new one, an employee told me, “it’s been a great winter to be a mailbox salesman.” Indeed, everywhere I go, I see mailboxes decimated by this season’s unusually active fleet of snowplows. Is this just a fact of life in upstate New York? Is there anything homeowners can do to keep their mailboxes safe from the threat of destruction? Is it up to the homeowner to replace mailboxes that have been taken out by plows? This week, we called in Capital Region Living writer Sara Foss to investigate.
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